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'I would do anything for love ( But I won't do that.)'

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12:28 / 10.07.05

I suppose 'most people know' what that lyric's referring to, but, more generally, what wouldn't you do for your significant other ? A thread for discussing that.

I'll begin;

Go on a two week caravanning holiday in North Wales.

12:31 / 10.07.05

1
kill myself.
2
kill a family memeber
3
start hanging keyring-things off my wallet chain until i look like one of them keyring-thing vending emo-kids.

12:50 / 10.07.05

To answer a song quote with a song quote:

"I don't want to be your other half I believe that 1 and 1 make 2".

12:54 / 10.07.05

And if that's not good enough I won't listen to weepy sentiment about dead family pets or holiday in Ibiza.

Tryphena Absent

14:47 / 10.07.05

I wouldn't watch Footballer's Wives (that takes people who can't be nagged), go camping, eat tinned fish, abseil, join the church, give up chocolate, white water raft, put nail varnish on my toes.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:14 / 10.07.05

Sex.

15:59 / 10.07.05

I would not become so rigid in my beliefs/ideas about the world that I wouldn't be willing to take other people's POVs into consideration.

Granted, the one I love would get special dispensation, even for the 'crazy' ideas. But then again, I also would not go to prison for the one I love.

21:26 / 10.07.05

Off the cuff answer would be nothing but am trying to think of anything I have refused to do that Ganesh required of me.

I refused to go scuba diving with him off the Andaman Coast.

I refuse to believe him when he is obviously wrong or when he argues with me when I am obviously right. That was a much older Limahl, with the same hairdo cascading now over sags and wrinkles, in the audience at the Soho Theatre the other night.

I refused to wear a jumper he bought me once. I told him it was lovely and thanked him very much. Then I threw it in the bin and told him it shrank in the wash (Trainspotting chic was very niche and so time-limited).

Because we talk about everything and argue all the time, I expect we are very aware of each other's boundaries and avoid causing any grief through infringing them. Doesn't seem like a hardship, just a bare necessary.

If he murdered someone, I would lie in court for him. If someone harmed or damaged him, I would get wholly mediaeval on their sorry asses. I have even made his mother my best friend, for fox' sake.

paranoidwriter waves hello

21:30 / 10.07.05

Lose my independence. Or massage your feet. I mean, come on, they're feet.

Poke it with a stick

21:36 / 10.07.05

Vote Conservative.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:40 / 10.07.05

I like to think of myself as the sort of person who would say my answer to that question would be "nothing".

but

A few years back, I learned that one thing I absolutely will not do for love is watch someone have a bigger drink problem than I do (well, did- fingers crossed). And I do realise that reflects very poorly on me. ME getting chucked out of pubs/rescued from fights- that was fine. ME not knowing how the fuck I got home or anywhere else on any given occasion- yeah, that was fine too. Having to look after someone else in that situation- clearly something I was unequipped for. (Even the words "but you're fucking trashed all the time and I can't cope with it" literally TASTED weird leaving my mouth. And I was fucking hammered).

(Not all doom'n'gloom though- met her again about a year or so ago, she hasn't touched a drop in ages and has totally sorted her life out! Which I found fairly fucking inspirational, as it goes...)

23:50 / 10.07.05

I suppose 'most people know' what that lyric's referring to...

I never really listened to the lyrics... what is he referring to?

00:19 / 11.07.05

Eating his own head.

paranoidwriter waves hello

00:21 / 11.07.05

Release an over-emotional rock-love-ballard ever again? He really shouldn't do that.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:31 / 11.07.05

HOLD IT!!!

Hold it one fucking second. Are people dissing the musical/comedic genius of Jim Steinman?

Let me get this straight here. I have no time for Meat Loaf except insofar as he is Steinman's straight man. Steinman writes the funniest lyrics known to man, then sets them to a backing of EVERY INSTRUMENT IN THE WORLD EVER, and then brings in a choir of children near the end. He gets ML to sing over the top, to sing in the impassioned way only someone who is taking this totally seriously ever could...

Bat Out Of Hell and Bat Out Of Hell 2 are absolutely fucking fantastic albums. Meat Loaf is shit. These statements are NOT mutually exclusive. I am not taking the piss.

