People Are Strange, Fake Plastic Trees

I hate them. Fake Plas­tic Trees and Fake Plas­tic anything.

The title has no rea­son, except I couldn’t down­load Radiohead’s In Rain­bows from their site because their site crashed. It is the first song that came to mind when I thought of them, when I was remin­ded this eve­ning that their new stuff was avai­la­ble via down­load. I haven’t lis­te­ned to, or thought of, them in some time. Fake Plas­tic Trees is a great song, if you haven’t heard them you might want to take a trip to this old song via the link.

I have been wri­ting papers all day. My hands are almost blee­ding, although I’ve been typing not wri­ting, and some of the time I’ve been online, or eating, or gro­cery shop­ping, or gathe­ring acorns which ended up having bugs in them, much to my surprise.

No fear, my night was made right when someone sent me this link via my con­tact form, with the note “for you because I know you desire much the older man over youn­ger”.

The cat has my ton­gue and my words are gone.

I don’t know where the email came from. I’ve had more per­ple­xing emails, but I want to sug­gest something.
Older to me can be good. When you’re on you tube though, please con­si­der older and dead. That is where it’s really at.

When Your Strange
When you’re strange
No one remem­bers your name

Alice

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16 Comments

  • I’ve been with my older man now for 23 years … no regrets at all. Older is bet­ter in many ways.

  • Peo­ple are strange.

    Who’s the blond?

    Wait a cou­ple days on Radiohead. It’s not an emergency.

  • In college I dated a girl obses­sed with Jim Morri­son, her walls were cove­red with him. I mean this was a shrine. One day I got sick of loo­king at him and remin­ded her that he died of a pro­ba­ble heroin over­dose, or was mur­de­red by his jun­kie girl­friend, in a bath­tub in Paris, and I ques­tio­ned her fas­ci­na­tion with the long dead musician.

    I never saw her again. Won­der wha­te­ver hap­pe­ned to her.

    Peo­ple are strange.

  • I am so glad that I am no lon­ger in uni­ver­sity. I would be wig­ged out if I got an anon note desc­ri­bing my wants … It’s the strange inti­macy that blog­ging creates.

  • Radiohead is top 10 of my year.

  • Hmmm…I used to like Andy Williams. The lip sync is bad on that, but she’s got the leg thing down.

  • Fake trees are ugly when you’re alone.

  • The blong is Chris­tie Brin­kley, ex of another old guy, the piano pla­yer one.

    Your fan’s note is chock full of ardor, and even char­ming in an English-is-not-my-first-language way.

    But the you­tube sere­nade is frightening.

  • Harriett: I’ve always thought so, for many rea­sons. Con­gra­tu­la­tions, Twenty-three years is almost as long as I’ve roa­med the earth.

    John: Accor­ding to you tube it Denise something or other. Some Bri­tish pop stat or porn star. Not really sure I didn’t look her up. I pre­fer brunettes.

    Jacob: It’s funny to think of you and some obses­sed girl­friend. Yup, peo­ple are strange. Isn’t that great though?

    xine: You’re right you know. I never gave it much thought because if I did it would be more than enough to creep me out.

    That Old Soul: I’m Shoc­ked. Kid­ding of course. I still haven’t heard it.

    Kelly­pea: She’s got something down.

    Doug: Dogs don’t care if trees are fake though do they?

    San­dra: So much frigh­te­ning out there isn’t there? I was laughing so I really did not see the per­ver­se­ness of it at first.

  • Jacob’s com­ment made me laugh also

    You know the only older man for you

    Honestly after giving this sub­ject much thought and prac­tice I think it’s best to be with some­body simi­liar in age just for the cul­tu­ral references

    Though one of the hap­piest cou­ples I know – she’s 20 years older and it’s real love. That she’s mega-rich has little, or nothing, to do with it. Really.

  • In my inep­ti­tude, I’ve tried plus 7 years and minus 7 years to my age. Age doesn’t mat­ter, their matu­rity, inte­rests sha­red and inte­llect (of me or her) made the difference.

    Once your past 23 or 24, if you date a per­son dou­ble your age, that’s only a pro­blem for your parents. If you con­nect on wha­te­ver level, spi­ri­tual, inte­llec­tually, sexually, pro­fes­sio­nally, it is up to you to handle it.

    Peo­ple are strange, but toss money, sex, fide­lity, poli­tics or reli­gion in the way, and they get plenty stran­ger. Beco­ming the 3-dollar bill of per­ver­sity and irrationality.

  • Yes, peo­ple are strange.

    But just for the record, in case peo­ple are con­fu­sed, I do not have your ton­gue. And, yes, I do know that’s not Chris­tie Brin­kley in that tube.

  • Peo­ple are strange, that’s the only pos­si­ble explanation.….….Alice.

    I haven’t bothe­red going to the site. In a few weeks is soon enough for me. I’m not a hard fan.

    After a cer­tain age …age… it doesn’t mat­ter.
    Freaky weird rea­ders who think they have an inti­mate rela­tionship with you does matter.

    And with Hallo­ween coming and all…

  • This is so wrong.

    Your ina­bi­lity to down­load Radiohead, that strange video accom­pa­nied by a pro­vo­ca­tive / semi stal­king note, your con­ti­nued pre­fe­rence for dark hai­red poets, all the way through me watching Michael Sti­pes dance, with the sound off, in the video above.

    It’s just so wrong.

  • Dark hai­red poets? I see.

    I like strange, or eccen­tric peo­ple.
    Not stal­kers, but peo­ple who don’t always follow the
    expec­ted path.

    I seem to get here these days on those rare posts where you shut off com­ments. I haven’t seen that Doors video in years. The first video is creepy because Any Williams looks like a stal­ker with that sic­kish smile.

  • You’ve got me hoo­ked! Great tune. :)