[Wonderful Labs] WOO WOO WONDER
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misterw@mindspring.com
Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:42:37 -0700
Mr. Wonderful,
I know I've asked this before but I have to know the truth..... What
movie was the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" written for? I
must know.
Anton Lavee
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Dear Satan's Little Helper,
See? The economy *must* be recovering... clearly, my readers can
afford to smoke crack again.
Listen, really: the song in question was not written for a movie. You
have been listening to lying whiskey pixies. Jean-Luc Godard, the famed
French confusionist film-maker, *did* make a documentary about the
creation of the song which he called "One Plus One" (the film, not the
song). In America, you can sometimes find a chopped and de-Frenchified
version of this documentary, entitled, with deplorable forthrightness,
"Sympathy For The Devil."
The song has since appeared in a number of other movies, but what that
number is, I'm not going to bother to look up. The only film it really
should have appeared in, Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas," it doesn't, whereby hangs some sort of lesson about licensing
fees and the slow death of the American Dream by irony poisoning.
Always take the whiskey pixies whispers with a grain of salt.
Actually, you should take the tequila trolls with a grain of salt, and
the gin gremlins with a twist of lime. What you do with the sake sylphs
is your own business, but never, ever, let a brandy saurus get behind
you. They'll make faces at the cops and get you into all sorts of trouble.
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