Ode to the Avatars

[Wylycoyte]

Pasties and a G String - Tom Waits

Smellin’ like a brewery, lookin’ like a tramp
I ain’t got a quarter, I got a postage stamp
Been five o’clock shadow boxin’ all around the town
Talkin’ with the old men, sleepin’ on the ground

Bazanti bootin’ al zootin’ al hoot and Al Cohn(3)
Sharin’ this apartment with a telephone pole
And a fishnet stocking, spike heeled shoes
Striptease, pricktease(4), car keys blues

And the porno floor show, live nude girls
Dreamy and creamy and brunette curls
Chesty Morgan(5) and Watermelon Rose
Raise my rent and take off all your clothes

With trench coats, magazines, a bottle full of rum
She’s so good, it make a dead man cum(6)
Pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot(7)
Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze(8)

Wrinkles and Cherry and Twinkie and Pinkie
And Fifi live from Gay Paree
Fanfares, rim shots(9), backstage, who cares
All this hot burlesque for me

Cleavage, cleavage, thighs and hips
From the nape of her neck to the lipstick lips
Chopped and channeled and lowered and lewd(10)
And the cheater slicks(11) and baby moons(12)
She’s a-hot and ready, creamy and sugared
And the band is awful and so are the tunes

Crawlin’ on her belly, and shakin’ like jelly
And I’m gettin’ harder than Chinese algebra-ssieres
And cheers from the compendium here
Hey sweetheart, they’re yellin’ for more
You’re squashin’ out your cigarette butts on the floor

And I like Shelly, and you like Jane
And what was the girl with the snakeskin’s name?
And it’s an early bird matinee, come back any day
Get you a little something that you can’t get at home
And get you a little something that you can’t get at home

It’s pasties and a G-string, beer and a shot
Portland through a shot glass and a Buffalo squeeze
Popcorn, front row, higher than a kite
And I’ll be back tomorrow night
And I’ll be back tomorrow night

Written by: Tom Waits
Published by: Fifth Floor Music (ASCAP), © 1976
Official release: Small Change, Elektra/ Asylum Records, 1976(13)

http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSupplement/Lyrics/Smallchange/Pastiesandagstring-ub.htm

[RIKA]

Very good Wyly. I like that. It shows the seamy side of life, not at all glamorous but kinda dirty and boring. I went to school with a couple of girls who went on to be strippers. One was pretty and dumb as a box of rocks; it was all she could do to make easy money. The other one was drop dead gorgeous and made great tips but her motto was all lookie and no touchy. Her strip job paid for college and law school and she is now a successful attorney. Same job to achieve two different dreams.

Avatars, at least mine, are kind of like the pinup girls of years gone by. I like to think of them as naughty but not not nasty. Guys like to see women and some of the drawings posted are quite imaginative and well done. I post mine because you guys seem to enjoy them and I like that.

Well, thanks again for your thought provoking song-poem.

RIKA

[Wylycoyte]

(6) Make a dead man come: The phrase comes from Lucille Bogan's 1935 raunchy blues song "Shave 'Em Dry": (unexpurgated version) "I got nipples on my titties, big as the end of my thumb, I got somethin' between my legs'll make a dead man come, Oh daddy, baby won't you shave 'em dry? Aside: Now, draw it out! Want you to grind me baby, grind me until I cry. (Roland: Uh, huh.) Say I ****ed all night, and all the night before baby, And I feel just like I wanna, **** some more, Oh great God daddy, (Roland: Say you gonna get it. You need it.) Grind me honey and shave me dry, And when you hear me holler baby, want you to shave it dry. I got nipples on my titties, big as the end of my thumb, Daddy you say that's the kind of 'em you want, and you can make 'em come, Oh, daddy shave me dry, (Roland: She ain't gonna work for it.) And I'll give you somethin' baby, swear it'll make you cry. I'm gon' turn back my mattress, and let you oil my springs, I want you to grind me daddy, 'til the bell do ring, Oh daddy, want you to shave 'em dry, Oh great God daddy, if you can't shave 'em baby won't you try? Now if ****in' was the thing, that would take me to heaven, I'd be ****in' in the studio, till the clock strike eleven, Oh daddy, daddy shave 'em dry, I would **** you baby, honey I'd make you cry. Now your nuts hang down like a damn bell sapper, And your dick stands up like a steeple, Your goddam ass-hole stands open like a church door, And the crabs walks in like people. Aside: Ow, ****! (Roland: Aah, sure enough, shave 'em dry?) Aside: Ooh! Baby, won't you shave 'em dry A big sow gets fat from eatin' corn, And a pig gets fat from suckin', Reason you see this whore, fat like I am, Great God, I got fat from ****in'. Aside: Eeeeh! Shave 'em dry (Roland: Aah, shake it, don't break it) My back is made of whalebone, And my cock is made of brass, And my ****in' is made for workin' men's two dollars, Great God, round to kiss my ass. Aside: Oh! Whoo, daddy, shave 'em dry." (Source: submitted by Floris Cooman, 2005. Lyrics: http://www.deltahaze.com/, 2005)

Link to a song tidbit:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B00021998Q001018/0/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_018/002-3286179-9044038

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00021998Q/sr=8-1/qid=1146060281/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3286179-9044038?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[RIKA]

Oof. A bit too much for me. You would probably find me boring.

RIKA

[Wylycoyte]

I was amused by the fact that the song dates from 1935 yet people bitch about "the music those kids listen to today!"

[RIKA]

I always go in the "out" door.

RIKA

[KJUN]

I was amused by the fact that the song dates from 1935 yet people bitch about "the music those kids listen to today!"

I believe there isa difference between what people are hearing an an adult-only setting and what is blared out across the radio for anyone to hear at any time. Just flipping through the stations almost guarantees me hearing that whitey needs to die. :madeuce:

[Wylycoyte]

Just flipping through the stations almost guarantees me hearing that whitey needs to die. :madeuce:

"Fire extinguishers? Is that what those are? I thought they was jetpacks for the upcoming race war!" :nyah: