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Old 05-10-2013, 03:32 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Yeah I got the "Good morning, Worm Your Honour..." bit, but then it started talking about Bowie and I got lost. I don't see how "Suffragette City" fits in really, and I know what you're saying, that it's a guy having hallucinations, but until the very last line you don't know this. Even then, the payoff is very tame. Maybe if he actually WAS in prison, like maybe doing life for killing someone whose name is close to worm, maybe if his name was Bowie... I don't know. I see the germ of an idea there, but kinda like my "Some mother's son" in the songwriting section it hasn't really anywhere to go, so it's really a bit of a letdown. You're expecting a big payoff as I said at the end, something that will either make this all make sense or make you laugh --- "Alan's friends had always thought of him as something of a worm" --- and really, to be totally fair, nothing happens. It's almost like the Bobby-in-the-shower scene in "Dallas", bit of a cop-out just to say "he has hallucinations". WHY are they worms? WHY is Bowie involved? You know, it's important to have things make some sort of sense, even if it's weird sense, otherwise it's just really a stream of consciousness that in the end goes nowhere.

Agree about the buttocks on legs idea though: class!
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