Tiffany-Twisted Blogdeo

The other day I was surfing through my typical stock message boards and came across a post regarding a stock I was researching. The situation of this stock is that basically it had an asking price (what buyers can expect to pay for each share) but no bid (what sellers receive for each share). So in other words, you can buy as much of the stock as you want but you can't sell it. Someone coined the situation as being like Hotel California.

That led me to wanting to listen to that title song. I had a version of it by Al B Sure that I popped in my CD player. I then went to Youtube because I had to see if a video of Hotel California was ever made.

Unfortunately none existed (well at least none that I found). I saw performances of the song by The Eagles, who were the original artists, but no music video. So for the first time since Toni Braxton's Talking In His Sleep, I was inspired to make another blogdeo. Unlike that attempt, though, this one is slightly more interactive.

I created an account on this website called Jumpcut that allows users to create their own videos based on clips, movies, and/or photos. I then got busy scowering the internet for the perfect images for my blogdeo. The results of which are presented here.

Presenting: Hotel California

Can You Keep A Secret?

One of my favorite songs ever by Toni Braxton came off her Secrets album. It's a shame that a video for Talking In His Sleep was never released and unfortunately the song barely got out of the Top 40. I think what I liked about it was Toni's sexy speaking voice. I definitely could put myself in the director's seat on that video. This entry is my faulty attempt to correcting that oversite. So sit back and enjoy my first attempt at making a video...well a blogdeo...*LOL*.

Talking In His Sleep - Toni Braxton

[The camera zooms onto an empty stage and then the lovely Toni Braxton in front of a mircophone.]

Toni: "So you know everything about your lover?"

[...a beat passes before Toni resumes repeats a mantra softer and softer...]

Toni: "Wanna bet? Wanna bet? Wanna bet?"

[...cue in the refrain while a nighttime vision of the outside of the home eventually zooms into an upstairs window...]


REFRAIN:
My oh my
How can this be?

[...camera zooms in on Toni on phone while man is sleeping in bed...]

There he goes
Talking in his sleep
By and by

[...camera zooms in on a man making out with a woman...]

He will connive
Does he know

[...camera zooms in on sleeping man...]

He's talking in his sleep

[...camera zooms in on various Toni shots as she speaks the first verse...]

VERSE1:
The affair...ok!
He's caught.
What do I do? What do I say?
I feel ashamed, embarrassed, fatigued
Such a petty crime
Of sexual indiscretion

[...camera zooms in singing Toni, sleeping man, and defiant Toni...]

At night when he lays down
How I wish I could not hear the sound
But I could
All the things that he'd say

[...Repeat refrain sequence...]
[...camera zooms in wedded couple...]

Verse 2:
Adultery...that's what they call it when you're married
[...camera zooms in on men preparing to throw stones at poor Toni...]

Tell me something...
Why is that the men are forgiven and the women aren't?
[...camera zooms in on Toni on phone while man is sleeping in bed...]

I don't know...maybe..maybe I should forgive him...
[...camera zooms in on various shots of Toni...]


Maybe I'm overreacting...what do you think...NOT!
[...camera zooms in wedded couple and singing Toni...]

BRIDGE 2:
The promises he made
Said we'd be together for always

[...camera zooms in Toni talking on phone and man sleeping...]


He's such a liar
Then he calls out her name

[...repeat refrain sequence...]
[...camera zooms in on various Toni shots as she speaks the 3rd bridge..]


BRIDGE 3:

Guilty Secrets
They are haunting my life
And he doesn't even know that I know

[...camera zooms in Toni talking on phone and man sleeping...]

Can you hear him?

[...Repeat Bridge 2...]
[...repeat refrain sequence...]

[...reverse nighttime vision of window close-up leading to panaramic view of the house...]


Can You Keep A Secret? (To be continued...)