Makes the hard man humble
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resonant"One Night In Bangkok" came up on shuffle (this would be because I'm a big giant dork and my kid doesn't yet know enough about music to demand that I shape up), and, man, people, that is totally Rodney McKay talking!
I mean, a young, even more defensive sort of Rodney McKay, where "I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine" translates to "I'm so utterly hopeless with women that I can't tell which are the prostitutes and which are the doctoral students, and it doesn't matter anyway because all of them either laugh at me or throw drinks at me."
Tell me you can't see this
I mean, a young, even more defensive sort of Rodney McKay, where "I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine" translates to "I'm so utterly hopeless with women that I can't tell which are the prostitutes and which are the doctoral students, and it doesn't matter anyway because all of them either laugh at me or throw drinks at me."
Tell me you can't see this
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Date: 1/26/08 12:07 am (UTC)*is a Canadian dork*
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Date: 1/26/08 04:32 pm (UTC)Plus, it's especially difficult with that song to answer the typical kidlet question, "What is this song about?" I mean: "Um, it was from a movie, though I don't think the movie ever got made, but it was going to be about a chess tournament, of all things. Bangkok is a city in Thailand. Thailand is what used to be called Siam. Yul Brynner ... um ..."
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Date: 1/28/08 09:48 pm (UTC)[geek] A kid I knew in high school actually had the original 2-CD concept album for this musical, and I borrowed it for years at a time.
And yes, the song reflects a cynical view of the world; but I think the musical expects you to be amused by it, rather than sympathetic to it? [/geek]