I've been writing lately folks. It's just that my writing has been for the two classes I am taking. And something about writing 5-10 pages about long-term business strategies that sucks the life out of me. Go figure. But I have time to watch videos while I procrastinate! (For the record I do add slowly to a post that I have been writing for PacificBirds. Very slowly. It will be posted soon though.)
So enjoy this video that I found from AcidCow.com. Don't ask. From their site:
The most incredible football match took place recently in Spain. Spanish team Athletic Bilbao played took on 200 kids at once, in the name of charity. 11 against 200, can you imagine? But even playing in a 66-80-51 formation (with three goalies) wasn't enough to crush the might of Athletic Bilbao, who won 5-3. Have you ever seen 200 kids celebrating a goal? Take a look.
This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month’s celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.
Congress? Health care? They know where the priorities lie.
I'd also like to add my own personal experience with Alex Chilton and one of my very favorite bands, Big Star. I was living in Portland Oregon and I was so sick of my crap job at a photo shop that was a 50 minute bus ride to and from work everyday. It was a cold fall. I couldn't find a new job. Then finally, I got an interview for an entry level carpentry position. I had to take an hour and a half bus ride to the Columbia river for the interview at a boat repair shop at 7 a.m.. I couldn't have been any more out of place and the owner of the shop let me hear about it. It was frustrating and humiliating. I walked out of the shop with the dim prospect of having to go straight to my Fotomat job on the bus, this one a two hour ride. Big Star's 3rd/Sister Lovers was in my CD player and on my headphones. Although I was wearing long underwear and two pairs of pants, a shirt, sweatshirt and jacket, I was still freezing. So after I caught the bus, I settled into my seat, I stared out of the window and Nightime came on. My brain could hear the music but couldn't comprehend, just as my eyes reflected the bleak horizon without recognition. But through my malaise broke the words ". . . get me out of here, get me out of here. I hate it here, get me out of here." and that was it. Those were the only words I wanted to hear for the rest of the day. After rewinding the song a few times just to hear those words, I put the song on repeat. The bus coasted on toward oblivion while the chalk outlines of the morning landscapes smeared, smudged and dripped their way past the rainy windows that were my eyes. That night, when I finally returned home, it was to a freezing cold house. My sister couldn't be reached by phone. My friends weren't immediately available. I wanted to tear the whole place apart. But all I could do was lay under the electric blanket, on my palette on the floor, to get warm. It was the last place I wanted to be.
Sorry, I don't really have anything for you today. But I am working on hopefully three full posts for tomorrow. In the mean time, please enjoy The Flowers and The Trees, which earned Walt Disney his first Oscar and was the first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor. It also happens to be, in my opinion, one of the most nostalgic bits of video on the internet. For the life of me, I couldn't retell to you any specific memory that I have associated with this cartoon. But I can see the grainy image of it projected upon our old television. I can tell you about the excitement of discovering it on television or the hush that came over us as we watched in awe. That's a magical thing. Our wonderment stems from its status as part relic, part entertainment and part art. It's still worth watching and it's worth passing on to a younger generation.
Georgia Hubley, of Yo La Tengo fame, is the daughter of acclaimed animators John & Faith Hubley. Below, she and her sister Emily voice the characters in the Hubley family short film Windy Day which was nominated for an Oscar in the "Best Short Subject, Cartoons" category in 1968.
And, in 1997 she was just acting like a child alongside Mr. Show in the video for Sugarcube. The typical hilarity ensues.
When I first watched this video, I laughed. I thought it was the fallout of the boy-band generation that causes these kids to act out the song in such a way. But as the video goes on, I find it totally endearing that each and every one of those kids is singing their heart out.
