Is there anything worse than browsing in a porn shop and some song that brings back sad childhood memories comes blasting on the Lite FM station that all those stores are tuned in to?
Tonight I'm blowing off steam after a rather intense group therapy session and am browsing the racks when Elton John's Daniel comes on. That song has always bummed me out. Brings back the feelings of abandonment I felt when my oldest brother did his disappearing act many years ago.
Needless to say, that'll put everything in a tailspin and it sent me to the door. Probably a good thing but still. Reminds me when I was in a strip club one Christmas Eve and if that wasn't depressing enough, try watching a dancer try to work the pole to Whiter Shade of Pale.
That's a memory that stays with you.
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or the time i was trying on a pair of Earth shoes at Payless and David Soul comes on with "Don't give up on us Baby"
mm...painful stuff. i'd like to say I left the store but...i had to have those shoes.
Just finished "manhattan" by Woody in 1979. Obviously dated, it portrayed the city as a refuge for neurotics and intellectuals. It's gershwin score and b&w shots of the city are immensely romanticized. There is one scene in which the Woodman is running down the street, passing all kinds of stores all crammed into one city block. I'm not sure, but the city supposedly passed a law against banks taking over practically entire blocks( I don't know about Duane Reads). The area around the rambler is one of the few that has such an urban mix (witness the "dollar stores" on Bdwy right next to those new condos.) As a kid, I would get my mother to take me to the NY Hilton on Sixth for my birthday. This is urban planning heresy, but I loved the repeated power of the block-wide buildings (often with fountains and plazas and the like) planted like dominoes on the avenue, which is extra-wide because there had been an elevated subway on it. Woody liked it too, putting them at the beginning of the film.
But: I've been in a Christmas Eve situation as well, the club at Florida and Connecticut in DC. They turned the lights up and told us to get out. There's probably few more pathetic situations in the world than standing in front of that place trying to hail a cab.
how bout mood rings? hard as i tried i could never make it go blue, the indicative sign of a warm and 'obviously' sensual person. after passing it around to several gfs, it would be a bright blue. no sooner would I slip it back on that it would begin to mottle and go back to my froggy green with brown pigments.
rats.
Why do you continue to subject yourself to all things porn? It obviously eats away at your soul.
Next time, why not hand it over to your higher power - a little 12 step action on that addiction.
Just a suggestion.
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