The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part six- Page 143

[Chloe]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:24am

Jeez, I'm a wreck tonight.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:24am

Sorry! I didn't look closely enough - and you both start with an X. And it's getting lately, and...

It's ok. Us and our crazy 'x's. It's nothing to worry about.

[opiv]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:25am

I get confused with all the x's as well.

[Chloe]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:27am

I'm listening to my favorite on MP right now, Cellophane Sun. Same subject, different approach.

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:27am

While we're on song interpretation, what does everyone think "Model Prisoner" (the song) is about? I LOVE that song, but I think while some of the lyrics are straightforward, some are more "out there." I think the song is very nonlinear, if that makes any sense.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:28am

Haha, Jessica, it's easy to see who are the pervs on this thread!

Heh. Did you ever see the episode of Friends where someone says that Joey could make anything sound dirty, and then Joey says the phrase "Grandma's chicken salad" in this really smutty tone of voice? That is so us

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:28am

heh. "Get between, get behind. Take your time, I'll blow your mind." gaaah.

I think it's about love. But sort of feeling tied down BECAUSE of love. You know like... when you do stuff you don't necessarily like because you love the person. Or it might be about false feelings, and pretending. "Tainted love."

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:28am

Haha!

[opiv]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:28am

Friends yay!

I think im going to go have a friends Valentines episode marathon, cause they're some of the best ones.

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:31am

Jessica, I've never watched Friends. I'm sorry!

Chloe, I actually never thought of Cellophane Sun from that perspective before, other than the line that Em just quoted.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:32am

Chloe, Cellophane Sun is my favorite on MP, too. There's just something about it that I find oddly soothing.

Lexi, I've thought of 2 possible interpretations of Model Prisoner:

1 - The song is a man addressing his ex's new lover, warning him of the pitfalls
2 - The song is a man, older and wiser from the experience of the relationship, addressing his past self

Updated On: 2/15/06 at 12:32 AM

[Chloe]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:32am

I interpret Model Prisoner as being about a friend who's fallen hard for someone who's sort of an ice princess - "And did you waste your time, starving your heart, waiting in line for her?" And also maybe something of a phony - "hands that feign divine." He's urging the friend to escape, but realizes how difficult it is - "Or is it hard enough to come down from the clouds."

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:37am

Those interpretations are interesting, Jessica (and Chloe)! I always thought of the song from more of Em's viewpoint, but I like the "older, wiser man" interp.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:37am

*listens to Taboo while procrastinating from writing an essay*

[opiv]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:43am

It feels like there's something else I should be doing...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:44am

*studies*

*feels like sh*t*

*wants to crawl into bed*

*studies*

meeeeeh.

[Chloe]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:46am

I wrote an interpretation of Cellophane Sun a long time ago that I really liked, but it's buried on the huge original thread.

Anyway, this is how I see it. He's addressing his lover, who spends all her time alone (because she's a writer, maybe?), and when he gets home she's all wound up and still lost in her work, so he tells her to take her time, it's all right, he's there for her whenever she's ready. ("When the day is done, your head still spins, well I'll be there for the taking") Once she *is* ready, though, they get so lost in each other that "morning is a dream, a break in the night." I'm not sure whether the waiting serpent is metaphorical, as in the workaday world waiting to spoil their paradise, or more literal. Maybe it's both.

I think it's a really beautiful expression of sensuality and mutual love.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:49am

*hugs Em*

I really should go to bed. Damn 8 AM class (and I still have 18 or 19 more instances of whining about it to look forward to).

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:55am

I love that song. There's such a gentle quality to it.

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:58am

Thanks, Chloe. It's really a beautiful song; I haven't analyzed it more than it being an expression of love in some way.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 12:59am

I think I have formed my own idea on MP...

I guess that he starts off in an unstable relationship. (She hurt him...somehow). He questions himself, as if he did something wrong, and "warns" himself about the future. He could be afraid of being alone and if the only risk he would have to do is leave the relationship. I'm in the thinking that he knows how she could be distancing herself from their love, that it's already laced with some separation and isn't true anymore. (Slip through mercury fingers, hold on to hands that feign divine. Swallow tainted love, washed down with bitter wine.). And that he's trying to hold on to this love that he had found in the first place because he knows that everlasting love is hard to come by - he may have been "saved" by her. Possibly saved from himself. Although he wants this love, he's hurt by what happened and has a hard time passing through that chapter in his life. He says that it's hard enough to stay constant and live life moment by moment or it's hard enough to break away from the supposed good relationship. "Did you ever find your way back home?" I guess could refer to...going back to the familar, stable place in his life before he needed to be saved...

Those are my thoughts...They may not make sense...but that's what I got out of them.

I was really interested in the other interpretations.

Updated On: 2/15/06 at 12:59 AM

[Chloe]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 1:00am

I think it's kind of profound in its way. I'm off to bed - don't stay up too late tonight guys! And feel better, Emcee.

ETA: That's really good too, Rogue. Songs that can be interpreted so many ways obviously have a lot going on. Updated On: 2/15/06 at 01:00 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 1:02am

'night!

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 1:02am

Good night Chloe!

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 2/15/06 at 1:03am

My roommate is up struggling to write the same essay. I've got Taboo on constant repeat. Still on the second paragraph, one day it will be done.