Karaoke? By a strange coincidence of fate that great, award winning movie "Can't Stop The Music" was screened on channel 148 - The "FUSE" network. It starred Valery Perine and her two friends, (D) and (D)... The Village People doing what they do best - mindnumbing DISCO with plenty of pelvic bumps and grinds. You might also remember that it was the beginning and end of Bruce Davidson's career. He returned to being an unknown athlete with an Olympic Medal.
It's rumored that EE was the sixth Villager dressed in a longcoat, spiked cowboy boots, diamond studded jockstrap of rich Corinthian leather, and nipple tassels.
So can someone convince EE top do the minion version of "YMCA," or better yet, "IN THE NAVY" ...
I won't. I've been in living situations where I was not allowed to sing. House rule. Whoever came up with this idea is the type who tunes in the early American Idol season to see the bad singers who don't make the actual show.
EE should be played by Gene Wilder, crossed with Moe, Larry, and Curly. Gene Wilder just 'cause, Moe for his personality, Larry because... just 'cause he has to be there, and Curly for size.
It's 5:30 am here, and I clicked on the karoake, and couldn't turn the volume down in time.....Not that this wasn't enjoyable at full volume at 5:30 in the morning... :-)
EE, thank you so much. You are a true blue sweetheart!!! :-)
Do you know how many times I ran back from pubs and lunch stuff and all kinds of things- and only after i passed out cold did you all start with the bantering?! Hmmmmph.
I\m gonna go listen to the EE singing thing, and hope that assuages my pain.
Ooops. I thought I'd try to rehydrate using beer and I ended up at the pub until the early hours. Now back and very hungover. The karaoke did not do much to improve this!
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131 comments:
Oh, my, is this going to be fun!
Well, no writing or toying with words in this one...
:-)
YoooooHoooooo!
Wheeeeerrreee are youuuuu?
:-)
Any bets on what he'll sing? I'm betting it'll be a popular song with new, book-themed lyrics.
Rachel, I'm sure it will be a song dedicated to his minions....
;-)
DAMN. I missed soooooo much, didn't I?
EE, are you there`/ I'm only gonna be up for a few more minutes...
well hell. can't believe I never got a chance to say hi.
good night, then.
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Sorry. If I hadn't had to spend half an hour putting together a karaoke deal I'd have been here.
Karaoke? By a strange coincidence of fate that great, award winning movie "Can't Stop The Music" was screened on channel 148 - The "FUSE" network. It starred Valery Perine and her two friends, (D) and (D)...
The Village People doing what they do best - mindnumbing DISCO with plenty of pelvic bumps and grinds.
You might also remember that it was the beginning and end of Bruce Davidson's career. He returned to being an unknown athlete with an Olympic Medal.
It's rumored that EE was the sixth Villager dressed in a longcoat, spiked cowboy boots, diamond studded jockstrap of rich Corinthian leather, and nipple tassels.
So can someone convince EE top do the minion version of "YMCA," or better yet, "IN THE NAVY" ...
Or am I too late???
A++ for effort on that "song". Did I miss the part where you dedicate it to your loyal minions???
Meri
Umm, don't give up the day job! lol
Of course, I got to sleep through all of the fun. Now, where's that karaoke...?
I won't. I've been in living situations where I was not allowed to sing. House rule. Whoever came up with this idea is the type who tunes in the early American Idol season to see the bad singers who don't make the actual show.
I just had a crazy half-day at work and then drove three hours picking my daughter up from college, so I missed most of the comments. Whew!
Sooo.... What'd I miss?
Nothing.
Awwwww, EE, you don't give yourself enough credit.
Not.
Did I say that out loud? Sorry, I thought this was a roast.
OMG. An EE film with music NOT by Kevin McLeod. Is that allowed? Really?
Well, the credits were longer than the movie, but it was worth going over there.
You've got quite the Tom Waits thing going there -- how many packs a day?
Sorry, I had to go back and listen to that a second time. Yeah. Just like the American Idol outtakes.
(Gotta figure out where you're getting that voice filter. I bet you're really a tenor.)
Hey ril, you woke up. Comments are finally appearing again on the BlogEEversary blog!
