Message-ID:

Q: How many Martians does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: One and a half.

rocksolid / de.rec.musik.rock+pop / Solved: "Messed up and outta my mind"

Subject: Solved: "Messed up and outta my mind"
From: Stefan Ram
Newsgroups: de.rec.musik.rock+pop
Organization: Stefan Ram
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 19:30 UTC

Path: i2pn2.org!rocksolid2!news.neodome.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail
From: ram...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups: de.rec.musik.rock+pop
Subject: Solved: "Messed up and outta my mind"
Date: 10 Feb 2024 19:30:24 GMT
Organization: Stefan Ram
Lines: 39
Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT
Message-ID: <messed-20240210202931@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 6sGOWZTcFxEHWm09EFOa/gr5SJV0idCdokK4apOpVFhpzR
Cancel-Lock: sha1:w8zLH6jj0nCqQlD0t2nLIhUMHZg= sha256:rN1asO55Jt1ScII30Hz++KCPoutjyJHVj7Fsz0lCkgk=
X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved.
Distribution through any means other than regular usenet
channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this
article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links,
and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations
of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed.
X-No-Archive: Yes
Archive: no
X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some
services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may
be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access.
X-No-Html: yes
Content-Language: en-US
Accept-Language: de-DE-1901, en-US, it, fr-FR

View all headers

I might have been about 13 years old when I read a kind of
brochure about Iggy and the Stooges, where one page had the
text (probably in large print and in isolation)

|Messed up and outta my mind

. I had only learned so much English and was very puzzled.
I since remember this phrase verbatim, though I think I
have lost that brochure long ago.

Today, I finally solved this puzzle. I got the explanation
from an book that explained that there was a writer Chris
Hodenfield who wrote about the Stooges that they glorified

|messed up and outta my mind living

. Now, I just needed to ask any old AI system. It told me:

|The phrase "a band that glorified messed up and outta my mind
|living" suggests that the band's music and lyrics celebrate
|or exalt a lifestyle characterized by chaos, confusion, or
|mental instability. This could involve themes of rebellion,
|self-destruction, or unconventional living. The term
|"glorified" implies that the band portrayed this type of
|living in a positive or admirable light.

. See? So that's the meaning of "Messed up and outta my mind"!

It remains to mention that both "messed up" and "outta my mind"
also appear in lyrics of the band:

|So messed up I want you here
"I Wanna Be Your Dog" (1969)

|Out of my mind on Saturday night
"1970" (1970)

. So, maybe Hodenfield created the phrase combining it from those
songs.

Subject	Author
Solved: "Messed up and outta my mind"	Stefan Ram