Thursday, August 20, 2009

Ouch.

Apparently, we could use a makeover.

On an unrelated note: You may be familiar with Captain Kirk's infamous spoken word renditions of “Rocketman” and “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” which are about as trippy weird and hilarious as it would be to watch the Pope hum and dance a little to “Promiscuous” with a completely straight face for his Sunday congregation.

During my Connecticut visit, Weinbaum played a song(?) called “I Can’t Get Behind That” from a more recent album of Shatner's called “Has Been.” To my surprise, it was actually pretty good, a funny and clever rant against things that Shatner finds annoying, so I downloaded the album the other day. I didn't care for all the numbers, but "Common People", "You'll Have Time", and "I Can't Get Behind That" are well worth checking out. Listening to "Common People" I felt a bit like the kids in the auditorium watching Jon Heder dance. It was so weird (mostly to hear Shatner bemoaning the plight of the working class), hilarious (unlike "Rocketman", the humor in "Has Been" is mostly intentional), and unexpectedly good that I was a little dumbstruck.

Anyway, nice job Kirk.