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Name: Henri
Interests: I like standing up in front of people and being a moron. Everything else I do is generally something that's intended to help me look stupid in front of a crowd of strangers.
Expertise: Wearing a Newsies hat and snap button shirts. I'm not good at wearing regular button shirts, though, because I usually end up breaking the buttons.
Industry: Media
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Member Since:
8/12/2005
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| I like me some pop music. I woke up at 9:50 on a Saturday morning just
so I could hit the refresh button on my browser so I could buy Justin
Timberlake tickets as soon as they went on sale at 10. But even I need
to digest a pop song for a little while before I know if it will be one
of The Songs. I haven't done that with this one yet, but check it:
the
new Gwen Stefani song. She doesn't spell any fruit for us,
but she does yodel. | | |
| So last Friday I got to stand in for Owen in the Sinus Snakes on a
Plane skit. I've been on the Alamo stage hundreds of times before, but
for some silly reason the idea of being a snake had me actually feeling
nervous again. After that show, Cedar Fever (the greatest Boy Band in
the world) had a gig at Owen's Right to Marry Festival at Ruta Maya.
But enough words, here's the
video:
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| But there actually won't be much Erasure. No, Owen and I are just hosting the sing-along of actual Abba songs tonight at the downtown Alamo. You can even buy advanced tickets for the show, if'n you want to.Abba's weird, though. I didn't even fully realize it until I was watching the videos and reading the subtitles for all the lyrics, but most of the songs are super duper poppy and happy and catchy but they're all about breaking up. And then that's especially weird when you factor in the idea that the band is comprised of two married couples that got divorced a few years later. That makes songs like "Knowing Me, Knowing You" all the more eerie. Were they actually written because Bjorn knew he was going to break up with Agnetha? I don't have any clue.But check out this video for The Winner Takes It All:
That one isn't full of catchy happy pop and is supposed to be sad sounding anyway, but what the heck is the deal with the way the video makes it look like Agnetha's being kicked out of the band and the other chick is running off with both guys? That's just so weird, especially because it really really doesn't look like they're faking it at all (and in retrospect maybe they weren't?)So this show is sort of a study of their relationships, sort of a disco dance party, and also sort of an investigation into why ABBA is still so popular today, as Owen and I went around town and interviewed people on camera and then got to put that up on the big screen. And I think it should be good. It was good on Sunday, anyway... | | |
| Before last week's episode of Videoke, Sarah and I went to a hairstyling party that Bird's Barbershop through at FactoryPeople. There were photographers there taking pictures of us, but of course I do not look cool enough to even make it onto FactoryPeople's Flickr site, so you can't see my "awesome" mohawk on their site. But that night I had that hair while I was on stage doing a scene from Titanic with my little brother. And then I decided to take my shirt off when Leonardo took off his jacket. Hence the scene below from the opening of this week's Videoke highlight reel:
Check out the whole reel and you can hear Sarah singing Christmas songs and a guy named Garrett threatening to have butt sex with a bunch of soldiers. Yeah! | | |
| If any of you were at Open Screen Night last week, you probably remember the short documentary Ruby's Day, all about a small town in Texas, a turkey, and an annual race for turkey excellence. And you probably remember that this movie got unjustly gonged right before we were going to find out who won the second race. Well, Erik McCowan, the filmmaker, was kind enough to leave a copy of his short with us, so now I offer it up to all of you:
RUBY'S DAY
And if you weren't at Open Screen Night and don't even live in Texas and don't what I'm talking about, well, now you get to watch Ruby's Day anyway. Booya! | | |
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