Blog O’ Obscurity

What a strange concept. A misspelled description of a hearing impaired jungle cat as the name of your heavy metal band. Wikipedia indicates that Joe Elliot came up with the name while making up imaginary band names in his English class.

I wonder what other names he came up with.

Welcome to the stage, Blynd Pumah.

Next up is the number one hit from Dum Tyger.

Or the new band from London, Anosmyc Jagguyar.

(That’s the misspelled version of Anosmic, or one who has lost his sense of smell.)

Rock on.

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In only a couple of hours now the newest release by the Guitar Hero franchise will be released for all. The Aerosmith edition features mostly songs from the legendary band with a few other bands thrown in. I was somewhat disappointed with the effort put into the 80’s edition, but I’m somewhat optimistic about this newest version. The songlist looks great, and I’ll let you know what I think as soon as I can give it a test drive.

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Tonight we went out for dinner in Mesa to Organ Stop Pizza. It’s the third time I’ve made the trip out to this particular restaurant, yet I’m amazed every time. They serve decent pizza along with assorted bread, pasta, and salad. The main attraction is the immense organ that takes up one whole wall of the two-story building. The organist plays a variety of songs from traditional organ style music to patriotic songs to the theme from Star Wars. Dozens of baffles control the air flow to the scores of pipes behind a plexiglass wall which opens and closes to allow more or less sound into the room. The organ itself rises from under the floor and turns to give everyone a view of the musician as he plays the songs and controls all of the effects including drums, pipes, cowbells, pianos, flags, bubbles, and lights. It is truly an amazing experience to all of your senses.

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My son thinks more highly of my abilities that I do.  He saw that show, “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” and just because I could sing along in spots, he thinks I should go on the show.  Little does he know that anytime I don’t know the words to a song, I just make them up.  For example, did you know that it’s “Caribbean Queen” and not “Caribou Queen”?  I just found out last year.  I assumed it was a protest song about reindeer.  Go figure.

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I picked up my second Trout Fishing in America CD recently.  They have some of the funniest songs ever on the first one I got (”Big Trouble”) and if you are a parent and you don’t own this CD I strongly encourage you to get it.  Maybe skip ‘The Cat Came Back’ for the really young ones unless you see the humor of having cat hair in ground meat but you’ll rip a gasket trying to sing along with ‘All I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee’. ‘Pico de Gallo’ is a song that’s going to stick in your head - they manage to rhyme ‘pico de gallo’ with ‘Ontario’.  I could say something great about almost every song on the CD but I’ve got to save the highest praise for a life saving song called ‘Lullaby’.  It’s a beautiful lullaby that is like the baby whisperer I’ve always wanted.  Babies go from screaming at the top of their lungs to silent and calm the INSTANT the singing starts.  It’s shocking.  Of course then you have to play it over and over again until you come up with a better plan, but it really helps.

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I know that you’ve all probably seen the Pachelbel’s Rant clip from Youtube and other video sites around the web. But here it is again. I hope that this guy gets some more material because this is some seriously funny stuff. With the number of three chord pop songs in the public consciousness, there’s got to be plenty of material for good musically-based comedy. Anyway, here it is again.

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