Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
We’ve had a lot of difficult ‘assignments’, here at the Twisted Libido and Music Reproduction Factory… Jen ( “my friends call me Jen“) Kehl and her ‘enforcer’ Kristi ( “…her friends call me often”) Campbell have charged us TMTios to produce mixtapes that are meant to evoke: breaking up, getting revenge, stalking, forbidden ‘love’, movies, covers, lullaby’s (!) there was even a series that had us all scrambling to pick the songs that were most representative of entire Decades.
None have been as difficult as this week’s list.
[Have you ever felt pressured to put something together ( perhaps a book report at school or maybe, I don’t know, like a conversation in your head that you rehearse before you get to that critical point in a romantic evening) and just before you are ready to present it…something in your stomach turns and a voice in your head starts yammering, ‘Wait!! think this through!! you can’t remember what made you (think of that conclusion or those words to express your feelings) stop before it’s too late!!]…too late.
Twisted MixTape 24
Beautiful – Christine Aguilera
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Beautiful Girls – Van Halen
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She’s a Beauty – The Tubes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq20yFnvsvU~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
American Beauty – The Who (sort of)
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Casablanca – Bogart and Dooley Wilson and them
About clarkscottroger
Ohhhh yes, I see what you did here :)
I rather like ‘As Time Goes By’, as it’s the theme tune of a rather cracking Brit series with Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, which I love.
Lizzi
I thought it might be (as I saw reference to it in the youtube returns), but the movie, if you have not seen it, is pretty good in an archaic and way-different-cultural-frame-of-reference sort of way.
this was a tough one… and about those clarks! (I tend to try and watch myself for fear of projecting my own views onto the world, vis a vis the clarks) but jeez the synchronicity do tend to get a little un-nerving at times lol
Maybe…though I have little time for movies these days – so much time taken up in glorious reading and writing! I love that too much for now, but there’s a list of films as long as my arm that I’m ‘meant’ to be keeping up on!
So. What’s *with* the synchronicity? How does that happen? Because I was never going to go for a ‘beautiful in the title’ post – this one, the music, enables me (I think) to tap into a far more rogerian frame of mind and express a little ‘feel’…and yet…I discover that it’s been done already when I join up!
beautiful list there, Clark.
Michelle
thank you Michelle! (how is ‘the project’ going? spot any of them clarks? additional hints: if they are female clarks, look at their feet, their choice of shoes will be noticeable…also clothes…eclectic? lol very creative dressers and male clarks… they are the ones with the poor posture slouching when they sit, shoulders kind of hunched when they walk… oh yeah! they tend to mumble and laugh inappropriately)
Hey beautiful friend – I almost did the EXACT SAME THING. Seriously, all day yesterday I was wracking my brain trying to think of songs that have “Beautiful” in their titles. This Clark thing? Totally works. Totally and it’s kindof spooky at times.
PS my friends call you often? Huh. They don’t even call me. Guess we know how loyal those asses are, huh? ;)
Kristi
ain’t it fun? (well, with the occasional careening into ‘Next Exit to Creepy-ville’ to sounds of Foggy Mountain Breakdown’). I was surprised at how tough it was (to come up with movies and songs and such with the word ‘beautiful’ in it)
your Post was what I had come to expect, establishing the basis and then taking the Reader where you wanted them to go… (still working on understanding how you do that… I suspect that the emotional content of your writing is it…we need to discuss this, as one of the current projects is mapping the terrain of the clarklike worldview, with an eye to how we relate ourselves to our emotional aspect*).
no… although I’ll bet you were the person that the friend of a friend who had a problem with the friend would come to to try and fix things or at very least help them understand what was going on with the friend. lol
*the way I even frame the question is a hint to the whole thing, no?
ah yes, play it again, for old times sake. perfect. where else can you get a peep show song playing against a movie classic. how fun.
Kath
as they sang in the 60’s
“…it’s a mixed up, muddled up world, shook up world…”
lol
HA! May I be so bold as to say, that I knew for a fact that “Beautiful” by Christina would make an appearance this week – AND can I also add – I was pretty danged sure that it would be done so by you sir!
Thank you for never disappointing Clark, and thanks more for the surprise of The Tubes and the delight of “As Time Goes By!”
Troy
(have you noticed the number of people in various stages of dress among the vids this week?… maybe I should not be surprised, living in the world of the Wakefield Doctrine and all)
thank you, Troy… this week, as I have been commentizing, was a tough one to get a handle on… that plus I am in total catch-up mode on reading the Posts.
I am so glad you had trouble with this list. I did too. Yes, the great and powerful OZ can sometimes lose her mojo. After hearing all of the great entries I realize how much better I could have done.
At least you had a theme…. BTW love the clips from Casablanca. Did you see Woody Allen’s Play it Again Sam? Loved.
Thanks for playing even when you don’t feel it! Ya did good.
Jen
Thank you for that VOC… (actually it’s kind of cool to see the group identity growing stronger, even as the number of people participating increases… sort of Breakfast Club for bloggers… (… I got dibs on being Judd Nelson!! I see you as Ally Sheedy kind of makes Kristi …Molly! (lol yeah… sort of)
you have done some good work here, Jen
The Who- another band I never get sick of.
Quickstepp
Agree…funny, I was slow* in liking their music. But totally enjoy the song.
* as in ‘end of 80s’ as opposed to end of 60’s lol
Well by that definition I was slow too. But that’s because I was born in 80. :)
Quickstepp
lol how cruel! that is definitely anti-youth-challenged-istic….er ism!
Van Halen — YES!
The Tubes — YES!
American Beauty — “…pass the asparagus.” Such a great movie. Kevin Spacey is just always great.
And I agree w/ you about Kings X. Totally unappreciated. Saw them once in Mpls … they sucked that night. Saw them just a couple years or so ago in Lincoln (NE) in a little tiny bar. We actually met Doug Pinnick in a gyro place a few hours before the show. That was pretty weird. But, he was so stoned for the show, that show sucked too. My husband has seen them live when they didn’t suck, but I haven’t. ha! Particularly fond of ‘Gretchen Goes to Nebraska” (<–and not just because of the state) ;) –it's just a great album.
Kari
ah… must be tough on the psyche to be (so) good a band and never quite get there. loved The Tubes (one of the better 80’s vibes)
This was a mostly good list. Not telling which one I did not like. But it’s okay because the rest of them salvaged it. ;)
Tracy
lol… kinda like life it’s ownself, non?
Dude… You said this was difficult. You freakin’ knocked it out of the park!!!
I love it, Slu
Slu
thanks man, but I can’t wait ’til our bloggerini start hitting us with something like: music that evokes the smell of the room after a particularly strenuous (and satisfying) weekend…’at home’ or ‘the songs that you play to keep your mind focused on the road when alien substances are trying to convince you that you can drive telekinesis-ically’
ya know?
I’m glad someone included Baba O’Riley…
Clark! You have to read my post from today! haha! Hint: David Lee Roth. ;) Well, Casablanca – only my husband’s favorite movie and that is just classic. The Who’s Baba O’Riley is also a favorite of my hubby. I’m going to play him this list. Great stuff.