This is Rod Stewart. This is Rod Stewart before Rachel Hunter. This is Rod Stewart with the same mulletude he’s always had. Yo, dude, bad hair.
This song was in Wedding Crashers, at the very end. If you saw that movie, you were probably like, “hey, I like that song. What is it?” Well, it’s about a Rod-like character hooking up with a woman named Rita (who looks like a fella). He’s not too excited about the day after (“in the morning, don’t say you love me, ’cause I’ll only kick you right out the door”).
It’s not a bad song for Wedding Crashers…but at the end when all is resolved and people are in love? Oh, brother. I might not know much about music, but these movie people need my advice.
spanky said,
March 9, 2007 at 11:06 am
i cant see the pic. i am sad because i love a good mullet
spanky said,
March 9, 2007 at 11:06 am
i cant see the pic. i am sad because i love a good mullet
Gary said,
March 9, 2007 at 11:11 am
I wonder if his kids call him Papa Rod.
Jenn said,
March 9, 2007 at 11:14 am
For the longest time, Rod Stewart did a little something for me. I can’t explain it, but it’s probably the same little something Mick Jagger does for me. I think the key is to squint a little and not think about it too much or examine it. Just accept it for what it is and let it go. Otherwise, you creep yourself out.
Having said that, the picture of Rod Stewart I will have in my mind for a VERY long time is him singing Hot Legs on Dancing with the Stars. (Shut up) I think this video very clearly demonstrates the bad things that can happen when one man gets between two scantily clad women. Rod looks a little dazed and confused, if you ask me. Probably why he forgot to tuck his shirt in.
Jenn said,
March 9, 2007 at 11:18 am
Watching that video again creeped me out.
Heather said,
March 9, 2007 at 11:56 am
You forgot to squint.
Jenn said,
March 9, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I’m not sure squinting would have helped. I think total closure of the eyes was the only way to go on that one.
KC said,
March 9, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I long for Rod’s days with the Faces.
Speaking of, they have a song at the end of ‘Rushmore’… “oh la la”
I guess Rod is a good closer.
but i agree with your assessment of putting that song at the end of a suedo-love story. pretty funny.
spanky said,
March 9, 2007 at 12:28 pm
rod. man he is sexy
deanna said,
March 9, 2007 at 1:32 pm
good ol’ video of rod, no creeps for me. i love rod, always have always will., big nose and all! by the way that was way pre rachel hunter, how about pre brit eckland or post break up with brit….good post julie…i’v got great seats for his Los Angeles Staples concert on march 22 how about you?
Jim said,
March 9, 2007 at 4:52 pm
See? Even lesbians long for some rods in their faces now and again, and that’s what I’m here for.
Saranne Fosselman Miller said,
March 9, 2007 at 7:45 pm
You are the man, Jim! You go, boy. Right on.
kris said,
March 10, 2007 at 4:10 pm
this song would have done much better in the beginning of the movie. never even noticed. but i guess if it is rod you can play him any where.
Saranne Fosselman Miller said,
March 10, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I don’t enjoy Rod. Sorry, guys. He has freaked me out since Young Turks, or whatever the song was called. It’s his hair. I can’t get over the hair. Is it that he has genetically bad hair or are all those spikies on purpose? He’s just no sexy to me at all. I have friends who love him and I aways just smile and nod. I also have friends who are obsessed with Bruce Springstein. Again, not a big fan. It has a lot to do with that song he sings about a train and he moans a lot in the song and there’s something about “did your daddy go and leave you all alone?” It gives me after school special feeling.
I like REM. The sound of Michael Stipe’s voice puts me in a trans. (that word doesn’t look right.)
julieluongo said,
March 10, 2007 at 7:33 pm
My consigliere pointed out that it’s actually an appropriate song to end the movie because Rod is basically saying “hey, I don’t like you, I’m just going to use you…but you’re not going to leave me, are you? Please don’t say you love me…but stay with me.” It’s very much like the wedding crashers who are looking to use women but then they, oops, fall for them. I didn’t think of Rod’s song that way, but I get it now. I stand corrected.
Saranne: The idea of Stipe put you in such a trance you forgot how to spell trance.
sarannefosselmen said,
March 10, 2007 at 7:42 pm
See, “trance” didn’t look right either. My eyes are bugging out of my head! It looks like “trace” and I knew “trans” wasn’t right but, well, what I really knew is that you or MO would come along and help me with my big words.
Heather said,
March 10, 2007 at 10:41 pm
A) For those of you who don’t know: Julie’s a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge Bruce fan.
B) I’m guessing Stipe has seen some run of the mill porn in his day.
Saranne Fosselman Miller said,
March 11, 2007 at 8:45 am
A) Good Lord, do I know that about Julie! Hence, “I have friends who love him…” I wondered why she didn’t slam me on it. She must have been tired last night.
B) All the more reason to love the guy!
julieluongo said,
March 11, 2007 at 10:28 am
Heather’s teasing me because we went to an Amnesty International concert when we were teens and a Bruuuuuce fan was in front of us and he was soooo excited that he kept yelling Bruuuuce while holding onto the top of his head. We thought this was screamingly funny and watched him thru Bruuuce’s whole set. Maybe he had a freight train running thru the middle of his head.
Heather said,
March 11, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Is there anything worse than a freight train in your head? I think not. Unfortunately, it’s the only real memory I have of this girl. I’m sure any others have long since gone up in a puff of smoke. But, you know, that might be for the best because it was really, really, really funny. The guy had a necktie wrapped around his head like a headband. (No! I also recalled that she liked the song “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night.” See? I know stuff.)
Saranne Fosselman Miller said,
March 11, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Okay, I take back the Rod Stewart slam. I’m watching Dogtown and the Z-Boys and Maggie Mae is on the soundtrack. I do like that song.
LOL – so funny about the bruce concert. Just another reason not to like him. He’s dirty.
Since I’m watching Z-boys I just have to express how much I love the extreme skating revolution and how I feel that I was there to watch it all go down. I lived in a suburban neighborhood in 1975 and at the bottom of my dead-end street these older kids had built a half-pipe. I spent the summer of ‘75 watching kids break their arms on this half-pipe, go get casted and by the end of the day, those kids would be back, skating, casts and all. Newspaper reporters would come and take photos (mine was taken once – a shot of me wearing a little halter sundress and crouched with a freind on the curb watching these guys half-kill themselves) and tv news crews came down to video tape the action. It was awesome! When I first saw the Z-boys on the IFC channel it was only because my husband was channel surfing and landed on it. I exploded into a rampage of how I was there when it all went down. I was there to witness the evolution of extreme skating.
Anyhoo, I know it’s off the subject, but I’ve been writing all weekend with the Z-boys in the background. I’m working on a story about a group of unconventional teens and find myself inspired by the kids from Venice, CA.
Jenn said,
March 14, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Yeah, thanks to this post I am on Volume 3 of The Great American Songbook collection by Rod Stewart. It’s all going in the iPod. My husband is going to be SO happy.