Reply To: Thing a Week: The Valentine’s Card edition

[Angelastic]

Hey, remember this? I’ve just recently decided to make a video of these little poems to release around the end of Thing A Week Redux, as some sort of commemorative thing. Nothing too fancy; just me (or my Mac, or George Bush, as required) reading them aloud (with some sound effects where appropriate to match the song if possible, e.g. in Podsafe Christmas Song) with a clip of the song playing quietly in the background while the video shows Len’s artwork for the Thing (and occasionally other relevant still images that help explain the poem) in a nice iMovie comic book theme. (I was going to show me, in various appropriate situations, but given that each thing only takes about 7 seconds to read, and each situation would take a while to think of, set up, and get right, and any use of actual video from my camera would mean the final video couldn’t be HD, and Len’s pictures look better than me, I figured it wasn’t worth it.)

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ALERT:

Since I’ve decided to use similar voices to the original songs (apart from JoCo’s voice, which will unfortunately be replaced by mine) I need help for one of them. Specifically, I’m looking for a young boy who could read out Rock and Roll Boy. Is anybody raising a young JoCo fan who could read a very short poem into a microphone? It could be a girl, since they sound similar at that age, and anyway, I’m not exactly the same gender as JoCo. He or she would just have to read this:

Young boys like toys,
old boys like drums.
Rock and roll boys
should love their mums.

I only need audio, not video. I don’t know whether ‘drum’ rhymes with ‘mom’, but obviously I’d prefer somebody who has an accent in which those two lines rhyme. Also, if anyone feels particularly inclined to read one of the others, be my guest. It would add some variety and general collaborative awesomeness. Ideally I’d get Neil Gaiman to read Creepy Doll and Leonard Nimoy to read Under The Pines, but I have a feeling they’re not lurking here.