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phayzrks
12-12-2003, 01:09 PM
Ive been listening to alot of atmos lately and ive been thinking about this sad clown analogy ge refers to alot, it really makes me think. Maybe it reminds me of ME .
but i just wanted to know of anybody had any knowledge on this , just some facts that can help me understand why the clown is sad, or what he is refering to?
i looked around and i found this poem, it reveals some abut im still having some fustrating understanding?
Today things seemed different,
As I walked through the Park
A strange sight reached my eyes,
I saw a clown on a bench
He was crying
Sitting quietly on the park bench
Face Paint ruined by glove-covered hands
Tears coursed openly across his red rubber nose,
Down to his mud soaked oversized shoes
I took a seat next to him,
And asked him the cause of his unhappiness
He said he had no where to go
He said his life would end soon
I laughed
It wasn't funny
But consider the irony
A sad clown?
I laughed
He said it wasn't a joke
"Help me," he pleaded
And what was my reply?
"Help yourself"
After all he was a clown
He was there to make us laugh
He couldn't do that anymore
Maybe it was time to say good-bye
The clown said good-bye to us all
He left this cruel world
Next time maybe I won't laugh
Well, when slug was just a little slug, him and his dad were walkin down Franklin Ave in Minneapolis, and this street performer walked up, dressed as a clown and aksed them for some change, when Slugs dad refused, the clown pulled out a desert E and blew his own head off, right there in front of slug. And the way the bullet went into his skull, made cerebral fluid come out of his eyes, so Slug said "Daddy? Why's that clown crying?" i guess just out of shock, being that 40% of his head was splattered on little slug's kicks.
Anyway, thats the type of thing to leave a lasting impression.
hmm.. i thought he was just biting Smokey Robinson.
Originally posted by Ojay revilO
hmm.. i thought he was just biting Smokey Robinson.
No way, It's true bro, dude.
phayzrks
12-12-2003, 01:35 PM
HMM , what thaa.....
wait wait , what are you saying , man
so this really happened?
Theory
12-12-2003, 01:40 PM
Originally posted by S...
Well, when slug was just a little slug, him and his dad were walkin down Franklin Ave in Minneapolis, and this street performer walked up, dressed as a clown and aksed them for some change, when Slugs dad refused, the clown pulled out a desert E and blew his own head off, right there in front of slug. And the way the bullet went into his skull, made cerebral fluid come out of his eyes, so Slug said "Daddy? Why's that clown crying?" i guess just out of shock, being that 40% of his head was splattered on little slug's kicks.
Anyway, thats the type of thing to leave a lasting impression.
thats crazy
CT-ST
12-12-2003, 02:14 PM
Originally posted by S...
Well, when slug was just a little slug, him and his dad were walkin down Franklin Ave in Minneapolis, and this street performer walked up, dressed as a clown and aksed them for some change, when Slugs dad refused, the clown pulled out a desert E and blew his own head off, right there in front of slug. And the way the bullet went into his skull, made cerebral fluid come out of his eyes, so Slug said "Daddy? Why's that clown crying?" i guess just out of shock, being that 40% of his head was splattered on little slug's kicks.
Anyway, thats the type of thing to leave a lasting impression.
I don't get it, if the clown shot his dad and his dad was the one with brain fluid coming out of his eyes and not the clown why would slug ask why they clown was crying? wouldn't it be his dad that looked like he was crying?
Where did you hear this stuff anyways?
Originally posted by CT-ST
I don't get it, if the clown shot his dad and his dad was the one with brain fluid coming out of his eyes and not the clown why would slug ask why they clown was crying? wouldn't it be his dad that looked like he was crying?
Where did you hear this stuff anyways?
No no... the clown shot HIMSELF in the head. Suicide it's a suicide bidaba.
Besides, it's all lies. I just made that all up.
Damn me.
Theory
12-12-2003, 02:17 PM
Originally posted by S...
No no... the clown shot HIMSELF in the head. Suicide it's a suicide bidaba.
Besides, it's all lies. I just made that all up.
Damn me.
haha, i thought u were serious, what a imagination u have, haha.
chepsoner
12-12-2003, 02:32 PM
Eh who knows, i heard that Slug just made Lucy up, its not a real person ...
-cheps oner
Originally posted by chepsoner
Eh who knows, i heard that Slug just made Lucy up, its not a real person ...
