Oh, Hall & Oates, I don’t even know what to write about for this post. I’ve been sitting here staring at the screen trying to figure out where to start. Which is sometimes the hardest thing to do when it comes to writing. So I guess I’ll just keep typing and see what happens. We could talk about my memories of “Earth Girls Are Easy”, of which I was a fan even before I realized that Jim Carrey was in it, and long before I truly appreciated the mad genius that is Jeff Goldblum (or The Pull-Out King for you “Portlandia” fans). I haven’t seen it in forever, and I have a feeling it might not hold up well, but I certainly watched it a lot when I was young. Initially, I watched it just because of the title. I was hoping to see just how easy those earth girls were. Not as easy as I would have liked, it turns out.
I know I’m not really talking much about the song, Hall & Oates, so you’ll have to forgive me. We all know you guys are great, so we don’t need to belabor the point, and this isn’t the last Hall & Oates song I would ever record, so there’s plenty of time to sing your praises later.
What I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, though, is my feelings about women. No, I’m not about to jump out of the closet or anything like that, Hall & Oates, but as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m surrounded by women in my life. I’ve been surrounded by women my WHOLE life. My best friend from infancy was a girl, and I’ve always related to women more than men. In general.
But I’ve thought about that a lot lately, about how I’ve been friends with women my whole life, but I don’t know that I’ve really truly empathized with them. Case in point, my wife and I were watching “Game Of Thrones” a few weeks ago, and there was that scene at (spoiler!) the Sept where Joffrey is laying in state and Jaime and Cersei have a tryst next to his corpse. That’s how I watched it, anyway. My wife considered it a rape scene. I thought it was just another example of their messed up relationship. But from what I understand, most of the internet disagreed with me and sided with my wife.
So that caused a lot of soul-searching for me, since it’s more than a little disconcerting when you don’t realize you’ve watched a rape scene. And then it struck me again as I was listening to this song and remembering how as a young boy I was tantalized by that whole “Earth Girls Are Easy” title and that whole concept of a woman being “easy” and how I forget that I view the world through the lens of a middle-class white guy and that I don’t always do a good job of viewing the world through other lenses, which is important, because even something as innocuous-seeming (to me) of walking alone down a dark street at night would be a whole different experience for my wife.
Huh.
I guess I had stuff to write about after all, Hall & Oates. I don’t know that I’m any closer to a point than I was at the beginning of this meandering thing, but thanks for listening all the same.
“Love Train”
Start it up!
Love train
Woo woo
People all over the world
Join hands
Start a love train
Love train (start a love train)
People all over the world (people)
Join hands
Get on the love train
Love train
The first stop that we’ll maaake
Will be England
Tell all the folks in Russia
In China, toooo (Get on booooard)
Don’t
You know
It’s tiiime ta get on board (time ta get on board)
Let this traaain keep on ridin’, ridin’ on through
Riiiidin’ on through
People all over the world
Join hands (join ya hands)
Start a love train (start a love train)
Love train (woo woo)
People all over the world
Join hands
(Everybody) get on the love train
(Get on the love train) love train (woo woo)
Aaall of ya brothers
Over in Africa (come on now, people)
Tell all the folks in Egypt
In Iiiisrael, too
Please don’t
Miss
This
Traaaaain at the station
‘Cause if you miss it (miss it)
I feel sorry (sorry)
Sorry for you
Sorryyy
For you (beep beep)
People all over the world (the woorld)
Join hands
(Join ya hands) start a love train
Love train (woo woo)
(Love train) people all over the world (this doesn’t matter)
Join hands
Get on the love train
Love train
People all over the world
Join hands (everybody)
Start a love train
Love train (woo woo)
Come on, people all over the world (all over the wooorld)
Join hands
(Everybody) get on the love train
Love train (yeeeah)
Get on booooooard
Get on board
Get on board
Get on booooooard
(Aaaaaaa!)
Get on board
Weeeeell, now
People all over the woooorld
People all over the woooorld
Start it up
People all over the woooorld (start it up)
Come on, people
Gonna ride
People all over the woooorld
Come on
Start the love train
People all over the world
Join hands (join ya hands)
Start a love train (get on up)
Love train (woo woo)
People all over the world (join ya hands)
Join hands
Get on a love train
Love train (woo woo)
People all over the world
Join hands (come on, people)
Start a love train
Love train (woo woo)
People all over the world (the wooorld)
Join hands
Get on the love train
Love train
(We don’t need no ticket)
People all over the world
Join hands
Start a love train
Love train
People all over the world
Join hands
I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard this song before – I was afraid to listen to it because – well who wants to be reminded that one of your favorite groups didn’t always hit it out of the park. But I worked up the courage! Not TOO painful but I may need to listen to their greatest hit to cleanse the palette now – :). Love your thoughts on GoT. I think we’ve seen rape or almost rape scenes 3 weeks in a row on that show now. I know the show is depicting the horrors of this fantasy world – but it’s becoming troubling here in the real world.
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I’m glad “Love Train” didn’t derail your love for Hall & Oates (sorry). Glad you enjoyed my musings on GoT. I love me some GoT, but it does beg the question, since it is a fantasy world, why give the females traditional female roles? If I had the time, I’d posit that on a GoT message board somewhere. But I’m sure it’s been posited to death already.
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I love Hall & Oates.=)
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