Most honest car commerical I’ve ever seen…even if its from 1969…
Why 24 Hour News is A Joke…
Because it’s too much like a god damned over-dramatized movie…
You Know You’re In The Suburbs When…
This actually could be anywhere, but have you ever noticed what happens to left over pizza hut buildings? They get crazy businesses in them that seem really awkward and unrelated to the cheesy Pizza Hut architecture (the stupid tinted trapezoid windows and the dumb hut roof).
Check out the Used To Be A Pizza Hut blog. It’s a really hilarious and sad trend on business in America.
The only reason this interested me is because there is one up the street from us in Eldersburg Maryland, and I’m told there have been a multitude of failing restaurants located in it. The current is a steak house. The only issue I have is this guy’s website doesn’t include it,YET…. Not until I send in a picture.
Ohhh lucky us! They’re right next door to Mr. Tire. That just makes me even more hungry.
Check out the Used To Be A Pizza Hut blog.
Preparing Gladys for Next Winter Olympics
snow, Snow, SNOWWWW! (and Rosemary Clooney cannot sing!)
This song is played on the Mike O’meara show when they discuss the snowy forecast.
It’s Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney. Rosemary has got to be one of the most talentless singers ever. Between her and Keeley Smith, I don’t know who is more boisterous and flat. The opening attempt at harmony makes Hozpitality sound good.
Play this song as you throw out your back shoveling. Be sure to be playing this as your car skids out of control on the highway ending your meaningless life in the…
snowwwwwwww…. Snowwwwwwwwwww…. SNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW….
1000 Russian Car Crashes
The sound is disabled for this video so put on your favorite highway drivin’ music and enjoy Mother Russia. (I watched this with Nitzer Ebb ‘Join in the Chant’ and then The Prodigy ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ …both good choices)
A Hozpitality Bit – Synchroid Inclusion
So I was bored while everyone was watching the Winter Olympics in SoCheee and I started playing with the Synchroid Application (“App”) on my Android phone. Synchroid is a simple application where you scribble sound on the phone screen and you can reprocess it through a few synthesizer processors to make a nifty loop. I came up with a loop today in Synchroid that, probably because of Olympic level boredom, sounded TO ME like a nifty musical loop. I couldn’t get enough of it, so I decided to put it into a song.
What is special about this is, it would be the first time I made music with:
1. The Korg Kaossilator Pro
2. Pre Built Acid Loops
3. The Bass Guitar
4. and MY TELEPHONE using Synchroid (this of course being the unused tool in my music making thus far).
It came out neat. I put in the loops from the Synchroid phone app first, then the Pre Built Acid Loop drums, and then a drum loop from the Kaossilator. At this point I thought, it had been a while since I broke out the bass guitar, dusted it, tuned it and (once again) TRIED to play it. This is why you hear the shoddy sloppy bass playing in the back of the whole thing.
BOTTOM LINE: I had fun doing it and it killed a few hours. It’s only 2:18 minutes so, tell me what you think of Synchroid Inclusion.
A Little Late But My Christmas Fave
Every year on the David Letterman show, Paul Shaffer does the official singing of “Oh Holy Night” by Cher, impression. I remember this from the 1980’s and he’s still doing it which is totally awesome!
I live for this and I recently found where they are on the youtubes. Here’s an explanation:
This one is more in the flavor that I loved. I loved the reference to Donahue. Very 80’s. I loved his viewer mail and Dave was so much better in the 80’s on NBC. I sort of think he died when he moved to CBS. (…and still the reference to the “muff”)
and then we have 2008
Sonic Prints
The aural and visual nerds out there [you know who you are] might find this sound mapping to 3D printing interesting.I Laughed To Keep From Crying
Then I cried a bunch. This is the story of my life.