Sunday, February 4, 2007

THE BOSTON TYPEWRITER ORCHESTRA


HELP ME MY GOD

My IQ just fell 50 points for having watched this. I saw a clip of these guys on the Today Show and I am dumber for having seen it. This is absurd.

Its fun for about 3 seconds.

But these guys made an ALBUM OUT OF THIS. I am not making this up. There are seven.. hahha.. YES.. .SEVEN TRACKS.. on this release... no pun intended. I DARE YOU TO FIND A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANY OF THEM. I had no idea there was even a market for this.
What is this?

They got a store.... an online store. What the hell ?? They got a t-shirt that reads, "They're Just My Type". Good grief. Now I can understand this being funny for the young 20 somethings in the band like.... Derrick Albertelli ... but whats going through the 50 something guys head? Even if they are getting national exposure on the talk show circuit I gotta wonder if they think about people who made REAL CONTRIBUTIONS to this world while playing live.... like, Oh I don't know... maybe people like Ghandi or Picasso.

Here are some other ideas for "found music". Why not punch holes in the paper tubes of old toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls and create homeade flutes.....and call yourselfs.. the Blowhards?

Oh no wait, heres a better idea. Why not jingle your keys in synch to popular hip hop songs and call yourselves. The Jingles.

Why not create musical instruments out of cell phones..... or designer glasswear cases. You can open and close them really fast in front of a microphone. Wait... you know what? That idea is just sounding too damn good.

I am running the risk of inspiring some future knucklehead out there.
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Fascube network - 2007

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