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Faith Current's avatar

I saw John Fogerty in concert years ago in Nashville and he actually sang it that way. So it came full circle. (The biggest cheer of the night, as I recall, when he did)

mine is Blinded by the Light -- I swear to god it says, "wrapped up like a douche" and I was always puzzled by this line....

oh the days before we could look lyrics up.

except that this whole situation is compounded for me because the Beatles and solo McCartney have a habit of singing something different from the official lyrics, and on Back in the USSR, I swear Paul's singing "that George is always on my mind" and I was like, really? John, yes, of course, perpetually on Paul's mind, but George?🤔

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I learned all about the joys of using humorously modified versions of the names of popular culture products via animation and TV comedy-variety shows, so I tend to employ them whenever I think they will work.

"Film Flam" is a variant on "flim flam" (con artistry) that I first encountered as the title of a memoir that novelist Larry McMurtry wrote about his experiences working in Hollywood (several of his books have been adapted for film and TV, and he won an Oscar himself for co-writing the script of "Brokeback Mountain"). Given that I have learned far too much about show business as a historical researcher of it,

I ended up using it as a title for a story where my superheroes characters discover that they have become film stars on a distant planet despite not giving consent for the use of their names and images for such films.

The story can be read on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Film-Flam-David-Perlmutter-ebook/dp/B0CJ67YQ7F or on Substack: https://davidperlmutter.substack.com/p/film-flam

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