Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Today Jen has left it to us, no direction or requirements, no task .. as a result, I had not a clue what to write and that’s where things got….familiar. Late yesterday I sat down and started with a smartass Title and then sat back waited for songs to gather around this idea of: being examined or articles of clothing.
(ed Note: it is 6:53 am Tuesday morning) the songs did not flock to my mind! I thought, “good going, Clark… that clever title really made this Post happen!” So instead of presenting a coherently written TMT Tuesday Post with songs that flow from one to the other, what follows is, instead my Contribution to this week’s bloghop. Sorry Jen and Kristi, I’m afraid all I can do this week is try to describe the process I experienced as I went from a Post Title to finally hitting ‘Publish’.
This week’s topic for Twisted MixTape is Dealer’s Choice! If you ever wanted to jump on the bandwagon this would be the time! You choose your topic, but let’s not get crazy folks. I listen to every one of your mixes, so keep it as close to 5 as possible!
(My efforts started, last night, with the phrase; ‘look up our sleeves’. ok…most of you will get the fairly sexual overtone there, but I liked it! Unfortunately nothing about clothing and (or stripping) came to mind. Instead, what starts playing in my mind but frickin Kenny Rogers and ‘the Gambler’!… (you know, cards up the sleeve?) Try as I might, I couldn’t find any version of the song that didn’t sound like a badly done Lyle Lovett cover. I gave up and focused on the word ‘The’ in a song Title, maybe that would be the bridge and who do I get but Simon and Garfunkle??! Don’t get me wrong, I liked them, I heard them live doing Scarborough Fair. real pretty (but I was teenage boy in the 60’s! all kinds of beautiful harmony and it took 3 notes from Led Zeppelin to totally forget S&G). anyway… the first song in my list is the one S&G that I have always liked.
The Boxer – Simon and Garfunkle
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…more songs with a Title starting with the word ‘The’ ? no! I am certain there are thousands of songs out there, all I got for search results were TV commercials and Trailers from low-budget adult movies! I was starting to get pissed off… and who comes to mind? (of course!)
One Step Closer – Linkin Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUTBDuUGz8~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
…this next transition is a lot harder to reconstruct. I know that I was enjoying the 90s and shifted my ‘focus’ away from sleeves to see what comes from thinking about the outrageous end of the musical spectrum. First stop was ‘Willie the Pimp’, which was a Captain Beefheart tune from the Zappa album ‘Hot Rats’. (Loved the line: ‘Man in a suit with a bow-tie neck, Wanna buy a grunt with a third party check‘) but the song came in at 9 minutes plus. I jumped to one of Zappa’s more accessible tunes and so:
Peaches En Regalia- Frank Zappa
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…but after that, I found myself stuck in the 70’s! (I don’t know about anyone else, but when I try to follow a musical trail like this one today, a big part of my mind/emotions/thinking finds itself re-living the era of the music being played. Now without going into any un-necessarily prurient detail, suffice it to say that I was in college for half of the decade… Anyway, I’m thinking sexual innuendo and next thing I know, I get the following:
You Can Leave Your Hat On – Joe Cocker
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(still with me? lol) Believe it or not, as I watched Mickey and Kim I started thinking, ‘what a clark Mickey Rourke is!’ (one of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine often associated with self-consciousness and introversion, not qualities that would come to mind in a scene like the one backdropping Joe Cocker’s song.) In any event, once the Doctrine gets in my head, I’m all…’well hell! lets find a song that is a clear musical representation of the other personality types! The quality of ‘stage presence is totally associated with the scottian personality type, meaning you can not only see a person who illustrates the personality type, but their music itself reflects this quality as well.
We all know Joe Walsh. He is a scott. Not just in stage presence, but his lead playing… he finds the perfect notes for ‘guitar as penis’! (lol… should I have said phallic instrument? sorry…. but growing up in that era, we all knew that that’s why you spent the time and money to try and be the lead guitar player in the band.) But as you watch this video you see that Joe does it so well, a very few notes…maximum impact… totally guitar as an extension of the person, not a virtuoso instrumental performance. What is not to like?
Funk 49 – Joe Walsh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3lEqVAroX4~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So this is my twisted-so-twisted mix Tape for November 5th
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My favorite is the first one. I love Simon and Garfunkel! I never heard the other ones before, but I like the last one, just because the dude looks like he’s having so much fun with his guitar!
Angel
damn! you totally get my use of that video (the thing about an illustration of the scottian personality type.. that is totally what scotts do get people to have fun!)
