ok ..so explain....
Where have you been? There is a contest among these posters who can start the most threads. This is the main reason behind all the duplicate, triplicate threads about the most trivial matters. It is a secret contest in that the thread starters themselves without any judges consider themselves “winners” by posting these unneeded, irrelevant threads. It is a point of foolish pride to start a thread! That’s my interpretation. Go figure.
Threads such as this show how culturally diverse Freepers are. Not all conservatives prefer to listen to harpsichord music while sipping sherry.
Good song though. Those guys looked like they were having fun.
Did anybody notice how that seagull flew by in the background at around the 1:22 mark of that video? I'm thinking that was totally unscripted but it worked! That seagull was pretty awesome.
Haunts me in a good way.
I immediately downloaded the song on YouTube and it pops up on my iPod playlist every now and then. It's always a fun song to hear and takes me back to a time I was almost too young to remember - in 1966, I was still a year away from kindergarten.
I mean to bump this thread a week ago for this song came up on my car radio on a brutally cold and dark morning while I was on my way to the train station to catch a train to Manhattan.
It was a rather depressing morning for me as it was so cold and the wood in my home was groaning under the weight of snow and ice. I just wanted to stay in bed. But I dragged myself out of it and took a hot shower and prepared for work.
It seemed the winter would never end. Weeks of cold and snow. So...I'm driving to the station and dreading the long walk from the car to the train platform. It's pitch dark and not even a hint of sunrise. My car thermometer read -2 degrees and it was windy out there too. Those are the worst mornings.
That's when this song popped up on my random playlist. Suddenly I was thinking of Southern California, beaches, young exuberant men playing this music on a pier with blond haired girls clapping in the background. You just knew that after shooting the video, that they were going to crack some beers and have a party.
And the seagull! I pictured that sea gull flitting through the background of the video at the 1:22 mark. And the freedom! The freedom that sea gull and all those people on the pier must have felt at that point of time!
That video is quintessentially American.
The rest of my workday went much better after that.