Thursday, August 11, 2005

He's all puffed up, wanna be your king.



(Apparently, Peter Gabriel's is the only song having anything remotely to do with frogs. So I will keep quoting it until I've run out of lines.)

I'm a real fan of the imagery, but the story itself is much less pleasing. I can forgive the fact that the heroine is a spoiled brat who makes empty promises and then must be held to them by guilt. That she's of marriageable age and still plays with balls. That she ignores the laws of hospitality and in fact pitches her suitor against a wall in a murderous rage. Or that the resulting wedding is reward for what is really a nasty temper.

But the whole Iron Heinrich thing at the end is just downright queer.

1 comment:

goose said...

Hey,maybe these will help?

"Frogs"-Flaming Lips
"Froggy went a courtin'"-Bob Dylan
"The Frog and the Princess"-Grace Jones
"Frogs"-Alice in Chains