12.2.2004

yo la tengo

i've always wondered what the band Yo La Tengo are referring to in their name.

I mean the obvious is "I have her."
Which kinda gives this guy the willies. I mean the phrase "I want her" is tossed about by every mook with testosterone (see "I want her so bad," referenced to vapid cover model du moment.

But to HAVE, to possess is strange, when it comes to a person. I mean I guess Thomas Jefferson HAD some black women as house slaves (heh heh heh in more ways than one), but... I hestitate to think of any person having another. SO I propose the following objects to be the La in Yo La Tengo.

Basura
Barbacoa
Manzana
Oportunidad
Caja
Chaqueta
Abeja
Historia

That is all.

1 Comments:

At 12:21 PM, zach said...

it means "i've got it"...they named themselves after hearing a latino baseball player called that phrase out at a baseball game.

 

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