Most of you are probably too young or too old to remember the band Magazine, an offshoot of the Buzzcocks (lead singer Howard Devoto originally sang for the Buzzcocks, other members either came from or went to Ultravox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds.) Anyway in 1979 they did what I think should be the Orange Juice’s theme song, “Shot By Both Sides.”
This and that, they must be the same:
What is legal is just what’s real.
What I’m given to understand
is exactly what I steal.
I worm my way into the heart of the crowd,
worm my way into the heart of the crowd,
I was shocked to find what was allowed:
I didn’t lose myself in the crowd…
SHOT BY BOTH SIDES, on the run to the outside of everything!
SHOT BY BOTH SIDES, they must have come to a secret understanding!
What is legal is just what’s real.
What I’m given to understand
is exactly what I steal.
I worm my way into the heart of the crowd,
worm my way into the heart of the crowd,
I was shocked to find what was allowed:
I didn’t lose myself in the crowd…
SHOT BY BOTH SIDES, on the run to the outside of everything!
SHOT BY BOTH SIDES, they must have come to a secret understanding!
Vern, I think you may have found the the song! Of course there’s something to be said for “Song From Under my Floorboards” when you’re facing a deadline.
Yeah!
I am angry I am ill and I’m as ugly as sin.
My irritability keeps me alive and kicking.
I know the meaning of life, it doesn’t help me a bit…
Didn’t think anyone else remembered Magazine. Maybe we just all ended up blogging.
Scarey thought. You going to SF June 19 for the Single Payer Rally?
That’s a Thursday, huh? Maybe I can. What event is that? (I should know.)
They wouldn’t really need me up there anyway, there’s plenty single-payer supporters up there. I need to get house-parties started up again here in the OC for SB 840. Do I know you?
More like, ‘clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right; here I am, stuck in the middle with you!’ -Stealers Wheel
SMS
except
1. It’s me that’s to your left;
2. Shot By Both Sides is more exciting;
3. Even though I liked “Stuck in the Middle” when I was in 8th grade and it was new, ever since Reservoir Dogs it makes me feel like my ear is getting cut off.