{"id":4165,"date":"2010-09-16T06:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2010-09-16T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:56:07","slug":"musings-2010-09-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/16\/musings-2010-09-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings 2010 09 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>It started sunday night and ended yesterday night, my John Hughes Marathon (Teen flicks + Planes Trains and Automobiles).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some thoughts:<br \/>\n<strong>There is a light that never goes out<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take me out tonight<br \/>\nWhere there&#8217;s music and there&#8217;s people<br \/>\nWho are young and alive<br \/>\nDriving in your car<br \/>\nI never never want to go home<br \/>\nBecause I haven&#8217;t got one anymore<br \/>\nTake me out tonight<br \/>\nBecause I want to see people<br \/>\nAnd I want to see life<br \/>\nDriving in your car<br \/>\nOh please don&#8217;t drop me home<br \/>\nBecause it&#8217;s not my home, it&#8217;s their home<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m welcome no more<br \/>\nAnd if a double-decker bus<br \/>\nCrashes into us<br \/>\nTo die by your side<br \/>\nIs such a heavenly way to die<br \/>\nAnd if a ten ton truck<br \/>\nKills the both of us<br \/>\nTo die by your side<br \/>\nWell the pleasure, the privilege is mine<br \/>\nTake me out tonight<br \/>\nTake me anywhere, I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t care, I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nAnd in the darkened underpass<br \/>\nI thought Oh God, my chance has come at last<br \/>\nBut then a strange fear gripped me<br \/>\nAnd I just couldn&#8217;t ask<br \/>\nTake me out tonight<br \/>\nOh take me anywhere, I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t care, I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nDriving in your car<br \/>\nI never never want to go home<br \/>\nBecause I haven&#8217;t got one<br \/>\nNo, I haven&#8217;t got one<br \/>\nAnd if a double-decker bus<br \/>\nCrashes in to us<br \/>\nTo die by your side<br \/>\nIs such a heavenly way to die<br \/>\nAnd if a ten ton truck<br \/>\nKills the both of us<br \/>\nTo die by your side<br \/>\nWell the pleasure, the privilege is mine<br \/>\nThere is a light that never goes out<br \/>\nThere is a light that never goes out<br \/>\nThere is a light that never goes out<br \/>\nThere is a light that never goes out<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pretty in Pink<\/strong> released in 1986 used a single from &#8220;The Queen is Dead&#8221; 1986 album of The Smiths in its sound track. It&#8217;s a joy pausing the credits to look at the soundtrack of JH films, specially when the music is this good.<\/li>\n<li>Found <strong>Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)<\/strong> could have been more effective if it wasn&#8217;t for the fact that I found Watts more attractive than Amanda. This may either be because I really find Watts more attractive or I was feeling for her character, the\u00a0 ever I love her but she loves another may be the real reason.\n<ul>\n<li>For the life of me I can&#8217;t help but think that Keith was stoned the whole time.<\/li>\n<li>We have our share of this, from 27 year old actors playing a highschool student (Yep thinking of glee right now) to a teenager playing a much older woman (the 15 y.o. clubber\u00a0 in bad boys 2 comes to mind). I believe for women its more acceptable but for men please please please don&#8217;t play freshman highschool students when you already have a receding or thinning rag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>from Rilke : <em>For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult  of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for  which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the highest  task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of  the other.<br \/>\nThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.<\/em><\/li>\n<li> loved this TED Talk by TED curator Chris Anderson about Crowd Accelerated Innovation:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Crowd<\/li>\n<li>Light &#8211; Open Visibility of what can be done<\/li>\n<li>Desire<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul><!--copy and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/ChrisAnderson_2010G-medium.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ChrisAnderson-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=955&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=chris_anderson_how_web_video_powers_global_innovation;year=2010;theme=how_we_learn;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=media_that_matters;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=technology_history_and_destiny;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<li>The LXD (League of eXtraordinary Dancers) shown fleetingly at Chris Anderson&#8217;s TED Talk!!!!<\/li>\n<p><!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/TheLXD_2010-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/TheLXD-2010.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=786&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=the_lxd_in_the_internet_age_dance_evolves;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_ted2010;theme=spectacular_performance;event=TED2010;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started sunday night and ended yesterday night, my John Hughes Marathon (Teen flicks + Planes Trains and Automobiles). Some thoughts: There is a light that never goes out Take me out tonight Where there&#8217;s music and there&#8217;s people Who are young and alive Driving in your car I never never want to go home &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/16\/musings-2010-09-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Musings 2010 09 16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-video","category-musing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}