At one point during last Thursday's stint of the club night <a href="http:\/\/www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk\/">"How Does It Feel To Be Loved"<\/a>, the Lloyd Cole hit "Rattlesnakes" was played. It filled the floor, in fact. <\/p>\n
I stood at the bar and listened to its infamous chorus, smirking at the sheer nerve of the lyrics:<\/p>\n
<i>she looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront \/
\nshe reads simone de beauvoir in her american circumstance<\/i><\/p>\n
It then occurred to me that, while Mr Cole restricted such a reference to that one song, I'm in a <i>band<\/i> whose very name is taken from a De Beauvoir novel, amongst other sources.<\/p>\n
I shall think twice before smirking at Mr Cole's estimable oeuvre ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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