Saturday, December 13, 2014

It's not just beeping like it was in my day

Thomas had his first concert with the FYSO last night. As usual, it was at a high school that I have never been to before, so we had to do the usual wandering around vast hallways, looking for the auditorium. Fortunately there was not a basketball game going on last night as there always seems to be when we have to do this as my usual rule of "follow everyone else" only gets me to the gym, then. Now that Simon is a whiz (nobody beats him) at uploading humongous files onto YouTube, we can show complete songs without having to ask OEL to get us access to UM-Flint's server space. We'll spare you the Holiday Pop medley (which was designed to induce singing) and show Thomas's favorite, which is a Nintendo Video Game medley (hence the post title). I didn't recognize any of the so-called tunes (Thomas's current ambition is to become a video game composer, and apparently that's a Real Thing), but it is a snappy number nonetheless:
Tonight is the Wind Ensemble concert and then, finally, we are FREE to start thinking about holiday breaks (after, of course, we get through next week, the last week of the semester).
[Weird note: better watch that video soon because it's been flagged by YouTube because one of the tunes (according to them, from a game called "Kingdom Hearts") is owned by Disney! So: they have a program that scans through all of the billions of hours of videos uploaded to YouTube and can recognize music - even when it's played by children! Either that, or they have an army of magic lawyer elves.]

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Very dramatic....so far (shamed to say I didn't watch to the end).

xM