Doggerel Days of Summer (Early Admission)
A little overcast and cool here, but summer is hurtling towards us nonetheless, at least according to the calendar. As I returned from the gym tonight (the scale is again my friend - 153 3/4!), an ice cream truck was cruising the neighborhood. As parents, we may have been criminally abusive - whenever one of these trucks came up the block playing their corny little melodies, we’d tell our 3- or 4-year-old son that it was a “music truck”. No mention of its overpriced, underflavored payload. I mean, can you picture the first time he’s with a friend or two, and they exclaim, “There’s the ice cream truck!”
The truck tonight was playing “Daisy”, the song that HAL crooned to Dave in Kubrick’s “2001- A Space Odyssey”. That song has a special place in Philobelia, as it was one of my early attempts to cover songs with substitute lyrics of dubious poetic value. Here it is, kinda apropos of the anniversary post below:
Daisy, daisy, give me your answer true
I’m half crazy, all for the love of you.
It won’t be a stylish wedding
I can’t afford the bedding
But I’ll be damned
If I’ll be crammed
In a sleeping bag built for two!
OK, as Rocky used to say after Bullwinkle recited some execrable piece of doggerel, Here’s something you’ll really like. It’s a little premature, but let’s declare it summer. Here’s a video snippet featuring local hip-hop duo Blue Scholars and some unartistic cut-and-paste from MC Perils.
