Booshman world ukulele contest featuring a low budget invisible man (Shoes by Charles Bukowski)

[ruskin51]

Thanks for sharing the Bukowski poems. I hadn't come across them before. I will investigate. I suppose that he had to fall back on the poetry after losing the face of L'Oréal gig. He makes W. H. Auden look boyish :-)

[ruskin51]

Whatever you do, it's unique and really great!

[weegingayin]

@ruskin51 I have done a couple of other Bukowski poems "Bluebird in my heart" and one other which I can't remember the name of... it must have been important at the time but now I have forgotten what it was.

[ruskin51]

This video, it sure got sole! What do you use to tweak the sound in your videos?

[weegingayin]

@ruskin51 I have no idea. I just fool around with flangers and phasers and distortion, echo and reverb until I get a sound I have never heard before and if I like it then I keep it, otherwise it gets junked. It is all done in Garbageband on an old MAC

[mctrmt]

Exceptionally low budget!

[weegingayin]

And you get bonus points as well in addition to green shield stamps

[TheAinokeatoo]

Also, I give you a 10 for that split you did through the video :D

[TheAinokeatoo]

Wow, are those Aquila's you tied the shoes to? I MEAN I didn't see those... Lol nice video :)

[boozelele]

lowering the low budget bar!!!!! brilliant.

[weegingayin]

@boozelele limbo limbo just how low can you go???

[MrPlatypus70]

Great job!!

[weegingayin]

@MrPlatypus70

your pronounciation of unicorn was excellent in your low budget production... however correct me if I am wrong but was not the horn of a unicorn a sort of curly spiral... yours was smooth...it make a spiral horn would most likely have eaten up all of your budget:-)

[MrPlatypus70]

I am glad you like my fake accent and you are right about the spiral, I guess I could have drawn a spiral on and stayed in budget but there was no time to think of such things because after all time is money.

[weegingayin]

We are living in a spiral galaxy, and our own DNA is a spiral double helix. You have spiral tornadoes and spiral whirlpools, and spiral snails shells. Spirals are everywhere in the tendrils of a pea plant to the flush in the aircraft toilet.

Our lives are often in a spiral... one that is out of control... so one less spiral in the universe is a blessing even if it is only a fake unicorn horn

[doogey9]

i favorited this just because......well, it's excellent.

[uke5417]

Makes me want to go dancing, old or not.

[UKISOCIETY]

I figure Bukowski's shoes would have throw-up on them.

This was an awesome low-budgie !!!

[weegingayin]

No!!! his shoes would have taken them down the dog track, scrounged all of their money off of them to bet on a string of losers.

With any remaining money Hank's shoes would have bought cheap red wine and got roaring drunk.

Then his shoes would challenged them to a fight and after beating the crap out of them his shoes have barfed on them... and then his shoes would have wandered off to a whorehouse

[hoosierhiver]

Love it!

[UnluckyMum]

interesting . . .

[weegingayin]

Thunderbirds a gogo

[weegingayin]

@lowbudgetspiderman

I see that as befits lowbudgetspiderman you are sparse and economical with your comments

[jmmquah]

Marvellous! Love that you can see the strings...like Thunderbirds!

[weegingayin]

Well it was low budget

if i had done a real invisible man you would have looking at a bare floor for a couple of minutes and that might have sustained your interest :-)

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

Superbly strange. I love it.

[weegingayin]

That was hank b (not marvin) for you

he put the quirk in quirkiness

[krabbers]

brilliant

[weegingayin]

Do those reggea laces that you are giving away for first prize sit up and beg?

[floydbluethereal]

Great!

[mjs004]

So creative and original! Excellent!

[ruth7784]

That's so cool! Really great idea! :-) Love it! Fantastic choice of poem too, love Bukowski! :-) X

[weegingayin]

Yeah it was far out lil darlin like outta sight

well it would be since it starred the invisible man

[kennymelodica]

oh man this is some kind of wizardary type magic and it has us spell-bound - :D

[kennymelodica]

oh and what brand of shoes are they - i feel compelled to by a pair ?

[weegingayin]

Which ones

the ones with the sit up and beg laces

or the high heeled ones for doing a kirsty macall walk along somebodys spine

[kennymelodica]

@weegingayin oh one of each of course (the left should be the sit up and beg laces)

[weegingayin]

@kennymelodica

Considering Capt Notsosane is growing a black moustache and she herself is blonde would seem to point to a gender conflict crisis.

Nevertheless regardless of the fact that you would consider wearing both men's and women's shoes at the same time, this fashion statement reinforces my belief that you have adopted a philosophy where good taste should not stand in the way of style.

This is also my position

[ukeshale]

awesome idea :)

[russbuss415]

that was cool!

[GrumpyCoyoteTunes]

Very kewl...

That poem has always intrigued me. Much more so now.