Autocorrect is such a monster pain in my ass, and yet, it is useful enough that I can’t quite bring myself to get rid of it. For every “I love you, Grandma” that gets turned into “I love you, butt-grabbing nipple monster,” there is a word like “chrysanthemum” that I don’t have to fully spell out (I write a lot of flower-based haikus …). Apparently I’m not the only one who experiences this love/hate relationship with my smartphone, because someone originally took the time to dedicate a Tumblr to this subject, and now there’s a song.
Those wild and wacky dreamers over at Above Average Productions have just come out with “Baby, I Lobe You,” the musical ode to two men falling in love with the same curl … I mean “girl.” Damn, I felt just like Bob Saget on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” when I typed that joke. Is this how far I’ve fallen?
[…] Each episode will be a theme like “the road,” or “snow” or “why hot dog buns come in packs of eight while hot dogs come in packs of 10” (it could happen). And it doesn’t matter if you have some half-formed idea or song — just upload what you have because the idea here is collaboration. Say you’ve got a good hook for a song, but no lyrics or melody. Upload it. Someone else can worry about the words and other stuff, and if it makes it on the show, you all get paid. The same goes for drawings that can be turned into animations. It’s crowdsourced television like “America’s Funniest Home Videos” except fresher, more dynamic and with a whole bunch less Bob Saget. […]