I
seriously hope you enjoy this video
because it was one of the bigger brain
teasers of my life. LOL. Here, watch the
video...
then come back to me.
...
Ok. That last
"Happy Birthday" that I say with the thumbs
up literally makes me wet myself. This is my third
pair of pants. So why was this such a
challenge?
Well obviously
it's a challenge to do it backwards, but as many of
you know from "Stronger
Than
Before",
there's a backwards song on there that I actually
learned completely backwards... the big difference
though is it's a capella. Throw in trying to play
piano backwards at the same time? Your brain starts to
malfunction. I actually memorized the whole
middle part. Ya see, I sang it the right way -
reversed it, then wrote out what I heard
phoenetically:
whooareyou-ersd/kay
thuuuuur b-bye (sigh),
hyeeeeen-nay-sd/kay
the earth thuuuuur b-bye,
whooareyou-ersd/kay
thuuuuur b-bye (sigh),
whooareyou-ersd/kay
thuuuuur b-bye (sigh),
neomni-vard,
skay-wersh,
enoff fday
dooog - WAS THEY falwin,
fay-ah-urshnishwile
-ayyy-lagee-leorine
fay-ah-arnay
vou-iss nissar kaninib.
whooareyou-ersd/kay
thuuuuur b-bye (sigh),
hyeeeeen-nay-sd/kay
the earth thuuuuur b-bye,
whooareyou-ersd/kay
thuuuuur b-bye (sigh),
whooareyou-ersd/kay
thuuuuur b-bye (sigh)...
Crazy right? Well
I memorized it word for "made-up" word and totally had
it down...
...and then
I sat at the piano and my cerebral cortex split
in half. It was hard enough memorizing the melody
backwards along with the words... but then the timing
of the chords - oh shit. Just shoot me. It's all I did
last night. Literally 2-3 hours of yelling
"ENOUGH DAY DOOOOG
WAS THEY FALWIN". What's so great about
singing backwards is it sounds like I'm singing some
Indian music-type song. Good times.
Of course
I go to finish it this morning and my computer
dies. This is such a stress in my life. I cannot
back-up everything I have. Like 500 gigs. I try so
hard to get everything to tape but I am a slave to
this machine. Happened to be the power box? Who knew
those could go bad... and it was an easy $40 to
replace. Whew.
But now it's
finally done. And wow, Kenny is 16 man. That year
kicked so much ass for me. Everyone always said don't
take that year for granted and I literally
everyday I was 16 I got up and thought to myself: "I'm
still 16." And I really had a sense of what it
meant. I really took stock at everything
I enjoyed doing...that I'd never be able to do as
an adult. Strange looking back that I even had
that mind-set. Man. Just occured to me how peculiar
that is, but I really thought about that. I'd do
it all again for a week.
In other news the
workout/diet thing is right on schedule. It works so
frighteningly well man. I cannot believe how
consistent the weight loss is when you get your target
heart rate up for 20 minutes...BEFORE you eat
your first meal. It's the key to everything. All day
you burn calories like a madman. Then if you counter
that with just taking in less calories and eating the
dreaded BORG... It's easy. I'm now ten days into it
and there's no turnin' back. Weight is much more
serious the older you get, and I am so insanely
determined to break the patterns I've gone through my
whole life early. I barely have the motivation now...
in ten years, kids... no way.
Big entry comin'
up on Saturday, so be on the lookout for it. And have
a safe birthday Kenny and I'll be seein' you in a
couple weeks.
