Move Over Amy...

It's just so sad, sad, SAD, the number of people who somehow find a camcorder, and decide to do their butter knife stab at immortality.

Guyyyyssss...having 15 to 30 to 130 views on GOOTUBE is NOT immortality. It's a fucking waste of time. Or is it that you find it easier to amuse your VERY FEW FRIENDS by sending them a GOOTUBE link, rather than a cumbersome e-mail attachment?

The sad, sad, SAD fact in THIS particular case, is that there's no shortage of professionals who've recorded "The Gettysburg Address" and other documents and poems. A mediocre version by somebody with a very ordinary voice...AIN'T NEEDED.

The irony here is that this guy isn't quite some obscure nebbish living a quiet life of desperation. Well, ok, he IS, but he did have a brief flirtation with fame. Some 40 (or more) years ago, he managed to get hired by a "Pops" orchestra to help 'em make a cheap record or two. Like, "Hmmmm, we might be able to get $1.98 for our salute to Gershwin, but we need a pianist who can play along on "Rhapsody in Blue." Some talented amateur who teaches music in a school? Somebody's piano teacher? Somebody?"

Since then he's bounced around (he refers to this as being a "Renaissance Man") at odd jobs, including creating websites. He's one of the LINKED IN desperados. For a while in the late 70's he was a guitarist in an Irish band (being Irish not required) that played small venues in Vegas for nostalgic, drunken tourists. He actually sings and plays a comical Irish tune on another GOOTUBE video, one that got (whee!) maybe 150 hits.

Do not go gentle into that good night: throw up a few GOOTUBE videos first. It'll impress your friends, if they are total morons:

"Wow, you're on TV! There you are, reciting a poem. Reading a chapter from a book. Doing a cover version of Taylor Swift. Showing everybody how to dis-assemble a laptop and insert new memory. Singing a tune in your living room so people can see what kind of stuff you own...."

Disgusting? Amusing? Just plain depressing.