@Lem: I'm so glad you didn't link a Joe Cocker video. Just tonight, my wife asked me "do you want to watch a a Joe Cocker biopic?" "Why not?" I replied. "My opinion of him has nowhere to go but up."
Watched it...
...I saw both Country Joe and Joe Cocker live on their "Woodstock 10 Years After" tour in Europe in '79. They both sucked. They are entwined in my mind. The biopic completely ignored the 10 after tour. I don't care if Joe Cocker is a Ray Charles doppelgaenger.
I listened to the video like this: skip skip skippy-skip skip skip and it hurt my ears muchly. Until finally, right at the end, my ears go, KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY !!!!!111
It's like that part of a dream that turns and becomes uncomfortable where you're unprepared for the new challenge.
I'm in high school.
The teacher asks me directly in front of the others, "what makes this video worthwhile? Why is this video historically significant? Why is it worth saving? Why repeated viewings? What makes it worth remembering?"
And I'm all, oh shit.
I start tacking together some bullshit. The video sounded harsh and chaotic. Every single bit between the skips was just terrible.
"The stacked street sounds of the video capture the emotional stress of the period. The overlapped noises convey unmanageable confusion so that the personality cannot integrate smoothly, cannot mesh, cannot find a meter or melody or proper tempo, so the psych either withdraws or pressurizes to explosion."
...
There is a long and uncomfortable pause. The class becomes rustling and restless.
"F for you."
I was expecting something like that.
"The video is nothing about what you said. Watch it again, all the way through with no skipping. Think again about what you're hearing and submit a new report."
The saving grace of the moment was that none of the other kids understood my take of the video nor the instructor's. They're all, wtf?
But I'd like to take this opportunity to praise Trooper. He hasn't yet pulled out the "chickenhawk" hammer to beat down the warmongers among us and for this he deserves credit.
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@Lem: I'm so glad you didn't link a Joe Cocker video. Just tonight, my wife asked me "do you want to watch a a Joe Cocker biopic?"
"Why not?" I replied. "My opinion of him has nowhere to go but up."
Watched it...
...I saw both Country Joe and Joe Cocker live on their "Woodstock 10 Years After" tour in Europe in '79. They both sucked. They are entwined in my mind. The biopic completely ignored the 10 after tour. I don't care if Joe Cocker is a Ray Charles doppelgaenger.
Derivative.
I listened to the video like this: skip skip skippy-skip skip skip and it hurt my ears muchly. Until finally, right at the end, my ears go, KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY !!!!!111
It's like that part of a dream that turns and becomes uncomfortable where you're unprepared for the new challenge.
I'm in high school.
The teacher asks me directly in front of the others, "what makes this video worthwhile? Why is this video historically significant? Why is it worth saving? Why repeated viewings? What makes it worth remembering?"
And I'm all, oh shit.
I start tacking together some bullshit. The video sounded harsh and chaotic. Every single bit between the skips was just terrible.
"The stacked street sounds of the video capture the emotional stress of the period. The overlapped noises convey unmanageable confusion so that the personality cannot integrate smoothly, cannot mesh, cannot find a meter or melody or proper tempo, so the psych either withdraws or pressurizes to explosion."
...
There is a long and uncomfortable pause. The class becomes rustling and restless.
"F for you."
I was expecting something like that.
"The video is nothing about what you said. Watch it again, all the way through with no skipping. Think again about what you're hearing and submit a new report."
The saving grace of the moment was that none of the other kids understood my take of the video nor the instructor's. They're all, wtf?
In that dream that this is like.
Sounds like a plan.
But I'd like to take this opportunity to praise Trooper. He hasn't yet pulled out the "chickenhawk" hammer to beat down the warmongers among us and for this he deserves credit.
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