I hate drinking water. It tastes weird and gross to me.
But I have been drinking it lately. It's been hot out. I like it icy cold. As cold as possible.
Mostly though, I've been drinking the demon liquor. The thing is, I usually try to avoid talking about drinking like it's an event. My multi-faceted personality has so much else to offer. Like all of the music featured here. Yeah... booze is more interesting to most people.
I am just tryin ta live.
ANYWAY.
I'm a little tipsy. And so I thought it would be appropriate to make one of these WC Fields mp3s. Talk about drinking-bragging. WC Fields is the predecessor to generations of celebrity drunks - people who make their identity out of a habit that a bajillion other people have just as emphatically.. If that word is appropriate. I meant like.. "severely."
Soooo
Mae West comes into play once again - because she shares this record with Fields. They appeared together in "My Little Chickadee," to dubious comedic benefit. Mae seemed very unwilling to accept Fields as a romantic counterpart, first of all. Secondly, the plot is clueless and Mae lacks fodder for her brand of lusty one-liners. Her lack of interest shows. I know about this, because I might just be Mae re-incarnated:
Why bother putting effort into this movie if I'm not scoring some mega hot co-star to try and bone? Yes, exactly. That's what it seems to me like Mae was thinking.
SO. WC Fields. This record. Yeah...
W.C. Fields
The Day I Drank A Glass of Water
W.C. Field & Mae West
(5:52 by the way)
Mae hated Fields' drinking. She was never actually a drinker herself. Didn't touch the stuff. Maybe I'm not her after all.
Labels: comedy, mae west, vaudeville
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