Discussions - require multiple way communication... Human-nature...

First, let me say this “odd” little piece has multiple purposes. Yes, as stated in the Title (over in the ENTERTAINMENT category version, posted Thu. Aug. 21st in the morning ET) about Music and indeed I will be asking your thoughts (please chime in via the comments section, I really would like SPUR CONVERSATION not just ME spewing thoughts your direction – seriously, sadly so few take time to chime in on articles here on B4IN (comedic, serious, whatever, seems people are reading pieces across B4IN but reluctant to add any of their own thoughts in comments)).

 

Second, this piece sub-purpose to ponder the curious issue of HUMAN NATURE (at first via Musical references, then otherwise).

Also, I would LIKE to embed (help promote the Artists and Tunes that came up as part of a conversation at an Eatery that spurred all this) several related Music Videos – but instead I will be just mentioning a Music Video Title and will provide the link to it on YouTube because I have found (do not know why) sometimes and some places here on BeforeItsNews (some categories) multiple embeds of Videos are NOT a problem but other times trying embed multiple Videos causes the site to FREAK-OUT and does not handle processing the HTML codes well and part of the standard written text to NOT WANT TO APPEAR. So, not knowing if it will or will not FREAK-OUT here today in this piece – just going avoid the whole potential and avoid putting the site in that situation by skipping multiple embeds and just providing links. Apologies having WASTE TIME explaining that, but thought you should know.

 

 

So, let’s start here with both a tune that relates to MUSIC VIDEOS and HUMAN NATURE:

Michael Jackson – Human Nature (Audio) [here, linked, courtesy of: Michael Jackson channel on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElN_4vUvTPs.

 

Now, what brought this on about HUMAN NATURE and MUSIC question.

 

I was at a Diner the other day, which one not important. Their unit that usually played MUSIC so during less busy times; like happened to be when I was there; was still not working therefore it was way too quiet (IMO) in there.

 

To be playful, have a little fun, just spur some conversation, I made mention “so, I can hear, or by lack there-of any Music playing, the Music Player still broken” and then went on to say “I’ll fill the void” and then broke into the Chorus of:
 

The Four Tops – Walk Away Renee (Live) [here, linked, courtesy of: ShoutFactoryVEVO on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgovAzhJHU.

 

Why that tune? Well the Waitress that day was RENEE (aka: nee-nee). She then say “No, don’t do that, don’t sing that song” as of course having that name She had heard people singing that song AT HER for most her Life and therefore was “less than FOND” of it (let’s just say).

 

Curious, the Four Tops of course sure didn’t know her, didn’t write it about her, had no BAD INTENT that the tune be USED to tease others. But that is ONE REACTION by some when hearing the Song.

 

Now, like-wise, my ExWife hated the Artist and the following Song for same reasons:

 

The Beach Boys – Help Me Rhonda (Live) [here, linked, courtesy of: janeblinky channel on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCYTRjViAGg.

 

However, conversely, my Sister was named specifically because both our Parents like The Beatles and this Song (Dad was Musically inclined – see: https://TerrorStrikes.info/ThePolkaKings). She didn’t HATE The Beatles nor the Song for it:

The Beatles - Michelle (Official Video) [here, linked, courtesy of: 100300067 channel on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05jx2aA-1Q.

 

Nor does She hate the following (even though it about a DEAD girl (presumably committed Suicide?!?! Am I interpreting tht Song correctly?!?!) with same name):

 

Enuff Z’Nuff – Fly High Michelle (Official Music Video) [here, linked, courtesy of: RHINO [records] channel on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ZdN8DNg4w.

 

Now, my name is JOSEPH (Joe). So guess I was LUCKY?!?!? (Chime in via the comments) There were no Songs (or if there were, none of us knew them) Sung about Joe, Joseph, or Joey – until Concrete Blonde came along (and yes I was well into Adulthood at that point) singing about an Alcoholic and seeming so cuz very insecure (Human Nature) with that name:

 

 

Concrete Blonde – Joey [here, linked, courtesy of: ConcreteBlondeVEVO channel on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpTcvSn8HQ.

 

Now, I likely would NOT have thought or bothered to share this here on B4IN except it got me thinking more when I got Home cuz my latest (6th Intl book) The Book Of Kennedy (see: JosephMLenard.us/shop) (no, not about JFK, RFK, et al clan, but a Fictional Female named Kennedy (aka: Ken, KT, etc.)) which in large part is about Human Nature and our varying approaches to LIFE and LIVING.

 

Some, as I coined: #MASSholes constantly miserable and seeming want everyone else be same – trying drag peeps down. Others just trying to make best of sometimes bad situations and trying remain positive and optimistic and wanting be Happy and wanting others be Happy.

 

So, here, gotta share (what many find ANNOYING tune, cuz it was played so much, and cuz it is SO SIMPLISTIC, but yet catchy):

 

Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy [here, linked, courtesy of: The Real Bobby McFerrin channel on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU.

 

Did that LIFT YOU UP? or ANNOY THE bleep out of you?!?! LOL

 

Human Nature, and the curious reactions Music can/does bring differently to different people. And, yes, my TBOK book does have Musical references there-in. Kennedy uses Music to help her work through throughts/concerns when in situations and/or certain moods (as indeed Music often able to transport us to other places or times in our minds from a period a certain Song may have first come out or have some “significance” to something happened in our Lives).

