Mushmouthed British hippie bleats
Wednesday July 16, 2008
Categories: Not the Onion
I am grateful for the subtitles on this curious anthropological artifact from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. How else would we know what this poor spastic creature was trying to communicate to us? (Seriously, this...
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Check out his air guitar playing. Or, at least, I think it's air guitar playing. Either way, pretty amazing. We have a video of my daughter flopping around and singing like that; it's marvellous. Of course, in the video she's only two.
Belushi did a great send up of Cocker. Google John Belushi and Joe Cocker.
I find his later mainstream hits, "Up Where We Belong" and "You Are So Beautiful," far more disturbing.
"Self-righteous," but yes. All you post-boomers who go on and on about the evils of the boomer generation are just as bad as those idiots who decreed that "you can't trust anybody over 30." Grow up.
Got a leather for my Fred. . .HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah Belushi did a great send-up of that performance. He had all the contortions, the tie-dye shirt and everything down to a T.
If you liked that, you'll love this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
Well, for one thing we know for sure based on the "self righteous" and "grow up" comments - Boomers, or "geriatric ponytails" as I like to call them - completely lack a sense of humor ;-)
I am laughing so hard...partly because that is pretty much what I thought the lyrics were. Good to see my hearing is so acute.
What is he doing with his body? Whatever part of his brain caused those writhing motions should have been located and removed.
Amazing - - but surely those aren't really the words (?) he was singing. So what /was/ he saying?
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