OK, this is ancient news, but I only just learned that there is both a video documentation and audio documentation of this crazy moment, and posting this is more fun than finalizing grades :-).
Back at the end of October, Sub-Evil Boy and I took part in the annual ASA (Asian Student Association) Talent Show, performing an original (and highly strange) gem of Sub-Evil’s entitled “Taco man”. He has been a contestant in several of these in the past, including placing twice. His first go was back when he was 5 or 6 and he took 3rd (if memory serves) , all thanks to KK for dreaming up the crazy idea and signing him up! He later took first with a wonderful sing-along performance of Gershwin’s “It ain’t necessarily so” acapella and wearing a kilt!
In this, he was the veteran, for I had never actually performed in one of these things. He’d come up with this wacky “Taco man” song, though, and it was crying out for a horn section. So, lacking a horn section, we worked up an accordion accompaniment and I became part of the act. We came in third (all credit to Sub-Evil’s excellent song writing and delivery) – woot!
The video is unfortunately only of the last 1/2 of the piece, and was probably shot with a cell phone, but it’s still cool to have even this much. If you’d like to hear the whole thing, check out this recording. The quality’s quite good (it was taken straight off the sound board), although the volume’s really low for reasons I don’t fully understand and haven’t had time to try to fix. Props to Ellery Fisher for sharing the cool photo on Facebook, and to Huck Brock for telling me about both the photo and the video!
I should point out that I’m wearing the morning jacket that both my grandfather and I got married in (although it fits me a wee bit tighter than it did in 1989!), and the gaucho hat I bought when I was an exchange student in Montevideo, Uruguay, back in high school. I might also note that the guy standing next to me looks suspiciously like he might turn into an adult on us if we’re not careful…
