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Rock 'n' Roll Trivia (Drug Addled Edition)

(SPOILED, too. Alan and Nightfly got a couple of the answers, the rest are filled in)

Well, drug as in nectar of the gods, but it's a drug nonetheless. Add in the paint and woodstain fumes and it's definitely a huffing-good drug time.

So today we had guys in staining and painting on the windows we had installed recently. Nice, new, double-pane (or pain, take your choice) windows, all greenie-weenie, energy-efficient stuff, which we could actually afford because the kid turned down Harvard. This staining and painting is, of course, all stuff I could do on my own as a manly man but I've reached a stage in my life at which I refuse to tolerate substandard work. Which means, of course, that I will pay someone to do it right, rather than muck it up myself.

So anyway, I went for my normal weekend bike ride with a 60s CD. I'm collecting questions for future trivia quizzes, but I thought I would just do one that's been on the back burner for a little while. Having attended the drug capital of the western hemisphere, and lived right next door to the "Merrill Drugstore", I feel highly qualified to do a druggie edition of R'n'RTrivia.

Funny thing I learned in high school, though - despite the association of Rock 'n' Roll with drugs (and sex, but that's another, more interesting, trivia edition), there actually were a fair number of anti-drug Rock 'n' Roll songs. At least, anti-hard-drugs. And that's what we're talking about today. So polish up your roachclips, whet your syringes, fill your chaser glasses, and let's get ready for some trivia:

1) You think you're gonna find yourself a little piece of paradise with what? (Yes, I've used this one before. Shut up) [Nightfly gets "Kicks"]

2) Multi-part question:

a) Your good friend was lying on the pavement with what? [With misery on his brain]

b) Where did he find a potion? [Upon the wall of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall]

c) He only had a dollar to live on. What did he spend it on? [Comfort for his mind]

d) Who should someone call, and what will they do? [Someone should call his parents, a sister, or a brother, and they'll come to take him back home on a bus]

e) For whom will he always be a problem? [For his poor and puzzled mother]

f) What was too slow? And so what did he do? [He wanted Heaven but praying was too slow, so he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow]

3) Okay, even in my semi-drunken state (several beers down) I recognize that this multi-part question is all in the same song, as was the last one. So sue me)

a) God damn who? [Alan gets "The Pusher"]

b) I've smoked a lot of grass, and what else? [Popped a lot of pills]

c) But I've never done what? [Never done nothin' that my spirit could kill]

d) I've seen a lot of people walking around with what? [Tombstones in their eyes]

e) What will this person leave your mind to do? [He'll leave your mind to scream]

f) If I were President of this land, what would I do? [Declare total war on the pusher]

g) How would I kill him? [I'd cut him if he stand and I'd shoot him if he run, and I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun]

Yeah, okay, not very inspired, but have at it. I'll try to do better tomorrow.

Posted by Ken S at June 30, 2007 04:44 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Rock 'n' Roll Trivia