"He used to beat himself up 'til he was sick and confused/and tired and frothin' and crazy and bruised/'Til he'd be too worn out to keep being himself/now he can pick 'em at will from the heads on the shelf."
“The Kid With The Replaceable Head,” Richard Hell & The Voidoids (w/Robert Quine)
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1) Millie playing and singing “Jesus is Just All Right with Me” in FREAKS AND GEEKS.
2) Mark Wahlberg inexplicably singing a few lines of “Black Water” to prove to the holed-up residents of a house that he and his fellow survivors are just regular folks and not to be feared. Understandably, this doesn’t work.
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