I recall some interesting movie in the 80's where the premise was that the moon experience was all trumped up and contrived. He also associates in the same context as these games, common stories, or myths, such as moses and staff, egypt and the snake, and newton and the proverbial apple, and of course, the man on the moon - which ultimately is a story or image for us since none of can BEGIN to experience this directly. This I believe is the significance of stype's copious references to games such as 21 risk monopoly and the like. I belive stype saw and understood this genius and thus the inspired honorific song for Andy. He always made you ask 'is it real' or is it a game or act?' When Andy brought the audience into 'the act' he reached a transcendent genius where the viewer and the subject are one big presentation. One never knew when Andy was 'on' or 'off'.
Andy's act was about presentation/story/image/appearance, games if you will. It is directly about Andy, even mentions his name, interestingly. General CommentI believe this very fine song is about appearance (and it's guises so to speak) and how in a sense all we have is appearance. If you believed there's nothing up his sleeve Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Here's a little ghost for the offering, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Here's a little agit for the never-believer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Newton got beaned by the apple good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahĮgypt was troubled by the horrible asp, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Moses went walking with the staff of wood, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve
If you believed they put a man on the moon I'll see you in heaven if you make the list yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let's play Twister, let's play Risk, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Monopoly, twenty-one, checkers, and chess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
But I’d be lying if I didn’t say that in the first day I was checking to see how many people watched it on YouTube,” he admits.Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahĪndy Kaufman in the wrestling match, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah “There’s a window of the first two or three days where you don’t want to see or hear anything. “It’s a lot of work and if I’m honest, the day that it went out, I went back home to Sussex, picked the kids up from school, turned the phone off and spent the weekend in the real world. “There’s a lot of expectation and hype around it these days, which has happened by accident and over time," he says. Now, sitting over tea in London's Groucho Club, he’s like a man discharged from his own space mission. In the last few weeks the John Lewis phenomenon – the video about a little girl sending a present into space to the man on the moon has been viewed 17 million times on YouTube – has led to a level of attention that Priest is “not entirely comfortable with”. As the Executive Creative Director of John Lewis’s ad agency Adam&EveDDB, he has expectations on his shoulders every November, when Britain goes wild over a two-minute advert for a department store. Christmas is a time of intense relief for the man behind the John Lewis adverts.īen Priest, 47, has been working on this year's ad, the Man On The Moon, since February.
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