Yeah, time zones suck, don't they?
I liked it better back when the world was flat...
I'd like to thank everyone who participated in any way in setting up or attending this event.
There haven't been enough comments on the Grisham film. Are people just not commenting, or are they not seeing it?
I almost missed the Grisham film early this morning. It's like an episode of The Twilight Zone...
I've published everything that anyone left.
Actually I'm expecting to hear from his laywers soon. No, wait -- he is a laywer. So I guess he'll be calling me direct...
When I have to have meetings at 6 am or 11 pm with work colleagues in India or New Zealand or, um, Japan, then yeah, time zones suck big time!
I have to hunt around to find the link since I was so late
Ril, the Grisham interview was worth the price of admission. You ROCK! Whoever pegged you as "Son of EE" was dead on ;o)
Is 7.52 live or have I missed the boat?
No idea what time zone this is.
7.54 — instantly reveals self as imbecile.
Don't worry -- you're in good company...
Hi Ril.
Just catching up.
Excellent trib blog btw — especially the links, some of which I tried.
Ril: Marvelous, delicious anniversary blog!
Chris: Thanks for the Book Roast space where we could hang.
Robin: Thanks for being the BEST party planner around.
EE: Thanks for being the patient, entertaining guy you are, and for hanging in there 3 long years. Here's to Year #4!
Gotta run...
We aim to give value for money...
Bye Phoen
Brutal Unix. I just got it.
Geek humour...
So what's in store for year 4, EE?
I think the minions should start drawing the cartoons and I'll do the captions.
That might be fun as a one time exercise, but I don't think we have your artistic talent...
Sounds like Peanuts has had it as top dog...
If I had any talent I wouldn't be trying to get you to do it.
Well, we don't have access to your vast well of clip art either, then... Plus, it's just easier all round to ride in on your coat-tails.
The Evil Ads were fun. I enjoyed waking up to those — if that doesn't make me sound too much of a weirdo.
No... That doesn't...
I saw the Grisham film, but I'm commenting here.
Great Editing, Editor!
Phew. Must be a guy thing.
I ran out of ad ideas. And I didn't want to open it to everyone because then I might have felt I had to post even the crappy ones.
It's always better to quit while you're ahead...
Jeez, don't quit though -- that's not what I meant...
Possibly new blood can be pumped in after a layoff.
No disrespect, but some of those ads were great without the captions — like a portfolio of images from the Academy of Bizarre Grinning.
Hey! Ril did the Grisham thing, and I gave EE credit. Figures.
That's what I thought...
;)
It's an authoritative interviewing style — getting your guest to say exactly what you want (like Wogan didn't with George Best).
If there were no EE there'd have been no Grisham film. I deserve the credit.
Grish was a true gentleman through the entire process.
See? EE gets credit even when he's not looking for it!
Or... was he? Only the middle aged Canuck knows for sure.
I wonder — when Grisham The Movie (That Grips Like No-one) comes out, who will play EE?
Morgan Freeman. No one else could pull it off.
Wilfred Brimley.
Assuming he's dead. Otherwise, yes, Freeman.
Morgan Freeman with stick-on muttonchops?
It's a winner.
Okay, now I have to go look up who Wilfred Brimley is...
I think he was in one of the Grisham movies. Also Absence of Malice. But most notably, oatmeal commercials.
Just googled Brimley — it's Freeman with a stick-on mustache.
I was thinking of Wilfred Brimley, but I also thought of Charles Cyphers from Major League.
That's OK then, 'cause I seemed to remember a friend of my mother's who I was supposed to call Uncle Wilf.
The Firm was his Grisham movie. He plays the same character in everything. A wise old man.
Was the friend of your mom's a man or a woman? That's important.
Even when he was young he played a wise old man.
I see. But Freeman has played God twice, so less of a stretch...
Oh, Wilf was in The Natural. Got my baseball movies mixed up.
Was The Firm the one with Tom Cruise and the ugly guys at the end?
And what about Gene Hackman for EE?
I feel like Whirl should be asleep and ril should be at work. What time is it?
