Wednesday, February 2, 2011

New Kind of Cool



I think this song really nails what it felt like to be in Junior High and to feel... different. (And didn't everybody feel different?) I couldn't find a video for the full studio recording on YouTube, so I fixed that by making this one. I hope it lives up to the glorious geekiness of the song itself.

All of the toys are real. You can find most of them on Amazon. A few of the odder ones are from the Archie McPhee catalogue, Sideshow Collectibles, Reaper, and Valve.


A New Kind of Cool
by The Rescues
Adrianne Gonzalez

I study you so well
I know your every smell
From the back of the room
I can't learn a thing
All I can do
Is stare at you

But my body is all a wreck
An adolescent mess
They call me names
'Cause I can't squeeze in
And don't know how to act
But I will not be ashamed...

If you'd stay with me forever
We'll be weird together
We'll make up our own rules
Create a new kind of cool

We'd walk the halls with ease
Say all the smartest things
And they'd wish they knew
What makes us laugh and
What cigarettes we smoke
Or even if we do 'cause...

If you'd stay with me forever
We'll be weird together
We'll make up our own rules
Create a new kind of cool

We'd never lose
We can pick and choose
Who soaks up all our fame
And we can shout and we could shut them out
Just to tarnish their names

And how I'd glow in my beauty
'Cause someone out there loves me

Right now life ain't so fun
I don't have anyone
If you only knew
The things that we could do
Just me and you
Conquer the world
King and Queen
At age 13

If you'd stay with me forever
We'll be weird together
We'll make up our own rules
Create a new kind of
A new kind of
A new kind of
Cool

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