Comments | claptwice: They don't talk so good

claptwice

They don't talk so good

Mar 03, 2010 11:14

Driving home from the gym today, I reached over and turned on the radio. After flipping through a few stations, I stopped at Virgin. I rarely listen to it, because like CHEZ-106, it tends to play the same artists over and over and over again. It's like the chicken or beef choice on an airplane. You get Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones or Pink ( Read more... )

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bettyray69 March 3 2010, 18:42:47 UTC

How _DO_ you pronounce those words, Leslie? I'm intrigued!

claptwice March 3 2010, 19:01:09 UTC

http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/S%E3o%20Paulo, though I've also heard it with more of an "oh" at the end.

http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Buenos%20Aires

bettyray69 March 4 2010, 09:03:54 UTC

ooh, I always thought it was OH at the end of Sao Paolo...it should have some form of accent on the O!!

Huh. The E in Buenos becomes an A, and its EEZ at the end?!

Thats just thrown my entire vocabulary up in the air! I don't even know how to pronounce my own name now!

claptwice March 4 2010, 12:50:54 UTC

I actually pronounce it OH at the end too.

Call 'em whatever you want -- just not if you're on the radio. :-)

anonymous March 3 2010, 19:51:20 UTC

I love the chicken or meat analogy.

It's always amazed me that there's such an appetite, or perceived appetite, for Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. It's unimaginative rotation of 70's stoner-culture music, and suggests an audience, now near 50, who never aesthetically evolved beyond high school, or learned to use the internet.

I'm not saying it's bad music, or anything, ( they often throw in some Stevie Miller) but it's an immobilizing ghetto and it always makes me just a little bit sad to think of people listening to it while they drive into work, imagining the life of danger that they used to live.

claptwice March 4 2010, 14:11:13 UTC

EXACTLY! Don't get me wrong, I adore Zeppelin, love *some* Stones and Pink Floyd (if I am in a certain mood, but not as a regular diet). But do I want to hear it all the time? No. Most decidedly not. Your last para says it all. Usually these people defend their music habits with "it's all shit after the 70s, man. All shit." Way to grow.

celtile March 3 2010, 23:03:35 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WIYnHYHd7E