Shaq Attacks Instruments! Film at 11
The best thing I've seen all year: Shaq doing the Random Instrument Challenge with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show on Monday:
https://youtu.be/pxxPznV38Hk
(Also, that's probably the most capital letters I've used in one sentence in ages.)
I've had to tell pretty much everyone I regularly encounter about this. Too bad I don't have band on Tuesdays...this would go over well with my musical cohorts. Well, maybe not the double reeds ("Excuse me, Roots, what's an oboe?"). But Shaq is so huge that he picks up a tuba with one hand like it's nothing. Like, tubas are so huge that adult human beings can fit inside their cases.
Also, Jimmy plays a double contrabass flute, so large he's told to leave it on its stand, rather than actually holding it. SO JEALOUS. I've never played one before. Okay, one of my goals is to become famous in order to play this game. (Second choice: Box of Lies.) The only problem is that I'd be like, sorry, I am only playing this instrument, and I am walking offstage with it, thank you.
It's been a long week, and I've been sore for several days due to all the bending and squatting I did while putting the Christmas stuff away. Combined with going back to my regular long Mondays and Tuesdays, and no wonder I sort of felt like I'd been steamrolled when I got in the car this morning. Phew. Tired.
Honorable mention goes to Stephen Colbert and his "Pottillo's" sketch from last night. I may not appreciate legalized marijuana in my state, but this is spot on. I first saw it on WGN and then heard it (twice) on the radio on the way to work. I hope the rest of the country can appreciate the parody. And, well, that Portillo's is down with it too. When I mentioned it to my boss, he went, well, it's free advertising, even if it's in a roundabout way, so that's a good thing.
Click to viewhttps://youtu.be/pxxPznV38Hk
(Also, that's probably the most capital letters I've used in one sentence in ages.)
I've had to tell pretty much everyone I regularly encounter about this. Too bad I don't have band on Tuesdays...this would go over well with my musical cohorts. Well, maybe not the double reeds ("Excuse me, Roots, what's an oboe?"). But Shaq is so huge that he picks up a tuba with one hand like it's nothing. Like, tubas are so huge that adult human beings can fit inside their cases.
Also, Jimmy plays a double contrabass flute, so large he's told to leave it on its stand, rather than actually holding it. SO JEALOUS. I've never played one before. Okay, one of my goals is to become famous in order to play this game. (Second choice: Box of Lies.) The only problem is that I'd be like, sorry, I am only playing this instrument, and I am walking offstage with it, thank you.
It's been a long week, and I've been sore for several days due to all the bending and squatting I did while putting the Christmas stuff away. Combined with going back to my regular long Mondays and Tuesdays, and no wonder I sort of felt like I'd been steamrolled when I got in the car this morning. Phew. Tired.
Honorable mention goes to Stephen Colbert and his "Pottillo's" sketch from last night. I may not appreciate legalized marijuana in my state, but this is spot on. I first saw it on WGN and then heard it (twice) on the radio on the way to work. I hope the rest of the country can appreciate the parody. And, well, that Portillo's is down with it too. When I mentioned it to my boss, he went, well, it's free advertising, even if it's in a roundabout way, so that's a good thing.