Smiecht

Today I want to tell you about the word “smiecht”. It’s a word we used, mockingly more than seriously, where I grew up. I just looked it up and it is in the Dutch dictionary. When a person is called a “smiecht”, it means it’s a mean person, a cheat, crook, rogue. I never heard it used much where I live now. It certainly never is used the way we used to use it.


That’s the word “smiecht”.

Now here’s the lyrics to the song I’m addicted to, which accompanies a fanmade video tribute for Data.

Take Me to the Hospital – the Faint
Hold my hand, it's shakin' bad
I'm going to the doc
I pay him to fix me up
I think I've got enough
No no an ambulance would cost too much
We'll take a van
If they can't fix me no one can
If they can fix me no one can't

Want you to take me to the H, take me to the O
Want you to take me to the S, take me to the P
Want you to take me to the I-T-A-L
Want you to take me to the hospital

Hospital
Now I'm losing blood from my veins
They're slowly emptying
I'm bothered by this crimson red
To the color of blood

To the color of a be, color of a L
To the color of a O, color of O
To the color of a Deep crimson red
From a little-bitty accident

Accident
I scraped up my face
Bounced my cheek on the floor
Cause anything worth doing's worth getting hurt for
I made no mistakes
I'm never learning from that
I've got no regrets
I want to do it again
With the A-G-A-I-N

So you can take me to the H, take me to the O,
Want you to take me to S, take me to the P,
Want you to take me to the I-T-A-L
Want you to take me to the hospital
Cause it's the color of a be, color of a L
To the color of a O, color of O
To the color of a Deep crimson red
From a little bitty accident

[Repeat x2]
Want you to take me to the hospital

Crimson Red

There’s this strange side effect to YouTube. Not only can you waste seas of time with no effort at all, it also fuses strange connections in my head.


I associate Damien Rice‘s song Volcano with Alan Rickman. I associate Vampire Weekend’s Giving Up the Gun with Jake, as well as the Shoes’ Time To Dance. These connections are easily explained.

I once found a fanmade tribute to Alan Rickman on YouTube. The little video was set to Volcano. Jake appeared in both Giving Up the Gun and in Time To Dance. And now I’m sort of addicted to a fanmade video tribute to Data, or to be precise: Data’s Ouchies. She, the video maker, timed the frames perfectly with the music having the bass in the song compliment what you see in the video. She’s done this well, it got me hooked. I really like the bass in the song.

I’m also fascinated by Data getting damaged and/or turned off. For some reason, half of the time, it makes me laugh. It gives him a vulnerability.


Part of the video in which the bass is very prominent.

 The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN1b4zWn5PY

The title of the video can be derived from the song’s lyrics. It’s also almost the only bit of the lyrics that finds it way into my brain. All the rest of the words are just sounds to me.

The song is Take Me to the Hospital by The Faint.

Also the word is out: My manager walked passed me and noticed I had a YouTube vid on. He took a step back to check what I was watching. Then he remarked something about Data, something like me having a crush on him. It made me laugh.

Seriously, from a dead prince to a fictional android. Even I’m impressed.