My sister's waaay too erudite assessment of William Shatner

[Writer]

A few days ago a kind DU'er posted a link to William Shatner's 1978 rendition of "Rocket Man." I watched it and roared! I sent the link to a few friends and family, thinking they would enjoy it. Especially my dad - he is a major tongue-in-cheek Shatner fan.
http://gorillamask.net/rm.shtml

Anyway, my dad had trouble downloading the link. I asked if anyone else had trouble downloading it. Then writes my sister, who had been able to download and watch it. Armed with a little too much "intellectualismness" (my new word), she completely drains the experience of any fun. Here's my sister's overly intellectual rendition of Shatner's horrible rendition of "Rocket Man":


I didn't know how to summarize my reaction to the video. It wasn't all that funny to me, perhaps because I could see some serious thought and art in his performance initially, this mixed in with the irony of having t.v.'s most notorious "space man" spoof a song that deals with . . . outer space. The silliness at the end gets mucked up with the initial quasi-seriousness mixed with irony at the beginning, so that by the end, you don't know if you're applauding a serious routine gone awry, or a bad attempt at a joke. I think the audience had the same reaction, though you have to take into account that William Shatner's appearance in a sci fi awards show at that point was a little fresher than it is today. I'm surprised no one laughed, and they should have at the end. All in all, weird and hard to pin down. Glad you were able to get a good laugh out of it, Writer. I sort of smiled, sort of winced. Didn't know how I felt. Thanks for forwarding the link.
I'd only heard of him doing this. Had never seen it.

-Writer's Sister



P.S. In case you're wondering, yes I do have a good relationship with my sister. ;)

[ForrestGump]

1. Blow her mind by sending her "Mr Tambourine Man" or "Lucy In The

Sky With Diamonds"... :-)

[Abelman]

2. Send her Leonard Nimoy

singing the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.

[Writer]

6. If any of you guys can get me links to either of these

I'd be very very grateful.

[Richard Steele]

3. Have you ever tried just taking the time to 'sit down' with your sister...

...and SLAP the SH*T out of her?

JUST KIDDING...:evilgrin:

I thought her post was REALLY funny, just cuz she doesn't seem to "get" where we all are coming from...

Reading it the SECOND time...is she maybe being sarcastic, playing along WAAAAY past our expectations?

If so, she's a friggin' GENIUS!

[Skittles]

4. she sounds over-educated

very over-educated

[Writer]

5. The funny thing is

She has two bachelors and two masters degrees. I'm working on my masters currently, but I don't feel the need to hyperintellectualize what's before me to prove that.

I wish I could say that she was being sarcastic, but she'll "wax eloquently" over what's for dinner.

I do love my sister, though. She just needs to relax a bit.

And that Shatner bit is pretty damn funny, in my book!

Writer.

[Strawman]

7. I'd be curious what her take is on this

mms://ifilm.wmod.llnwd.net/a65/o1/portal/2667017_300.asf

(Copy and paste into browser)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. That is just so incredibly wrong.

The horror. The horror.

(I'm talking about the singer, not the subject....)

[Writer]

9. Okay. I have now given up on humanity.

Let me now go scream until the noise has been excommunicated from my mind.

:cry:

[redqueen]

10. Well gosh...

I didn't think her reply was weird... what does that say about me?

:shrug: