Flash mobs, surprisingly, are one of those things that always make me smile. I’ve never borne witness to a flash mob in person, and I would probably be furious if I was inconvenienced by the flash mob in even the tiniest way, but damn are they fun to see on YouTube, particularly when they aren’t orchestrated by Howie Mandel. FUN FACT: I’m going to try to sneak an anti-Howie Mandel reference into every article I write today.
On the other side of things, I will pretty much drunkenly tell anyone who will listen, that John Williams is the modern day Beethoven. I saw him “perform” at the Hollywood Bowl (I put perform in quotations because he is a conductor rather than an actual performer, not because I was insinuating that I saw him rubbing one out), and his roster of written songs was pretty much a back-to-back knockout of all the great modern movie themes (except “Jurassic Park” for some reason … WTF, John? I paid good money…).
So when a video emerges of a flash mob orchestra doing John Williams’ “Star Wars” theme on a busy street in Cologne, Germany (my second-favorite German city name!), you can pretty much imagine that it made me “perform” under my desk. Here I also mean conduct a symphony; get your mind out of the gutter.
[…] We’ve entered into a troublesome era of humanity lately, and my generation and the internet are completely at fault. Generation Y, with our somehow unhinged NEED to believe in magic and fantasy (we ate up the Disneyland mythos harder than any other generation before us, it seems) has resulted in this bizarre “happenings” existence. We believe in the divine right of fame and reward for minimal effort and we firmly believe that should we spontaneously decide to break into song, everyone else should know the words and the moves. […]
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