Friday, February 15, 2008

Strawberry Field Forever Story


In the autumn of 1966, John went to Spain after accepting the part of Gripweed in Dick Lester's film of How I Won The War. While relaxing on the beach at Almeria, John started to work on 'Strawberry Field Forever', a song he imagined as a slow-talking blues number. He completed it in a large house he was renting in nearby Santa Isabel.

It started out as a nostalgic view of a Salvation Army Orphanage in Woolton, where he , Pete Shotton and Ivan Vaughan used to play amongst the trees, and ended up, like so many of John's songs, as a rumination on states of consciousness. Strawberry Field was a large Victorian building with extensive wooded grounds in Beaconfield Road, a five-minutes walk from John's home in Menlove Avenue.

Because of this romantic associations, Strawberry Field became a symbol of his desire to be alone, of his feeling that he was somehow set apart from his contemporaries. If 'Strawberry Field Forever' is a song about John seeing the in a different way to everyone around him, the meaning is clearer in the earliest version of the lyric, where he wrote that no-one is on his wavelength, they're either 'too high or too low.'

Whose Daddy Is Better?


Two kids are arguing about whose parents are better.
"My daddy is better than your daddy," say the first kid.
"But my mommy is better than your daddy," reply the second kid.
The first kid calm up and think hard.
"Perhaps you're right, my daddy also told me so."

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Why Does Phony Laugh So Effective?



A Research proved that the use of phony laugh makes audiences laugh longer and more often, and makes a certain show more interesting. To know why is it so effective, we should understand a principle of social proof. This principle states that one of the best ways to decide what is right or wrong is by finding what is considered to be right or wrong by society.
This principle relate to, especially, the way we determine a right behavior. We tend to do something that is also done by a lot of people. We will suggest that we behave according to the social flow. Usually, if a lot of people do something, then it will look as if it were a right thing to do.
Just like any other influence weapon, social proof is a lead who we should behave in our society.