These Questions Two

[mrissa]

1. Do you read collections and anthologies in order? Or do you skip around in them? Or does the answer vary, and if so, what does it vary with?

2. If you could wipe a song from the face of the earth, including everyone's memories, which song would it be? I was thinking "Tell Laura I Love Her" because I have a hatred for that song far beyond its actual appearances in my life (which are few and far between). timprov suggested the entire oeuvre of Creed. We moved on to that one horrid car crash song, which would obliterate its original and Eddie Vedder remake forms. But surely we are missing entire realms of the horrid here. Enlighten us.

Comments

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

1. I read them in order.

2. America's Horse With No Name. Stupid lyrics and annoying, grating melody. Tell Laura I Love Her can go too, but not before Last Kiss, the one where the singer actually causes the car wreck that kills his girlfriend and then sings about it. Oh, and Teen Angel where girlfriend dies because she goes back to the car stalled on the railroad tracks to retrieve narrator's class ring. That should be the Darwin Awards theme song.

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

No coffee yet. The car wreck does not kill the girlfriend and then sing about it, I promise.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Probably would have been a better song if sung by the car wreck. Too few disaster songs are from the perspective of the disasters themselves.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

JUST NAME THE DAMN HORSE! IT'S YOUR HORSE! GO AHEAD AND NAME IT! CALL IT FRANKIE! CALL IT TED! BUT NAME THE HORSE!

Ahem. I mean, yes, good choice.