These are some initial impressions of the song. In the same way that andy could manipulate the breakfast with blassie, maybe there will be a truck stop instead of st peter's.
#Andy kaufman elvis movie
I recall some interesting movie in the 80's where the premise was that the moon experience was all trumped up and contrived. He also associates in the same context as these games, common stories, or myths, such as moses and staff, egypt and the snake, and newton and the proverbial apple, and of course, the man on the moon - which ultimately is a story or image for us since none of can BEGIN to experience this directly. This I believe is the significance of stype's copious references to games such as 21 risk monopoly and the like. I belive stype saw and understood this genius and thus the inspired honorific song for Andy. He always made you ask 'is it real' or is it a game or act?' When Andy brought the audience into 'the act' he reached a transcendent genius where the viewer and the subject are one big presentation. One never knew when Andy was 'on' or 'off'. Andy's act was about presentation/story/image/appearance, games if you will. It is directly about Andy, even mentions his name, interestingly. I believe this very fine song is about appearance (and it's guises so to speak) and how in a sense all we have is appearance. If you believed there's nothing up his sleeve Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Here's a little ghost for the offering, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Here's a little agit for the never-believer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Newton got beaned by the apple good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahĮgypt was troubled by the horrible asp, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Moses went walking with the staff of wood, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve If you believed they put a man on the moon I'll see you in heaven if you make the list yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let's play Twister, let's play Risk, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, twenty-one, checkers, and chess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah But in the months before his cancer diagnosis, Kaufman showed signs of going back to the rigorously rehearsed, music-oriented routines that originally made him famous, like his uncanny Elvis impersonation or his gibberish conga-drum routine.Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahĪndy Kaufman in the wrestling match, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah His Broadway debut- in a play called Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap, co-starring Debbie Harry (!)- opened and closed in one night.
He was banished from "Saturday Night Live" by-way-of on-air, call-in vote. In the years leading up to his death, Kaufman's career was in a freefall after losing favor with fans by wrestling with women and generally acting like a jackass in public. While doing research for today's review of Andy and His Grandmother, a unique record made up of comedian Andy Kaufman's personal recordings between the years 19, I couldn't help but wonder: If Kaufman had not died of cancer on May 16, 1984, at the age of 35, where would his infamously unpredictable act have gone?
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