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I’d say I have no idea how this started but I’d be fibbing. I saw a link to a Japanese game-show version of mocked-up people doing We Are The World – it was awful and there’s no way I’d get through it. What it did was lead me down the youtube path that immediately got completely out-of-hand. I had no idea that this damn song was over seven minutes long; I could have done with more Bruce and Cyndi Lauper. What can you do? Take a little trip back to 1985 with me and a little get together managed by Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones after that year’s Grammys. My hair is mouss-ing up as you click:



Of course, this led me immediately to the Band Aid anthem, Do They Know It’s Christmas, written and run by Bob Geldof. I was only kidding about the hair in the first video – this is hair….all hair. They were all so young.



Oh, look! I’ve found a 20th anniversary recreation of Band Aid with new artists. Bingo! I can’t name but a few of them and it’s good to see Bono back. More importantly, Robbie Williams. Anything Robbie Williams does is wickedly cool.



Back to the long songs that came up earlier: I immediately thought of the longest #1 song in history, the first song I ever learned the lyrics to (I was 7 and living in Minneapolis), and still my all-time favorite diddy. This is a live version from back in ’72. Go ahead, you want to sing along.



And since you asked, here’s the first song I air-guitared to in the same downstairs bedroom in Edina, Minnesota in the first grade…with a ukulele. Damn, I was good. I wanted to be Neil Diamond. I couldn’t find a quality version with a kicking bass player and back-up singers…



I’ll let you go. I am what I am….

Hugs to all.

t

.....oh i love my rosie child....

the final frontier

Being as I'm a part of air guitar legend - I must pass along this link as a representation of the never-ending track meet of life and fun when you're nineteen and in college. I found this at a blog called hero of our time but am linking directly to the youtube video. After you watch this you can rest assured that just like my slate.com sabbatical, I'm off linking directly to other sites for the next week. In fact, this time next week I'll be back in Nevada for a few days so it might get sparse; brace yourself. The video was created by a Columbia freshman fulfilling her science and/or math requirement by taking a class called "frontiers of science." English majors...all the fun.

alert: pause my irritating music off on the left before starting. xxoo.



If I'm not mistaken, I may have dated her sister in Iowa City...circa 1983. Wait, it would be her mother, wouldn't it? Shit.

Peace and love.

T.