That guy did a bang up job of sad lisa. Yeah and Cat Steven’s Tea for The Tillerman was an lp must have when I was a junior or senior in HS. Great album cover too. These guys give immense dignity to this cover. What the teenager understands however is just the immense sadness. But for a teenager its unearned sadness. And there is a metaphysical sadness in this tune that teenagers won’t get at all. They’ll only know its really really sad. Add some blow and a couple teenagers have a real pity party. You get a bunch of callow kids.
A similar sound like the tune “The Riddle Song,” also known as “I Gave My Love a Cherry,” was one that John Beluchi Lampooned in animal house.( I would have loved to post the utube of the scene but the studio blocked it for copyright reasons.)
While I loved these tunes for a time, I don’t think they do much for the character of da youts. Because they make such an indelible impression. Similarly, consider the buzz saw whine of Neil Young. Its tough for a young impressionable soul to get that sound track out of their head.
These days I tell teenagers and their parents to be very careful of the music they listen to because what they hear as teenagers –they’ll remember for the rest of their lives. Better to find some biblical words set to music. Those words are very helpful all the time. Its a joy to have those words in your head when you wake in the morning.
Bedtime reading chapter 3 of Julian Jaymes “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”; he makes the point that consciousness is a relatively modern thing; something of only the last 3-4 thousand years. That its based on language. That is, no language. No consciousness. But its not just language that make for consciousness; its the metaphors embedded in language that make for consciousness.
I do search marketing for a living. Facebook has exceeded Google in its audience this year.
The business model for pajamas media and any of the the many portals around is to draw in eyeballs and then to put up advertising. The network that feeds pajama media the ads on the upper right when you come here looks like pulse360. (There are a lot of different networks so I could be wrong on that.) The networks make money. The affiliate media buyers who work through the networks–to feed the ads outlets like pajama media– make money as well–and significant money. This video shows examples of the latest and greatest techniques for media buyers(If you know any young web designers who can do the kind of stuff demonstrated in the video–have them contact me.)
Typically, the best media buyers are totally unassuming. They don’t stand out in a crowd. We talked about Chinese and Japanese herbs. That’s what they look like only they’re of all races. The difference is that they are totally computer literate and they work it. They run their businesses on their laptops seated at the local coffee shop–or under a highway overpass–where ever.
Well if ipads and their imitators become more functional there may be migration away from laptops–something that’s currently happening for the suits in corporate
