{"id":3415,"date":"2006-02-26T01:29:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T09:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/02\/26\/3415.html"},"modified":"2006-02-26T01:29:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T09:29:32","slug":"earworm-somewhere-thats-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/02\/26\/earworm-somewhere-thats-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Earworm: Somewhere That&#8217;s Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day the song \"<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=1581289\">Somewhere That's Green<\/a>\" (from <cite>Little Shop of Horrors<\/cite>, though I have the movie soundtrack rather than the cast recording that I just linked to) started running through my head (it had probably come up in iTunes while I wasn't paying close attention), and it still hasn't stopped.<\/p>\n<p>But that's okay. The real reason I'm mentioning it is that I caught a bit of lyrics cleverness that I don't think I had noticed before.<\/p>\n<p>Audrey is describing her dream home's accoutrements, and toward the end of the first verse she says it would have \"A washer and a dryer and an ironing machine.\"  I've always thought the phrase \"ironing machine\" was funny, but it wasn't 'til now that I realized it's an internal rhyme:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>A washer,<\/p>\n<p>and a dryer,<\/p>\n<p>and an i-er-<\/p>\n<p>ning machine .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To her credit, Ellen Greene doesn't sing it that way; she gives it a more natural intonation and rhythm, making it not just a joke but a subtle joke.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I'm probably more amused by this than it deserves, and I've definitely now spent more verbiage on it than it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to have a more substantive entry sometime soon.  Been a long and busy week.  Am way too sleepy\/punchy right now to write anything coherent, as you can probably tell.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day the song &#8220;Somewhere That&#8217;s Green&#8221; (from Little Shop of Horrors, though I have the movie soundtrack rather&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,44,7,40,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-music","category-theatre","category-verse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}