"Feeling Existential" (lyrics warning)

[Heidi]

Feeling Existential
Written by Mojo Nixon; performed by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
Listen here: http://www.emusic.com/album/10606/10606789.html

Your goatee is growin'
In front of your fake French café
You're readin' Kirkegaard
Underneath your very black beret
Smokin' filterless Camels
That stink just like Gitanes
Drinkin' some "express-o"
Droppin' all the names
Standing outside of a Winchell's
You're feeling very existential

You dreamed you were Whitman --
Walt, the poet, the bard --
But you're really more like Slim:
An evil tub of lard
Lookin' in the mirror,
And think you see James Dean
Now you turn to Dylan --
You "coulda been him ..."

Feelin' so depressed
You're lookin' so distressed
And all the little girls,
You just want to undress
You're uglier than your high-school principal
You're just feelin' very existential

You were kicked out of the college
Your Daddy couldn't afford
So you went out "On the Road"
In a '67 Ford
Then you went to Europe
You felt like Hemingway
You even loved a woman there
But you found out she was gay

Man, you gonna never get rid of your pimples!
You're just feelin' very existential

"Nothin' is nothin' --
Everyone's a twit!
Gonna tie myself up,
Have a little fit ..."
So grab your granny glasses
Dress all up in black
Find your journal
Read Jack Kerouac

Bed on down through the winter
You're feeling very existential

You'd like to sit on Kirk Douglas's dimple ...
Yeah, you're inside of a Chinese temple ...
And your mind, mind, is so, so ... simple
Standin' outside of a Winchell's
Feelin' very existential

-- "Feeling Existential," Mojo Nixon (recorded by Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper)

[enigmatic]

1. Mojo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God, I love that song; "Jesus At McDonalds, too :hug:

[Heidi]

2. It's my favorite Mojo Nixon song

_today_ , anyway.

:hug:

[OrwellwasRight]

5. Mojo Nixon, the DJ in San Diego??

Or am I confusing him with someone else?

[Heidi]

6. Yep, that's him. (nt)

[Systematic Chaos]

3. I'D RATHER BE STUFFIN' MARTHA'S MUFFIN!!!!

And another all time fave:

I HATE BANKS! THEY'RE ALL A BUNCH OF FOO-FOOS!!

Somewhere, if it didn't get stolen back in 2003, I have a copy of Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper's "Frenzy" cd. I gotta get that out and give it a listen. :D

[Heidi]

4. Mojo Nixon is one of the men of my dreams.

Smart, funny, liberal (though he claims to be a libertarian) and living many thousands of miles away. :rofl:

[Heidi]

7. Getcherselves some Thursday Mojo, DUers. (nt)