{"id":2310,"date":"2007-12-02T23:14:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T06:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2007-12-02T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T06:14:23","slug":"unchained-melodies-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2310\/unchained-melodies-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained melodies: My way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Rothamel offers up Frank Sinatra’s version of Paul Anka’s My way<\/i>, citing these lyrics:<\/p>\n

For What is a man? What has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who yields. The record shows, I took the blows, and did it my way.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Okayfine. For my own part, I’ve always thought this song lays it on a little too thick, as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll at his thickest makes plain:<\/p>\n

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Sid Vicious gave it a pomo send-up, but the tune just might be beyond parody:<\/p>\n

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I do like the idea, but I worry that the first-person protagonist might be too much a Walter Mittyesque legend-in-his-own-mind. And so I end up here, with Limp Bizkit, to me a more convincing expression of the sentiment:<\/p>\n

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What else is out there?<\/a>
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, disintermediation<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a>, technology<\/a><\/p>\n

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