Thursday, May 16, 2013

And This Just In -- World's Oldest Mid-Life Crisis Detected!!!!

Okay, I've decided what my creative project for 2014 is.

I'm gonna make a music video -- featuring me, Steve Simels, as Groucho Marx -- doing this song.





Seriously -- this may be the greatest thing ever written.

One night in Bixby, Mississippi,
We watched the clouds roll by.
I said "My dear, how are you?"
And she whispered "So am I"

And obviously I've got some Groucho drag in my past.



Hey -- this is precisely the kind of thing you're supposed to do in retirement. Or senility.

Okay, I'm just kidding; obviously I'm not going to do this. It's fun to fantasize about, though.

And I should add that the Groucho bootleg pictured above is available for download on the web (somewhere -- I forget where I got it) and you should try to find it. Seriously, it's one of the most entertaining compilations (by anybody) you'll ever hear.

12 comments:

  1. Testing...testing...

    Is this thing on?

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  2. Note to self: Pathetic fantasies about vanity projects less interesting to readers than hoped.

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  3. When I was in college, way before home video, that was a COVETED bootleg!

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  5. Just out of curiosity, why might that be the greatest thing ever written? I'd like to read your reply.

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  6. Seriously -- if you don't get why Groucho is funny, there's really no way I can explain the song to you.

    Sorry.

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  7. Steve says the same thing about "Waterloo Sunset". A lot of songs might be the greatest thing ever written. And they can change every day.

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  8. If someone doesn't have at least 250 favorite songs they really aren't listening.

    ROTP(lumber)

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  9. In all seriousness, I have a deliberate penchant for hyperbole which I use, intentionally, as a sort of running gag.

    I may be the only person who thinks it's funny, but in any case...
    :-)

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  10. Simels: You heard these guys? They do a mean Beach Boys, too.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy9SrB5t5-0

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  11. Jeebus, that's wonderful. Who are those guys?

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  12. I just found them on pitchfork. Mikal Cronin was the bassist for another band, now he's the front man.
    They're a tight act. Here's that Beach Boys thing:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5QpNeG6As

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