Comments on: Odd Clips http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/ Musings, Ravings & Rants by Singer/Songwriter and Multimedia Artist, Dean Friedman Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: MusicGuru12 http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-3842 Wed, 02 May 2007 18:19:42 +0000 http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-3842 To Nancy and Dean, I am not sure if this blog site is still active, or if it has been abandoned but I will post this anyway. This is MusicGuru12 speaking, the boy from YouTube who did a cover of Company. Firstly, I am glad it brought a smile to your face Dean and secondly, I am actually 15 years old, not 24, and I wouldn't have found it creepy if you asked me how old I am. I get it alot. And for the sake of Nancy, I am not trying to impress any ladies, my name is not bobby and my mum naturally has curly hair. I have removed the video from YouTube now, and instead I have a site dedicated to teaching blues to people. If you are interested in seeing how I am doing go to: www.youtube.com/bennygblues Thanks, and I am glad to have a mention in your blog. Ben To Nancy and Dean,
I am not sure if this blog site is still active, or if it has been abandoned but I will post this anyway.

This is MusicGuru12 speaking, the boy from YouTube who did a cover of Company. Firstly, I am glad it brought a smile to your face Dean and secondly, I am actually 15 years old, not 24, and I wouldn’t have found it creepy if you asked me how old I am. I get it alot.
And for the sake of Nancy, I am not trying to impress any ladies, my name is not bobby and my mum naturally has curly hair.

I have removed the video from YouTube now, and instead I have a site dedicated to teaching blues to people. If you are interested in seeing how I am doing go to:

www.youtube.com/bennygblues

Thanks, and I am glad to have a mention in your blog.
Ben

]]> by: Kathy194 http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-31 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:17:23 +0000 http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-31 Well, all I can say is I luuuuuuve Lydia - one of my favourite Dean songs, but I actually found this video amusing! It didn't spoil the song for me at all - and if I was Dean, I'd be flattered that someone had gone to the trouble of making a video that's worth watching. So much of what's on YouTube can be boooorriiing. And as is always the case on Youtube, if someone gets to hear the song for the first time, they might be inspired to go out and hunt down more of Dean's songs. Can't be bad. For anyone in the UK, I don't know if it's just me, but the 'Dean' character looks more like one of the Scousers (Harry Enfield), y'know "AY, AY, AY - CAAAAAALM DOWN, CAAAALM DOWN!!!" Well, all I can say is I luuuuuuve Lydia - one of my favourite Dean songs, but I actually found this video amusing! It didn’t spoil the song for me at all - and if I was Dean, I’d be flattered that someone had gone to the trouble of making a video that’s worth watching. So much of what’s on YouTube can be boooorriiing. And as is always the case on Youtube, if someone gets to hear the song for the first time, they might be inspired to go out and hunt down more of Dean’s songs. Can’t be bad.

For anyone in the UK, I don’t know if it’s just me, but the ‘Dean’ character looks more like one of the Scousers (Harry Enfield), y’know “AY, AY, AY - CAAAAAALM DOWN, CAAAALM DOWN!!!”

]]> by: Nancy http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-21 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:26:01 +0000 http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-21 First thing. How come the Log In for this Blog is at the bottom of the page. Shouldn't it be on top? Dean, I agree with you on all counts (how's that for a boring blog reply). As I wrote on Dean's Forum: "I looked at this Lydia video and thought it was dumb. Ill treatment of a beautiful song. Dean, this crap is a good reason why you should make your own videos of songs from your great collection of masterpieces. Not let some loser with a stupid wig overuse kicking, headbutting, and punching to get a giggle during a beautiful song. What was that all about? I thought the sweet boy in the Company video did a better job of miming, at least. (Think he made that for a girl he had a crush on?)" How can that kid in Company be 24 years old? I have a feeling he is much younger and he is trying to impress the ladies. We, on the other hand, would never try to impress anyone by saying we are older than we are, except the waitress as the local Denny's, perhaps. I'd write MusicGuru12 and ask me how old he really is, but I don't want to appear creepy. Dean, can you do me a favor & you write him and you appear creepy? Also, why do I expect at the end of the video that the door in the background is going to open up and his mother's curler-covered head is going to pop in, whining, "Bobby, if you play that song one more time......". Lydia video - I second the motion on your opinion on that one, too. What this beautiful song deserves is a beautiful video. Save the funny treatment for McDonald's Girl, Ariel, Funny Papers, S & M, The Deli Song, Marginal Middle Class, Hob-Nobbin', Summer Days, not to mention everything on Squirrels in the Attic. "twobob’ aka oggy, charlie, dan and jim", there is a banquet of Dean funny songs from which to choose. In fact, anybody want to accept the challenge out there? More Dean videos! Dean, your descriptive lyrics make it so easy to make a video. PS Indeed, there are some serious songs out there, however, that well deserve parody. Hmmmm, let me think ....You're Beautiful by James Blount comes to mind (as it did for many video makers, obviously). PPS Oops, this Comment turned into a Blog itself. Sorry. ~Nancy First thing. How come the Log In for this Blog is at the bottom of the page. Shouldn’t it be on top?