-cheps oner
he stated in an interview that he made up his parents suicide ("My dad made it until maybe a year later when they found his suicide inside of a grain elevator") on that last track on Lucy Ford...... he point blank said he made that up to prove a point that basically childhood is irrelevant to the man you become.
Originally posted by chepsoner
Eh who knows, i heard that Slug just made Lucy up, its not a real person ...
-cheps oner
I always thought Lucy = Heroin.... only because the first time i saw Atmos, Slug came out on stage with a twist around his arm.
Synthemesc
12-12-2003, 02:35 PM
i heard Slug washes his hair with Suave. and i heard he smokes newports. ive got mad inside sources...
Originally posted by S...
No way, It's true bro, dude.
Originally posted by Synthemesc
i heard Slug washes his hair with Suave. and i heard he smokes newports. ive got mad inside sources...
i didn't "hear" shit. I read it somewhere. I could really careless about Slug..... i haven't bought an Atmos album since Lucy Ford.
go peep my toothpaste thread in the LL forum.... you'll get the idea....
SexyOrangutang
12-12-2003, 03:36 PM
i think this forum has reached an entirely new level of stupidity
phayzrks
12-12-2003, 03:51 PM
beyond levels, haa
anybody still know what im talking about though?
like i said.. he's biting smokey robinson..
"this smile on my face.. is only there tryin to fool the public"
the clown's crying partly because that's how he feels inside.. partly because the exterior is all false, and he knows it. hiding behind laughter and jokes.. like a lot of people.
then, when the clown tries to express himself seriously.. nobody believes him.. they think it's a joke.. like the little boy who cried wolf...
eLeMeNtAL
12-12-2003, 05:16 PM
i always used to think about that sad clown thing.....that song is sick
give me a pack of ballons i would build you a farm became hopeless when they took away both my arms
itsw like a clown that is always a clown . he hids his troubles behind a painted smile on his face........
something like that...i glad someone else really feels that shit..
peace
WheezyBunny
12-12-2003, 05:51 PM
my take is much like the above.
the irony of a sad clown. smiles and jokes for the world and tears for his pillow. how the tears smear his makeup and eventually reveal him as nothing but a man. a man just as vunerable, pitiful as the rest of humanity. how oportunistic people are, they will stay for the jokes and leave him alone with his tears.
that's my two cents.
Wired
12-12-2003, 08:29 PM
Yeah, I agree. It's just the irony...I've always thought of most clowns as being sad and depressed anyways, not sure why. Just seems like their normal lives (if they existed) would be fucked up.
Still don't get why he named seven of his CDs (each tour CD) Sad Clown Bad Dub #.
Whatever...Slug is crazy. And SCBD 7 is the shit....anyone agree?
lucy is the woman he had his son with............
WheezyBunny
12-13-2003, 11:02 AM
Originally posted by seak247
lucy is the woman he had his son with............
lucy is a symbol for a lost love.
Lynwood
12-13-2003, 11:47 AM
Originally posted by WheezyBunny
lucy is a symbol for a lost love.
no i am Lucy GodDammit!
http://www.theatergroepscala.nl/afbeeldingen/lucy.jpg
verbal kint
12-13-2003, 12:33 PM
i think lucy ford = lucifer, say it aloud and it sounds the similar. anyways, talk about overanaylization with all this shit.
Lynwood
12-13-2003, 12:37 PM
Originally posted by verbal_kint
i think lucy ford = lucifer, say it aloud and it sounds the similar.
yah ...it just might be
Wired
12-13-2003, 01:40 PM
No, Lucy is real. I've seen pictures of her. She's not made up at all. She does represent lost love, but she's a real person. Not sure if that's her real name though...
verbal kint
12-13-2003, 02:41 PM
slug's girl is the girl who lucy ford is based on. her name isnt lucy ford though. i think lucy ford is just suppose to represent all girls that have treated him like shit, and he considers them devil.
mad$een
12-13-2003, 02:43 PM
Originally posted by SexyOrangutang
i think this forum has reached an entirely new level of stupidity
Originally posted by SexyOrangutang
it's comments like that that start all of this. maybe you should just be the bigger man and keep that shit to yourself? unless you like everythread turning into a giant diss-fest, then by all means continue.
this may sound pretty hypocritical comming from me, but i don't have the self control to let comments like that pass without getting my two cents in, but maybe you do.
no. i talked with a girl he toured with.
she said lucy is the woman he had his son with.
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