Oooh, yeah. I would never have thought of it, but I don't see why vid use wouldn't count. Especially if it affects the song for you.

There's a brilliant Stargate: Atlantis vid to Regina Spektor's "On the Radio" that has definitely changed, or at least enhanced, the meaning of that song for me. The vid was actually done as a companion piece to a fanfic (probably one of my favorite fics ever), so hearing the song now brings up images and layers from both the vid and the story. I watch a lot of vids, but that's the one that has done the most to change how I hear that song. It's very cool.

Has this been posted? CBGB's is closing for good.

For fans of CBGB, "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" is no longer just the title of a tune by the Ramones.

A performance by punk pioneer and CBGB alumna Patti Smith next Sunday will be the final show at the legendary lower East Side music club before the doors close for good on Oct. 31.

The club is exiting stage left after 32 years, a victim of a rent dispute with the space's landlord, the Bowery Residents' Committee, a not-for-profit homeless services agency.

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a really awful roller coaster scene in a really bad movie with Marky Mark and Reese Witherspoon (can't remember the name of it).

That would be Fear.

That album covers thing is great!

I have a lyrics interpretation question I wish I never had to ask. In the beginning of the Motley Crue song "Too Fast for Love", Vince Neil is yelling something that I cannot make out at all. All the lyrics sites I've found say the lyric is "Oh no, oh no" but it really is not that. It sounds something like RAGNAR! RAAAAGNAR!

but...okay, many of the Crue lyrics make very little sense but "Ragnar?"

Is he a Battlestar Galactica fan?

OK, if that's a reference to BSG it's a very odd one to make....

OK, if that's a reference to BSG it's a very odd one to make....

is Ragnar a BSG reference? From the old series??

is Ragnar a BSG reference? From the old series??

Dunno about the old one. But in the new one - in the miniseries they stop at Ragnar Anchorage to pick up munitions after the Cylon attack. It hasn't been mentioned since.

in the miniseries they stop at Ragnar Anchorage to pick up munitions after the Cylon attack.

Ha. Wow. good memory. Anyway, this song was written long before the new BSG came about.

I might end up singing "Alf rules" or some other 2-syllable 80s appropriate thing if I can't find out what the real lyric is. I'm open to suggestions.

This, maybe?

According to the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, the pagan Ragnar belonged to the Swedish Yngling Dynasty, claiming to be a direct descendant of the god Odin.

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Also, the Minnesota Vikings' mascot is named Ragnar.

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eta: A picture of Ragnar the Viking riding a flame-spewing Segway onto the football field: [link]