Gene Hackman's more the ruthless vigilante sorcerer type...
Was he a wise old man in The Natural?
I'm awake and that's all that matters.
It's 9:30am here. And you're right.
Very late. But I'm not long in and have to wait a while before the sedatives take hold.
I love that Hackman film about the paranoid cop with the sax.
Yes, he was a wise old man in The Natural.
It's almost time for Hell's Kitchen here.
All Hackman films are great.
Well, we can't compete with Ramsay.
They don't show that over here...
We know that's your fav, but I'm watching hockey. We'll have to break for 30 Rock.
Sadly in the UK, GR has been replaced by Marco Pierre White — infinitely more sinister, but a bit of a ham.
Last night he freaked some girly celebs out by butchering live crayfish.
What are you doing over there, anyway?
Loved GH in The Unforgiven. Such menace.
EE loves to hear Ramsay bleep. Just so ya know, they don't bleep the hockey players.
Didn't MPW do the irascible chef bit when Ramsay was still kicking bags of wind around a field?
Replaced? I see him on BBC America. Maybe those are reruns.
What are you doing over there, anyway?In what sense?
In Canader we get the best of both worlds - Ramsay and White. I like Kitchen Nightmares.
Are you there permanently or just until they get sick of you?
The latest MPW is on ITV — which you can view on the ITV version of BBC iPlayer — though I'd stick with Ramsay.
It's "indefinitely" -- until "career progression" takes me somewhere else.
I came over here to work on a project, and never went home.
BBC iPlayer tells you to sod off if you're not in Britain.
My dad went to Algeria for six months and stayed seven years.
A project like the Big Dig.
No, he wasn't in prison.
Typical of the BBC.
As for Albania — their national costume incorporates some dinky bootees if I remember right.
It's hard to get a flight out of Algeria.
Not quite. There have been other projects since (one's four now, the other's nearly five months).
Since the city is Algiers, why isn't the country Algieria?
OK, it's snooze time.
Congratulations on 3 years, EE, and hearty cheers to one and all.
"On the morrow," as they say in all unwatchable fantasy flicks...
Whirl, were you among the group meeting in London and going to the fair?
Seeyoutomorrow.
I have to buckle down to some real work, too. Have a good night!
He was in Oran. If the city is Ottawa, why isn't the country Ottawawa?
I gotta go prepare for HK. I watch in the kitchen and try to make Beef Wellington.
I just wear galoshes.
G'Night.
However, a suburb of Ottawa is Kanata, which was supposed to be the original name for Canada. I think...
Okay, Chum, looks like it's dwindling down to nothingness.
I'm talking to myself, right?
Good Nite all.
Such a manly voice!
I did love the Brutal Unix. The more, the better!
EE should be played by Gene Wilder, crossed with Moe, Larry, and Curly. Gene Wilder just 'cause, Moe for his personality, Larry because... just 'cause he has to be there, and Curly for size.
EST here.
Okay, EE. Enjoy HK. Happy Anniversary!
Thanks. Till next year.
A bientot, bedtime!
My most hearty congrats, EE, as well as thanks.
*bows out of the room*
OMG! I fell asleep!!!
It's 5:30 am here, and I clicked on the karoake, and couldn't turn the volume down in time.....Not that this wasn't enjoyable at full volume at 5:30 in the morning...
:-)
EE, thank you so much. You are a true blue sweetheart!!!
:-)
Chris, you're a real trooper for hanging in there on the other side of the world. When are you coming home?
Hi Chumplet,
May 5! YAY!!
:-)
I'm so happy to see you over here! It's been a long time!!
:-)
I've been such a slacker lately.
Finally catching up and everyone's off to bed (or just out of it). Great work on the T&D!
And Happy, Happy Blogiversary, EE!
Do you know how many times I ran back from pubs and lunch stuff and all kinds of things- and only after i passed out cold did you all start with the bantering?! Hmmmmph.
I\m gonna go listen to the EE singing thing, and hope that assuages my pain.
Ooops. I thought I'd try to rehydrate using beer and I ended up at the pub until the early hours. Now back and very hungover. The karaoke did not do much to improve this!
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