Today is a palindrome!

It's probably because my name is Bob, but I always love a good palindrome when I see one–even when it's just the date. So, I thought I'd let you all know, so you could appreciate 01/02/2010 for being the same forwards and backwards.

My personal palindrome favorites are "race car" and "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!" At least I think they're called palindromes...or are they conondromes?

Monday Night Football goodness: Damage Points and Huuuuuuuge!

Okay, so I promise my blog hasn't become a platform for reviewing commercials. I just discovered a lot of advertising treasures during my posting vacation. The agency Wieden+Kennedy has made some more hilarious Monday Night Football commercials similar to the one I raved about back in September.

This first one makes me laugh so hard, partly because it's brilliant (especially when the guy calls the bird) and partly because I think the main actor looks like James Paul.

As for the second commercial. All I have to say is, "It was huuuuuuuge!"

Right on Target

I think Target wins the award for funniest Christmas commercials of 2009. The first commercial, "From Santa," is a priceless piece of acting. You've gotta love the intensity of guy's eyes all throughout the commercial and how his wife cuts him off at the end while giving him an awkward long smile and a blink. I love it when actors in commercials nail their roles.

The second commercial makes me laugh every time I hear the old man tell his neighbor why the dog is really barking. I also bust a gut when he points to himself while saying, "I believe you, but..."

Bobby's Back!

I know, I've been a bad blogger. But, I haven't stopped thinking of blogworthy events. In fact, I have quite a few funny happenings to share with you. And so, now that I'm no longer swamped with finals (I got a 4.0!), marketing competitions, and Christmas, I can devote my undivided attention to being bloggy.

YouTube Treasures

I found a couple of videos on YouTube that made me chuckle heartily. The first is "Crazy Old Lady X-Box Style." I think Microsoft went to a Spanish speaking country to get people to try out for one of their commercials. I'm assuming they were supposed to pretend to shoot fake guns; but, regardless, it's a work of art and it made me laugh out loud. The lady's facial expressions kill me. I also laugh uncontrollably when she emits the intense squawks at the very end.

The second video is "Beyonce Clown." My roommate showed me this one the other week and I was so mad when he had me come into his room to show it to me because I thought he was laughing because he thought it was funny seeing a lady in a clown mask dancing. "You are such a little kid," I thought, only to realize that he was laughing in anticipation of what was to come. Enjoy.

Oh, I also saw this Carl's Jr commercial today. Waaaayyyyy dirty, but the fry grab at the end made me chortle. It's reminiscent of Napoleon reaching for tots.

Band Footage for Family Far Away

Here is some footage that was taken of my band playing at Acoustic Explosion this past Wednesday. The people on the BYU Student Activities Board told me to hurry because the show was running behind, so there was no time for telling jokes for chuckles or sneaking in the Snuggie.

If you read last post, this first song is where I dropped my pick twice. The song is called "Maybe."

This next song is called "Drowning." There was another kid at the show that recorded this song and put it on YouTube. He wrote a review of our concert and put it on his web site.

During the last song, "Is It Me," my video camera ran out of juice, but it was recording long enough to see the random girl swaying in the background. The drummer didn't even know what hit him. This was the song I turned in on a demo CD to make it into Acoustic Explosion, so if anyone wants a copy of the demo, let me know and I'll send it to you.

Shredding on the Guitar

Last night I played at Acoustic Explosion at BYU. I thought my band did a really good job. I got really into it and started shredding on the guitar. Now, when you read the word shred, you may have thought I meant this:

shred

verb

To play the guitar in a technically proficient manner

But, in reality, I meant this:

shred

verb

To cut or tear into small pieces, esp. small strips

Right in the middle of our first song, my guitar pick flung from my fingers and floated to the floor. A kid in my band picked up my pick and handed it to me. Aside from my guitar cutting out for about a measure, it wasn't really too noticeable. Unfortunately, about a stanza later, my pick flew out of my hands for a second time. I guess you could say that I wasn't able to to come to grips with the situation. My thirst for dropping picks was un'clench'able.

Knowing that the song must go on, I resorted to strumming the rest of the song with the fingernail on my middle finger. Apparently I was playing pretty hard because the guitar string shredded through a layer of skin on my middle finger. The funny thing about it was that I didn't even realize it had happened. I just remember looking down at my guitar while I was playing our second song and I saw a bunch of red streaked across my strings. "Hmmm...that's weird," I thought. "Must be the lighting." Only after the show did I glance down at my finger and gaze upon the grazing that had taken place.

There was another strange thing that happened while we were playing our last song. Some random girl walked up on stage and started dancing behind us while we played. No one really knew who she was or why she was there, but it was really weird. The bassist in my band thought she was a friend of the drummer until the drummer mouthed to the bassist in the middle of the song, "WHO IS THIS GIRL???" After we finished our set the girl ran up right next to me and started yelling stuff into the microphone. It was so weird... No one even knew her name. The only thing we knew about her was that she had just gotten out of rehab. She must have *sneaked out.

*sneaked is correct; it's not snuck