Politics and Poetry

When politics meets a Budding Renaissance Man.

There won't be an America.
There will only be 'Merica.
Then, there will only be Erica.

Oh god. I've written a new ballad for KISS.

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The official BRM critique of this video:

1. The camera angles and editing of this is smooth. Sort of simple, classic. 
2. The shots of the guys all "balladed up" are a marvelous form of comedy. Attempted poignant through the face paint. 
3. I work harder that the lip sync than they must have. 
4. Or is it the face paint that makes the lip sync look off? 

Open for discussion: What about calling this segment a BRM "Mini-Videotique"? I'm liking it.

Episode None

Be sure, this is not the pilot of the series. This is not even a teaser to the pilot to the series.

This video represents a number of firsts.  It is:

• The first prescripted video I've made. And considering I sank about 10 minutes into script development, it is quite remarkable.
• You will want to make remarks, I guarantee it.
• The first attempt I've made to understand the intracacies of my flip camera.
• It said on the packaging, "Do not attempt to film a remake of Gone With the Wind with this device."  You will find this hard to believe when you see the quality.
• The first time I've had to figure out lighting for a video. You will notice this too.
• My first post with any kind of video.
• Pretty cool that it's me, isn't it?
• Would you believe I was really shooting for "quaint"?

Hold on to your socks and press the play button!

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Okay, I know. It's really bad. A technical and comedic disaster. It was one minute and 11 seconds of your life you will never get back. Sorry about that.

But it's a start. Consider this a true, pure trial balloon; a technical run; a flight of fancy; a test. Consider this the benchmark to judge all the video efforts I will post on this blog, and to judge my ventriloquism, and to judge my jokes.

Remember, the space shuttle blasts off from ground zero; so do most things. Or as my friend Steve from Ventriloquist Central said when I started this blog, "We all started somewhere."

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Rather than spend the last few posts of 2009 doing more retrospective chit-chat, I'm opting to forge ahead and post prepwork of sorts for what I think is going to be an outstanding 2010. I have a commitment for a gig next December, by the way. For real! I'll explain what it is sometime soon.

All I have to do between now and next December is learn how to do ventriloquism. And get a real dummy or two. And write material. And practice, practic, practice.

Piece'a cake.

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If you go to Youtube and search on the words budding and ventriloquist, this video is the first listing. How cool is that?