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There's something about the title, I'd like to share with you. In Kurt Vonegut's Hocus Pocus there's a guy named Lyle Hooper who runs a place called the Black Cat Café. This is some sort of bar, but in the alley behind the Café there are a couple of vans with prostitute's working for Hooper. So the whole Black Cat Café is basically just a brothel or a cover-up for a brothel and everyone in town knows about it, but they all treat Hooper as if he was a decent and respectable citizen. And Hooper himself acts as if he is just that. Never admitting to anyone, not even to himself, that his place is actually what is considered by the larger amount of society something filthy and obscene. So... at one point in the story there is a prison break with hundreds of convicts storming the city, shooting people and taking a lot of citizens hostage, among them Lyle Hooper. Unlike the rest of the town, the prisoners are perfectly aware of how Lyle Hooper earns the main amount of his income and when they refer to him, they always use the word 'pimp'. Although the prisoners threaten to kill Hooper, it's not the fear of death that bothers him the most, it's being called a 'pimp'. But when they finally decide to execute him, his last words, while he's brought outside to be shot in the yard, are: "OK, I admit it. It really was a whorehouse."
So... I thought this might be interesting, since it seems to me #12 got the song title from that novel. It's a really good book by the way, though not my favorite from Vonnegut.
There's something about the title, I'd like to share with you. In Kurt Vonegut's Hocus Pocus there's a guy named Lyle Hooper who runs a place called the Black Cat Café. This is some sort of bar, but in the alley behind the Café there are a couple of vans with prostitute's working for Hooper. So the whole Black Cat Café is basically just a brothel or a cover-up for a brothel and everyone in town knows about it, but they all treat Hooper as if he was a decent and respectable citizen. And Hooper himself acts as if he is just that. Never admitting to anyone, not even to himself, that his place is actually what is considered by the larger amount of society something filthy and obscene. So... at one point in the story there is a prison break with hundreds of convicts storming the city, shooting people and taking a lot of citizens hostage, among them Lyle Hooper. Unlike the rest of the town, the prisoners are perfectly aware of how Lyle Hooper earns the main amount of his income and when they refer to him, they always use the word 'pimp'. Although the prisoners threaten to kill Hooper, it's not the fear of death that bothers him the most, it's being called a 'pimp'. But when they finally decide to execute him, his last words, while he's brought outside to be shot in the yard, are: "OK, I admit it. It really was a whorehouse."
So... I thought this might be interesting, since it seems to me #12 got the song title from that novel. It's a really good book by the way, though not my favorite from Vonnegut.