Manning Leonard Krull ([info]manningkrull) wrote,
@ 2008-05-06 14:55:00
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Entry tags:dead sexy inc, french, mythology

Ça Plane Pour Moi

  • The other day I got called Plastic Bertrand for the second time in my life! This time it was some skater kids near the Parc de Bercy. (The first time was by a crazy guy almost three years ago.) Amazingly and much to my delight, no one has called me Sting or Billy Idol in the whole time I've been back in France. Bonus: Here's my roommate Alexis' band, The Dead Sexy Inc, covering Ça Plane Pour Moi with Askan.

  • I was at the home of three French sisters over the weekend (the place with the rats), and one of them had left a funny/mean message as the desktop wallpaper of the communal computer; a short French expression that I didn't recognize. I asked what the words meant exactly, and the youngest sister ran to check in a French/English dictionary in her bedroom. She then hollered from the other room, "ARE - YOU - WANT - CANNONBALL?!"

  • I have four identical, evenly spaced, deep scratches on my hip, like someone stabbed me with a large fork or like I was bitten by a small dinosaur, and I have absolutely no idea where they came from. I've been trying to figure it out all day. Weirdly, I had a dream last night about swimming in shark-infested waters. (I think the scratches might actually be from my iPod when I was running yesterday.)

  • Which celebrities do you share your birthday with? I knew mine was the same as Weird Al's and Johnny Carson's. But Ben e-mailed me last night to inform me of the following:
    Forgive me if you already know this, but in all of the times that you see a list of celebrities with the same birthday as you, did you ever see The Earth on the list?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
    Whoa.


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[info]chu_hi
2008-05-06 01:01 pm UTC (link)
I know I share a birthday with Leonardo da Vinci.

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(I am saying this with a snobby accent)
[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 01:17 pm UTC (link)
No planets, hmm? Pity.

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~sigh~ - [info]chu_hi, 2008-05-06 02:06 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]emmabovary
2008-05-06 01:07 pm UTC (link)
While handsome in his youth, Plastic Bertrand did not age well. Let us pray you meet with a better genetic fate.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 03:54 pm UTC (link)
There has never been anything more worthy of prayer.

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[info]toomskt
2008-05-06 01:14 pm UTC (link)
I share mine with Ernest Hemingway, Robin Williams, and Cat Stevens. All very creative, crazy people.

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(Being a dick here for absolutely no reason)
[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 01:18 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's great, come back when you've got some planets.

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Re: (Being a dick here for absolutely no reason) - [info]toomskt, 2008-05-06 02:59 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]fashionista17
2008-05-06 01:28 pm UTC (link)
Sophia Loren!

Also, I'm one day shy of Beyonce.

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Manning is Omega Man
[info]abinka
2008-05-06 01:31 pm UTC (link)
I have four identical, evenly spaced, deep scratches on my hip

Fingernails? Or a werewolf. Only explanation. I love the French word for werewolf.. lupe-garou. I might not be spelling it right.

My birthday is shared with Woody Allen, Bette Midler, and the first ever AIDS Day. Yup...

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 04:18 pm UTC (link)
Ha! That was one pathetic loup-garou if I came away with just a scratch (and didn't even notice it 'til I got naked).

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[info]petit_chou
2008-05-06 01:50 pm UTC (link)
You share a birthday with Usher? That IS awesome!

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 03:55 pm UTC (link)
Well, Usher and I were both born on the same planet anyway...

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[info]littlewashu
2008-05-06 01:52 pm UTC (link)
Johnny Cash, Erykah Badu, and Fats Domino! Also Kuwait was liberated on my birthday in er '91? And the WTC was bombed in er some other year around then.

But hey, congratulations on sharing a birthday with Earth! Now you just need to find somebody who was born on December 21st. Or wait maybe you're supposed to die then (won't we all) . . .

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[info]trini_naenae
2008-05-06 02:01 pm UTC (link)
That song sounds familiar but I'm pretty sure I've never heard it in French. Hmmmm... Wikipedia says that there was a song with the same melody released in the US around the same time. They allowed Eurovision contestants to not write their own music?

I am so not a music nerd.

Are you want cannonball. No clue what it means (a part of me suspects it's some dirty sex term), but seems like something that would be fun to yell across the room.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 03:59 pm UTC (link)
"Es-tu un boulet?" Literally, "Are you a ball and chain?" Figuratively, "Are you lame and/or a pain in the ass?" They use "ball and chain" a little differently in France than we do in the States; I explained to the ladies that in American slang it's an old-fashioned term that guys use specifically to refer to their wives, whom they resent and find burdensome. They were horrified, of course. You can call anybody a ball and chain over here.

Edited at 2008-05-06 04:00 pm UTC

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(no subject) - [info]trini_naenae, 2008-05-06 05:11 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]okaree, 2008-05-06 08:45 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]jupiterjuniper, 2008-05-06 06:45 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]amanofhats
2008-05-06 02:15 pm UTC (link)
Planet? Pfft. Check this list:

Tori Amos
Layne Staley
Ray Bradbury
John Lee Hooker
Claude Debussy
Dorothy Parker
GZA
Giada De Laurentiis
E. Annie Proulx
Norman Schwarzkopf
and, oh yeah, SHIRLEY FROM LAVERNE & SHIRLEY.

