SOUNDTRACK: KISS “God of Thunder” (country version from MTV Unplugged) (1996).
In my post about Kiss Unplugged, I mentioned that there are videos online of the entire uncut show. There’s also a video of this–a country version of “God of Thunder”
Three things: One, it’s weird how hokey Gene gets at the end–for a demon he’s quite goofy. And two, it’s amazing how good this song sounds when turned into a country song. On the Kiss covers album Kiss My Ass, I was surprised how much I liked Garth Brook’s rendition of “Hard Luck Woman and now I see that maybe all great Kiss songs are just country songs at heart. And three, it absolutely does not sound like Gene singing–he does an impressive falsetto.
[READ: September 18, 2013] “Victory”
This is a simple story of infidelity. The fact that the characters have such similar names bothered me a bit, but it wasn’t terribly confusing. Lin Hong (the woman) finds a key which her husband Li Hanlin has secreted away in a drawer. He is away on business, and she tries to figure out what the key is for. Eventually she realizes it is for a drawer at his office. I actually would have preferred that the story was mostly about the searching, which I think would have been more interesting.
When she opens the drawer she finds evidence of his infidelity—photo and letters from a woman named Qingqing. One of the letters includes a phone number. So she calls it. She tells Qingqing to leave her husband alone and that she has ruined their marriage. But Qingqing says that they wouldn’t have gone any further anyway and that she’s not really interested in Lin.
Li calls some of his friends but they deny any awareness of an affair. Finally, she calls one of her fiends to complain and the friend gives some advice about how she should behave when Lin gets back. (more…)
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