Pardon us while we are the best sons in the world
[ No Comments ] Posted on 05.20.10 in video, holidays
One of these days, she will figure out that I only know about 10 chords and stuff like this will stop being as adorable:
Rhiannon’s Birthday Song
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 02.05.10 in video, music, friends
Well, I guess since Mom’s already forwarded this to everyone she knows, I guess it’s okay to exhibit it here.
A few pieces of necessary background information:
Our friend, Rhiannon, just moved to North Carolina to become a doctor.
It was recently her birthday.
She and my brother have an ongoing joke about the nonexistant “Pericardial Artery.”
My brother and I jokingly call each other gay (in a completely non-offensive way with no ill intent toward folks of that persuasion).
She cooked us Cuban food when she lived in Alachua County.
This is the most complex song I could think of. I threw an Em and D7 in there just to make it not comprised of G, C, and D.
Ian holds the microphone too close to his mouth.
A random thought concerning American cinema and promotional tactics
[ No Comments ] Posted on 01.05.10 in video, movies, observations
I was reading the other day on Wikipedia about the crappy box office reception of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory back in 1971. Curious, I checked out the trailer that was unleashed on an Oompa-Loompaless public in the Nixon era and found this.
Oh, dear. Apart from having the decade-old phenomenon BonziBUDDY read the dry voice over script, I can see no worse way of advertising this movie. It’s like having a combination of Ben Stein and all of my old college professors advertise a film that that they in no way can relate to.
Maybe this is just the way movies were promoted then. Man, if that’s the case I am sure glad to live in the new millennium.