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Originally Posted by Ben
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Ben,
Your post takes me way back to the mid-70s, when I lived in an undergrad dorm in metro Boston housing men assigned by lot to 8-bedroom suites which shared common plumbing.
One of my cohabitants liked almost nothing better than listening to the accelerated <i>William Tell Overture</i> from <i>A Clockwork Orange</i>, which score you cited. Not a drama major, but a triple-major in biology, chemistry and management, he nonetheless would re-enact the relevant scene from the film using a whole sheepskin splayed out on his bed as the target of his curious affections. Thankfully, he always kept his pants on - at least while his door was open. (I don't know about when it was closed!)
I say "almost nothing" because surely there was at least one thing he liked doing even better, which he practiced at least once weekly in front of the bathroom mirror - and probably lots more often just before important exams. This was the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E#t=0m54s", target="_TD">famous scene</a> which Robert DeNiro did in front of another mirror as "Travis Bickle" in the film <i>Taxi Driver</i>.
Curious if he ended up drinking bottles of <i>Woolite</i>, a few year ago I searched online. You will be relieved to know he is under medical supervision - he's a practicing plastic surgeon. IN NEW YORK CITY, BEN. I SAID IN NEW YORK! Are you REALLY SURE you need to have that mole removed? REALLY, REALLY SURE?
But probably the most memorable song from those times is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_t'aime..._moi_non_plus"<i>Je t'aime... moi non plus</i></a> which another cohabitant played many, many times <i>every</i> single day. I found that quite curious because evidently, he was rather wealthy for that era, with his own tricked-out Pontiac Trans-Am the guys called "The Pimpmobile." A handsome foreigner, he often entertained all sorts of lovely young women in his room, albeit only one at a time. I can only imagine they lacked all talent for singing.
You know, as a result, I've heard Jane Birkin <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxYte5oWfQE" target="_JT">have an orgasm</a> more often than all the American girls I've known put together. One more strange thing - when a French woman I'm with has an orgasm, I get a curious urge to read an old quantum mechanics book. I guess I'm traumatized for life, huh?
By the way, is there a thread on songs which Alizée and Jérémy should cover?
