"....I don't care who you are, where you've from or where you've been, what you are just as long as you love me..." So goes the lyrics (or to the affect of) of a pathetic love song from one of them tastelessly manufactured 'boy bands'.
How silly. What if the girl you love has a deranged past? Maybe she did porn. Lotsa of it. While educators, to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS are asking you to choose your partners carefully by asking questions, this song is telling you to act like a heathen and a hedonist. What if she is a mole for a terrorist group? You should care. Or at the very least, inquire about it.
Then they wonder naively "why and how could she do this to me?" when things don't turn out so good. Yeah well, you shoulda checked in to find out that she was emotionally unstable to begin with. Like one of the lines in the old Warren Zevon song 'Lawyers, Gun and Money' says "Well I went home with a waitress the way I always do. How was I supposed to know she was with the Russians too...?"
That's the point. You should always be on your toes. Dummy. Because, like an irresponsible boob, you end up asking, in different forms, variations and capacities, dad to send, well, lawyers, guns and money.
Ahh, American ingenuity.
ReplyDeleteAny advantage that America has is that we only get 2 weeks vacation if we've been with the company for 10 years. I've heard rumors about europeans getting weeks off.
And I know jack about Canada. Except that Colin Mochrey is damn funny.
I've enjoyed your blog - wish I knew more about Canada so that I could better understand some of your posts.