Friday, November 04, 2005

But baby if I'm the bottom, you're the top

Hmmm. Sounds different coming out of my mouth, though not at all distasteful, mind you. Sometimes you get an itch. I can't deny a penchant, when traveling, to climb atop the highest point. You know, for the vista it affords.
The scoop is that they just opened a spankin' new observation deck on top of the Rockefeller Center. I am SO doing this next weekend. I've been to the Top of the 'Cock. Next up, the Top of the Rock. It's another YAY, y'all.

The photos are by towleroad. Loves him.

14 comments:

The Other Andrew said...

Jeebus H Cripes, you have to read things so carefully 'round these parts. I'm reading this post thinking to my myself "hang on a minute, since when does that word require an apostrophe of contraction/abbreviation?... oh, right.

The Other Andrew said...

"You're the top, you're the Colosseum,
You're the top, you're the Louvre Museum,
You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss,
You're a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet, you're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile, you're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa,
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,
But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top."


Mike, there's a nice article about Noel Coward's lyrics and the cleverness of his references, and his rhymes, here.

Michael said...

You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss,
You're a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet, you're Mickey Mouse.


I was just starting to copy and paste those lines when I noticed your link. I've always loved the things he chose to combine. To find someone who is all those? Potent little cocktail, that. Kinda like #1 on your list of things that attracts you to a guy: Pretty eyes, wicked mouth, dirty mind. http://tinyurl.com/bd926

Michael said...

Doesn't that panorama make the city boy in you just go all oogly?

The Other Andrew said...

Amen to that. Mmmm, cityscape. Gives me goosebumps.

I thing the genius of Noel Coward is in the juxtapositions, but also in the way he plays with the rhyme and delays the pay-off. The pauses are everything.

The Other Andrew said...

I thing? I think.

Michael said...

May we hug now?

The Other Andrew said...

Sure, but only if we can make out afterwards.

Michael said...

Well whaddya think I'm doing, checking your inseam?

OK, well, I have to mow my lawn now.

Bodhi said...

"OK, well, I have to mow my lawn now."

Wearing no more than cut-off denim shorts, your cowboy hat, some boots, and a lather of glistening sweat, right?

Bodhi said...

.. and is it just me, or are others coming across all Desperate Housewives and suddenly have a strong desire to do the gardener?

Michael said...

Last time I was wearing a cowboy hat and boots, I fell down a flight of stairs and really busted up my Christmas package.

There is something about dirt and sweat and my completely fictional hotness that has the ladies in a lather. ;-)

The Other Andrew said...

Hah! Can someone give me a 'Christmas cracker in da house'!

Bodhi said...

So sorry to hear that your chestnuts got roasted on the open stairs, Mikey. I just hope that your bells are now again jingling and the Christmas cracker is all in operational order. But honey, wearing a cowboy hat and boots at Christmas time? I mean really, is that appropriate? (Oh hell, f**k appropriate, who am I kidding, in that outfit you can excelsius my deo any time..).

I'm sure that you are indeed the hotness, Mikey, so if you excuse me I now have some lathering to do. Care to join me to assist in getting to those hard to reach places? Or was that places to reach hard? Hmmmm. Oh whatever.

;-)