Bobby ‘Beatbox’ McFerrin

Here’s another classic Bobby McFerrin video.

This time beatbox. Shame the quality is not so good – but so worth watching .. and the expressions in the audience are almost as entertaining as he is!

Tufty and the ice cream van

Remember Tufty? (perhaps not!)

We didn’t have a problem with running out to ice cream vans. When I was young they didn’t come to our side of the village.

And my eldest daughter – until the age of three, thought that the chimes were the ‘music man’ playing nice tunes.

Bobby Mcferrin improvisation with Richard Bona

You may remember Bobby McFerrin’s song ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’ .. but did you know about his other music? He’s here with Richard Bona (known as the African Sting), improvising songs from ‘Beyond Words’ – a great Bobby McFerrin album.

If you like this – check out youtube for more .. or wait and every week or so, I’ll post them here.

Clever, uplifting, funny, melodic .. ‘worth playing all the way through!

The youtube description says it all ;

‘Live in Montreal. Beautiful and truly free improvisation between genius Bobby Mcferrin and Richard Bona. This sounds like angels playing with sound. Enjoy.’

I love it!

(As an aside, I read somewhere that Richard Bona, as a boy, in West Camaroon, made himself his first guitar – using bicycle brake cables for the strings!)

Somebody was to blame!

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.

Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done

Anon.

Do re me

With my imminent return to London commuting, this video reminds me of Liverpool St Station where a similar T mobile advert was filmed .. ‘always brings a smile when I walk through the station to/from my school work.

Enjoy!!

10 Top Jokes – The Fringe 2009.

There’s nothing like a good joke to start the week!

Here are ten to choose from, – judged as the best at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

I’d love to go one year!

• 1) Dan Antopolski - “Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge?”

• 2) Paddy Lennox – “I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting’.”

• 3) Sarah Millican – “I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they’re up where they belong.”

• 4) Zoe Lyons – “I went on a girls’ night out recently. The invitation said ‘dress to kill’. I went as Rose West.”

• 5) Jack Whitehall – “I’m sure wherever my dad is; he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.”

• 6) Adam Hills – “Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough.”

• 7) Marcus Brigstocke – “To the people who’ve got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn’t invent it!”

• 8) Rhod Gilbert – “A spa hotel? It’s like a normal hotel, only in reception there’s a picture of a pebble.”

• 9) Dan Antopolski – “I’ve been reading the news about there being a civil war in Madagascar. Well, I’ve seen it six times and there isn’t.”

• 10) Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson) - “I started so many fights at my school – I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn’t finish a lot of them.”

Do schools kill creativity?

When I talk with inner-city teachers about the frustration of the education system – or, seemingly against all odds ..  the wonder and excitement of a child discovering their previously hidden creativity .. the conversation includes Sir Ken Robinson.

He makes so many good points on this video. Taking just one for anyone who cares about our children’s development, and who believes that the function of school AND parenting is to help a child discover their individual passion – and their capacity for contributing (rather than talking only about their’potential which only emphasises that they’re ‘not there yet’!) .. this is a must see video!

You may well learn nothing new from watching this short video, but you’ll certainly be inspired to take a fresh look at the whole area of learning and personal development – apart from which Ken Robinson has a wonderfully silly sense of humour!

Enjoy!

www.sirkenrobinson.com