August 25, 2008

• First I hated it because I love Joe and I love what he did with a pretty lame and soulless Beatles tune. But then it got pretty funny. But I still love Joe.
• I don't really get it, but I'm in Generation X so I think of The Wonder Years.
• At first I didn't get it, but then Probiotics changed the way I live.
• Heh! I am over 40 and lubs me some of Joe's badly scarred vocal chords. "I did some Wonderloaf" beats both "There's a bathroom on the right" and "'scuse me while I kiss this guy". (You have to be over 40 to remember those two as well).
• Heh, Fred. When you're over forty, you really appreciate "There's a bathroom on the right"
• *pops bubblegum, doesn't get it*
• I always wondered where he got that invisible guitar from. Nobody will tell me - they just nod and smile. And in a strange distortion of the space-time continuum, I'm watching Easy Rider again for the first time since it came out.... and it's not quite as esoteric as I remember.
• I'm pretty sure he did not do any Wonder Loaf, if you know what I'm saying.
• The first time I ever heard of him, I thought he must be a comedian, being named Joke Hocker and all.
• Fantastic find. Thanks, Ralph!
• One of the greatest moments ever on Saturday Night Live was when John Belushi went head-to-head with Joe Cocker and did a better Joe Cocker than Joe Cocker. And you have to be over 40 to remember this, too. Joe Cocker.
• "This video is no longer available." What was it?
• It's still available on my computer, but then, I did some wonderloaf.
• "I did some Wonderloaf" beats both "There's a bathroom on the right" and "'scuse me while I kiss this guy". (You have to be over 40 to remember those two as well). Nah, 33 and have known those two references for years. Also get this, and it's the best I've seen since O Four Tuna.
• I'm 6 years shy of 40. I can't say I remember this, but I sure as heck appreciate it. So here's my Joe Cocker story. I was at my aunt's place going through some of her old records (with the warning that "some of those are from my college days, so if you see any, uh, seeds fall out of the sleeve, discreetly dispose of them", ha ha, she cracks me up!). Anyway I found a Joe Cocker record. I was looking at the song credits. And god damned if I didn't find a song that Joe Cocker wrote! Really! Up until that moment, I was sure that Cocker was a cover artist, period. I had no clue he ever wrote a single thing. All he seems to do is take someone else's stuff and run with it. That's it. That's my story. Not as exciting as "so this one time Joe and I were backstage, and..." but I don't have any stories like that.
• In the exact opposite to that story, I had a similar shock when I found out that Barry Manilow did not write "I write the songs".
• The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind.
• Thanks, Ralph - that's hilarious!
• Great way to start the week. Thanks! Monkeyfilter: Me again
• I have a strong urge to play this video again (turned up to 11, natch!) and flail spastically around the room. Bah, these kids and their Guitar Hero® game...they don't know what they're missing! And yes, I'm over 40 - and I'm practicing to be a curmudgeon when I grow up. P.S. I remember watching the Belushi/Cocker skit when it originally aired. Think I still have a scar from falling down laughing.
• Yeah, I saw the Belushi thing when it first aired, too...although I wasn't quite old enough or savvy enough to understand it then. I think most of SNL went right over my head. Who the hell is Generalissimo Francisco Franco?
• somewhat related The girl with colitis goes by. Heathcliff, it's me, I'm a tree, I'm a wombat.
• Davy Jones is no Joe Cocker, of course, but my mother used to think the chorus of "Daydream believer" began with, "Cheer up, sweet Bejesus!"