Zombie Love
I always assumed the words in that one Buzzcocks song was "Everybody's happy now we're dead." The song was on a mix tape I used to listen to a lot, and you know how it goes with mix tapes and shoddy/lost liner notes. Anyway. I've always sang along to it as though it were an ode to zombie love. Then last night, I noticed it was in a commercial. For the AARP. With the tagline, "We believe in birthdays." Many things happened simultaneously in my mind: first, I got excited because oh ho ho the AARP sure didn't listen to those lyrics very well! Then, there was a pondering that the lyrics I had in my head didn't really make much sense when I thought about it. And finally, there was the realization that it must be me, and not the ad execs at AARP who was mistaken. I ran down to the computer, and after a quick Google search, found out that all those happy people aren't zombies after all.
HAHAHAHA. Awesome.
but which song is it??
Yeah, I'm missing the real lyrics, which is a shame because I'm sure it's hilarious. Retirees! Zombies! Birthdays!
I hate it when that happens. Then it's like a whole new song. Except I usually like the in-my-head version better.
If you click on the last link, it will take you to a snippet of the song and the song title, which is much more innocuous than my version: "Nowadays" not "Now We're Dead."
It's cooler to think the AARP is endorsing zombie love, though.
Spandau Ballet's "True" was on the radio the other day and I was about to confess to Larry that until a few years ago thought they were saying, "I know this matches true" when Larry sang very earnestly, "I know this barge is true." Awesome.