I'm just the devil with a lung to spare

[venta]

On Sunday, wimble and I went to visit the Uffington White Horse (and in the way of these things, completely failed to be able to see it). It was a lovely winter day, crunchy and clear with a glorious golden sunset. This is, however, irrelevant.

What was relevant was that on the way back, Wimble's mp3 player decided to treat us to a bit of Pop Will Eat Itself - in particular, Beaver Patrol. During the line Beeeeeaver... patrol! in the chorus, I always find myself being surprised by the word "patrol". By then, some strange level of mishearing has me expecting the line to end "Las Vegas". Yes, I know it's "beaver" not "viva", but somehow every single time the line appears in the song it catches me out.

Last night I dreamt that I was somehow involved in the production of a porn film about a large number of women (no, I can't remember any details at all, including what my involvement was, before you ask). The dream, appropriately enough, had Beaver Patrol as its soundtrack. And even while dreaming, I still kept getting distracted by the fact that the chorus doesn't contain any references to Las Vegas.

No, I realise this isn't particularly relevant to anything. But if I'm confused by my subconscious, I don't see why you should escape.

Comments

[kneeshooter]

Thanks for that - my world is now a slightly less sensible place.

[venta.livejournal.com]

My work here is done :)

[kneeshooter]

So now we wait for a heavenly choir, a parting of the clouds, a beam of light then we watch in awe as you ascend to a higher plane of surreality?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for that for years :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

That's her assumption.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's no good, Onebyone, it's like pearls before swine round here.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Duh ! They come from oysters ! U R so dumb !

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

I can usually rely on your journal to cheer up any dull day. Many thanks!

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Too. Much. Information.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I apologise. I should know better than to mention the White Horse in polite society.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Urp!

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

Your subconscious is clearly trying to turn you to a more interesting career path - I say don't fight it - run with the porn!

Let me know if you need any back-up storylines of attractive women being held hostage and forced to bathe in large pools filled with floating candles and flowers - my subconcious apparently is warming up to give you a story pitch.

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

... I like your practive of quoting song lyrics. But what the bloody hell does "the devil with a spare lung" actually mean? I've looked at it and just gone "what?"

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Twilight City gonna set my soul
It's gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn
So get those stakes up high

There's a thousand pretty women waiting out there
They're all waiting, they'll never make air
And I'm just the devil with a lung to spare, so

Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas

How I wish that there were more
Than the 24 hours in the day
Even if I ran out of speed, boy
I wouldn't sleep a minute of the way

Oh that blackjack and poker and the roulette wheel
I'll poach your money lost on every deal
All you need is sonar and nerves of steel, so
...

[venta.livejournal.com]

What Wimble said.

Though I'm fairly sure that that line only comes up in the Dead Kennedy's recording of Viva Las Vegas. The Elvis original is "with love to spare", I think.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. My ZZ top cover includes

And they’re all livin’ devil-may-care.
I’m just the devil with a love to spare.

Which does make a whole lot more sense.

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Well that puts it in context..... but what does it mean?

Why is he like the devil with a spare lung, and what is the devil with a spare lung like. These are the questions I want answered.....!

Don't forget to pack a wife!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that a devil with a lung to spare would care nothing for the large amounts of shit he was intending to smoke on the grounds that he had, like, a whole lung to spare.

Just guessing though. No one said the Dead Kennedy's had to make any sense.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Yeep. Just 'yeep'.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

And here it is, the honourary marmot:

[venta.livejournal.com]

Marmots mock many mooks. Merrily.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

As muckle mooks as a marmot might mock if a marmite marmot mucked.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Three cheers for the honorary marmot!

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Saw this in Waterstones:




Even though I like Marmite, that struck me as being a Bad Thing.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Although the cover does at least raise the interesting question of why Warhol chose soup cans when he could have done so much better.

[eostar.livejournal.com]

Reading this and listening to Bonzo Dog have transported me to some other reality where I am oblivious to painful sinuses. Venta therapy. Thanks :)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

That's ventalation.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Stoppit.

[eostar.livejournal.com]

Only if you inhale :)

[eostar.livejournal.com]

Doh! posted in the wrong place ... Gone all ditzy 'cos I'm hyperventalating :)

[bloodnok.livejournal.com]

Did you wander out to Wayland's Smithy? It's a fantastic site, just a short jaunt down the Ridgeway, and a great place to wander out to spend a while staring at the stars on a clear night, providing it's not full of fecking goths ;) On a moonlit night, the Ridgeway looks incredible.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aye, we did - though it was only just getting dusk since it was about four in the afternoon. I've not been along there before, and was really quite impressed with it.

On the very slim chance that the photo I tried worked, I may have a nice picture of the moon coming up behind the trees that ring it.

[bloodnok.livejournal.com]

Cool. I went up there to see Halle-Bopp, and it was stunning. The only long barrow that I can think to rival it is West Kennet, out by Avebury and Silbury Hill.

There are cracking tales of ghosts encountered along the Ridgeway, each of which came faithfully flooding back on every late night excursion I made down there ;)

Hmm, I've not done any ancient sites for a good couple of years...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I always quite fancied walking the Ridgeway. Not done any serious walking in years though, so might have to consider tackling part of it rather than all, first...

*plots*

[neilh.livejournal.com]

'v' is another of the sounds that doesn't appear in the Japanese language, so they replace it with 'b', as in 'teribi' for television and 'combini' for convinience store.... so both 'viva' and 'beaver' would be pronounced 'biba'.