What are you listening to ?

Everything comes and goes
Marked by lovers and styles of clothes
Things that you held high
And told yourself were true
Lost or changing as the days come down to you

Down to you
Constant stranger
You're a kind person
You're a cold person too
It's down to you
It all comes down to you

You go down to the pick up station
Craving warmth and beauty
You settle for less than fascination
A few drinks later you're not so choosy
When the closing lights strip off the shadows
On this strange new flesh you've found
Clutching the night to you like a fig leaf
You hurry
To the blackness
And the blankets
To lay down an impression
And your loneliness

In the morning there are lovers in the street
They look so high
You brush against a stranger
And you both apologize
Old friends seem indifferent
You must have brought that on
Old bonds have broken down
Love is gone
Oooh love is gone
Written on your spirit this sad song
Love is gone

Everything comes and goes
Pleasure moves on too early
And trouble leaves too slow
Just when you're thinking
You've finally got it made
Bad news comes knocking
At your garden gate
Knocking for you
Constant stranger
You're a brute you're an angel
You can crawl you can fly too
It's down to you
It all comes down to you

Joni Mitchell
 
I had rehearsal with a singer-songwriter I work with, and then had to do mix revisions on a a Chinese Rap that I recorded. The two couldn't be more different.
 
*laughing*

I clicked on the link, and it touched off an instant Ultravox earworm.

You should have seen the suggestions youtube gave me, when I visited, to search for the my video.

Fuck, the subconscious part of the mind is strange...


Ultravox - Dancing With Tears in My Eyes


youtube blurb-

"This time its staying! 1984's 'Lament' album produced some eerily striking videos. The fear and perceived threat of the cold war pervaded throughout this epic, and the video was frowned upon for fear of inciting violence and nuclear meltdown...It is still blocked worldwide and has just been removed from German site clipfish, with all other Ultravox videos (as of Dec 2016) The video is unblocked as of August 2017."
 
The wormhole is open, and I just could not resist following the path, down into the rabbit hole-

Toni Childs - Don't Walk Away
 
wow

The rabbit hole went deeper than I had expected.

youtube decided that I should know about
The Card (1952 film) Alec Guinness


Petula Clark had a role. That youtube led me to a series on Queen Elizabeth I, and many costume dramas.

yikes, Queen Elizabeth had been part of the #MeToo movement! I had forgotten, how Ex-Queen Katherine Parr's husband, Seymour, cut Elizabeth's gown to bits with his sword. (That bitch held young Elizabeth down, and assisted him.in terrorizing Elizabeth.)Elizabeth I's governess was a witness. Elizabeth's guardian sexually harassed her. Kat Ashley saw that, too. Seymour tried to abduct the Child King Edward, as a way to seize power. Somerset tried to blame Elizabeth, as if Elizabeth seduced Seymour, and was part of tge plot. Katherine Parr became pregnant (did Katherine have a lover ?) and she threw teen Elizabeth out of the manor. Nice step-mom. I was happy, when Seymour had his head cut off. Hyper-ambitious pervert!

:rolleyes:

Involuntarily hijacked by Jimmy Kimmel youtube and an update.
 
I've got 54321
I've got a red pair of high-heels on
Tumble me over, it doesn't take much
Tumble me over, tumble me, push
In my red high-heels I've no control
The rituals of repression are so old
You can do what you like, there'll be no reprisal
I'm yours, yes I'm yours, it's my means of survival

I've got 54321
Come on my love, I know you're strong
Push me hard, make me stagger
The pain in my back just doesn't matter
You force-hold me above the ground
I can't get away, my feet are bound
So I'm bound to say
That I'm bound to stay

Well today I look so good
Just like I know I should
My breasts to tempt inside my bra
My face is painted like a movie star
I've studied my flaws in your reflection
And put them to rights with savage correction
I've turned my statuesque perfection
And shone it over in your direction
So come on darling, make me yours
Trip me over, show me the floor
Tease me, tease me, make me stay
In my red high-heels I can't get away
I'm trussed and bound like an oven ready bird
But I bleed without dying and won't say a word
Slice my flesh and I'll ride the scar
Put me into gear like your lady car
Drive me fast and crash me crazy
I'll rise from the wreckage as fresh as a daisy
These wounds leave furrows as they heal
I've travelled them, they're red and real
I know them well, they're part of me
My birth, my sex, my history
They grew with me, my closest friend
My pain's my own, my pain's my end
Clip my wings so you know where I am
I can't get lost while you're my man
Tame me so I know your call
I've stabbed my heels so I am tall
I've bound my twisted falling fall
Beautiful mute against the wall
Beautifully mutilated as I fall
Use me don't lose me

I've got 54321
I've got a red pair of high-heels on
Strap my ankles, break my heels
Make me kneel, make me feel
Turn, turn, turn, like a clockwork doll
Put in your key and give me a whirl
Tease me, tease me, the reason to play
In my red high-heels I can't get away
I'll be your bonsai, your beautiful bonsai
Your black-eye bonsai, erotically rotting
Will my tiny feet fit your desire?
Warped and tied I walk on fire
Burn me out, twist my wrists
I promise not to shout, beat me with your fists
Squeeze me, squeeze me, make me feel
In my red high-heels I'm an easy kill
Tease me, tease me, make me see
You're the only one, I need to be me
Thank you, will you take me?
Thank you, will you make me?
Thank you, will you break me?
Use me don't lose me
Taste me, don't waste me
Use, lose, taste, waste
 
"Enjoy this sneak preview of our barren Earth, overrun by chittering Boston Dynamics robo-dogs"

Thanks, A.V. Club!


https://www.avclub.com/enjoy-this-sneak-preview-of-our-barren-earth-overrun-b-1823646640

on youtube-
Planet Earth: A migrating herd of SpotMinis face challenges


watching a youtube video, that features Boston Dynamics small dog sized/dog shaped robots, (Spotmini in all its variations) and listening to the narrator-

Many of the robo-dogs are swept up in wind vortexes, “the only adversary to our apex predators,” the narrator intones.


The narrator also implies that the robots are to blame reason for the “uninhabitable wasteland.”



3D artist Nicholas King (on YouTube as NIXOLAS), along with Vojislav Milanovic, Ramtin Ahmadi, and Nawaz Ahmed imagined a Planet Earth-style documentary sequence where a herd of migrating SpotMinis struggle against the elements.


https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq8zb/herd-of-boston-dynamics-dog-robots-spotmini

A Herd of SpotMini Robots Scavenge Through an Uninhabitable Wasteland in Planet Earth Parody


March 8, 2018

https://laughingsquid.com/spotmini-robots-planet-earth-parody/
 
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