Seems I’m spending a lot more time with my new video recorder than with my camera these days. My photos have been getting boring and I’ve been lacking inspiration so on to my new hobby I guess.
Too bad I’m not showing any real talent for video making, but to be fair I’ve only been doing it for a couple weeks there’s still a chance I’ll make some magic.
I’m sure poor Alex is going to be the unfortunate recipient of more videos like this one shot for our own amusement:
I was uploading another batch of boring videos that I took of Alex and his grandfather when I stumbled upon a treasure trove of some of the most entertaining videos I’ve seen in awhile. They are of the train wreck variety and I just can’t stop watching them.
The first video I saw was just plain crazy:
And then I found that she also likes to dance for the camera. Now it was very hard to choose which of her wonderful dances I should post, I’ll start with “I Think I Love You.”
Next up, “Boogie Woogie Country Girl,” you can see why it was so hard for me to choose just one:
Awhile ago I posted a John Lennon video. When I found it I thought for sure it was supposed to contain a scene with a rowboat but it didn’t. This made me doubt my memory and assume I was totally mistaken.
But I am vindicated now as I have found the version of that video that does contain the rowboat. This is the video that I remember and my memory is saved:
I’m freezing and it’s ugly outside. All my plans went down the drain today so I’m bummed. Sometimes, on days like these I look for things that made me happy in the past. So I was hunting around YouTube and found this song/video that I used to absolutely love in highschool.
(I seem to be having video problems in browsers other than Internet Explorer, sorry, I’m working on it.)
It makes me happy:
I’m remembering some video he did where he and Yoko get in a rowboat in one scene. I know that’s vague, but does anybody remember what song or video that was?
If you read my last post where I mentioned Dora the Explorer, you already know that I detest this show. As luck would have it, while I was searching for a photo of Muno, I happened across an SNL spoof of Dora.
I don’t know if it is just my passionate hatred or not, but this really makes me laugh and it so perfectly captures the true essence of this awful show.
Why in the world would someone want to grow long toenails?
This woman must have some sort of serious mental disorder because there’s no way you’d want these things on your feet unless you were a few clowns short of a circus.
I’m still busy reading several Spanish books, watching DVDs and my internet soap opera, listening to educational cds and trying to remember some of the Spanish I learned in high school and college.
I find myself trying to describe everything I’m doing out loud in Spanish all the time, even when I’m out walking the dogs. At times it drives me crazy because I can’t stop it. Then when I speak English, I sometimes accidentally keep the Spanish accent or say things the way you would in Spanish. I’m frustrating myself a bit because I can’t seem to memorize vocabulary fast enough, especially the verbs.
It’s a shame I didn’t have any reason to keep up with it all these years, I had gotten pretty good at it by the time I was in college.
A friend sent me this video today, I thought it was appropriate for this post:
Ever have one of those days were nothing is going your way and even though none of it is catastrophic or really that bad you just can’t take it?
With every little thing that gets added onto my day, I find my patience dwindling and my blood pressure escalating. If I were a rich girl and could afford a big loss, the neighbors would have witnessed this laptop flying from my window like a frisbee about a half hour ago—this would have given me such pleasure too, bummer.
I feel that I’m on the verge of a “Joan Crawford moment.”
I heard this old gem over the weekend and now it’s stuck in my head, so I thought I’d post it here and get it stuck in your head too.
How embarrassing for me to have looked up this video and, never having seen Minnie Ripperton before, I find out that she looks nothing like the skinny blonde elf that I had pictured my whole life. I had however pictured the Baby’s Breath in her hair, so that was true to my mental image. I thought there would be golden light, a lot of vaseline smeared on the lens, perhaps a field and some sort of white gauzy dress blowing in the breeze. They did bring out the white cage with a dove though, that was a nice touch I hadn’t thought of.
From Wikipedia: Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979) was an American soul singer and songwriter, most noted for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1975 hit single “Lovin’ You“. Possessing a rare five-octave vocal range, she displayed the ability to imitate instrumentation and even birds.
