Monte's streetlights people

[Robin Landseadel]

Makes me think of the unsettling end of Tony Soprano. "Made in  
America". June 10, 2007. The stock market decline that led to our  
current depression, December of 2007.

" The initial phase of the economic crisis, started with a financial  
liquidity crisis at the interbank lending market, which can be dated  
to have started on 9 August 2007, when central banks had to step in  
with liquidity lending to the banking market, as response to a  
situation where BNP Paribastemporarily had to block money withdrawals  
from three hedge funds - citing a "complete evaporation of liquidity".  
The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2006,caused  
the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet,  
damaging financial institutions globally and creating an interbank  
credit crisis. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession

Don't Stop Believing.

On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> ironically, thy name is Bleeding Edge, he sez....
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:04 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> The song is usually enjoyed ironically. It's a hipster trope. The  
> lyrics are gibberish. the music bombastic. The band so uncool as to  
> lack self-awareness of their camp appeal.
>
> It's a staple of jukeboxes in supposedly hip bars.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> Monte wrote and asked:
> I felt the need of an ambulance myself on learning that Journey’s  
> ‘Don’t Stop Believin’(Preview)
> Play
> (Show link)
> Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (Audio) journeyVEVO
> Music video by Journey performing Don't Stop Believin'. (C) 1981  
> Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
> (Show link)
> ‘ – source of the phrase “streetlight people” -- is “the top-selling  
> catalog track in iTunes history with over 5 million digital copies  
> sold, as well as the best-selling rock song in digital history. “  
> Why would Slagiatt and associates have chosen that then-20-year-old  
> song?
>
> I don't know the answer either, of course, but I will suggest two  
> things. 1st, being so popular, TRP thinks it embodies insight  
> into..us. them. them as us.?
>
> Also that the phrase below greatly appealed to him. We know  
> something about TRP's streetlights trope and BE is sprinkled  
> (filled?) with hints that the characters lack (some) emotions.  
> First, all the televisual perceptions suggests Thanatoidsim, yes?
> And, some other examples of missing emotions coming up...
>
> "Streetlights people, living just to find emotion"
>
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>

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