Viscous Damping
When I look in the mirror, I can't believe what I see.
Tell me, who's that funky dude, staring back at me?
"Funky?" I'm the least funky person you know, Rivers. I'm 31, bald, plainly-bearded, divorced, have a M.S. in structural engineering from Berkeley and just started pharmacy school at UT-Austin. I am as funkless as I am (occasionally) feckless. I am the anti-funk. Though I do have a suede couch. Holla.
Broken, beaten down can't even get around
Without an old-man cane, I fall and hit the ground
Oh piss the hell off, Rivers. I'm just sore from playing flag football. Yeah, I know, yesterday I had trouble walking at a brisk pace. All that sprinting messed up my "I'm-used-to-running-at-moderate-to-slow-speeds-for-long-periods-of-time" leg muscles. And yes, I nearly ripped my both of my big toenails off due to cleats that were a half-size too small and toenails that I guess needed trimming. And yes, I'm older than all but 2 of the 125 people in my class, but I don't walk with a cane. So blow me.
Excuse the bitchin, I shouldn't complain
I should have no feeling, 'cause feeling is pain
I'll hand it to you, Rivers, you got this part right. I shouldn't complain. My life is easy. But I don't think I bitch all that much, except to my therapist. But I pay him, so that's different. God, I would kill for some rigatoni right now. You ever feel that way, Rivers? Like you would kill for pasta?
Everything I need, is denied me
And everything i want, is taken away from me
But who do I got to blame? Nobody but me
Speaking of my therapist, have you been talking to him? 'Cause I do blame myself for everything. Right again, old chap.
…And I don't wanna be an old man anymore
It's been a year or two since I was out on the floor
ok, you lost me hear. I don't dance. I've never danced. Once, at the eighth grade dance, I did a single jumping jack on the dance floor as a joke. And that fucker Jimmy Redacted never let me live it down. Cocksucker, that one. That and the fact my upper and lower extremities are separated by a derhythmatized zone have rendered me danceless. And you know this, Rivers. You know this.
Shakin' booty, makin' sweet love all the night
It's time I got back to the Good Life
Dude, whatever. Even if I ever did or could, you know I am not the type of guy to talk about it.
It's time i got back, it's time i got back
And I don't even know how I got off the track
Actually, I do know how I got off track. I'm in therapy, remember? We talk about these things. Maybe you should stick to writing songs about yourself. And maybe it was more like 3 jumping jacks, but he still could have let it go.
I wanna go back…Yeah!
Everyone wants to go back. Everyone. You sing it like it's a weakness in me. If you don't want to go back it means you've never been any place worth staying, and that's much more damning that pining for the past. I miss a little bit of many times of my life. You wouldn't know which parts I'm talking about because you never really listen. You're too busy writing the same song over and over again. ok. I'm sorry Rivers. That was mean.
Screw this crap, I've had it! (I've had it!) I ain't no Mr. Cool.
Yes! You got that God damn right, Rivers. I ain't no Mr. Cool. Who gives a shit? Right now I don't. Some time tomorrow I will. Multitudes and such. One day I'll get to Whitman, I promise. And Hemingway. I've never read Hemingway. I know!
I'm a pig, I'm a dog, so 'scuse me if I drool
What? A pig? You're just fucking with me, right?
I ain't gonna hurt nobody, ain't gonna 'cause a scene
Yeah, I'm not too fond of hurting people. It's under the false pretense that if I never hurt any one then I will never get hurt. Turns out this isn't true. So it goes. And yes, I've read that one, Rivers. God, you are such a condescending prick sometimes.
I just need to admit that I want sugar in my tea.
Hear me! Hear me! I want sugar in my tea!
Wait, what? Could you know think of another word that rhymes with "scene?" What about "I just need to admit that I have a crush on Charlie Sheen." Or "I wear Maybelline." Or "boop boop boo boo weeee!" And you drink green tea, anyways. Who puts sugar in green tea? Oh wait, this is about me... I forgot. But I don't drink tea. Never have. That shit is the gross.
0 recs |
15 comments
Comments
Personally, I kinda lost Weezer after Pinkerton – everything nowadays is kinda made-for-radio. The blue album was their highwater mark – pure fuckin’ genius, and Pinkerton was a decent, if less immediate, followup. “El Scorcho” is one of the best worst songs ever – it’s one of those weird songs that goes from “kinda annoying” to “tolerable” to “Imustsingalongatthetopofmyvoice” as you get drunker.
chaos... panic... pandemonium... my work here is done.
by rick2g on Sep 12, 2008 11:41 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
This has been one slow offseason, hasn’t it?
by Jeffrey on Sep 13, 2008 10:55 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
weezer...
is like metallica… they came in at perhaps too high a level, and have since failed to meet expectations since… The blue album was good, but they havent ever come back to that level. Master of Puppets was good, but has had the same lasting effect. The new metallica album is, to me, alright, but a case of too little too late.
