Google Search

When last I posted, I mentioned instead of using google to see if I could find an answer to something I wanted to know, I'd let the Universe bring me an answer like it did with Borders Books having free wi fi.

So, I'm just going to put it out there.  I Google.  "Hello!  My name is Lori and I Google myself."

Wow!  When I put it like that it does sound a little naughty.

The first time I did it was a little sad 'cuz I was no where to be found for pages and pages and a little fun 'cuz I hadn't realized there were so many of me out there in the disguise of prominent women's college basketball players, attorneys, Northrop employees, Chicago residents and more.

Months, a couple of web sites, Facebook presence, Twitter presence, YouTube presence, Funny or Die presence, blogs and more; I realize that I am much more competitive than I thought.  I mean it is great that I now am listed multiple times on the first page, but it sucks that I can't seem to crack the top 5.  And the top 5 are what you see without having to scroll down to the other 5 listings on the first page.  Those spots seem to be permanently reserved for the me that is a prominent women's college basketball player.  Damn me! I mean her!

What's a girl to do just to crack the top 5?  Strip and go naked?  I bet that wouldn't even help unless I wrote a press release about it and it was picked up by all the major press like CNN and GMA and some other initials.  And is that really what I want to be remembered for?

There will come a day
You will hear me say
Hip Hip Hooray
I cracked the top 5 of Google today.

Of course, none of it means anything if others aren't googling me too.  And what's next?  My own wiki page.  When does it end?  Can we never truly be satisfied?  Is there or can there ever truly be a final frontier?  And what the BLEEP, maybe that's something to be thankful for.  You know, like free wi fi.

What's a girl to do on a rainy day when there's no cat with a hat to play with?

That's right!  Think up a new game.  A game I name,

Six Degrees of Separation: YouTube Style

Here's how you play. Input something in the search box after going to http://www.youtube.com. Find a video you like. Play it. Then from the related videos, pick another video to play until you have done this six times. Now how related does video one seem like from video six?

So, I have to (okay, I don't have to but I am) dedicate this to Daniel Sandercock.  First indulge me by allowing me to rethank him for agreeing to help me with my twitter photo way back in the day (that was so 7 months ago) when I couldn't even figure out then how to get my twitter photo to show up.  I've come a long way baby!

Then today, he posted a video from way back in the day with Eric Clapton in it.  Once I finished listening he had uploaded it with the option to watch related videos.  One of those videos was Eric Clapton and B B King performing Rock Me Baby.  Man that song mooooooooves me and moves me to mooooooove my body.

And now some three hours later I have gone from related video to related video and have ended up watching a fake Ron Burgundy interview with Jim Caviezel, which I never knew existed.  And it made me wonder what other joys I might come up with if I considered it a game.  And maybe even a new blog.

So for my first playing of the game, I am going to start with seeing if there is a video on YouTube of Don Henley doing this sort of fun version of Hotel California that I remember fondly him performing when I saw him in concert in 2000.  And then lets see what I end up with.


Here goes.  Let's play Six Degrees of Separation: YouTube Style.

Yeah!  They had one.

Here's video #2.




Here's video #3:



Here's video #4.  I think I know now why I didn't know this existed.  I stopped watching MTV a while ago.  Where have all the music videos gone?

Video #5

 And I know no one likes a cheater, which I am technically doing by having the my video #6 be my video #6 since it is not one of the suggested related videos from the iPod video.  I am using my supreme ruler power to include as video #6 a video my son is in that was a school project.  It is a spoof on the Mac v. PC commercials.  So it sort of fits.

Enjoy!

P.S.  I didn't know video #6 would end up being what it is when I started.  That's the fun of it.  And my son's never had one acting lesson nor has he ever lived in the south.  Nice cowboy hat, though, don't you think?

And that's how it's done!

Funny, but the blues don't make me blue.

Right now as I write this, and the only reason I write this I will share in a moment, I am in pure bliss listening to the video I am attaching to this blog post.  If you love the blues, you will love the video too.

Okay, two things it made me think about.  Wait!  Three.

1.  In my love of Dave Mathews Band and Prince music and everything else that happens in my life, I almost forgot about my love, love, love for Eric Clapton and his music when I was delightfully reminded by a post one of my Facebook Friends made.  As I watched the "Rock Me Baby" video, I was delighted to say the least.  Then as I couldn't get enough and moved on to watch the "Sweet Home Chicago" video, I wondered how much time in the totality or what percentage of Eric Clapton's life he has spent playing guitar or on stage.  And in a way as we know, I don't like the word "spent" here 'cuz I'm sure he'd hardly refer to it as spending.  I bet he'd refer to it as enjoyed, loved, etc.  Plus, can I just say I love seeing him rock the shorts and shirt, even though it doesn't really matter what he wears...it's about the music.

2.  How great YouTube is.  I can search for just about anything and find not only one video but many on the same subject.  It's almost as if I can in an instant be transported from a rainy afternoon in the South Bay of L.A., CA, USA to the Crossroads Festival in Texas in 2004.  Now how is that for some time travel?  And as I morphed from the video of Rock Me Baby to Sweet Home Chicago, the related videos listed so many different and well respected artists singing Sweet Home Chicago, it made me think how great an idea to put together something (they don't really call them records anymore, do they?) that was the same song, in this case Sweet Home Chicago, yet many different artists and versions.  Now that's some jazz.

Okay, now I can't recall what the third thing is.  I think it may have something to do with how blues music has never put me in a blue mood.  Quite the opposite.  Not only does it almost instantaneously transport me into a blissful mood, but it moov-es me as well.  I love it!  I love it!  BTW, did I say I love it yet?  I LOVE IT!

Now, as they say, "please enjoy the show."

P.S.  If you wait for it, I embedded the video with the option to include related videos.  So when Sweet Home Chicago is finished, you can choose to watch "Rock Me Baby", as well.