Bull Black Nova question

[standenup]

during the line up in the usual suspects, "fairy godmother" is a pretty hilarious replacement for "fucking cocksucker"

[BigWheeledWagon]

I've always heard Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon!.

 

Wow, this thread has gotten way off topic, but this made my day. In high school, my friends and I used this particular euphemism quite often after seeing "Die Hard" on TBS -- as in, "Damn, Mr. Falcon be tripping" or "That's one ugly Mr. Falcon." Of course, when using the term, you always had to say "Mr. Falcon" in a voice distinct from the rest of the sentence as if it were dubbed in by another actor.

[dls]

To answer the original question, I don't think he's really calling anyone. I can't hear this song without thinking of Lady Macbeth: "Out damned spot" and "Who knew the old man had so much blood in him?" That sort of thing. It's a song about someone who has lost any attachment to reality because of guilt and paranoia. That's how I hear it anyway.

[Tommy74]

Very provocative, Jeff would be proud

 

I've thought of it as the narrator slowly losing his mind over the course of the song to the point where he is so frazzled and horrified that he is calling his girlfriend, hoping beyond hope that she'll pick up and everything is actually okay.

[tinnitus photography]

i recently read somewhere that this song is about 'death proof,' the 2nd half of _Grindhouse_ that Tarantino directed...

[Guest Francis X. Hummel]

Wow, this thread has gotten way off topic, but this made my day. In high school, my friends and I used this particular euphemism quite often after seeing "Die Hard" on TBS -- as in, "Damn, Mr. Falcon be tripping" or "That's one ugly Mr. Falcon." Of course, when using the term, you always had to say "Mr. Falcon" in a voice distinct from the rest of the sentence as if it were dubbed in by another actor.

 

Hmmm... Pretty sure I had the same exact experience. Were we friends in high school? Seriously, where are you from?

 

EDIT - Never mind - i look at your profile - you're a bit older than me. But seriously, my friends and i did they exact same shit.

[Preferred B]

From a Strib Q&A:

 

"Bull Black Nova" is sung from the point of view of a murderer calling the person he murdered, the idea that his flight from reality is so severe he's hoping he can wind back the clock and have that person answer, and end it there. The music then sort of lent itself to sounding like a phone off the hook.

[fif1435]

From a Strib Q&A:

 

 

Huh...well, there ya go!

 

And no mention of Al Pacino...

[WilcoFan]

I've thought that perhaps the references to blood and other murderous things could be viewed metaphorically -- perhaps it's just representative of any guilty act that "can't be undone" (infidelity for instance). It strikes me that the song is about guilt and the panic of confronting it and thus the whole "body in the trunk" theme could be a way of examining that, and the phone call could be an attempt to assuage that guilt or confess to the underlying act . . . or it could just be a murder ballad psycho freak-out -- the bastard child of "Via Chicago" and "Spiders."

 

 

Do you mean this is Tweedy's "This Bird Has Flown?"

 

Also, I haven't posted in the a while. Is this really the intended look of the forum or is this the result of a server crash around the time of Jay's death that has not been rectified?

[froggie]

the site looks different to me too... there was some sort of server crash recently, though

[mfwahl]

Do you mean this is Tweedy's "This Bird Has Flown?"

 

Also, I haven't posted in the a while. Is this really the intended look of the forum or is this the result of a server crash around the time of Jay's death that has not been rectified?

I believe this is an "upgrade"

[WilcoFan]

I believe this is an "upgrade"

 

 

I guess I could live with it. However I would prefer if the border between pinned threads and regular ones was more distinct.

[dylan_1]

Interesting and puts a new twist on the song for me.

Reminds me of a Sopranos episode.