For a long time I was obsessed with the song, “Hope there’s someone” by Antony and the Johnsons. I remember suggesting to CP we include this song for the first ever Love of Friends soundtrack way back in early 2007. In her tea leaf response, which went something like, “oh, yeah…you really like that song,” were written the words, “no chance.”
Hey, that’s fine. It’s still a good song.
It took me only two years of compiling Love of Friends soundtracks to realize CP has many ways of telling me no dice. Here are some of my favorite:
RA: Oh, what about this song? CP: Oh, yeah…
RA: I love this song! It would be great! CP: Yeah…let’s see where it might fit.
RA: Oh man! Let’s totally include this one! CP: I’ll try to find it on iTunes…
Like I’ve said before, we all have our strengths. One of my strenghts is throwing out ideas like ninja stars at the pace of an automatic weapon…awfully violent imagery there, I apologize. Namaste. Some of these ideas stick to the wall like the banana in “Swimming to Cambodia,” (as in, I got Damien Rice on the first soundtrack; triumph) and other ideas bounce-off and fall to my feet where I pick up those ideas, brush them off, and here we are: listening to the rejects.
In honor of my “taking the hint” officially, but with the understanding that I’m always willing to toss out a few ideas, here is Antony covering Leonard Cohen’s “If it be your will” and I say:
If it be your will
That I speak no more
And my voice be still
As it was before
I will speak no more
*Whenever I say “flip side” it almost always reminds me of the scene from “The Last Dragon” when Leroy goes to see the “Master” at the fortune cookie factory and one of the dudes, in trying to get him to leave says, “bye, catch you on the flip flop.”
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