{"id":2964,"date":"2010-09-23T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:51:43","slug":"lights-camera-wait-a-minute-who-s-got-the-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lights-camera-wait-a-minute-who-s-got-the-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights&#8230; Camera&#8230; Wait a Minute &#8212; Who&#8217;s Got the Script?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-VBdAY8eA9w?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>With this post, we inaugurate a new series on Rock Town Hall &#8212; one in which we look to you, our closet D.W. Griffiths, our frustrated Eric Von Stroheims, our secret Spielbergs, to help explain what on Earth is going on in a featured &#8220;music video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I must admit, I came across this one by accident, in the &#8220;comments&#8221; section at the tail end of a very interesting music-related Gizmodo post, about which I&#8217;ll post separately.  But as soon as I clapped my eyes on this video, I was smitten.  Fascinated.  Enthralled.<\/p>\n<p><em>What the hell<\/em>, I wondered, <em>did it mean?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some thoughts of my own, but I don&#8217;t want to influence your creative process.  I really want to know what the <em>story<\/em> is behind this piece of film.  Why the fire-breathing?  Why the halloween party-store witch&#8217;s hat?  Why the constant scurrying through the glades?  And why, oh why is there so much&#8230;<em>crouching<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear to me that what this video needs is a script of some sort &#8212; or at least an explanation.  Can you provide one?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this post, we inaugurate a new series on Rock Town Hall &#8212; one in which we look to you, our closet D.W. Griffiths, our frustrated Eric Von Stroheims, our secret Spielbergs, to help explain what on Earth is going on in a featured &#8220;music video.&#8221; I must admit, I came across this one by <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lights-camera-wait-a-minute-who-s-got-the-script\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}