{"id":223,"date":"2009-06-18T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2009-06-18T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T17:44:45","slug":"munchhausen-by-proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Munchhausen By Proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I love Zooey Deschanel<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Case in point:<\/p>\n

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The short version is she has style, intelligence and is ridiculously cute.\u00c2\u00a0 So, she was in Yes Man<\/a> with Jim Carey<\/a> this winter.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was great fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Her “pretend” band Munchausen By Proxy<\/a> has several songs in the movie I recently purchased on iTunes simply because they are hilarious.<\/p>\n

The first is “Sweet Ballad<\/a>” embedded below.<\/p>\n

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The second is “Uh-Huh<\/a>” the lyrics of which are reproduced below:<\/p>\n

I should have been the one to break up with you
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nI wanna snap your neck and spit on you.
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nIf I got a call and said you were dead
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nI’d shrug my shoulders and I say what-ev
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?<\/p>\n

Hey have we met before? Oh yeah I think we have
\nBecause we only dated for four and a half years
\nNo big deal, I’ve only witnessed you sitting on the couch
\nWatching Next in your undies,
\nBut its cool that you act like you have no idea who I am.<\/p>\n

I saw you Amoeba records<\/a> last night
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nYou straighten your hair and had a henna tatto
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nI wanna shove your face just shove it.
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?<\/p>\n

My mother thinks youre in the closet
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nIts so weird because when we used to go out you never even liked the TJ<\/a> wantons
\nAnd now we have to drive all the way to marvista or some stupid place and eat
\nSome stupid butter-nut squash raviolli or something because you took the last bag like some
\nimmature little clown.<\/p>\n

I saw you Thursday at the Arclight<\/a>
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nI was on a date you ruined my night
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nI saw you shopping at the trader just
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nI see you everywhere it really blows.
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?<\/p>\n

Hey, did you ever meet my friend Ian?
\nHe’s a coumputer hacker.
\nHe helped me erase your Myspace page,
\nAnd your band’s Myspace page,
\nAnd your Facebook page.
\nHappy networking asshole.<\/p>\n

So remember all the stuff you forgot
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nAfter you just bought.
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?
\nI’d like to see the look on your greasy face.
\nYou said, Who are you? Who are you?<\/p>\n

It sold for sixteen hundy on eBay?
\nHe said, I know you. I know you.
\nUh-huh.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons I like the movie is that it is very “LA.”\u00c2\u00a0 They openly mock the middle of the country (from which I am from, thank you very much), there are a number of prime LA locations in the film (such as SpaceLand<\/a>, the Griffith Observatory<\/a> and Downtown LA).\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, a few others are mentioned (and linked) in the song above.<\/p>\n

If you’re not from LA, you mght not really appreciate those lyrics, but if you’ve lived here a while, you get the picture that the singer (and her ex) is a bit of a hipster around LA.\u00c2\u00a0 TJ’s (Trader Joes), Amoeba Music and Arclight (perhaps the Arclight least) are demonstrative of a hipster lifestyle.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, its very nice color on the backdrop of Zooey’s character as you are meeting her, essentially, for the second time.\u00c2\u00a0 You learn alot about her if you are paying attention during the songs without exposition.\u00c2\u00a0 That is always nice in a film.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I found the music funny and somewhat sound-nice-ish.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I thought I’d share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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