Gleek

Challenge: To record a 'Glee' style song with some amigos

Skills Developed: The ability to incorporate the word 'boobies' or 'boob' into any film title.

Overview/Rant: For those that haven't watched Glee yet- shame on you. For those that haven't heard of Glee yet- just leave. 

The major selling point of Glee is obviously the music- but I implore you (feel implored) to watch it for Sue Sylvester as well... 

After a week of watching Glee, from beginning to end, I was feeling incredibly motivated to break into a Glee style musical number. So with this motivation I e-mailed some of my drama buddies (yes- I have specific friends for specific occasions) and we decided to meet Friday last (I'm late with this post- could have been the Friday before... or maybe it was a Saturday?) and work on a little Glee magic. Rather than be a dictator and pick a song I decided I would open it up to the group to decide a musical number... this was an error which took several hours of discussion and heavy drinking to correct.

At some point we talked about whether or not we wanted to be original and do our own take on a popular song that hasn't been done by Glee. The latter was deemed the best option by most people. Once this was decided we had a short (3/4 hours) discussion on whether to do a mash-up of two songs, and if so- which two. We EVENTUALLY decided that we would mash-up the Killers song "I Got Soul" with... well... another song that we hadn't actually decided upon yet...

So we tried learning some harmonies...

I continued to drink... others joined... we gave up learning harmonies...

J* whipped out a backing track to the Glee version of "Don't Stop Believing" and the rest is history.

Then we went to the Poets room which is littered with film posters and "re-titled" them: Transboobies, Pulp Boobies, Edward Scissor Boob, Star Boobies, Boob... and so forth... 

Conclusion: Glee night was awesome. I got a Mohawk. We didn't sleep till 6am. When we'd finished singing Journey, we just sang other musical show tunes. In terms of challenge completion I'm going to give this one a good olde tick- BUT I may revisit this later to do an actual mash-up of two tunes and see if we can reattempt this fiasco.

Recommendation: Watch Glee. Sing. Get a Mohawk.

Special Thanks: Thanks to Boozing Bourke, Drama Bob and Robin Hood who offered their services but couldn't make the night- worry not- we will have a Glee 2.0 night! Special thanks to J who did the recording and editing of the track. Thanks to the Sweetman for a bit of 3-in-1.... Boo to Alice McFail who left early! Thanks to the singers: Cidona, Clong, Sexual, Mr. Mortar, the Poet and Brendan O'Rourke**

Here is my favourite Glee song... I mean- it's Kelly Clarkson... KELLY CLARKSON... epic...

* All names have been changed to protect identities
** Named as it was felt his identity did not need protecting. He's the guy making that chicken clucking sound you hear in the background.

Diablo thy name be Diabolo...

Challenge: Learn some basic tricks on the DIABOLO...

Difficulty: 5/5

Skills Developed: A devout unrelenting hatred for the diabolo.

Overview/Rant: Firstly- I would have saved hours (days) of timewasting had I correctly learned how to spell the diabolo... my research did bring me back to the original Diablo game, which quite frankly, is better in so many ways than the diabolo. I mean- it had FIREWALL (see below) an entire WALL of FIRE (the writers had a tough day coming up with a name for that spell)... but, seriously, how awesome is that?! Does Diabolo have FIREWALL?! I think not.

The diabolo is also known as 'the devil on two sticks.' I attempted with great gusto to accomplish one single trick on the diabolo... I failed... miserably... I WAS going to record what I'd learned but the video would have only lasted about 2 seconds... including set up time. It was frustrating and soul destroying. Anyone that attempts this should have there head examined. Never in the history of the world has anything as frustrating as the diabolo been invented.

Conclusion: Shit- I've already covered my conclusion in the Overview/Rant section... um... this challenge was challenging and hateful in so many ways. I almost cried. Happy?

Random shit: I finished my Post Graduate Diploma in Education! Fully qualified now (got a first!!!). I also got a JOB... in Kuwait (holy shit)... and I watched through all 21 current existing episodes of Glee -it was inevitable... which leads me too...

Challenge next week: Get a group of singers together. Rehearse and record a song 'Glee' style. Anyone wanna volunteer to join then just leave a comment. Any song ideas? Then leave a comment... and on that note...