fifteen finger snaps (the music video)
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i have this silly idea for a music video.
it goes from one person to another.
and each one starts snapping their fingers, fifteen times.
very quickly...
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 [4]
and then it goes on to the next person
(in some totally different place).
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 [4]
and then on to someone else.
indoors and out,
in various weather,
diffrent kinds of buildings,
rich and poor,
smiling and frowning,
daytime and night,
young and old,
fat and skinny,
smart and stupid,
sitting and walking, etc.
filmed from all different kinds of angles and perspectives.
and lightings...
...
this goes on for at least ten or fifteen minutes.
maybe even several hours.
no instruments or fancy sound effects.
just a whole series of different people
rapidly snapping their fingers fifteen times.
one person to the next.
all participating in the fifteen finger snaps song.
it could tell a story of some sort.
but nobody's hurting anyone.
nobody's even arguing.
everyone's just taking fifteen seconds or so out of
their busy lives to make a very simple music video.
...
it seems like it might be fun and
inspiring to watch such a video.
doesn't it?
a bit artsy, i guess, but not pretensious.
it would definitely be fun to make it.
but who's got the time?
let alone the patience.
well, i'd guess almost everyone does.
but i suppose i could be wrong.
...
anyway...
i thought of this one day while i was taking a poop.
i was snapping my fingers in boredom, and my mind drifted.
that's what it's like to be me.
i suppose i could have read the newspaper instead.
but i had forgotten to bring it into the bathroom with me.
do you think i would have been better off with the daily fishwrap?
perhaps.
but i've read it so many times before.
there's usually not too much in the
way of interesting news in it, really.
not big picture-wise, anyway...
(often not even small picture-wise).
kinda like snapping your fingers fifteen times.
only somewhat less so.
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