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Tom Jones - Talking Reality Television Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khgdwZmWkXc
6:22 min music video

Well, come gather around and I'll sing you a song
About a crazy old world that’s coming along
'Til one day some fool made the decision
To turn on the television

Of course radio reported we'd all ignore it
Paper said we’d have no time for it
But before you knew it, you knew Milton Berle
And we all had a new escape from the world

All tuned in, before too soon
We were watching a man walk on the moon
He made it look as easy as driving a car
Video killed the radio star
I got the talking blues

Talking blues is easy to do
All you gotta do is rhyme a line or two
Rhyme a line or two and then
You don't even have to rhyme again
See? I can say anything I want to now
Well, you know, within reason

Say sitcom, catchphrase, game show nation
Television soon defied explanation
As the situation took to such a degree
That eventually we all heard about cable TV
Of course, free TV news swore we'd ignore it
But the average family could never afford it
But again they were wrong, eventually
Everybody wanted their MTV

We were all tuned in, but now the shock
Watching a kid do a thing called the "moonwalk"
Sliding backwards really was eventually too far
Reality killed that video star
I got the talking blues

So simple at first, it was hard to foresee
The impending collision with reality
But it soon seemed TV turned on itself
When "The Real World" came on like it was somethin' else
Of course actors all acted like they weren't floored
Hoping eventually that we'd all get bored
But one after the another we pretended not to act
As we hurdled ever forward towards alternative facts

Then a show called "The Apprentice" came on and pretty soon
An old man with a comb-over had sold us the moon
We stayed tuned in, now here we are
Reality killed by a reality star
I got the talking blues

Hills, that is

#music #talking #blues #TomJones

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psych@diasp.org
Michael
Making / Keeping Moloka'i - Prequel: Tribute to Buzzy Sproat

Something new from my world of.... why not?

From a #conversation about the expression "bull in a China Shop", common expression in the U.S.
In Europe there is a similar idiom - great name for a band - an "elephant in a porcelain shop".
Quite an interesting difference, as captured in the cartoon versions. #Nuance More below. Going down...

I intended on talking about #talking , #storytalk, #communication #TalkingStory, #discussing #travel #hereandnow

Flight Plan
"Flight Plan"

Here was someone I was truly privileged to have known - and video'd! Shared pretzels and fruit @ #COH. :(
A legendary Hawaiian paniolo who heroically brought comfort to the 'leper colony'-> patients on the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula on Moloka'i. #BuzzySproat #legend #paniolo #muleskinner #hawaii #molokai #RIP

Oh, and he could talk story! Starting with his life.
RIP. Aloha to the aunties & uncles & nieces and nephews.

Sorry about the audio - it won't get louder than the laughter of people or grass-hunting of the mules. Buzzy was funny! 🎧 Earphones &/or full speakers will help to "be there".

This is #Buzzy telling us how we need the mules to choose us and the how to ride down a sheer sea cliff. Not to worry, the mules were fed but they're going to go for the grass. Get to know your mule. By name. Hold on. Trust your mule. Be respectful. Okay! Let's go!

I made a video on Moloka'i with local music and my photos and vids. Info on that is also in the YouTube description.
But here [is the legendary cowboy/muleskinner guide on the #Kalaupapa trails down the sea cliff down to the colony which he personally helped for many years with his mule-back runs down a 26 switchback trail of sheer sea cliff. [ Photography ]

Meanwhile, yes, idioms. Like people, 'diverse'.
People everywhere have some metaphor in non-human nature to explain fellow humans trapped &/or out of control.

The American version of the cartoon is 'children only' (true! on Fox Family TV) - what we all are brought up seeing in cartoons and using as a metaphor for... the raging bull, so oddly finding itself itself thrashing about China. heh #reality

The French version portrays a more civilized #society with an endearing elephant. Agile really: But amid porcelain, maintenant...

Comme un Elephant dans un magasin de Porcelaine

I suppose metaphors, like cultures an fables, idioms and buzz phrases, run deep in the human DNA. Happy Weekend.

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