Comments on: happy is a yuppie word http://random.kennbivins.com/2009/06/happy-is-a-yuppie-word/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Max Reddick http://random.kennbivins.com/2009/06/happy-is-a-yuppie-word/#comment-300 Max Reddick Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:47:16 +0000 http://musing.kennbivins.com/?p=1085#comment-300 Love that quote by Bob Dylan. Switchfoot--I'll have to investigate them further. I likes! I seem to recall a passage from Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" that is similar. I'll paraphrase because I don't remember the quote word for word. But Freud said something to the effect that if the very definition of madness is to be out of one's mind, then being in love is the very first instance of madness. Because to be in love, you must necessary let down the barriers of the mind and let another in, while you in turn inhabit the space of their mind. Seems apropos. Love that quote by Bob Dylan.

Switchfoot–I’ll have to investigate them further. I likes!

I seem to recall a passage from Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents” that is similar. I’ll paraphrase because I don’t remember the quote word for word. But Freud said something to the effect that if the very definition of madness is to be out of one’s mind, then being in love is the very first instance of madness. Because to be in love, you must necessary let down the barriers of the mind and let another in, while you in turn inhabit the space of their mind.

Seems apropos.

]]> By: kenn http://random.kennbivins.com/2009/06/happy-is-a-yuppie-word/#comment-299 kenn Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:14:25 +0000 http://musing.kennbivins.com/?p=1085#comment-299 Might I add that the title was inspired by a song by Switchfoot, one of my most favorite bands ever. <a href="http://www.rhapsody.com/-search?query=happy is a yuppie word&searchtype=RhapTrack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Have a listen, if you like</a>. Lyrics follow... ---------------- Everyone dies Everyone loves a fight Nothing is sound Nothing is right side right Evening comes, when the sun goes down in red Nothing is cool When will all the fighting end When will all the fighting end Happy is a yuppie word Nothing in the world could fail me now It's empty as an argument I'm running down a life that won't cash out (cash out) Everything fails Everything runs it's course A time and a place, for all of this loving war Everyone buys, everyone's gotta price, and nothing is new When will all the failures rise When will all the failures rise, rise! Happy is a yuppie word Nothing in the world could fail me now It's empty as an argument I'm running down a life that won't cash out Happy is a yuppie word Blessed is the man who's lost it all Happy is a yuppie word (word) Looking for an orphanage I'm looking for a bridge I can't burn down I don't believe the emptiness I'm looking for the kingdom coming down Everything is meaningless I want more than simple cash can buy Happy is a yuppie word Happy is a yuppie word Happy is a yuppie word Happy is a yuppie, Nothing is sound Nothing is sound Nothing is sound Nothing is sound Nothing is sound Nothing is sound Nothing is sound Happy is a yuppie word Nothing in the world could fail me now Happy is a yuppy word (word) So calm down, yeah! So calm down, yeah! So calm down, yeah! Might I add that the title was inspired by a song by Switchfoot, one of my most favorite bands ever. Have a listen, if you like.

Lyrics follow…
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Everyone dies
Everyone loves a fight
Nothing is sound
Nothing is right side right
Evening comes, when the sun goes down in red
Nothing is cool
When will all the fighting end
When will all the fighting end

Happy is a yuppie word
Nothing in the world could fail me now
It’s empty as an argument
I’m running down a life that won’t cash out (cash out)

Everything fails
Everything runs it’s course
A time and a place, for all of this loving war
Everyone buys, everyone’s gotta price, and nothing is new
When will all the failures rise
When will all the failures rise, rise!

Happy is a yuppie word
Nothing in the world could fail me now
It’s empty as an argument
I’m running down a life that won’t cash out

Happy is a yuppie word
Blessed is the man who’s lost it all
Happy is a yuppie word (word)

Looking for an orphanage
I’m looking for a bridge I can’t burn down
I don’t believe the emptiness
I’m looking for the kingdom coming down
Everything is meaningless
I want more than simple cash can buy
Happy is a yuppie word
Happy is a yuppie word
Happy is a yuppie word
Happy is a yuppie,

Nothing is sound
Nothing is sound
Nothing is sound
Nothing is sound
Nothing is sound
Nothing is sound
Nothing is sound

Happy is a yuppie word
Nothing in the world could fail me now
Happy is a yuppy word (word)

So calm down, yeah!
So calm down, yeah!
So calm down, yeah!

]]> By: kenn http://random.kennbivins.com/2009/06/happy-is-a-yuppie-word/#comment-298 kenn Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:47:49 +0000 http://musing.kennbivins.com/?p=1085#comment-298 "In 1991, when Rolling Stone interviewed Bob Dylan on the occasion of his 50th birthday, he gave a curious response when the interviewer asked him if he was happy. He fell silent for a few moments and stared at his hands. 'You know,' he said, 'these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It's not happiness or unhappiness, it's either blessed or unblessed.'" -quote from Switchfoot “In 1991, when Rolling Stone interviewed Bob Dylan on the occasion of his 50th birthday, he gave a curious response when the interviewer asked him if he was happy. He fell silent for a few moments and stared at his hands. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘these are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It’s not happiness or unhappiness, it’s either blessed or unblessed.’”

-quote from Switchfoot

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