Come back when you've got something to show besides a planet.

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[info]brahman_atman
2008-05-06 05:35 pm UTC (link)
Why would you admit to sharing Giada De Laurentiis' birthday? You lose, sir! Good day!

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[info]zantimisfit
2008-05-06 03:04 pm UTC (link)
I only care about 2 celebrities with whom I share a birthday:
Tallulah Bankhead
John Lydon

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[info]tmbgcat
2008-05-06 04:05 pm UTC (link)
I don't need to have the same birthday as a goddamn planet because I have the same birthday as Kublai Khan and Bruce Springsteen. so suck it.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-05-06 05:17 pm UTC (link)
I think they are the same person.

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(no subject) - [info]tmbgcat, 2008-05-06 07:13 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]ckershenblatt
2008-05-06 04:19 pm UTC (link)
Johnny Depp. Same birthday, same year. The man drinks, smokes, has survived Kate Moss - and still looks at least 10 years younger than me (insert bewildered envy here).

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 05:45 pm UTC (link)
If it's any consolation (and it's probably not!), I was born in '75 and Johnny Depp looks at least ten years younger than me too.

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[info]taluagel
2008-05-06 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Bowie

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 05:21 pm UTC (link)
Fuck! That beats any stupid ol' planet. I really overplayed my hand there.

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(no subject) - [info]taluagel, 2008-05-06 09:15 pm UTC (Expand)
!!! - [info]dragonfly452, 2008-05-08 12:36 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]schtune, 2008-05-06 08:15 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]superdaintykate
2008-05-06 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Wow, The Dead Sexy Inc, way to rock the fuck out. Nice.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 05:24 pm UTC (link)
If you are interested in the rocking of out, as am I, I recommend this live clip from Halloween in Berlin, which is a lot better (but not a Plastic Bertrand cover).

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(no subject) - [info]superdaintykate, 2008-05-06 05:53 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]calamityjon
2008-05-06 05:18 pm UTC (link)
I know for a fact, according to my 1976 promotional calendar from DC Comics, that I was born on the same day that Robin's parents were murdered.

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[info]calamityjon
2008-05-06 05:20 pm UTC (link)
AW TUT TUT WRONG ICON!

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[info]calamityjon
2008-05-06 05:41 pm UTC (link)
Is "Ça Plane Pour Moi" that song Plastic Bertrand wrote about how great it is to have sex with his Asian penguin girlfriend?

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 05:43 pm UTC (link)
I--

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(no subject) - [info]superdaintykate, 2008-05-06 05:49 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]brahman_atman
2008-05-06 05:47 pm UTC (link)
Here are some famous people lucky enough to be born on the same day as me:

Marie Antoinette (Eat cake, Manning, you peasant).
Pat Buchanan (the very model of reasoned, balanced perspective).
Stephanie Powers (I had a mild crush on her in "Hart to Hart").
Bobby Dall (Every birthday has its thorns)
k.d. lang (You've got to pee sitting down to get a piece of her action).
Ricky Martin (My identical twin, separated at birth).
Natasha Smirnoff (daughter of Yakov Smirnoff).

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 08:29 pm UTC (link)
Man, you saved the best for last.

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[info]rxgreene
2008-05-06 06:28 pm UTC (link)
William Hickey, Victoria Silvstedt, Jeremy Irons, Twiggy, and Adam West.

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[info]manningkrull
2008-05-06 08:28 pm UTC (link)
William Hickey! Awesome!

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(no subject) - [info]rxgreene, 2008-05-06 08:53 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]jupiterjuniper
2008-05-06 06:41 pm UTC (link)
no planets, but:
-martin gore
-slash
-monica lewinsky

and then i found out this (both of whom i share a birthday with)
-Charles Harrelson, American convicted murderer; father of Woody Harrelson (d. 2007)

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[info]tmbgcat
2008-05-06 07:16 pm UTC (link)
wait...Woody Harrelson has the same birthday as his father who is an American convicted murderer?

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(no subject) - [info]jupiterjuniper, 2008-05-06 07:18 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]tmbgcat, 2008-05-06 08:02 pm UTC (Expand)
I've no planet in my list, but I'm older than GOD
[info]lisastrawberry
2008-05-07 12:55 am UTC (link)
Porter Wagoner
Buck Owens
Sir Mix a Lot
HRH George III of England

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[info]snickony
2008-05-07 03:38 am UTC (link)
Bruce Willis
Glen Close
Adolf Eichmann ... Yikes.
Wyatt Earp

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[info]misterscarecrow
2008-05-07 05:14 am UTC (link)
You know who I share a birthday with?

That's right, neither do I.

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[info]misterscarecrow
2008-05-07 05:15 am UTC (link)
Okay, that's not true. I do know that I share a birthday with not one but TWO of my IRL friends. That's something right there.

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[info]twirlingtulip
2008-05-07 12:36 pm UTC (link)
My birthday is shared by 10 medium grade musicians, one medium grade royalty and one medium grade actress...

That clearly means I should be a medium grade rock star! Never mind the fact that I don't sing and I don't know how to play any instruments yet. Well, actually, BECAUSE of that fact...

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[info]mrbloober
2008-05-09 05:27 am UTC (link)
Simon Pegg and that kid from Finding Neverland! Woo!

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