This is my second favorite Beatles song, right after A Day In The Life. I think the reason I like this song is because it feels like it could have been written about so many different people who I know. According to Wikipedia, this song was written as the result of Paul McCartney’s aunt daring him to write a song that wasn’t a love song. (Of course, Paperback Writer is kind of a love song. It’s the story of an author who loves money enough to write a dirty story about a dirty man.)
This video was filmed outside of the Chiswick House in London. Michael Lindsay-Hogg went on to direct the Beatles’s final film, Let It Be.
This video features a prison break. Apparently, the best way to escape from prison is to go straight up. Don’t waste your time with any of that digging stuff. I would actually be in a lot of trouble if I ever had to escape from prison. I’m scared of heights so I can’t really go through the roof. And I have a thing about not getting dirt under my fingernails so I’d have a hard time tunneling through the walls. I guess if I was in prison, I’d have to seduce the warden or something. Either that or I’d just do my time and then write a book about it. Chained Redhead: The Lisa Marie Bowman Story. It would be a best seller, I think.
Among the prisoners escaping from the prison is Hardwell. I’m glad he made it.
Speaking of prison, has anyone watched that 60 Days In show on A&E? By the time this post drops, this season’s finale will have aired. I have to say that this season was a hundred times better than the previous seasons. I’m just a little bit worried about how everyone’s going to adjust to being out of prison. For instance, Abner and David both really got into the whole prison mentality. Anyway, if you didn’t watch this season, you really missed out.
Well, it would probably depend on who you killed and what the exact circumstances were. For the most part, I’m against killing but I also support self-defense. If you killed someone who was about to kill me, I would at least be appreciative. I can’t guarantee that I’d love you but I’d probably allow you to take me to a movie.
Of course, Alec Benjamin isn’t actually offering to kill anyone in this song. Instead, he’s singing about changing who he is to please the person to whom he is singing. He’s willing to “kill” who he has been and become someone new. That’s really not the best way to go about a relationship, of course.
As for the video, it’s got a nicely ominous atmosphere. A truck stop is always a good place to have an existential crisis.
If there’s one thing that totally annoys the Hell out of me, it’s when people on YouTube leave comments under songs like, “Who still listening in August of 2017?” I mean, yeah, I get it. It’s a good song. You’re still listening to it years after it was first released. You’re the best. Go get yourself a coke or something because you earned it! Seriously, it’s so stupid.
That said, it’s now March of 2019, I’m still listening to this.
The next time that you’re tempted to get mad at your Uber driver (or your Lyft driver, depending on which company you’re boycotting at the time), remember this video. Seriously, you have no idea what your driver may have just had to deal with. Sure, the driver’s picking you up now but, for all you know, someone may have bled to death in the backseat just an hour ago or so.
That is actually my number one concern when it comes to Uber. I always find myself wondering who was in the car before me and did they take a shower before entering a vehicle. That’s another reason why I refuse to consider using public transportation. I get that it’s good for the environment and everything but people are really disgusting sometimes. I mean, I’m all far saving the planet but people do all sorts of stuff when they know that they’re not the ones who are actually going to have to clean up after themselves.
For instance, the driver in this video — I mean, he’s got people crying in the backseat. He’s got people bleeding all over his car. He’s got a lot to deal with but, at the end of the video, we see why he puts up with it all and it’s a nice “awwwwwww!” moment. I like this video. If it was a feature-length film, the driver would be played by Jason Statham. Of course, I really wouldn’t want Jason Statham to be my Uber driver, just because it seems like he would constantly be stopping the car to get into a fight with other drivers. Add to that, I’d probably be tempted to ask him why he’s driving an Uber instead of making a movie and he’d probably get mad at me for prying.
If there’s anything that films set in the future always seem to have in common, it’s that there’s a lot of neon. In fact, the only futuristic films that aren’t full of neon are those films that take place after an atomic war, where everyone’s living in the desert and driving around on motorcycles. But even those films often seem to end with the promise that, once society is up and running again, we’ll get a lot of neon.
Personally, I’m hoping that I’ll spend my retirement years in a hot pink house with neon walls.
The other thing that the future always seems to have is a divide between the decadent rich and the rebellious lower classes, the majority of whom seem to spend a lot of time wandering down red hallways. Maybe one reason why everyone in the future always seems to be fighting is because there’s so much red around. Maybe if they used blue neon, everyone would calm down and accept their social status.
Who knows? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I imagine it should be the future in another two years or so.
Through the Shattered Lens