Talk About Missing the Point
Posted on February 12, 2008 13:54:56
I was listening to music, as I often do, and was searching the Internet for a song by Clint Holmes that was on the flip side of "Playground In My Mind." I did find it; it was "Shiddle-ee-dee."
But, in my searching, I came across this review of "Playground in My Mind" on Amazon.com.
I never cared for the 1973 stinker, "Playground in my Mind" and thought the lyrics quite inane.
"My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new. I'm going to buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do." With a nickel? That didn't go far even in 1973, the year following the Watergate Scandal and the year of the Energy Crisis.
"My name is Cindy, when we get married we're gonna have a baby or two. We're gonna let them visit their grandma, that's what we're gonna do."
How inane is that?
While Mr. Holmes has a nice voice, the sheer inanity of this song proved costly.
Talk about missing the entire point of the song!
This is a song about remembering childhood. It's about innocence, when the most important things were finding small change, going to visit Grandma and having a girlfriend and not even thinking about sex.
Most people who listened to it were able to remember getting a good amount of candy for a nickel when they were kids. It wasn't about 1973 economics!
And to say that the words of the song are inane is just dumb. After all, the words are suppose to be coming from children.
If you want to list lyrics like that and then make that comment, you could do it for just about any song:
"Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain." How inane is that?
COME ON! It could be argued that all songs are inane, unless of course, you understand the deeper meaning and why the song was created in the first place. It seems the reviewer thought this was just a grown man singing about having a nickel and visiting his grandmother. This person didn't get it.
Also, I stumbled across a blog called Lethal Dose in an entry called "Just Wrong Songs" where the writer said:
Next up from Bleuvolt: "Clint Holmes 'Playground in my Mind.' That song is so creepy!"
I had forgotten about it, but the second Bleuvolt said that, it brought it all back in its horrifying glory...
God! I don’t even want those words on my blog! I need to take a shower now.
This is insane! I left a comment where I stated that if the author of the blog saw something dirty in the song, that it was her own mind that was dirty, not the song.
But, in my searching, I came across this review of "Playground in My Mind" on Amazon.com.
I never cared for the 1973 stinker, "Playground in my Mind" and thought the lyrics quite inane.
"My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new. I'm going to buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do." With a nickel? That didn't go far even in 1973, the year following the Watergate Scandal and the year of the Energy Crisis.
"My name is Cindy, when we get married we're gonna have a baby or two. We're gonna let them visit their grandma, that's what we're gonna do."
How inane is that?
While Mr. Holmes has a nice voice, the sheer inanity of this song proved costly.
Talk about missing the entire point of the song!
This is a song about remembering childhood. It's about innocence, when the most important things were finding small change, going to visit Grandma and having a girlfriend and not even thinking about sex.
Most people who listened to it were able to remember getting a good amount of candy for a nickel when they were kids. It wasn't about 1973 economics!
And to say that the words of the song are inane is just dumb. After all, the words are suppose to be coming from children.
If you want to list lyrics like that and then make that comment, you could do it for just about any song:
"Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain." How inane is that?
COME ON! It could be argued that all songs are inane, unless of course, you understand the deeper meaning and why the song was created in the first place. It seems the reviewer thought this was just a grown man singing about having a nickel and visiting his grandmother. This person didn't get it.
Also, I stumbled across a blog called Lethal Dose in an entry called "Just Wrong Songs" where the writer said:
Next up from Bleuvolt: "Clint Holmes 'Playground in my Mind.' That song is so creepy!"
I had forgotten about it, but the second Bleuvolt said that, it brought it all back in its horrifying glory...
God! I don’t even want those words on my blog! I need to take a shower now.
This is insane! I left a comment where I stated that if the author of the blog saw something dirty in the song, that it was her own mind that was dirty, not the song.
The World As It Is
Posted on April 18, 2007 19:17:19
The blog still isn't working like I want it to, but there is just so much going on that I have to rant about.
