While my ukulele gently weeps for fake beer for kids |
Loading ...This fake beer for kids TV in Japan commercial reminds me of those fake gum cigarettes I used to buy as a kid. You know, they had powered sugar in them and they would blow out “smoke.”
I keep laughing over the music and children’s expressions here. TV in Japan rocks! Unlike the last one and being that it’s a commercial hopefully YouTube will keep this one up.
On a musical note, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of my favorite Beatles tunes and must admit that I’d never heard it played on ukulele before until the video below. Impressed by Jake Shimabukuro’s mad ukulele skills? I was.
Jake makes it sound like he’s playing a 12 string guitar and yet the ukulele only has four strings.
This peacefull Ukulele moment is welcome on a harsh morning in cold Paris (France) today. What dexterity (is this on the 100 word list ?
) and smooth playing! Merci de nous faire partager cet instant de bonheur. Bonne journée.
Comment by Charles — May 30, 2007 @ 3:12 am PST
Yeah, I’ve listened to Jake playing that ukulele several times. Great stuff!
Dexterity is not on the 100 word list, Charles, but these D words are: deciduous, deleterious and diffident. Since comments don’t count in usage, I can safely list them here
Comment by TDavid — May 30, 2007 @ 5:03 am PST
As a mandolin player, I loved Jake’s rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and would like to down load it but I am completely computer challenged. So I will just keep playing it until it disappears. What I really wanted to tell you so you will laugh, is about those candy cigarettes. A long time ago in a place far, far away, I was in the checkout line at a Woolworth store and saw my children out side smoking cigarettes! They were only about 8 or 9 at the time. I stopped what I was doing and ran out there, spanked them, and took the cigarettes away from them only to find that they were not cigarettes but candy and the smoke I saw was merely sugar they were blowing out from them. I have been in remorse since then. Thank you for letting me get this out of my system after 30 years!
Comment by kathy harmon — July 28, 2007 @ 11:29 am PST