Nathan “Flutebox” Lee: Incredible Flute Beatbox

Many people don’t realize what a ‘band fagjock’ I was in High School.

Actually, I was the ‘cool guy’ in band. I played trumpet and was damned good (paid my way through college with the horn). I dated the cheerleaders when the football jocksfags were showering together after a game. I played all the solos and the women swooned. During my senior year, I would march out on the football field with a lone snare drummer and do the National Anthem as a soloist (several times, including Homecoming). Not to “toot my own horn”, but I was good. Exceptionally good. Unfortunately, I am too much teh dumbass to try to capitalize on my talent (or even use it to any extent any more)… but that is another story… a “first love” kinda heart break story.

So, to get to the point of this post (but not to offend my friends), this old redneck is not really a Hip Hop or a rap fan (I am just an old rock and roller at heart). But there are certain segments of hip hop that strike my appreciation in ability, just as there are even other certain music genres that amaze me, as well. As an example, I recently ‘Favorited’ Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma that blows my socks off every time I hear it and Oystein Baadsvik playing Carnival of Venice on a Tuba:

Now, for those of you who are unfamiliar with this Symphonic styled music featuring a wind soloist, this particular song is amazingly difficult to play… but to play it so flawlessly as this funny guy does just blows my mind, especially on that particular instrument. Point is, I recognize certain techniques in wind instruments that are both extremely difficult and astonishingly well done.

Remember, I said I was damned good at trumpet. Well, that particular song took me many years to be able to play, and I have never been able to perform the song in public (as Winton Marsalis does here). The difference between playing the song with a trumpet and a tuba is like the difference of walking a mile or running a marathon. Simply put, some people are so talented that even if you don’t particularly like the genre, you can appreciate their abilities very much (and sometimes actually enjoy it).

It was not until I saw the following video that I realized how beat box music uses many of the same characteristics and techniques in projecting air (making sound). Obvious to me now, there are so many triple tongue and quadruple tongue movements (which involve a very deep push from the larynx… kind of like the heart “thump”  sound). Now, to be able to carry out all these intricate tongue, mouth and throat manipulations AND play notes of a melody is tremendously talented and shows many, many hours of practice.

Whether or not you are a flautist or an aficionado of classical music (or rap), you should be able to enjoy this:

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BuelahMan’s Solution For Our Failed Economy

I say we start a “Bush Shoe” company and sell shoes in the US (I have seriously wanted to order a pair). Can you imagine the influx of capital into the system of those who want to buy.

Put the chimp on a dunk booth pedestal and our worries are over. Add acid, instead of water and we bail out the world:

Robert Tait in Istanbul
The Guardian
Monday 22 December 2008

Their deployment as a makeshift missile robbed President George Bush of his dignity and landed their owner in jail. But the world’s most notorious pair of shoes have yielded an unexpected bonanza for a Turkish shoemaker.

Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world, after insisting that his company produced the black leather shoes which the Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi threw at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last Sunday.

Baydan has recruited an extra 100 staff to meet orders for 300,000 pairs of Model 271 – more than four times the shoe’s normal annual sale – following an outpouring of support for Zaidi’s act, which was intended as a protest, but led to his arrest by Iraqi security forces.

Orders have come mainly from the US and Britain, and from neighbouring Muslim countries, he said.

Around 120,000 pairs have been ordered from Iraq, while a US company has placed a request for 18,000. A British firm is understood to have offered to serve as European distributor for the shoes, which have been on the market since 1999 and sell at around £28 in Turkey. A sharp rise in orders has been recorded in Syria, Egypt and Iran, where the main shoemaker’s federation has offered to provide Zaidi and his family with a lifetime’s supply of shoes.

To meet the mood of the marketplace, Baydan is planning to rename the model “the Bush Shoe” or “Bye-Bye Bush”.

“We’ve been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy. We’ve even hired an agency to look at television advertising,” he said.

Zaidi has been in custody since the shoe-throwing incident, amid claims that he has been badly beaten. He faces a possible jail sentence for insulting a foreign leader, but has reportedly apologised and requested a pardon from Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.

High Priced Forrest Gump Was Purposely Killed

Why Michael Connell was so important

Taped November 3, 2008

“Plane crash – cause unknown”

Mike Connell was the computer expert who engineered the Karl Rove election frauds.

The day before the 2008 presidential election he was called into court and compelled to testify.

This past Friday, December 19th, he was killed in a plane crash – cause unknown.

Details:

“Connell’s Piper Saratoga single-engine plane crashed during the evening of December 19 in Uniontown, Ohio, as it was preparing to land at Akron-Canton airport.

There were no other passengers and Connell was killed in the crash. Connell had flown to College Park, Maryland, the previous day.

Connell, who lived in Akron with his wife Heather and four children, often flew to Washington for activities related to his IT businesses.”

h/t BrassCheckTV

Want Bush Charged For War Crimes?

According to Pat Leahy, it ain’t gonna happen in America. And you thought that maybe someone, somewhere might give us “hope” for some sort of “change” from the corruption and abuses. Not when they all work for Big Money.

Bush Won’t Be Prosecuted

Consider the feigned outrage mustered around the Clinton/Lewinski scandal; undying adherence to the rule of law and the constitution; yet in the case of blatant and grossly obvious war crimes and atrocities, our own representatives will not do anything about making it right.

I could not be more ashamed of my country’s representatives and leadership… not for their lackadaisical attitude and missed responsibilities, but for their complicity in the criminality. For there truly is no other rational explanation, except that they are in on the coverup of this monster and his administration and have the blood of many thousands on their hands. (h/t AfterDowningStreet)

Listen to the extensive interview with Leahy here.