Dean, I agree with you on all counts (how’s that for a boring blog reply). As I wrote on Dean’s Forum: “I looked at this Lydia video and thought it was dumb. Ill treatment of a beautiful song. Dean, this crap is a good reason why you should make your own videos of songs from your great collection of masterpieces. Not let some loser with a stupid wig overuse kicking, headbutting, and punching to get a giggle during a beautiful song. What was that all about? I thought the sweet boy in the Company video did a better job of miming, at least. (Think he made that for a girl he had a crush on?)”

How can that kid in Company be 24 years old? I have a feeling he is much younger and he is trying to impress the ladies. We, on the other hand, would never try to impress anyone by saying we are older than we are, except the waitress as the local Denny’s, perhaps. I’d write MusicGuru12 and ask me how old he really is, but I don’t want to appear creepy. Dean, can you do me a favor & you write him and you appear creepy? Also, why do I expect at the end of the video that the door in the background is going to open up and his mother’s curler-covered head is going to pop in, whining, “Bobby, if you play that song one more time……”.

Lydia video - I second the motion on your opinion on that one, too. What this beautiful song deserves is a beautiful video. Save the funny treatment for McDonald’s Girl, Ariel, Funny Papers, S & M, The Deli Song, Marginal Middle Class, Hob-Nobbin’, Summer Days, not to mention everything on Squirrels in the Attic. “twobob’ aka oggy, charlie, dan and jim”, there is a banquet of Dean funny songs from which to choose. In fact, anybody want to accept the challenge out there? More Dean videos! Dean, your descriptive lyrics make it so easy to make a video.

PS Indeed, there are some serious songs out there, however, that well deserve parody. Hmmmm, let me think ….You’re Beautiful by James Blount comes to mind (as it did for many video makers, obviously).

PPS Oops, this Comment turned into a Blog itself. Sorry.

~Nancy

]]> by: dean http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-20 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:24:05 +0000 http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-20 Hey Mac, How could I have forgotten? Thanks for the reminder. Yours is a super video. Check it out folks. It's a fun time. Deano Hey Mac,

How could I have forgotten? Thanks for the reminder. Yours is a super video. Check it out folks. It’s a fun time.

Deano

]]> by: Mac http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-19 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:52:33 +0000 http://www.deanblog.deanfriedman.net/2006/09/17/odd-clips/#comment-19 I also added my own Parody of a Dean Friedman song, "I am in Love with the McDonald's Girl" to the U-Tube site. The URL is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r46BP_RGFU It was performed by five seniors for the entire school in Sedro-Woolley, a town in the Northwest Corner of the state of Washington. Two girls did the choreography and we used the Blender's version of the song to give it the "boy band" sound. Hope you like it. I also added my own Parody of a Dean Friedman song, “I am in Love with the McDonald’s Girl” to the U-Tube site. The URL is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r46BP_RGFU

It was performed by five seniors for the entire school in Sedro-Woolley, a town in the Northwest Corner of the state of Washington. Two girls did the choreography and we used the Blender’s version of the song to give it the “boy band” sound. Hope you like it.

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