"There aren't any ghosts. Evolution proves it." (comic)

[mr blur]

8. I've always loved that song since I heard it on the radio when it first came out.

but there is, of course, no accounting for taste!

Of course I was only an English teenager, I didn't even know there was a real MacArthur Park.

It fitted perfectly with the music I was listening to then. Later on I realised that I like not because it's not stupid (it is) but because it's like a perfect little snap of Harris' life at the time - famous (great) actor known for drinking too much too often, flirting with this new druggy hippy business and bringing his drunkard's performance to what in other hands is just another hippy-dippy piece of fluff. He takes that song and owns it, hypnotically awful though it is. Because of that, actually.