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Music videos have been around for some time now, however, really started making a visual statement (as art) in their own right (apart from the song); probably in the late 1980's. This was when "basic" special effects (generated by computers) came along.

Back then, (if you lived in Australia) you had to watch a show called "Countdown" (top of the pops format -on TV) to see your favorite musicians perform. In Australia, The ABC television station has a music video all night (weekends) TV show called "Rage" . In America it is MTV (or it was in the late eighties). Nowadays; of course, we have most music videos on youtube.

Anyway, you get the idea.

Blog open for each person to post their favorite music video/s.

(please post a maximum of 1 per comment). Comments are sought for each music video - Why do you like it? What makes it special?

To kick things off, I'll post a few of my favs. (there's really too many, to choose from)...

Does the majority class of women prefer long hair or short hair... Often ibfind the drama books women read have men with long hair but socially I'm told they prefer a guy with short hair... Reguardless I'm growing mine out to shoulder length but I wanted opinions to know what I'm about to walk into as far as the social life goes haha

Was having coffee with a woman the other day when the subject turned to dating sites and relationships.

The woman said to me it must be great being a man as everything is so much easier for guys than it is for women.

I thought about this for a while, reflecting on relationships I had had previously and my current situation on this dating site.

I concluded that a couple of decades ago men had greater control in the work place and in the home, however, today the balance of power certainly in the Western world has shifted considerably towards women in both arenas

In terms of relationships women have almost complete control, it is women that decide who they desire to meet and dictate what men need to do if they want to maintain the relationship.

I am talking “generally” here but more and more often I hear/read about men finding themselves having to walk on egg shells for days on end due to an unknown action or comment they have made that has upset the delicate balance of the relationship.

Women have now become demanding and dictatorial in many aspects of life, more so I suspect than men ever were.

Women rule..... OK!

I'm in Miami and Friday is garbage day. The handyman I hired last week filled the can with construction materials (instead of the 55 gallon bags I left for him) so I had to roll the can to the front for pickup.
I'm only wearing flip-flops right now... not my normal dress code and my feet are wet from the morning dew. Yuck!
Plans today are to finish pressure washing the roof, wood fascia and eaves in preparation for painting tomorrow.
Right now, I'm waiting for the aspirin to kick in before getting started...
In the mean time I'll wash my feet and flip-flops before I put on work shoes!

Morning dew...

Wish your life is clear and bright, and do what you want to do , and love the person you love!

Truth and Lie

oh, not here on CS. Generally.

Money may be the root of all evil but it is only when we talk about it that people get really het up. If you don't know, you can't get annoyed.

To understand all is to forgive all - but we don't want to understand all. We want to believe what we believe, and talk others into our beliefs, and to get very angry indeed when the others won't listen, or persist in arguing.

I live now in a country where I don't yet speak the language. It's surprisingly peaceful. By the time I had lived this long - 3 months - in Scotland I was caught up in several separate long-running feuds in the neighbourhood and nervously trying to avoid taking sides, being ordered to join things like Home Watch, and backing away at speed from politically-indignant individuals with multiple opinions.

Here, no-one tries to talk to me about politics or issues. I greet people, remark how cold it is, we go on our way smiling. My Spanish builders have given up repeating themselves endlessly in the hope I will suddenly start understanding and instead we get by on a handful of words and a lot of vigorous mime. Ditto when I look up the Spanish phrase I need and go to the DIY shop on the corner. The very voluble duenna in my street who grabs everyone who passes and talks at them for 20 minutes just nods, smiles and pats my dog (which she calls wa-wa).

My neighbour speaks several languages and translates when mime is simply not enough, but for the rest no feelings are offended by things said, because there is not enough vocabulary to offend.

I am beginning to think I should never learn Spanish. I like this peace and quiet!

We talk too much.

I like coming to the library to use their computers and while doing so I listen to Y**T*** music. My genre is the R&B Soul music.

The oldies play and I look back in memory to the songs and some bring back real profound memories of a love I once had.

I remember crying my eyes out after Priscilla broke up with me and the song that was popular at that time. "Tears On My Pillow". Ha ha ha!!! I was so stupidly immature over that. My ex-best friend Pete stole her from me after I stole her from him. They were divorced in later years and I wonder where I would be of she had married me. I think that I would have been divorced from her too!

The music makes it's rounds and I remember the parties I played at with L'il Charlie and the Royal Mixtures. Songs like "Long Train Running" and the Los Angeles Police Officer whose wife would flirt with me because we played a lot of cop parties. Two bad things about this scenario. They lived down the street from me. And at the time he was the SWAT guy that was the sharp shooter. YABOS!!!! Even though I was actively playing here and there with babes that was definitely too close to home.

Then "Cocaine" plays and I remember my buddy Dakota crying in his sick bed when I brought him a radio to the rest home he was living at. For Dakota it was one too many babes, too much cocaine, too much liquor, too much fist fighting and just too much .... just name it and Dakota did it!!! Dakota was crying about his high school prom and that song was played over and over by the band!

I hear "Sabor a Mi" and I remember playing with Joe Alvarez and the Red Coats. The times he would want me to sing a song and he'd hand me his mic. I finally had to buy my own because Joe had horrendous breath that stunk his mic to high smells. Joe would sing with the mic right at his mouth and the sound system was bunk so his voice would come out staticky and garbled. In doing my songs I would keep a distance from the mic and that worked perfectly. Joe would ask why I sounded better and Paul the sax player would tell him stand away. Joe would answer, "but that's the way Frank Sinatra does it"!! Paul would retort, "How does Micky Rooney do it"!!! We'd choke laughing and laughing.

Joe's dad would get crazily drunk and by 11 pm he would be making the band sound like blazes. In the old days the piano player played a real piano. So all Joe's dad would take to the gig was a cushion to relieve his sore buns from sitting on the piano bench. When he'd get drunk he would forget his cushion and the next time we played that hall he would find it and rejoice like it was a wallet full of cash he had lost!

Rufus Thomas comes on with "Walking the Dog" and it immediately reminds me of the bar girl at "El Tentacion" bar that would get down and crawl around like a dog. That band was "Sabu". If your old enough to remember there were films about a young boy that lived in a jungle named Sabu. Our leader looked like Sabu so he was named that moniker!

Then for some dang reason I wonder about my personal feelings and the songs that "seemed" to have carved my outlook on life and love. I think I was too much into the lyrics and the dreams those lyrics created. I think how foolish I was about life. But I think music pretty much forms a young persons images of love so I wasn't so different after all.

Tonite I will have a beer and celebrate music and all the songs I love to hear over and over again!!!

May I start a new month with you?
I submitted my quarterly corporate tax returns yesterday... before the deadline.
Corporate and personal taxes are on extension.
Nothing new.

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