Ponderings and Conundrums of the Nearly Insane

It was an uneventful day at work. Incredibly slow as people know better sales start tomorrow so they are waiting in joyful glee to come trash my store all day for the next three days. Let me tell you Old Person’s Day (Senior Day to those of you not in retail) sucks. Big time. But I’m not going to harp on it, at least not right now. Instead on my way home, with the iPod on shuffle, I noticed something in a lyric I’d like to pass along.

Many of you probably have heard the song ‘(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight’ by the 80’s group Cutting Crew. I’ve always liked the song, the melody is nice, but I’ve never really paid that much attention to the lyrics. I mean I know them but I was just singing along never really thinking about what I was saying. Now someone tell me if I’m wrong but I believe I remember learning in one of my Shakespeare classes that the phrase I just died in your arms was a sexual reference, specifically one about an orgasm. (Like everything else he wrote I swear its all about sex, and they say it’s a new trend?) Assuming that is true lets read the lyrics bearing that in mind.

“Oh, I just died in your arms tonight
It must’ve been something you said,
I just died in your arms tonight
Oh, I just died in your arms tonight
It must’ve been some kind of kiss
I should’ve walked away, I should’ve walked away”

Now maybe I’m dense but it makes more sense in that aspect. Of course my twisted little mind takes lyrics like that and sees words like ‘died’ and ‘kiss’ and the first thing that comes to mind is turning someone into a vampyr. (I’ll explain the spelling another time.) But I’ve never really seen it as any sort of an innuendo. But when you hear the bridge to the song I really should have come to that conclusion a lot sooner. I just find it interesting that they chose to use that particular wording. Kudos to the songwriter for keeping Shakespeare alive!

On a much more fun note, I’ve found a new way to screw with my mothers head. You see I have my computer set up so that all I have to do is switch out one cable and on my TV I can go from watching the TV/PS2 to watching something off Edward (the computer). For us nerds it’s a common thing called a split screen. For those of you unfamiliar all you have to do is to drag your media player of choice (Nero in my world) onto the TV’s screen with your mouse. Thing is I always leave this setting on even when the cable isn’t plugged in so instead of my mouse stopping when it gets to the edge of my monitor it keeps going in one direction because it thinks that I need to interact with something on the TV. Needless to say she came to use my computer and I haven’t quite told her about this wonderful feature and she wiggled the mouse, and no cursor moved on the screen. So when I got home tonight she told me that their must be something wrong with my mouse because it woke my computer up but would never show up on my screen. Curious I came down and did the same, only I moved the mouse all the way to the left so that it wouldn’t get lost on the TV. You can imagine how amazed she was when my cursor appeared when I touched the mouse. Yea mum I’ve got the magic touch.

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