Everybody Look What's Going Down

L.A. Transmedia Meetup: Mon Jan 3rd, 7:30 at Cafe Metropol 

I attended a Transmedia-LA group meetup in the "Arts District" in downtown L.A. where we experimented with LARP (Live Action Role Playing).  It felt like I was being included in some "beatnik" underground art-funky group of thought-leaders who are seeking to break molds and leap tall buildings of thought without ever leaving the ground.  On the way home, I kept playing the remake of the older song, "For What It's Worth."   Gonna go to the next one (my first was in December 2010 with media scholar Henry Jenkins) and see what's goin' down...

"For What It's Worth" - sung by Crystal Bowersox

There's something happening here

What it is, ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there

Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong

Young people should speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind

We gotta stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down, yeah

What's going down, down, down, down

What a field day for the heat

A thousand people in the street

Singing songs and carrying signs

Mostly say, hooray for our side

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down, yeah

Paranoia strikes deep

Into your life it will surely creep

Well, it starts when you're always afraid You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We gotta stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down

Now stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down

Now stop, children, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down

Now stop, hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going down, yeah

What's going down, down, down, down

What's going down

I think it's time we stopped

There's something happening here

What it is, ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there