Whoa.

::blink blink:: How you know you've been out of dS fandom for a really long time...

m_shell and I were watching dS last night, and we hit Mountie and Soul. And I explained to her that the country song Huey and Dewey were writing ("there's a house we call love built next door to hate / and both of them got lawns and a white picket gate") is actually a real song done by Paul Gross and David Keeley. And then I remembered that their website used to have handy downloads of songs or parts of songs, so Michelle could listen to the strangeness of a Paul Gross she only knows of as a mountie doing "Voodoo." And I went there. And there's an entire new CD released in 2001. Huh. Who knew?

From the mp3s from the new CD, it's in a totally different style, to boot. Weird.

Interesting things you discover browsing amazon.com:

I was surprised to discover that The Story of O is ranked 3,089 and is the 10th most popular item in York, PA. This makes it more popular than the paperback Complete Sherlock Holmes (3,196), and way more popular than the paperback of Stephen King's most recent Dark Tower series book (6,779). Y'know, when people talk about America and reading, most of them don't hit French D/s novels.

Apparently, people who buy the DVD of Terry Pratchett's Soul Music also buy stuff from Red Dwarf, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Babylon 5. Now, that's interesting, because it hits scifi (HHGttG, Red Dwarf, B5) and parody (Red Dwarf, Terry Pratchett, and HHGttG) but the two sets don't entirely overlap (TP, B5). It strikes me as pretty interesting that the way-obsessed Terry Pratchett fans (parody-fantasy) are also the way-obsessed B5 fans (scifi-drama), especially because I, too, count as both. I wonder why...

Also, there's a similar thing between Memento and Amelie. I wouldn't have expected that, either.