 

Now, as I was writing The Book Of Kennedy (see: JosephMLenard.us/shop) I kept expanding a YouTube Playlist on my channel to help with inspiration while writing. Not every Song there had direct implication in the manuscript, but was/is, more or less, about LIFE and LIVING and things come up along the way. See that at: 

 

https://www.youtube.com/@jlenarddetroit1082/playlists. It is Titled: PROJECT CARPE DIEM (Seize The Day).

 

The Book Of Kennedy: Project Carpe Diem (from the Back Of The Book)….

LIFE and LIVING.. Affirming all LIVES have meaning, purpose, value – whether one sees it oneself daily or NOT! Join KENNEDY as she navigates The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Life – and trying to maintain positivity through it all.

 

​From the book.. chapter 4..
..Dwelling on the mundane, or even clearly happens from time to time bad or negative days, or those good times – in the “math” of life so-to-speak were “good deeds and good days” perhaps worth a larger value in the overall equation getting to that balance-sheet sum-total? The day to day, a butterfly effect, the small smiles shown to another that made their day better..

 

Note from the author: I want to state as a warning: this book contains not one line of dialogue. I feel it important to say that because a reviewer of my “TERROR STRIKES: COMING SOON TO A CITY NEAR YOU” novel once wrote that she didn’t think there was enough dialogue in it. Well in all interviews I’d ever given regarding that book I never promised it to be a dialogue laden book. In fact that while having some dialogue it is heavy narrative style – as this book is entirely in narration style –   versus Plato’s Dialogues, Philip Roth’s “Deception,” Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” which known for extensive use of dialogue [courtesy of asking Google for that answer].

 

#LIVES have meaning: whether one sees it or NOT! Join KENNEDY as navigates Good, Bad, Ugly of Life – and trying to maintain positivity!
#Trials, #Tribulations – Good, Bad, Ugly, of the day to day – and how we CHOOSE to interact with it all.  
Enter my THE BOOK OF KENNEDY book giveaway #contest via #GoodReads: 
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/418085

 

 

Please, really, I would LIKE to here from you. Chime in via the Comments.
Your favorite Music Videos. Your LEAST favorite tunes. Thoughts on LIFE/LIVING and Human Nature. What-not.

 

Lastly, I have interviewed (for my Show https://tinyurl.com/ChristiTutionalist) Rapper “DPB” a few times. And one of his tunes “I Feel Good Today” is indeed referenced in the book!

 

Here is a recent discussion with DPB:
https://old.bitchute.com/video/nurhusFnHwup/

 

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OK, an UPDATE (Thu. Aug. 21st 13:00ET) as I just got back from the same Diner.

 

First, let me ask vaguely: CAN YOU SELF REFLECT?!?! Some sadly cannot.

 

Michael Jackson – Man In The Mirror [here, linked, courtesy of: Michael Jackson channel on YouTube]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps.

 

Now, why do I say the above? Well very well known STUNTED GROWTH person A and B were there.

 

Before I continue, let me say, I KNOW that I can talk. I can “carry a conversation” but I also KNOW THE DIFFERENCE between when/where you are INVITED to be a SPEAKER and indeed YOU the main focus and do a monologue (and I have done that, but even at EVENTS there is then also following a Q&A where OTHERS GET TO SPEAK to comment or ask a Question). 

 

Person A and B cannot grasp any of that, that when/where in PUBLIC and around OTHERS that the WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVES SOLELY AROUND THEM (and, yes, these types of people are covered in my The Book Of Kennedy book, as some need to hear that message) and once they start talking they just keep talking and everyone and anyone else’s input regarding CONVERSATION (it is supposed be) discussion topic – they do not care, do not want give anyone else chance to input.

 

Of course, all you can really do is just let them ramble and let everything in one ear and out the other so-to-speak until they leave.

 

Oh, have to add, this is a situation where they have a COUNTER and there are many of us REGULARS that go in and sit at Counter and WE ALL engage in Conversation (again CONVERSATION, NOT MONOLOGUES) with the other Regulars and Staff.

 

Sadly STUNTED GROWTH persons (bad enough when one is there, worse when both there gabbing and just monologuing speaking over each other to try dominate the situation) A and B both there when I got in. I should have KNOWN BETTER and sat at a Booth instead.

 

Thankfully, after 15m of both them blathering, another Regular came in and indeed WE had an ACTUAL (back and forth) CONVERSATION.

 

Now, again, I CAN SELF-REFLECT. I KNOW that I can have a bad habit of “talking too much” and as a frail and flawed Human can/do recognize such and try be conscious of it and be sure to PAUSE and LET OTHERS chime-in during DISCUSSIONS!! So had a great Conversation with Person C all the while Persons A and B just kept yammering (monologue style) as if they were both trying to give a SPEECH at same time.

 

As I paid and was leaving, told the Staff that I LOVE THEM and would see them all later – A and B were STILL YAMMERING.

 

So, just thought I’d add this UPDATE, as indeed another lesson from the Diner. I am not sure how much a TEACHING MOMENT any/all of this will be, but just thought proposing WE HAVE A DISCUSSION (but, of course, this is a written word site, I have to present this as a MONOLOGUE and then HOPE you chime-in via the comments to have any chance at this being a CONVERSATION)!!