Category Archives: Me singing with introductions
In this section, before I sing the song, I speak some nonsense as a background to it.
A message about homophobes
| Playout date: | 14 October 2006 |
| Camera: | Logitech Webcam |
| Post Production: | Windows Movie Maker – slight use |
| Location: | Home |
| Other people featured: | None |
| Genre: | Spoof |
| Music used: | “Promise Me” by Beverly Craven – Karaoke |
| Languages used: | Geordie English |
| Animals featured: | None |
Polish-origin Geordie Peter Paczek (pronounced Poncheck) returns to give us a quick lesson for foreigners learning English.
One of the pitfalls for learners of English is the problem of homophobes in English, Peter says. That’s words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Here is a guide to some of them.
We finish up with a rendition of Beverly Craven’s lovely song “Promise Me”. Don’t miss the comments to this one by clicking through to the YouTube original via the video above – there are some classical ones among the comments to this one!
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If I loved you
| Playout date: | 5 October 2006 |
| Camera: | Logitech Webcam |
| Post Production: | None |
| Location: | Home |
| Other people featured: | None |
| Genre: | Intro’d song |
| Music used: | If I loved you, karaoke track |
| Languages used: | English |
| Animals featured: | None |
I decided to sing this because at the time of posting I didn’t really like any of the renditions I saw on YT. Since then I’m happy to say I’ve seen quite a few that I liked and which are certainly better than this. Hence not everyone likes the description to this song – the prevalance of dislikes to likes for this song is probably provoked a bit by my saying that I didn’t like the other ones, but what can I say? At the time it was a fair assessment!
Karaoke Evening at Home (current video)
It was a quiet winter evening in, and I was singing to my wife a few of her favorite pieces, and then remembered I could be recording it for a few more folk to have some fun and share the moment.
So here we are. Most of them sung not very well, but I haven’t edited it just to keep the better ones in, as that wouldn’t be real and I am all about keeping it real.
If you can, enjoy!
RL 101-3 Six letters that look the same but are different
| Playout date: | 9 September 2006 |
| Location: | Moscow Hotel |
| Other people featured: | None |
| Music used: | “All around my hat” Steeleye Spam, karaoke, with some Russian lyrics. |
| Languages used: | Russian |
| Animals featured: | None |
This time Huliganov shows the letter group BPHXCY where the usage in Russian follows that of Greek, the letter shapes in this group appear in Latin script but with different values.
The professor also warns people of the necessity to roll their ‘r’s. He finishes off with one of his all time favorite folk songs “All around my hat” as well as a rather ribald joke.
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They don’t make ‘em like that any more!
Image via Wikipedia
Production date: 20 July 2006
Playout date: 20 July 2006
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker – heavy use
Location: Home on the terrace
Genre Intro’d song
Soundtrack info: Somewhere over the Rainbow – karaoke version
Languages used: Northern English
Animals featured: None
This is actually a one off so far – the only film with Arthur Pettycommon in. I have had requests to develop this character and I’m sure that will happen in due course.
The song “Somewhere over the rainbow” of course comes from the Wizard of Oz film – or at least that’s what made it famous. The film is also famous for transitioning between a black and white opening and colour, and that’s also being spoofed with the colour changes here in this film. Had I had the technology then that I do not, I could have even superimposed a whirlwind onto it!
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Donner und Blitzen!!!!
Production date: 17 July 2006
Playout date: 17 July 2006
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker – heavy use
Location: Home at desk
Soundtrack info: Nicole – “Ein Bisschen Frieden“
Languages used: English, German
Animals featured: None
Sproey von Weytzentrenner returns putting the world to rights, slating the advertising going on in YouTube while plugging Lomza beer, expaining why Schroeder belongs in prison and that governments should construct huge batteries to store the power from lightning.
Afterwards, von Weytzentrenner has a treat in store – the German Eurovision winner (the only one until Lena came along in 2010) with “Ein Bisschen Frieden” – but this is the yodelled version!
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Pierre Delauney’s tribute to the Italian team
Production date: July 2006
Playout date: 9/7/2006
Camera: Fuji Finepix
Camera: Logitech webcam
Post Production: Small amount of WMM
Location: Living room at home
Soundtrack: Sang “Non ti scordar di me” by Gigli
Languages used: Italian
Animals featured: None
Zey seenk eet’s all over? Eet eez now! Pierre’s back for his second video, saying what he thinks about Zidane’s “final bow”, and presenting the song “Non ti scordar di me” by Gigli, popularised at the world cup twenty years ago by the Three Tenors.
Now obviously Pavarotti sings this far better than I do, he may have been unwell at the last world cup, and as you will know, his sad demise came not long after.
The maestro sadly missed
Recently the four yearly event of the world cup came round again – amazing how time flies. The viewer figures showed the second five hundred views on this happen within a couple of months, and since then it’s plateaued off and had only a handful of views in two years.
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Thomas P Jameson III sings a medley of patriotic songs
Production date: 6 July 2006
Playout date: 6/7/2006
Camera: Logitech Webcam
Post Production: WMM effects and chipmunking
Location: Home desk, evening
This wasn’t popular and I don’t really like it either, nevertheless, I haven’t – rightly or wrongly – binned it yet. At least I have the guts to let the crappier ones stand out there for inspection! Quite a few folk got offended by their patriotic songs being sung frivolously. To these, I can only say, grow the hell up.
On the Power of Love and the Weakness of Money
Karaoke Building, Shinjuku
Production date: 6 July 2006
Playout date: 6/7/2006
Camera: Logitech webcam
Post Production: None
Location: Jazdow Office
Soundtrack notes: “The Power of Love”, karaoke version mp3.
This is the video where, inspired by the Russian Proverb “Don’t have 100 roubles, but have 100 friends”, in order to get one hundred subscribers (which seemed a tall order at the time, but there are 32 times that number now!) Viktor dropped a hundred rouble note in the fish tank and the fish ate it. He then goes on to sing the Power of Love, but gets interrupted as ever by a phone call.
Unfortunately the voice was too loud for the microphone settings.
Now I like to think Huliganov.TV is a place people can come to get all the “insider secrets” on my films, and so here’s a couple for this film.
1. It was not 100 Russian roubles (worth about 4 dollars) it was 100 Belarusian roubles (worth a few cents) I put in the tank,
2. The fish didn’t actually consume the note, I fished it out again afterwards. This was just to prevent the printers inks from contaminating the water.
