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...some fun / Better yet you look like you could have some fun,” chuckling intermittently. Their self-aware sense of humor makes their bluesy, heartbroken songs even more moving, as in the acoustic track “Doing Fine,” when Swaby begs an ex-lover, “Please don’t tell me you love me / Leave me / Don’t fuck with my mind / Try to understand like you’re a good friend of mine / ’Cause I’m doing fine...
...always thought/ I would give my life/ to meet you only once,/ but now, having spent a night/ with you, I wish that I may/ go on living forever"). And we sympathize with the 9th century court poet Ki no Tsurayuki, who takes refuge in happier memories when his lover turns cold ("Have you changed?/ I cannot read your heart./ But at least I know/ that here in my old home/ as always the plum blossom/ blooms with fragrance/ of the past...
That's a far cry from the "My country, right or wrong" credo, which confuses blind boosterism with a more authentic, if sometimes questioning, loyalty. At their best, black folk offer critical patriotism, an exacting devotion that carries on a lover's quarrel with America while they shed blood in its defense...
Even the angry comments of Jeremiah Wright have to be read as the bitter complaint of a spurned lover. Like millions of other blacks, Wright was willing to serve the country while suffering rejection. He surrendered his student deferment in 1961, voluntarily joined the Marines and, after a two-year stint, volunteered to become a Navy corpsman. He excelled and became valedictorian, later a cardiopulmonary technician and eventually a member of the President's medical team. Wright cared for Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery, earning three White House letters of commendation...
...been conquered by parasitic aliens who take over the bodies of humans, annihilating their hosts' personalities. One human host resists; she lives on as a voice in the head she shares with the alien. When host and parasite (who goes by Wanda) meet up with the host's old lover--now a resistance fighter in hiding--the alien falls for him too and joins the humans. It's a love triangle with two sides, a mnage deux. Like Twilight, The Host is a kinky setup--two girls in one body!--played absolutely clean...