4 Dudes Gameday Superbowl Preview

Life in sports talk can be grueling. After an extended period of mourning following the BCS Title disappointment, we bring you our Superbowl preview show.

“Butt naked with glitter on ya and a beeper”

This trailer for Before The Music Dies always slays me, at least Erykah Badu in the beginning. What a great line.

Swingin’ those wire brushes

Brush playing is an art that doesn’t get all that much attention anymore. Drummers keep getting stronger and faster so most of the drummers and drumming highlighted these days tends to focus on blinding speed and complex patterns. Maybe it has always been that way. Not that speed and complexity isn’t cool, because it is. But I’m more thrilled by subtly and nuance, which probably comes as much from being older and slower as it comes from refined taste.  That said, this is a way cool clip of two great drummers playing brushes.

2010 and my car STILL WON’T FLY!

The Jetsons and everyone associated with that show are liars. So is (or was) Stanley Kubrick, although not in relation to flying cars but about the whole Pan Am space taxi thing. When I was around 10 I looked to the dawn of a new century for flying cars, not world peace, although at this point I’d gladly settle for the later. I just knew, certainly by 2010, that we would go to the garage, unplug our beautiful space-aged machine from the wall unit fed by solar panels on our roof, fire up the 4.1 jigawatt super hepcat nuclear fusion powertrain, and lift off with the noise equivalent of a mouse flossing its teeth. Then we’d take off as the crow flies to any place we want at up to 3xs the speed of sound with no Gs and cars smart enough to miss each other in the process. True, a bold and slightly ostentatious vision. But some where along the way all our priorities got out of whack because I see a gasoline powered, hail-damaged, earthbound, egg-shaped weenie machine sitting in my driveway, and it makes me sad.  Oh, what could have been. That we have all wasted the equivalent of years driving at subsonic speeds, weaving around roadways, waiting at traffic lights, all while passing the boredom by Twittering from our virtual iPhones in our virtual cars (flying ones, mind you) from Second Life while eating a Taco Supreme and changing CDs, is almost as disheartening as the 2009 decision by Spandau Ballet to regroup.

At least the person in this YouTube video had the guts to strap a rocket to their (I think) Mercury Marquis and push the limits way back in 19-something, although from the looks of the body parts exiting the vehicle upon reaching takeoff speed, the preflight thinking did not include what would happen once they left the ground.

I only hope that bold minds like the one behind this grand experiment someday join forces with those who know something about aerodynamics and structural engineering so that we may all begin flying to the grocery store in the manner we were meant to.

OK, now that’s weird

So this is called the Momotaro Modern Jazz Opera and it’s on YouTube and someone sent it to me. Of course, I don’t know what they’re saying which puts me at a disadvantage, but even then I’m watching and just making that jaw open frozen face look. Then there are moments that are just so funny that the face unfreezes and the laughter commences, followed by back to jaw open. This kind of artistic bizzarity cannot be planned. It has to result from the intersection of many disconnected things — a plan here, a perspective there, a Denny’s double chili dog platter after midnight, some time working in the equivalent of a lounge in Roswell, New Mexico. Whatever it is, it is an amazing natural phenomenon to behold and sometimes celebrated intentionally in art like that of Christopher Guest. All I know is, I’m grateful that it happens. It says to me that God has an enormous sense of humor.

4 Dudes Gameday - Big 12 Championship Recap

The Dudes talk about the game, then we go in the yard to illustrate how the Texas O line broke down against Nebraska, and finish with an illustration of how we think they’ll do against Alabama. The action is ferocious, so please use discretion with your younger viewers or anyone on life support.

4 Dudes Gameday - Big 12 Championship preview

The 4 Dudes recap Longhorns vs Aggies, do a roadtrip to DKR Texas Memorial Stadium and the trophy room with a stop a Freddy’s Steakburgers, and preview Longhorns vs Cornhuskers. This one is close to 10 minutes, but there was so much to see and talk about.

NOTE: It’s not playing in non-HD mode for some reason, so click play, then click HD and it will play.

4 Dudes Gameday, Nov 24, 09 — Texas vs Texas A&M

Paul, Luke, Evan and yours truly talk Longhorns and Aggie football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhHplUaHI0

4 Dudes Gameday, Nov 21, 2009 — Texas vs. Kansas

My pre-teen sons and I do Texas football analysis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFk0jpojUeM

High art from HeeHaw

I learned how to do the leg part, but the hands and voice thing seem to go against the natural order of things.