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Joe Pug - Hymn 101

Yea I’ve come to know the wish list of my father
I’ve come to know the shipwrecks where he wished
I’ve come to wish aloud among the over dressed crowd
Come to witness now the sinking of the ship
Throwing pennies from the sea top next to it
And I’ve come to roam the forest past the village
With a dozen lazy horses in my cart
I’ve come here to get high,
To do more than just get by.
I’ve come to test the timber of my heart
Oh, I’ve come to test the timber of my heart
And I’ve come to be untroubled in my seeking
And I’ve come to see that nothing is for naught
I’ve come to reach out blind
to reach forward and behind
For the more I seek the more I’m sought
Yea, the more I seek the more I’m sought.

And I’ve come to meet the sheriff and his posse
To offer him the broadside of my jaw
I’ve come here to get broke
Then maybe bum a smoke
We’ll go drinking two towns over after all
Oh, we’ll go drinking two towns over after all.

And I’ve come to meet the legendary takers
I’ve only come to ask them for a lot
Oh they say I come with less
than I should rightfully posses
I say the more I buy the more I’m bought
And the more I’m bought the less I cost
And I’ve come to take their servants and their surplus
And I’ve come to take their raincoats and their speed
I’ve come to get my fill
To ransack and spill
I’ve come to take the harvest for the seed
I’ve come to take the harvest for the seed

And I’ve come to know the manger that you sleep in
I’ve come to be the stranger that you keep
I’ve come from down the road
And my footsteps never slowed
Before we met, I knew we’d meet
Before we met, I knew we’d meet

And I’ve come here to ignore your cries and heartaches
I’ve come to closely listen to you sing
I’ve come here to insist
That I leave here with a kiss
I‘ve come to say exactly what I mean
and I mean so many things.

And you’ve come to know me stubborn as a butcher
and you’ve come to know me thankless as a guest
will you recognize my face when God's awful grace
strips me of my jacket and my vest
and reveals all the treasure in my chest

Thoughts While Watching The "Paper Planes" Video

YouTube won't let me embed the video, so here's the link.

0:01 - 0:05.  Literal paper planes flying into The City - a little over the top for some, possibly, but it works for me.  Love the black and white.
0:06 - 0:11.  Digging the slice of life street scenes.
0:12.  We go to color for the video of her singing.  But I don't notice the singing.  All I notice is what she's doing with her hands.  It's the same thing you would do as a kid in front of a movie projector if you were attempting to put a "flying bird" shadow up against the wall.  (Note: I did a pretty good dog shadow once upon a time.)
0:14.  Is that a leather hoody?  Even Ross Gellar would think that was a bad idea.
0:19.  Cheesey bread shot.  (See what I did there?  With the food pun?  You did?  Rolled your eyes?  Okay, moving on.)
0:22.  One of my New Year's Resolutions is to dance more.  Outside.  Or in stairways.  Whenever the urge hits me.
0:24.  Wait, that bird flutter hand thing is part of a dance?  I'm hitting every club in Houston this weekend.  Right after I find a leather hoody.
0:30.  These shots of the customers buying sandwiches at the deli remind me that I haven't picked up any fresh french bread in a while.  I think it's the aluminum foil wrap.
0:49.  As a professional banker, I noticed that the money in the cash register matches how I line my own money up at work - with $1's closest to me.  Oops, not supposed to blog about work. 
1:00.  We get our 27th cash register shot of the video, but now the action is tied to the music.  I can't decide if I love it or hate it.
1:10.  hahahahaha.  Now she's shooting finger pistols along with the music.  So campy, I love it.  Though I'm pretty sure that's not what they were going for.
1:42.  It's too much of a wide shot for any detail, but I'm pretty sure she's bringing Cross Colours back.  Word.
1:50.  I have awesome friends, near and far.  But as awesome as they are, I do have one small nitpick to make with all of them.  Never once have they volunteered to follow me down the streets of New York, dancing and providing bgvs for me while I sing lead.  So.  Insensitive. 
2:00.  Did companies like UPS and Bella Prepaid Wireless pay to be name dropped in the song?  And if so, what are those negotiations like?
2:07.  A video store.  That reminds me, I should update my Netflix queue.
2:31.  Hey, I dance like that when I drive.  Except it's to Wilco.
233.  On my 27teenth viewing of the video, I finally noticed that she's wearing a Metallica shirt.  Huh.
2:34 - 2:40.  Definitely my favorite 6 seconds of the video.  We get the "bird flapping" thing with the hands followed directly by some "running in place" dance moves.  Once I crib that and the "shooting dice" dance move from Knocked Up, there will be no stopping me on the dance floor.
2:53.  Sandwich Artist or not, M.I.A. really shouldn't be dancing with the long, sharp sandwich knife in her hands.  Just sayin'...
3:06.  More planes flying into the city.
3:11.  We get the same skull and crossbones truck from the intro.
3:17.  Paper planes flooding the streets as we fade to black.

YouTube Tuesday: Wish I Worked At Championship Vinyl

One of my top 5 films, hands down.

Don't watch the last clip if you don't want the ending spoiled for you.

YouTube Tuesdays: The WTF Blanket

Props to College Humor for this:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

YouTube Tuesdays: The Star Spangled Banner

I think Francis Scott Key would have liked this version.

YouTube Tuesdays: Love / Hate Relationship for 2009

33 days and counting...

(Yuletide) YouTube Tuesdays: Hallelujah, Everybody Say Cheese

I started to post the half dozen Christmas songs that I don't hate.  But really, you're probably going to hear Mariah Carey enough as it is without me.  Along with Eartha Kitt and Elvis.  And Sufjan Stevens put out a great Christmas disc a few years back.  But this week belongs to Robert Earl Keen, who captures so well what Christmas is really like.

(Yuletide) YouTube Tuesdays: Christmas With the West Wing

Have I mentioned how much I love The West Wing?

(Yuletide) YouTube Tuesdays: Love Actually

Now that we're officially in the holiday season, I thought we'd stick with holiday-themed clips for the Tuesdays in December (all four of them).  And since I pay the bills that keep this blog limping along, what I say goes.

Love Actually is one of my favorite holiday-themed movies, in fact I'm tempted to put some jeans on and run out to Target right now.  (And now that I've spent two hours scouring youtube and google videos, and all the scenes I wanted to show are either unavailable, dubbed in Portugese, or unable to be embedded, I'm begging you to move this to the top of your NetFlix que.)  Enjoy...

YouTube Tuesdays: Daria

part one

part two

part three