I’ll start the week with a couple of videos. One features individuals who have found their sense of rythem, the other is about someone who hasn’t.
“Flying Free. Music Without Limits:
Mr. Bean
The character of Mr. Bean was first developed when Rowan Atkinson was studying for his MSc at Oxford University. A sketch featuring the character was being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in the early 1980s.
I wonder if when his parents saw him off to Oxford, their dreams for him included his becoming Mr. Bean. Given that Atkinson may now be worth $100 million I don’t think they are too disappointed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Atkinson
Do you dance better, or worse, than Mr. Bean?
What musical instrument would you most like to be proficient at?
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May 18, 2009 at 1:27 am
lovewillbringustogether
i think i dance better than Mr Bean.
i think i dance better than Michael Jackson! 😉
it is likely the rest of the world will not entirely agree with my thoughts 🙂
i’d love to have the rhythm to be able to play the Drums as well as ‘Kota but that would necessitate me also having a sound=proofed room and a decent set of noise-cancellling headphones. 😉
i started to learn to play the guitar, but chords proved to be my downfall – and now my arthritis makes it impractical 😦
i greatly admire those who can and do.
a dream of mine is to invent an electronic musical instrument that you play by simply moving your arms and body and legs in 3D space – sort of like a conductor – that has as many sounds as an orchestra would… making the player literally a ‘one man band’ 🙂
The closest thing i have seen to it to date is a Theremin:
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May 18, 2009 at 5:41 pm
edfromct
The theremin does have a very erie sound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
“The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Thérémin, who patented the device in 1928. It was originally known as the termenvox or aetherphone, the former of which was subsequently anglicised to theremin /ˈθɛrəmɪn/[1] (sometimes misspelled as theramin). The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the player’s hands and control oscillator(s) for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker.”
I found a video by “Thereminist” Carolina Eyck
May 18, 2009 at 7:28 am
Indian Lake Papa
Michal Jackson?!! I taught him how to dance!! Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly Would stop dancing when I came on stage and just stare in amazement! i am flawless! i am the “Susan Boyle” of the dance world – just never got that chance!
Musical instrument? Got one – CD player! I can play CD’s better than most!
May 18, 2009 at 5:49 pm
edfromct
I can see you as Fred Astaire, and Mama as Ginger Rogers, dancing. I will guess Mama might want to wear steel tip shoes. 🙂
May 19, 2009 at 4:15 am
lovewillbringustogether
@Papa – Hahaha 😀
America’s Got Talent awaits! 😉
i clean forgot! i can play a mean CD player too 🙂
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May 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm
alece
i can’t dance. but i can dance better than mr. bean. thankfully! i’m taking this zumba class at the gym, which is basically aerobics meets salsa meets hip hop. it makes me wish i had latin hips. but one glance around the room reassures me that i’m not the worst one there. phew.
mr. bean can make me laugh, but his face really bothers me. that sounds meaner than i intended. i guess it’s more the faces he makes that bother me. i don’t know. there’s just something about him that gives me the heebie jeebies.
May 24, 2009 at 1:28 pm
edfromct
I think Mr. Bean is a little creepy looking. The character is much more popular in Engalnd than the US. I do love the TV Show, so maybe a have a somewhat strange sense of humor.
Dancing in any form is great execise. I think many of the best dancers are to some degree exgotistical. They “know” they look great, don’t worry what anyone else thinks, and that freedom allows them to dance with the sure exuberance.
I do have the ego to be a good dancer, unfortuantely I like the grace and sense of rythem. 🙂
Of course that did not stop this guy 🙂