I just received a piece of mail from a car dealership that was printed to look like a check from the U.S. Treasury. You know, a tax refund check. It came in one of those manilla color envelopes and the Statue of Liberty could be seen on the "check" behind the envelope's window.
I'm not expecting a refund from the government, so I knew it wasn't a check from the Treasury Department, but how far will companies go to make sure people open their mail? I can see hundreds of people ripping open this envelope only to discover that it isn't a tax refund but an offer for Vehicle Purchase Assistance. Wow! A chance to go further into debt!
OK. Here comes the second round.
It was a terrible thing that 32 people were shot to death at Virginia Tech on Monday. We should all be saddened and concerned by this sort of sudden and overly violent act.
However, the extent that the media "covers" and carries on about it is ridiculous. Do people really need to know every little detail? Do they need to hear the stories of the eye witnesses down to the last gory note? Do we have to dive into the personal lives of the victims?
And they (the media) want us to get all riled up about how the campus security was lacking. WHAT? Who could have foreseen this type of event happening? We don't live our lives for this sort of thing. If it had happened at my old school, Temple, I doubt very much the entire campus would have been closed down after the first shootings.
It just shows how much the media thrives on spreading fear and paranoia. And we Americans eat it up.
A week or so ago here in the Tampa area, a man walked into a gun store and held several people hostage for about 12 hours. Do you know how the press handled it after the police told them not to give out too much information? They interupted prime time programing with their tickers saying that the police were dealing with "a situation" that had closed a major road. It only took me a few minutes to realize there was a hostage situation. And I knew where it was. I mean come on. Couldn't you have at least waited until the 11:00 news to break a story you shouldn't be telling us about?
Oh well, what are you going to do? OH, I don't watch that much news. I rather not be brainwashed into over-grieving for people I don't know, being paranoid that someone is going to shoot me when I step onto a college campus, that college administrations and small town police departments aren't doing their jobs.
Stop force feeding this crap to us!
I just received a piece of mail from a car dealership that was printed to look like a check from the U.S. Treasury. You know, a tax refund check. It came in one of those manilla color envelopes and the Statue of Liberty could be seen on the "check" behind the envelope's window.
I'm not expecting a refund from the government, so I knew it wasn't a check from the Treasury Department, but how far will companies go to make sure people open their mail? I can see hundreds of people ripping open this envelope only to discover that it isn't a tax refund but an offer for Vehicle Purchase Assistance. Wow! A chance to go further into debt!
OK. Here comes the second round.
It was a terrible thing that 32 people were shot to death at Virginia Tech on Monday. We should all be saddened and concerned by this sort of sudden and overly violent act.
However, the extent that the media "covers" and carries on about it is ridiculous. Do people really need to know every little detail? Do they need to hear the stories of the eye witnesses down to the last gory note? Do we have to dive into the personal lives of the victims?
And they (the media) want us to get all riled up about how the campus security was lacking. WHAT? Who could have foreseen this type of event happening? We don't live our lives for this sort of thing. If it had happened at my old school, Temple, I doubt very much the entire campus would have been closed down after the first shootings.
It just shows how much the media thrives on spreading fear and paranoia. And we Americans eat it up.
A week or so ago here in the Tampa area, a man walked into a gun store and held several people hostage for about 12 hours. Do you know how the press handled it after the police told them not to give out too much information? They interupted prime time programing with their tickers saying that the police were dealing with "a situation" that had closed a major road. It only took me a few minutes to realize there was a hostage situation. And I knew where it was. I mean come on. Couldn't you have at least waited until the 11:00 news to break a story you shouldn't be telling us about?
Oh well, what are you going to do? OH, I don't watch that much news. I rather not be brainwashed into over-grieving for people I don't know, being paranoid that someone is going to shoot me when I step onto a college campus, that college administrations and small town police departments aren't doing their jobs.
Stop force feeding this crap to us!
