HNT - Walking Tenor (Twelve Miles Away) In Three-Quarter Time
So Osbasso's Half-nekkid Thursday project is three years old. That's actually pretty cool for more reasons than I can count. Anyway, he proposed that participants this week incorporate the number three in their contribution. I'd already decided I wanted to submit a video of me walking down a nice sidewalk in my neighborhood and then back again. I didn't really know how to turn *that* into someting with a three in it, but then watching the video I'd recorded with all the street and airplane noise competing with bird calls it occurred to me I could do a voice over. And if I could do a voiceover I could do it in waltz or three-quarter time.
Since the microphones on laptops already make everything sound like those old wax recordings they used to do for the Smithsonian Folk Life and Cultural Heritage projects decided to make lemonade out of lemons... or maybe that should be other way around.
"Can you sing 'Under a Texas Moon?'... or further?"
"Can you sing tenor... twelve miles away?"
Happy HNT (or Half-nekkid Thursday!)
LOL that was awesome.
happyHNT!
[Thank you, Vixen. Happy HNT to you too. --fl]
Hah. You might not know but you'd always care.
[Well, what I really meant was I wouldn't know who some of the people I actually like quite a lot and therefore wouldn't care. Even if I *do* see them (more or less) in their underwear, if not for HNT I *wouldn't.* But mostly it just scanned better that way... um... can I claim poetic licence (obviously not)... um.. ok, busted. :-) Thanks, Holly. --fl]
It was a nice day today, wasn't it.
And it gets better tomorrow.
Cool video.
[And 85 degrees by the end of the week! Thanks, Bellacara. --fl]
I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love your little ditty. :)
This is fabulously creative. Great HNT!
[It seems like the longer I work on something the less interesting it sounds. In which case this song should have been fascinating. :-) Thank you so much, Ms i. And happy HNT to you too. --fl]
Hah!! That was an amazing tribute! HHNT!
[Thanks, Dana. Happy HNT. --fl]
There he is!
Mister Figleaf strolling in his wrinkly clothes! Just kidding, you look dashing as always and to boot you have a lovely singing voice too! Very clever tribute for HNT. I love your videos.
It looks so nice and green there unlike dusty boring brown NM where its JUST NOW raining! We've not had rain since.... gah! December???! So we're just not getting some "green" around here even though the trees have been blooming and the flowering bushes too. Okay, I'll cut my babbling short, just wanted to say HI! and HHNT before I'm off on another long day of traveling. Ta!
[Thank you, Raven. I hope the weather perks up for you. Although we're about to go into our dry season -- you'll get far more rain in the Southwest this summer than we usually do here in the Northwest. Happy HNT. --fl]
That was AWESOME! I adore it, and you of course. I love getting to see more of "you."
[Thanks, Biscuit. I thought your three-piece outfit was great too. Happy HNT. --fl]
You are just too damn adorable...
[Aww, thanks, Norby. --fl]
happy Haaaaapppy HNT to you too figleaf.
i loved the song, and the walk.
[Thanks, BSM. Happuh, happuh HNT, thankyavurramuch. :-) --fl]
Hey, Figleaf, I was so inspired by your wonderful, creative HNT video that I had to pen these lyrics for you:
I was surfing on the 'net one day
In the merry merry month of May
When I was taken by surprise
By a pair of rougish thighs
In a moment my poor heart was stole away.
Of course, you and I are probably the only folks reading here who are old enough to recognize the lyrics and melody I pilfered.
Happy HNT to you and a Happy Three Year Anniversary to Osbasso!
May I suggest that you write out the witty lyrics to your HNT song, beneath the YouTube box, for those who are hearing impaired, either by nature or by choice (when in the proximity of a nosy coworkers)?
[Thank you for the additional lyrics, Kochanie. I'd overdub your lyrics and tune instead but it's not in waltz time. :-) As for the words, um... I kind of winged it. "Happy happy HNT, Osbasso's is the place for me, without him I'd neither know nor care, how everyone looked in thar underware. Or something close to that. --fl]
Great musical offering. Happy (Belated) HNT
[Thanks, LR. Happy even more belated HNT to you too. :-) --fl]
Very cool.
Happy (belated) HNT!
[Thanks, Bunny. Happy very belated HNT to you too. --fl]