Category: goo brain

Olympics

Dear NBC,

Thank you for helping to cover up how bad a nosedive the Olympic closing ceremonies took after Neil Young. (Who, frankly, put all the projectors and dance numbers and ridiculous inflatables to shame with his acoustic guitar.) Your greed has saved a lot of Canadian embarrassment.

Thanks again,
54º 40′ and Surroundings

Piano and Flute and Acoustic Guitar

Why is on-hold music still so terrible? We’ve obviously got phone and music technology working fairly well these days, why can’t we successfully combine them into a non-iPhone application?

Is there a concern that if they start providing CD quality music, people will call in just to record a swath of “Non-Specific Adult Contemporary Instrumentals vol XIV” for resale on the streets of Bangkok?

A Brief Refresher

I understand why it’s easy to confuse the two:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqcEo5CNTQ]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S90z0jJDAQ]

Both were written by the same fellow, Jesse Fredrick.

Jesse Frederick is a film and television composer best known for writing the themes to television shows such as Perfect Strangers, Full House, Family Matters, and Step By Step. – Wikipedia

Almost Too Honest, Subway

Took this phone cam picture at our local Subway the other day.

Like An Honest Type Thing“Ehhh, it’s like a friggin’ mayonnaise type thing, know what I’m sayin’? A light dressing, sorta. Like an edible-petroleum-product kinda sauce?”

I was also pretty impressed with their follow up punch: admitting flat out that the “secret sub sauce” is just Zesty Italian.

Wonder Years

I’m mostly posting this for the lovely Jessica, since she can’t stand being made to feel bad by other people’s awkwardness.

This was one of the earliest memes I remember covering the internet from end to end – I seem to recall it was also one of the first to be set to music, although that music now seems to be lost. This was first a tripod page, where the video’s only image was also taken from. The site would automatically begin playing a looping wav file of the poor little bugger, a wav file which was later ripped down and sent around seperately.

Mike Blount – the kid in question – has unsurprisingly been unable to avoid the internet for the rest of his life, and thus has had to accept his early stardom and even parlay it into his own later-life blog.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7mozA-ptI]

There was, in a sense, a happy ending to all of this – Mike eventually realized he didn’t even want a future girlfriend, what he wanted was a future boyfriend.