Cat Stevens
Born Steven Demetre Georgiou on July 21 1948 in Marylebone London England.
He turns 68 on Thursday
Born Steven Demetre Georgiou on July 21 1948 in Marylebone London England.
He turns 68 on Thursday
Monday, July 18, 2016
Friday, July 8, 2016
Living is a lot like being an air traffic controller.
They cut back on personnel so you wind up either working alone or with just one other person.
They don't update or maintain equipment or facilities.
They expect you to keep track of a multitude of different details at any one time.
If ever there should be a mid-air collision on your watch you'll be the one everyone wants to sue and whom the officials want prosecuted.
The above is my Musing For Today
They cut back on personnel so you wind up either working alone or with just one other person.
They don't update or maintain equipment or facilities.
They expect you to keep track of a multitude of different details at any one time.
If ever there should be a mid-air collision on your watch you'll be the one everyone wants to sue and whom the officials want prosecuted.
The above is my Musing For Today
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Ringo turned 76 yesterday
Born Richard Starkey in Dingle Liverpool England on July 7 1940
Born Richard Starkey in Dingle Liverpool England on July 7 1940
The Pedestrian's Guide To:
Motorists
They try to run you over in the intersections, parking lots, and on the sidewalk portion of driveways and alleyway entrances
Bicyclists
They try to run you over on the sidewalk, and also in intersections and parking lots
Skateboarders
They try to run you over on just about any paved surface
Criminals
Predatory, try to victimize you
The Police
Predatory, accuse you of trying to victimize others
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
One may feel eternally ostracized and intentionally left out of the scheme of things, always getting "crowded out" by everyone else around them.
However, it could also be that you're among the "displaced".
There's only so much of anything to go around: time, space, money, resources.
The "favored" and prominent are always going to be offered "first choice", with whatever's left to be distributed among the lesser important.
Those who "matter" are always accommodated and those who "don't count" either get pushed aside or get access to "whatever's available" afterwards.
The above is my Musing For Today
However, it could also be that you're among the "displaced".
There's only so much of anything to go around: time, space, money, resources.
The "favored" and prominent are always going to be offered "first choice", with whatever's left to be distributed among the lesser important.
Those who "matter" are always accommodated and those who "don't count" either get pushed aside or get access to "whatever's available" afterwards.
The above is my Musing For Today
Song Analysis: Get Off Of My Cloud
This song is actually a commentary on "being violated".
It takes place in a high-rise apartment building, involving one unit of free-wheeling "feel-good" party animals who enjoy loud fun ...and the tenant below them who's more reclusive and just wants to go about his life without undue interference from noisy neighbors.
In verse two lead singer Mick Jagger role-plays the upstairs partyers who get annoyed at a phone call from the tenant below them in which he asks them in a flippant manner "Just because YOU 'feel so good' does it mean you 'have to' drive me out of my head?", feeling their right to have a good time is being "violated".
In verse three Jagger then role-plays the reclusive tenant below who just gives up and "takes a drive downtown" and parks on a deserted street where it's "so very nice and peaceful and quiet" and manages to grab a few winks before waking up to a windshield full of parking tickets.
Feeling universally "violated" by this whole affair he utters various retorts as he feels he was forced into taking this course of action due to the adverse circumstances he was under.
Of course the reason he got ticketed was on account of his violating parking ordinances.
This song, essentially, is about the fact that "violating" and "being violated" are both two-way streets. That there are never any actual designated "culprits" or "victims". Any and all things work both ways.
It takes place in a high-rise apartment building, involving one unit of free-wheeling "feel-good" party animals who enjoy loud fun ...and the tenant below them who's more reclusive and just wants to go about his life without undue interference from noisy neighbors.
In verse two lead singer Mick Jagger role-plays the upstairs partyers who get annoyed at a phone call from the tenant below them in which he asks them in a flippant manner "Just because YOU 'feel so good' does it mean you 'have to' drive me out of my head?", feeling their right to have a good time is being "violated".
In verse three Jagger then role-plays the reclusive tenant below who just gives up and "takes a drive downtown" and parks on a deserted street where it's "so very nice and peaceful and quiet" and manages to grab a few winks before waking up to a windshield full of parking tickets.
Feeling universally "violated" by this whole affair he utters various retorts as he feels he was forced into taking this course of action due to the adverse circumstances he was under.
Of course the reason he got ticketed was on account of his violating parking ordinances.
This song, essentially, is about the fact that "violating" and "being violated" are both two-way streets. That there are never any actual designated "culprits" or "victims". Any and all things work both ways.
Song Analysis: It Came Out Of The Sky
I think when the lyrics to this song get examined there's too much emphasis on the object Jody retrieved that came from some unknown source when, in fact, the crux of the song involves the responses from all the various factions who respond to, and try to exploit, Jody's unusual dilemma.
The Vatican, the U.S. government, the media, the press, Hollywood, the scientists. Each one has their own idea of what this "mystery object" is, what its purpose is and where it belongs.
And each one of these otherwise "respectable" factions try to cajole and browbeat poor Jody into surrendering ownership of this "mystery object" to them, convinced such action is for some "greater good".
Jody (most likely some "poor schmuck" who lives in a shack or some flop house) finally gets fed up with all the obvious attempted exploitation by all of these alleged "legitimate" factions who cannot even universally agree on what's "appropriate" for this unknown object, and finally blurts out a "final proposition" of his own: "It's MINE, and you can have it for $16million!"
Summary: This song actually parodies the way each person, group, institution and organization exists inside their own vacuum, each with their own myopic worldviews and perspectives. And how no matter what it is they're observing or judging their conclusions are always going to be based on and obscured by whatever myopic perspectives they themselves harbor.
The Vatican, the U.S. government, the media, the press, Hollywood, the scientists. Each one has their own idea of what this "mystery object" is, what its purpose is and where it belongs.
And each one of these otherwise "respectable" factions try to cajole and browbeat poor Jody into surrendering ownership of this "mystery object" to them, convinced such action is for some "greater good".
Jody (most likely some "poor schmuck" who lives in a shack or some flop house) finally gets fed up with all the obvious attempted exploitation by all of these alleged "legitimate" factions who cannot even universally agree on what's "appropriate" for this unknown object, and finally blurts out a "final proposition" of his own: "It's MINE, and you can have it for $16million!"
Summary: This song actually parodies the way each person, group, institution and organization exists inside their own vacuum, each with their own myopic worldviews and perspectives. And how no matter what it is they're observing or judging their conclusions are always going to be based on and obscured by whatever myopic perspectives they themselves harbor.
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