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Saturday, 27. September 2008, 21:39:45
I have an unusually sharp memory that's riddled with miscellaneous minutiae. Some of those things are non-specific bits and pieces. Thanks to the gift of Google, I've been able to track down details on many of those obscurities.
I've tracked down info on a ten episode TV show from 1977 that hasn't rerun since. At eleven years old, I happened across an utterly bizarre and poorly overdubbed Hungarian movie. I've filled in some details on the shadowy images it left behind. How? Somebody posted a review on it!
These are things that have staked out a home in the recesses of my mind. Fortunately there are some real gems tucked away in my mental alcoves, like a nifty little ditty from a Budweiser radio commercial.
The song was performed by Chicago-based band The Good and written by their guitarist Nick Rogers. I like thinking that its title, If I Didn't Have to Work, is a prescient homage to the then as-yet-unreleased movie Office Space.
Enjoy!
If I Didn't Have to Work - Rogers
If I didn’t have to work I’d get so much done
Like watching every basketball game on my television.
I’d chat for days on my computer with girls I don’t know,
Spy on the mailman to find out why he’s so slow.
If I didn’t have to work, I’d make my bed a cocoon,
Set my alarm so it would wake me at the crack of noon.
Maybe I’d order a Gutmaster and then exercise here.
And then celebrate my workout with burritos and beer.
If I didn’t have to work, I’d win the Nobel prize
For the person who has captured and released the most flies.
And I’d do everything else ’til I had nothin’ to do.
Then they’d put me in commercials singing
This Bud’s for you….
This Bud’s for you….
This Bud’s for you….
I've tracked down info on a ten episode TV show from 1977 that hasn't rerun since. At eleven years old, I happened across an utterly bizarre and poorly overdubbed Hungarian movie. I've filled in some details on the shadowy images it left behind. How? Somebody posted a review on it!
These are things that have staked out a home in the recesses of my mind. Fortunately there are some real gems tucked away in my mental alcoves, like a nifty little ditty from a Budweiser radio commercial.
The song was performed by Chicago-based band The Good and written by their guitarist Nick Rogers. I like thinking that its title, If I Didn't Have to Work, is a prescient homage to the then as-yet-unreleased movie Office Space.
Enjoy!
If I Didn't Have to Work - Rogers
If I didn’t have to work I’d get so much done
Like watching every basketball game on my television.
I’d chat for days on my computer with girls I don’t know,
Spy on the mailman to find out why he’s so slow.
If I didn’t have to work, I’d make my bed a cocoon,
Set my alarm so it would wake me at the crack of noon.
Maybe I’d order a Gutmaster and then exercise here.
And then celebrate my workout with burritos and beer.
If I didn’t have to work, I’d win the Nobel prize
For the person who has captured and released the most flies.
And I’d do everything else ’til I had nothin’ to do.
Then they’d put me in commercials singing
This Bud’s for you….
This Bud’s for you….
This Bud’s for you….
WIDGETIZE
Karen # 27. September 2008, 22:55
I have honestly never heard of "The Fantastic Journey"...and I don't recall ever hearing that jingle before, either.
Maybe it's because I was in Montana at the time. They're about 50 years behind the rest of the country.
James # 28. September 2008, 03:25
No, almost nobody has heard of that old show.
That radio commercial is from about a twelve years ago, so it oughtta hit Bozeman sometime around... 2046? Just 38 years to go!
Karen # 28. September 2008, 04:22
hungryghost # 29. September 2008, 16:30
I guess that means I've now dated myself.