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At "home," in the sense of "my parents' house where I have to sleep in the HAMMOCK in the basement if I want any sort of quiet during my normal sleepshift." Self-editing is going pretty well, and there was much hilarity at the expense of #2 brother (things he said to his girlfriend include 'You're a lot of things that I don't call you' and 'I got no reason to look at you!') and general hilarity. Lots of reminders why I love my family, which is of the good.
But the real reason I'm posting this is that this is my first chance since realizing it last night to post the following: "Superman" by Five for Fighting is the most blindingly obviously appropriate Benton Fraser Theme Song ever (even better than the one in the pilot, I think)
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me
I'm more than a bird ...I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see
It may sound absurd ...but don't be naive
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed ...but won't you concede
Even Heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me
Up, up and away ...away from me
It's all right ...You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy ...or anything ...
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
It's not easy to be me.
Of course he probably would balk at referring to the serge as 'a silly red sheet,' but I imagine that's just the endpoint on the slippery slope that begins with admitting that it's not easy to be him.
The fact that 'inside of me,' the place where the song's protagonist is looking for special things, tends, in American Pop Music Sung English, to be pronounced something like 'In-saaaahd uh me,' and thus resembles 'in sodomy,' i.e. a homosexual relationship with my hot cop partner, is totally irrelevant to my opinion of the Fraser-ness of the song.
But the real reason I'm posting this is that this is my first chance since realizing it last night to post the following: "Superman" by Five for Fighting is the most blindingly obviously appropriate Benton Fraser Theme Song ever (even better than the one in the pilot, I think)
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me
I'm more than a bird ...I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see
It may sound absurd ...but don't be naive
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed ...but won't you concede
Even Heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me
Up, up and away ...away from me
It's all right ...You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy ...or anything ...
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
It's not easy to be me.
Of course he probably would balk at referring to the serge as 'a silly red sheet,' but I imagine that's just the endpoint on the slippery slope that begins with admitting that it's not easy to be him.
The fact that 'inside of me,' the place where the song's protagonist is looking for special things, tends, in American Pop Music Sung English, to be pronounced something like 'In-saaaahd uh me,' and thus resembles 'in sodomy,' i.e. a homosexual relationship with my hot cop partner, is totally irrelevant to my opinion of the Fraser-ness of the song.