Q. How did people waste time before the Internet?
A. They watched cable television.
I know this because yesterday while channel surfing I got "stuck" on Red Water, a made-for-TV movie starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Coolio. I got stuck for three reasons:
1. The obvious; nothing else was on [the other 70 channels].
2. I'm a sucker for shark movies. Jaws is on my all-time Top Ten. Any shark movie, even one this shaky, deserves a shot.
3. Come on! Lou Diamond Phillps as a down-on-his-luck oil driller turned charter boat captain! Coolio as an enforcer for a Caribbean drug lord! A Cajun deckhand dispensing sage advice! The Bull Shark terrorizing a Louisiana river! This has got It's So Bad It's Good written all over it.
So I started watching it for awhile. I was attracted and repulsed at the same time. I did the only thing that made sense. I recorded it so I could go on with my life secure in the knowledge that I could watch it later.
OK, with that strange confession out of the way, I can now turn to the ACTUAL topic of the day: (as alluded to earlier) wasting time on the Internet. One of the absolute best time wasters (Skateboarding Dog anyone?) is, of course, YouTube.
Here, in no particular order, are a few clips I can't get enough of:
An OUTSTANDING solo version of Baba O'Rielly by The Who played on piano. Seriously, check this out. I'm a cynic, but found this uplifting. I'm just saying.
My favored version of Canon Rock (as arranged by JerryC) performed by Carl Fernandes.
An equally impressive version of Pachelbel's Canon, this time on acoustic guitar without accompaniment, by Trace Bundy.
Sticking with a guitar theme, how about Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag played, inexplicably, on a bass guitar?
Lastly, I'd like to give a shot out to the Slow Jamz of the singular Ronald Jenkees: a character by and of the Internet Age.
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