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02/15/2003 Archived Entry: "Coincidentals"
A friend on UF pointed out a really bizarre thing today...
I go by the nickname of 'Kickstart' all over the web, and have done so since about 1991 or so. Recently, before Jen and I were married, I introduced her to Userfriendly and she couldn't come up with a nickname...while we were dating I wrote her a poem in which I (yeah, you can laugh at me now) compared her to a butterfly, so I suggested that she use the name "j.butterfly".
Now take a look at these real, unaltered lyrics to a Red Hot Chili Peppers song called Can't Stop (my bold added for emphasis):
Can't stop addicted to the shin dig
Cop top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the westend
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meant
White heat is screaming in the jungle
Complete the motion if you stumble
Go ask the dust for any answers
Come back strong with 50 belly dancers[Chorus:]
The world I love
The tears I drop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Ever wonder if it's all for you
The world I love
The trains I hop
To be part of
The wave can't stop
Come and tell me when it's time toSweetheart is bleeding in the snowcone
So smart she's leading me to ozone
Music the great communicator
Use two sticks to make it in the nature
I'll get you into penetration
The gender of a generation
The birth of every other nation
Worth your weight the gold of meditation
This chapter's going to be a close one
Smoke rings I know your going to blow one
All on a spaceship persevering
Use my hands for everything but steering
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
Mop tops are happy when they feed you
J. Butterfly is in the treetop
Birds that blow the meaning into bebop[Repeat Chorus]
Wait a minute I'm passing out
Win or lose just like you
Far more shocking
Than anything i ever knew
How about you
10 more reasons
Why i need somebody new just like you
Far more shocking than anything I ever knew
Right on cueCan't stop addicted to the shin dig
Cop top he says I'm gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation
Defunkt the pistol that you pay for
This punk the feeling that you stay for
In time I want to be your best friend
Eastside love is living on the westend
Knock out but boy you better come to
Don't die you know the truth is some do
Go write your message on the pavement
Burnin' so bright I wonder what the wave meantKickstart the golden generator
Sweet talk but don't intimidate her
Can't stop the gods from engineering
Feel no need for any interfering
Your image in the dictionary
This life is more than ordinary
Can I get 2 maybe even 3 of these
Come from space
To teach you of the pliedes
Can't stop the spirits when they need you
This life is more than just a read thru
Now, I can easily see the use of my name in lyrics, it's common enough. But "J. Butterfly"?? That's a bit of extra strangeness.
Still trying to decide what to do about our living accomodations here, since I have a new job. I am working in Richmond, but don't really like Richmond very much - it's too expensive, and the only apartments I have found are right downtown, and I'd really like something a little suburban. Richmond is surrounded by a lot of rural farmland, but of course there are no apartment buildings in the middle of it, so we'd have to rent a house (even more expensive) or a basement suite (not my first, second, or third choice) if we were to live there. Our other choice is south Surrey, which I like, but it doesn't help my commute much. In S. Surrey we could likely find a nice suite of some sort or a decent apartment, but I'd still have to cross a very slow bridge into Richmond.
We just know that we've got to get out of Whalley. Home invasions and drug dealers and prostitution are kind of off-setting.