The chair is not my son and other misheard lyrics…

I had the song Fake Love by BTS stuck in my head for several weeks – except I thought I had heard someone say it was Freaky Love so that's how I've been singing it until I saw the video and the real title.

Honestly, I think that sounds better so I’m sticking with it. I will die on this hill. lol



It got me thinking about other misheard lyrics and reminded me of the funniest misheard lyrics story from my teen years.

Back when I was a kid…

It was the 80’s, before you could look up lyrics on the internet. You used to have to do it the old fashioned way. Record Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 Countdown on cassette tape and play it back word for word and write the lyrics out in a notebook. IT took hours, days, weeks, MONTHS! Life was soooo hard!

So anyway…I was dating a DJ at the time – Michael Jackson was the King of Pop and my bf played his music often…



And he INSISTED that the lyrics to Michael Jackson’s Bille Jean were

“Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the chair is not my son
She says I am the one, but the chair is not my son"

Instead of….

Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son
She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son”

I mean…the CHAIR is not my son??? That doesn't make any sense! lol  You’re a DJ! You should have your record spinning license revoked for that!

More misheard lyrics:

The Neighborhood – Sweater Weather



In the chorus:

Correct lyrics -

“Coming down
One love, two mouths
One love, one house
No shirt, no blouse”

I hear:

“Coming down
One love, two mouths
One love, one mouse
No shirt, no blouse”

I think my lyrics are cuter lol

alt-j – In Cold Blood



Correct lyrics…

“01110011
Crying zeros and I'm hearing 111s”

I hear…



“01110011
Crying zeros and Ian Ziering 111s”

Again...I think my version improves upon the song lol

Do you have any funny misheard lyric stories to share? 

monday musings

I hit a reading milestone this month!

100 books read for my Goodreads Challenge!

2018 Reading Challenge

Karen has completed her goal of reading 100 books in 2018!

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103 of 100 (100%)

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I’m both shocked and relieved by this because just a few years ago I was in the mother of all book slumps and wasn’t sure I would ever have fun reading again.

I’m REALLY happy that I’m keeping up with my ALA books. I always seem to fall into a huge reading slump after book conferences which sucks because you have all those new books. This time I let myself give into the slump this time and did everything but read for a few weeks and it worked! I’ve already read 6 ALA books as of this writing!

This is my August TBR pile and WHOA – I already read all but one of these!

A quick batch of minis:

A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell: I’m enjoying this but I’m not quite in the mood for sci-fi/dystopian/mystery suspense atm so I’ve set it aside and hope to still finish by the end of the month.

It’s partially told (at least for now) in journal entries that read kind of dry.

Our Stories, Our Voices – essays by assorted authors: I reviewed this on the blog last week.

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert: I loved this book and have a review coming up this week.

Save the Date by Morgan Matson: I thought I was going to love this one but it was too over-the-top silly and too long for me. I was #TeamMike – the brother who stayed away from this ridiculous family for 18 months had the right idea.

I do reccomend this for people who love family drama and rom coms though.

Love Songs & Other Lies by Jessica Pennington: Mostly cute second chance romance with a few problematic things:

~ like a teacher who's assignment is to keep a journal with notes and observations of people and encourages the male students to use this as a precursor to find out more about the girl you like  (“Gentleman, perhaps this is a good time to learn more about one of the young ladies you’re interested in.” – NOPE, not on board with that

~ a secret that loses steam by the time it’s revealed

~ and no female friendships and girls portrayed only as callus or groupies (not including the protag who is a very cool girl).

Because of all that, has a slightly dated feel of YA from a few years ago but I do like the authors style and the romance overall. If you can let some of that go – I recommend it. 

It does have the best quote ever though:

“I love my sleep like I love my food: in large quantities, whenever I can get it”

It’s only August 13th so I guess I will be ambitious and move on to pile #2!

Dating Disasters of Emma Nash by Chloe Seager: From Goodreads – “Don’t miss the laugh-out-loud novel of the year!

Online, you can choose who you want to be. If only real life were so easy…”

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff: “Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago.” 

I’ve had this book on my shelf for YEARS and I’m using Bark’s Book Nonsense Ladies of Horror Fiction challenge as an incentive to clear it out. Follow the # for their August Instagram Challenge – #LadiesOfHorrorFiction for prompts and great horror book rec’s!

Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator by Catherine Reef: Even though this isn’t horror – I think this biography of Mary Shelley could count towards the above challenge as well. (publication date, September 18, 2018. Arc provided by the publisher/ALA)

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles: “When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid.” I picked up a finished copy of this at a signing at ALA. Beautiful cover and it sounds like a powerful story.

And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness: “With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey. Instead, they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself...” Another ALA ARC. It sounds….strange. But it’s a super short read (160) pages and 'I’m curious. Goodreads is divided lol

What have you been reading this month? Any recommendations?

Movie review: Mission: impossible Fallout

I gotta be honest. I don’t like Mission Impossible or Tom Cruise. So why did I see it??

Because we have a new movie theater with these seats. And I live in Florida – and it’s summer. And did I mention THESE SEATS??

So yeah – I’ll even go see MI and Tom Cruise if I get to stay indoors in the a/c in these seats.


So back to the movie…

MI Fallout is action packed, and Ethan is starting to show the strain of choosing this life and it adds some emotional depth and vulnerability to his character. The opening scene is awesome: emotional and creepy.

The gang is back and have an easy rapport at this point while adding Angela Bassett as the CIA director and Henry Cavil, as a CIA assassin who don't think Ethan is up to task, to the mix to shake things up.

I mostly liked it and I KNOW you kind of need to let logic go for these kinds of movies but…but…but…

Ethan does something so unbelievably stupid and it’s kind of the core of the story and I was just…how are you still employed????

SPOILER: > Ethan, Luther and Benji have arranged an exchange for 3 plutonium cores that goes wrong. In a stand off with the bad guys Ethan shoots Luther (who he believes is wearing a bullet proof vest and is ok) but then LEAVES THE PLUTONIUM ON THE GROUND UNATTENDED to run and check on Luther. And of course it gets stolen and puts millions of lives at risk. Bassett’s character is of course pissed and sends Cavill in to oversee this shit show and do what it takes to get that plutonium back when the time comes.

I must be an asshole – because I can’t for the life of me figure out how this makes Ethan a good agent. A good friend?? Yes! Agent – no. Fire his ass! lol < END SPOILER

Then my other peeves.

Ethan’s ex’s – Julia and Ilsa -(played by Michelle Monaghan, Rebecca Ferguson) look almost exactly alike. I thought they were the same person for most of the movie. I’m sure if you’ve seen the whole series this wouldn’t be an issue but Ethan definitely has a type.

*I also call this phenomenon the GBHG - Generic brown haired girl. Most movies have them. They play the love interest to spur the hero on and add no real value to the movie,a re easily forgotten and completely interchangeable.

Not that both of these actresses didn't do a great job with what they were given but - yeah GBHG.

Okay…okay…I know it’s an action flick and just go with it but both Ethan and August (Cavill) should have been in full body casts.

Aaaaand I know this is wrong of me but I was more of a fan of Cavill than Cruise. I’m not a fan of beards either but…yeah, it was working for me lol

I don’t think it made me a MI convert but all in all – it was a little too long, a little too preposterous but a fun movie.