When I finally get my long-awaited 10-album a capella black metal space opera cycle to fruition, it'll be Steinman I want at the decks, going "can we have bagpipes here? How's about the entire population of Belgium going 'lalalalalala'?..."

Seriously. Steinman is GOD.

paranoidwriter waves hello

00:34 / 11.07.05

Sorry Stoatie.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:46 / 11.07.05

Wouldn't worry about it. Nobody EVER agrees with me on that.

Anyway, I forgot to mention he's the Wagner of metal. Now, that statement in itself SHOULD (in any sane world) be the part where all his detractors suddenly go "oh, hang on a minute, I really get where you're coming from now" but, unfortunately, on this earth that we must for now make our home, it tends to be the part where I get hit with pool cues. Or, failing that, told to either shut up or fuck off, depending on who's doin' the tellin'.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:47 / 11.07.05

Actually, every now and then, Wagner's ghost turns up and gives me shit for it as well.

00:55 / 11.07.05

Sex.

HUAS U R TEH BARBELOID!!1!!!!!

02:05 / 11.07.05

What is he referring to?

Well according to one reading of the lyric anyway, it's a sensitive issue.

Gardening, getting a mortgage, going to Ikea and that kind of thing, don't seem to be subjects Meat Loaf's really addressing.

03:54 / 11.07.05

ever ever ever eat mcdonald's or give them a cent of my money (which to date i never have and can't see any likelihood of that changing now...)

other than that, i'm pretty much open to s/o's commands...

06:05 / 11.07.05

I'll do anything. Anything.

I'll also do anything for Alex.

07:35 / 11.07.05

Cheap. So cheap. And inconstant.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:36 / 11.07.05

Believe me, you won't do that.

Wasn't Meat Loaf arguing that he would never make love the way he did it with her, oh no, oh no, he won't do that? I always assumed that she was double-jointed our something. Or possibly that Mr. Loaf had had some... health problems.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:38 / 11.07.05

Can I just remind everyone that said song features the lyric "Will you hose me down with holy water if I get too hot?"

09:02 / 11.07.05

man.
i'm starting to believe the stoat now.

09:14 / 11.07.05

I also like Mr Steinman's "Max Power" anthem, Pair o' Dice by the Dashboard Light.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:27 / 11.07.05

And I said God DAMN it, Daddy... you know I love you...
but you've got a hell of a lot to learn about ROCK AND ROLL!!!

19:33 / 11.07.05

So Alex - was this thread started with a real life example? I'm intrigued by your prospective caravanning trip in Wales.

Am I the only one who thinks it sounds fucking ace? I would be there in a second.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

19:37 / 11.07.05

Apparently he has to share a caravan with Meat Loaf. And he's been warned that "objects in the rear view mirror can appear closer than they are". Cos, you know, if life is just a highway...

20:16 / 11.07.05

to sing in the impassioned way only someone who is taking this totally seriously ever could...

Stoatie, dear, I'm somewhat bemused by the assertion that someone calling himself "Meatloaf" could possibly take his own music seriously.

I mean... Meatloaf. Really.

21:31 / 11.07.05

ha - excellent! I've been thinking all day that caravanning in Wales sounded magic. When can we go??

Whisky Priestess

22:06 / 11.07.05

One man's meat ... (Oo-er!!!)

23:55 / 11.07.05

"Dress nice, for god's sake."

NO

Jack The Bodiless

10:34 / 12.07.05

Dude, it's Meat Loaf. Meat gets seriously fucked off if you join the two halves of his name. And then he drags you to the corner post, gets onto the middle rope, and sits on you while the ref hits the three-count.

No... hang on. That's Yokozuna. Sorry.

Let's! Not! Forget! That Dream Pollution is apparently presented by Rockman Philharmonic, the Jim Steinman Society For The Arts. And I quote: "He is a master sculptor of music and lyrics which are notable for their imagery, grace, lucidity and aptness of phrase. He is a non-conformist in an industry dominated by the predictable. He is an intelligent virtuoso boiling over with fresh ideas, explosive music and biting commentary. He is blending old and new schools of theater and rock and then taking it one step further. He is Jim Steinman - artisan of the Epic Rock style and father of the Power Ballad. Jim Steinman is forever expanding the boundaries, breaking new ground, and improving on perfection."

I want Jim Steinman to be my dad.

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