Besides, does anybody else think that “Pork and Beans” (by Weezer, to avoid confusion) sounds a lot like something that would’ve (should’ve?) been on the Blue Album…?
"I like to use my pump fake to make them come hard, that's when I use my penetration." -Manu Ginobili
by scrappy-doo on Sep 13, 2008 7:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
yes... I know M.O.P wasn't the first Metallica album...
but that doesn’t change the fact that they peaked too quickly….
"I like to use my pump fake to make them come hard, that's when I use my penetration." -Manu Ginobili
by scrappy-doo on Sep 13, 2008 7:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
most consider their top albums to be lightning, puppets, and justice. that’s albums 2, 3, and 4. that’s too early? most bands don’t make it to a third album.
gospursgo. hook 'em. metal rules. ganja rules.
by metalandganja on Sep 15, 2008 8:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
whatever the case...
they’ve been irrelevant for the past twenty years… besides, after the whole “St. Anger” “album”, I took them out to the pasture and shot them. I’m more a punk rocker, so metal should generally be seen as a conflicting interest or what have you, but for my money, there are no better metal bands than Pantera and Megadeth… I don’t buy into the whole New American Heavy Metal Wave or whatever they call it… Lamb of God could’t hold either of those bands’ jocks…
but like I said, I’m a punker, so i guess I’d be biased…
"I like to use my pump fake to make them come hard, that's when I use my penetration." -Manu Ginobili
by scrappy-doo on Sep 15, 2008 5:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
ha!
it all makes sense now! your punk roots and my metal roots do indeed clash. =)
dimebag was a god and i love pantera, but anselmo completely ruined that band for me. rust in peace, by ’deth, is one of the top metal albums ever.
lamb of god can totally hold their own. they upstaged slayer when i saw them a couple years back.
death magnetic, if anyone’s ever been a metallica fan at one point or another, at least deserves a listen.
gospursgo. hook 'em. metal rules. ganja rules.
by metalandganja on Sep 18, 2008 10:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I also liked Anthrax, too...
I like their style of thrash… Stormtroopers of Death, too (that’s the anthrax guys with yet another different singer…)
I think Metallica lost more than people say when Cliff died. He was more than just a bass player, as he was responsible for much of that sound that fans of “old metallica” clamor for… I guess it just goes to show that even the most taken for granted members of a band end up being important in their own way…
P.S. If you asked me to be serious, I’d tell you my favorite band ever was Motley Crue… Shout @ the Devil… awesome…
"I like to use my pump fake to make them come hard, that's when I use my penetration." -Manu Ginobili
by scrappy-doo on Sep 19, 2008 11:07 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
pinkerton is weezer’s best album, and really, the only one i like. el scorcho pwns you.
matthew — starting pharmacy, eh? you crazy man! my little brother lives between the crown & anchor and posse east pubs. just might have to meet up and grab a beer and spurs game this season.
gospursgo. hook 'em. metal rules. ganja rules.
by metalandganja on Sep 15, 2008 8:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Is he the homeless guy on the sidewalk next to the UFCU atm?
by Wayne Vore (ATS) on Sep 15, 2008 4:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Apropos of nothing...
…I park right across the street from there at the parking meters several times a week when I go to my graduate class in the Engineering Building. The parking meters NEVER WORK, so I pretty much pay a quarter, watch the meters say “fail,” then call and report them as broken, thus earning cheap parking. Given the parking situation around there, I’m surprised no one else has caught on.
There wasn’t really any point to that story; I just felt like I had to keep up with AusTechSpur as far as proving my Austin-ness.
Catch the Spurs Spirit! It's a Fast-breakin' Fiesta!
by tomasito on Sep 17, 2008 7:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m glad they finally replaced that rickety-ass bridge over Waller Creek. I thought for sure I’d fall in some day. (also, I was really trying to point out, without being a complete ass, to M&G that there isn’t a place to live between the Crown & Anchor and Posse East)
Btw, the good half and I looked for Jim-Jim’s and couldn’t find it. We were IN need. And, I haven’t been to Thai Village yet, but it is on the short list.
by Wayne Vore (ATS) on Sep 17, 2008 8:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
hey, let’s go to foodheads for lunch sometime soon
I am calm, filling myself with patience - Manu Ginobili
by jollyrogerwilco on Sep 18, 2008 9:35 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
tsk tsk! there is indeed a place to live between crown & anchor and posse east — those condominiums right there, you know, in between crown & anchor and posse east. =) forget the name of them, but i assure you, they’re there.
gospursgo. hook 'em. metal rules. ganja rules.
by metalandganja on Sep 18, 2008 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jim Jim's is located...
…On 6th street, about 2 blocks West of I35, right next to the Segway Tours place. Check them out at www.jimjims.com. I think I’ll go get a water-ice after work today.
Catch the Spurs Spirit! It's a Fast-breakin' Fiesta!
by tomasito on Sep 19, 2008 2:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

by 