I really need you to stop by the Doctrine and see if you find anything about our little personality theory interesting and such… you so have a knack
(Yea, Jen I know exactly what you’re thinking… but it’s always better for the person to find out for themselves lol)
Great look into the mind behind the process that resulted in a awesome selection of songs to listen to.
Dream
thank you for the (charitably) selected words! it was fun in an odd sort of way
Got to like Walsh’s guitaring. The Eagles wouldn’t be the same without him.
Michelle
very agree… talk about a (musical) poster boy for the scottian personality type!
you’re all over the place in a great way…zappa, linkin park, simon and Garfunkel – like it all. well done
Lance
thanks man, (that’s what happens when the get into the model cars and you don’t have any instructions… or the glue* has gotten to you) I totally now appreciate the efforts that Jen puts into coming up with a theme/topic for these TMTs
* cultural note: there was a time when airplane glue was simply air plane/model car glue… in it’s little metallic tooth paste tube… available everywhere Revel model cars were sold!
Wow… What a sweet, sweet video of Funk 49!!! ‘Leave Your Hat On’ is a Fave!!! And Zappa to boot. Smiling on this end, Slu
Slu
ain’t it something when the musician performance totally enhances the music? nothing earth-shattering in that thought, but it is why I tend to like live performances in video choices.
For once, I actually know some of the songs.. I was totally a Linkin Park victim (i.e. target audience) back when they started, old memories are coming back. And S&G, classic, as is Joe Cocker.. I might go and torture the hubby with music now ;-)
Stephanie
glad to be of help! lol you know, the thing a liked about the S&G was that they seemed to be enjoying themselves…especially in the first 30 seconds of the song, when it seemed like Art Garfunkel missed a (start) of a verse or something.
You really write the perfect mixtapes. I know you don’t believe it. But it is so true… And everything you said, and the way your mind moved… well, I guess great minds? Or at least Clark minds? Oh and Zappa, amazing he made it to two lists so far this week! Kudos!
Jen
thank you for that kind thought and the idea that clarks think alike? totally true…don’t you get that ..not quite deja vu more like (what ever the cool word for pre-recognition is) one of the cooler side effects of the blogsphere, in general, and bloghops, in particular is that I see how other clarks solve/create/figure-out and imagine situations and premisseses and when I see what you do with these TMTs and other clarks when there is a common ‘set up’ and the rest is left to the writer…very cool.
You scared me here. I thought you’d go with Zappa’s “Dynamo Hum” instead as a sexual inuendo, lol. “You Can Leave Your Hat On” (originally written by Randy Newman) is a classic for sure. Cocker knew how to milk the tune, for sure. (cough, cough) Interesting that you’d go for Linkin Park. Maybe you’re not as old as you believe yourself to be! (Hush! That’s what I told myself as I bought their new cd last week.) Yes, I caught the 9 1/2 Weeks reference that seems to have passed over many. lol Well done, my friend. Well done!
Rich
yeah it’s fun about music… love at first listen to this song. I was saying something over at Lance’s Post about that streak of liking what ‘the parents hate’ quality within me and in turn, a part of the music of every generation.
S&G baby. S&G. also did you hear that I might soon meet your sister in REAL LIFE? How cool???
Also I added bloopers to my song video, which I so should have included earlier. Sigh. xo.
Nobody can ever go wrong with Joe Walsh.
Kristi
that sounds very cool, (“you know, I thought you would be taller” “yeah, and I thought you would have a higher pitched voice”… lol) I was telling Lizzi if I had the money I would do a Wakefield Doctrine World Tour… travel around, (“hey! I’m at the train station…come give me a ride!”) but not yet…know I have to kept up the effort to find the clarks out there.
now, Joe there is a scott! S&G? clark and a roger Mickey and Kim clark and roger (I know! Mickey seems scottian or even rogerian in different movie roles, but there are a couple of seconds in the vid that you totally see the clark)
Given the ” clothes” theme, I have to recommend the Rival Sons’ ” All Over The Road.” The lyric line “Pull up your dress, I’m gonna show you how the west was won” made me laugh so hard that I spilled a bowl of mushroom soup in my lap.
RCoyne
who is this really??
lol
I think a thought process is a theme like anything else. Stream of conciousness mix taping. Did I miss it? Why is there an image from The Piano at the top?
Jean
jeez Jean! I just write these things (and pick the photos/images)…I’m supposed to know why?!?!!
lol
Ok – I adored this! What a fun ramble through your thought process, workings of your mind (and what came out of it) as you put this together. SUCH a great way to do this week’s “no theme” theme.
I’m still listening to the last one (because I’d never heard of it – but very fun). As for going from The Boxer to Lincoln Park – I enjoyed that jump – so thanks!