I Had To Listen To This Shite. Every Night. During The Course of the Five Years I Lived in Iraq & Afghanistan I Was Rudely Awakened Thusly
And Right ‘Bout The Time I Had Achieved REM Status. Rarely Would I Even Get Outta My Rack. I’d Just Go Right Back To Sleep. Nothing In Iraq Nor Afghanistan Ever Frightened Me.
It Was Just One More of Joni’s Three Great Stimulants. How I Regarded It Anyway. I Had, By That Time, Already Been Around The World
Twice
Ain’t Shit I Hadn’t Seen Three Times Already
Hell!
I Once Saw Two White Whales Fuck In The
Northern
Indian Ocean
How Many You Know Can Claim THAT?
Watch Thus Or go fuk u’re self!
And Hey!
“If It’s Your ‘Time, It’s You Time’ that Was Our Mantra
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Come On YA’LL! READ THIS ONE! I spent at Least Five Minute(s) Writing IT! Y’ALL. I mis-Spiel for The Effect! Hahahahahaa!
“I am Re-Re Posting This Expanded Version Because I am Wallowing in Self-Pity For not ever ‘Making’ A Daughter. Don’t Bother Reading.
It is Just For The Record of My Self-Pity. “Every (Rare) Once In A While I See Something On TV That ‘Moves’ Me. This Commercial Moved Me–Gave Me Hope–Made Me Misty-Eyed. Almost Cried.”
That’s a Lie. I did cry
I have been re-watching “Mad Men”–Most are familiar with the show.
For those who have been living under a rock for the past two decades:
The series is all about Madison Avenue.
Advertising in The Sixties.
Anyway,
This ‘commercial’ (Found Below)
is
Brilliant!
It actually brought a tear to my eye
(See below about how sorry I feel for myself for not taking the time to have a daughter)
Credit: Vanguard
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One More “Daddy-Daughter-Related” Brilliantly done Commercial
“Roots and Wings”
Vid Cred: Entertainment Marketing
Longer Version (Audio Only—Full Vid has been flushed down the memory hole. Shit!)
Artist: Miranda Lambert, Native Texan.So Y’all KNOW, I’m ‘Partial’
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Rosanne Cash
Johnny’s Little Girl
Vid Cred: I don’t Know, (I am too drunk to be bothered to look but thank you!
(Whoever you are!)
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More of Rosanne!
“You know that life don’t hold no glamour anymore”
Let’s break this down, shall we?
It all hinges on the word ‘that’
And how you interpret the usage of it
“You know ‘that life’ don’t hold no glamour anymore.”
Could mean potential suicide
or…
You know ‘that’ life, could mean “I am fucking tired of being a performing artist and I want a ‘real life’
What do Y’all think?
Which is it?
Could be both
This is the genius of the song
I think the “answer” lies in the last Line:
“Maybe I’ll just go away to stay”
Now that that mystery is solved I can move on
Hey Johnny!
Best “Thing” You Ever “Created!”
I am so FRIkin’ Jealous!
You Asshole!
You Lucky Asshole!
“Guess I Could Never Do Nothin’ Right!”
Orig Song Cred: Jerry Jeff Walker
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An aside:
Damnit! I wish I had a daughter!
(DUH!)
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The Commercial Copywriters were obviously inspired by this classic Ben E. King:
Spanish Harlem
And Yes It is Not Lost On Me That
“Rose” is Metaphor for a Woman
Just like “The Yellow Rose of Texas”
I have a little left of my brain
Y’all
Cred for Vid: John1948OneD
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I should have worked in advertising.
Pretty sure I would have been good / great at it.
I understand how it ‘works’
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P. T. Barnum:
“There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”:
Content Creator Cred: Professor Buzzkill
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Lance in an alternate life/universe:
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Bonus Material For Reference:
Yellow Rose of Texas
(Originally Written Circa 1850)
(Which was actually about a very beautiful half-black slave girl–put that in yer pipe)
Smoke it!
Vid Cred: Lane Brody
Artists: Johnny Lee & Lane Brody