This is only my second time using an HSD rewind to get through the marathon-like paces of blogging from A to Z. I say marathon-like, because if this were a marathon, we would need to stick an extra 1/5 of a letter at the end.
Today's post goes back to October 2010, when I was writing posts about labels something, I call meta blogging, something Amy calls wake me when it's over. I wanted to share this post about the United Break's Guitar videos yesterday for U. But it turns out V works just as well.
One of my most popular tags is videos (# 6 after initial 300 posts). There are 3 types of videos that I post here:
1) videos I have taken of my family
2) Videos friends and family have asked me or allowed me to post
3) Viral videos I have found on the internet or that have been reccomended by other blogs.
One of the videos from the third category that I found most compelling is actually a series of three videos by a group called the Sons of Maxwell fronted by Canadian Dave Carroll.
1) videos I have taken of my family
2) Videos friends and family have asked me or allowed me to post
3) Viral videos I have found on the internet or that have been reccomended by other blogs.
One of the videos from the third category that I found most compelling is actually a series of three videos by a group called the Sons of Maxwell fronted by Canadian Dave Carroll.
The incident that inspired the songs took place in my home town of Chicago as United Airlines mishandled the guitar of Mr. Carroll. The real tragedy took place as Carroll could not get United to fix the guitar. After going round and round with United, Carrol told the airline's representative that he was going to write 3 songs about the incident, record them, make music videos and post them on you tube. Carrol was as good as his word and he posted the following 3 songs:
United Breaks Guitars Song I
United Breaks Guitars Song II
United Breaks Guitars Song III
Now I haven't flown United since the incident. This isn't really much of a boycott as I haven't had flown anywhere to since July of 2001. I will continue to post cool videos like these though.
Meanwhile back in 2012
I still haven't flown in a plane (although the rest of my family has) since July 2001. I have continued to post cool videos and will continue to do so. Here is a video of J.J. Heller who we as a family saw in concert last Friday.
They told us at the concert that the video had just reached 100,000 views on YouTube. I am going to take credit for anything past that, so go ahead and share it with your pals. And don't worry United didn't break her guitar, she has a tour bus, and she plays harmonica.
Meanwhile back in 2012
I still haven't flown in a plane (although the rest of my family has) since July 2001. I have continued to post cool videos and will continue to do so. Here is a video of J.J. Heller who we as a family saw in concert last Friday.
They told us at the concert that the video had just reached 100,000 views on YouTube. I am going to take credit for anything past that, so go ahead and share it with your pals. And don't worry United didn't break her guitar, she has a tour bus, and she plays harmonica.
2 comments:
The last song was sweet! Thanks for sharing it. :)
The Golden Eagle
The Eagle's Aerial Perspective
Hi there. Just found you on A-Z. Good luck with the rest of the alphabet. It's hard to believe we're nearly finished!
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