What DOES One Do With Good Ol' Boys Like Me?

It has been brought to my attention that we as a people need to perform more Don Williams songs. I am in a little over my head with this one, but it is my favorite. This is a shout out to our old college friend, Ellen...'member...'member...Ellen?...She was awesome! She introduced me to this song so many years ago. (She did a great version of this song, I can't believe i never archived a copy of her singing it.) Bad archivist...naughty, naughty archivist!

I had to edit out some false starts, and when i rendered the final edit, my editing software formatted it in this odd version. I tried to fix it, but this is it I guess.

After you endure my rather hamfisted and oddly jaunty rendition of this song, check out this guy's version at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_E_DENLOY

he is just great!

Maru

Had to work this into our online hootenany:

I Can't Believe I Am Doing This....

But here is my addition to the Blogapaloosa. (decidedly second stage.) (I can't believe i am following Mary's heartfelt rendition of a Haggard song with some snarky one hit wonder twofer) I did much better vocally than i thought i would, but I thought ultimately my performance needed something more so I threw in a patented 'Suzanna Hoff' side glance at the end to give you folks a little more incentive to watch the entire video.

Big City

Iris Dement covered this Merle Haggard song, so, of course, I had to learn it.

Cheeky Art History

http://vimeo.com/9752986

The State of Things in Lakeland

Dogs, Foo Fighters, and lounging.



(The sound is subpar on my camera -- turn it all the way up!)

Merry Xmas to All, and to All An SCTV Night

Al Fish spent a cozy Xmas Eve with Miguelito and Superbigmuch -- hooking us up with SCTV gems like this.

To feel like you were there with us, be sure to hit rewind and replay the Eugene Levy and John Candy solos about 14 times.

Unless you want to keep your friends, that is.



And yes, you geary geekwads, Rick Moranis is Jimi Hendrixing it up and playing his guitar all upside-down and turned around. Happy holidaze!

WARNING: Do NOT Ask Jefe to "Bring It" Unless One is Fully Prepared to Have it "Brung!"

I Gave You My Only-ness, Give Me Your Tomorrow

So, so, so pretty.

I suck at posting videos, but June pretty much never sucks at anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02mYFuKtGe8

And then Allison and Dwight do this real nice rendition, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqNKJm2EWv4&feature=related

First Single From "V-The Musical"

HIA video exclusive!!!
We at HIAnews have secured the first recording of "Science Lady" from the brilliant rock opera based on the sad-ass TV movie "V"! This reporter was able to sneak in two cameramen undetected to record Jefe and Roxy during a rare performance, and then immediately hand the raw footage over to an esteemed music video director (do the words "Rhinestone Cowboy" ring any bells?) to do with it what he wished.

The video has certain 'experimental' elements but what can I say, the director had a vision. Shame it wasn't 20/20, perhaps then he could have seen the errors of his ways. Let this be a lesson to all future videographers ...STORYBOARD, STORYBOARD, STORYBOARD!!! Be that as it may, this is a great song that deserves to be heard as soon as possible and not left languishing until a future undetermined date when it will be buried somewhere in a two album Broadway cast recording with all the other songs from the musical, like "Standing With My Gun of Freedom Pointed at the Spaceship of Fascism (Volume One Part Two)

chihuahua types, fighting

Woo-Hoo!

Old news, I'm sure, but I had to post the 30Rock version of Gladys Knight and the Pips:

Happy 4th!

Here is the lost video footage of a 4th of July at Lake Herman, oh so many years ago. Each year, the people who live near the lake get together and put on their own parade. In a counterintuitive move this particular year, the theme was "All the Other Holidays!"

Unfortunately my memory is as blurry as the video resolution, so I can't make out the theme of every float. The first few are confusing but after the guy walking the dog there seems to be the heart covered box denoting Valentine's day, followed by the Grim Reaper driving a tractor with a wagon filled with babies. Next is an Easter Bunny, but I have no idea what the float after that is commemorating...there seems to be a flag on it, so I assume it must be Flag Day. After the Thanksgiving Turkey, we see my personal favorite...an emaciated Santa hanging by his wrists in a pumpkin patch. The penultimate float seems to be another tribute to Flag day (why do the people of Madison love flag day so?) Our hosts tell us that the guy in the cowboy hat at the very end usually figures out a reason to dress in drag for every parade...for reasons that remain unclear, he decided to 'butch-up' for this parade. (I can only imagine that the overall quality of the celebration suffered because of it.)

I know that I was not alone in witnessing this 'live and in person.'' So if Roxy can remember any more details from this fine day, please elaborate in the comments section!

Farflung Trainablez Have Found Their New Producer

Since the Trainablez bassist has moved to the Twin Cities and the other members are entire blocks away from each other here in the greater Vermillion metro area. Their output has understandably been less than stellar. But now all that is required is for each member to post solo performances (and not even of the same song!) on Youtube. Eventually, this video artist, Kutiman, will stumble upon the various performances and meld them into something akin to what one witnesses in this video.

Army of Snakes

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What the hell?

Second in a Series of "Sweet" Videos

Extemporaneous Sweet Jane

As the videographer (and the oaf that unplugged Roxy's guitar in midperformance) I fully appreciate that this is a flawed document. However, I also appreciate this flawed document because it (dare I say) flawlessly echoes the ragged but right sensibilities expressed via the improvised lyrics of our Jefe.
Roxy's guitar playing (when heard) (again, I apologize for my part in that snafu) coupled with her and Mary's backing vocals allows this song to build and deepen, thus offering the ideal underpinning for his musings. Erica's egg shaking abilities are on par with that of the octo-mom's and lends a nuanced subtlety to the performance that is only topped by the page turning of one Katy! some could argue that my inadvertent unplugging of the electric guitar (really...what part of SORRY don't you people understand!!!) imbues the performance with a dynamic range that it otherwise would be lacking.
You're welcome.

A Belated Valentine

Even though Barbara Man-drill is singing to just one very special lady, her video valentine is for all of you to enjoy! (So enjoy it if you dare.)

How it's Done

I'm in love with this bird:

So good.

As We're All About Video Links At The Moment . . .

. . . this came up in my Technical Services class . . . Who says library science and copyright issues can't be thumpin'?

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In the words of Sassmaster . . .
"You're welcome."