The View From Kalamazoo

So the other night Bri runs across this Boing Boing follow-up covering a blog entry about ‘sequels’ to songs: (some excerpts)

-How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?

-Bust an Additional Move

-Seriously, Eileen, Come On

-Whoomp! There It Continues to Be

(There are lots of links to more.)

He can’t stop laughing and in-between chortles reads many aloud. So I started IMing him some that I came up with. He suggested I had to share, so here we go (keep in mind it was late, I was punchy, and the goal was making him make that hilarious noise he makes when he laughs real hard.)

Some are obvious. Some you might have to think about:

-Melody Captured After Daring Escape

-Rock n’ Roll Community College

-I Was Thinking About You (But Then My Girlfriend Came Back Into the Room)

-Ok- Now Justify My Career

-Child Support, Child Support

-Less Than a Proposal

-Everything I Did, I Did It For You (So I Turned State’s Witness)

-Late For Work, Late For Work

-Black or White (or Red or Yellow or Brown – So Long as They’re Pre-Pubescent)

-Carpathian Tragedy

-Never mind, I believe you

-Woman Slips Off Ledge After Dangling For Hours

-(Won’t You Shower) Funky Town

-I Didn’t Say “Simon Says”!

-Faith Alone Does Not Pay the Electric Bill

-Boom Boom (Let’s Get Out of Here Before the Cops Catch Us With the Bottle Rockets)

-I Wanna Go Home With Somebody

-Wasn’t Gonna Give You Up (But Your Mom Got Custody)

-Volume Has a Leak -There I Went Again

-Now That We’re Alone – Do You Want To See Something REALLY Scary?

-I Just Flunked Geography

-I’m Decomposing In Your Arms Tonight

-Mambo no.6

-Love May Not Cost a Thing, But Dinner at That Swank French Restaurant Certainly Does

-Wheel In the Sky Was Just a Traffic Copter

-Oops! They Caught Me Again

-No, Officer, That’s *Genie* In My Bottle…

-Livin’ la vida asila

-(My Heart Will Go On) So They Want To Pull The Plug

-Lunch At McDonalds

-Heel

-Should I Be a Little More Decisive?

-Do They Know it’s Yom Kippur? Diwali?

-Did You Exchange It for (the Right Stuff)?

-(Like a Prayer) is a Simile, Not a Metaphor

-He Ain’t Heavy (He’s on Slimfast)

-It’s a Minor Moral Transgression

-Who’s That Girl (Who Just Stole Your Car?)

-The Sun Always Shines On Only in Certain Areas Within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles

-Papa Sells Used Cars

-When the Going Gets Tough (the Tough Hire Assistants)

-We aren’t’ the world, We’re Just Egomaniacs

-I Just Called to Say I’ll Be Late So Don’t Wait Up

-White, White Toilet

And I want to add to the exhaustive list of supergroups that never were:

Simply Red Hot Chili Peppers

Jan & Dean Martin

Johnny Horton Heat

Crosby, Stills, Nash & (fine) Young Cannibals

Three Dog Night Ranger

KC and the Sunshine Band Aid

Culture Club Nouveau

Michael Jackson Browne

Shakespeare’s Sister Sledge

Camper Van Morrison