Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: I'm a Tuber.

officially. not a potato or a yam kind of tuber, but an official youtuber. apparently when you round up enough videos in your favorites, it becomes official. i don't know that i would consider 97 videos a massive amount of 'favorites' compared to what i see on other people's youtube channels, but if the actual amount of time spent on youtube counts for anything, than not only am i an official youtuber, but i should be collecting a paycheck as well.

HERE ARE A FEW GEMS I'VE ROUNDED UP THIS WEEK:

stringfever. three brothers. one cousin. one cello. cancel the cello, let me rephrase: one fire engine red, skeletal, electric cello; technically called a violectra. one song; bolero. the trick is, they all play one instrument at the same time. peep this...

what do axl rose and a sixty-something year old indian man have in common? they can both rock out a sweet version of gnr's 'sweet child of mine.' check it...

a timeline of mrs. butterworth's weight loss. she lies in the video though, she says that she's still "thick & rich." rich maybe, but she ain't thick no mo, that's fo sho. be sure to watch until the end, you don't want to miss the fist pound.

this song represents to me, the sheer awesomeness of music, on so many levels. first and foremost, because it has an AMAZING message hidden deep within an aurally pleasing tune; and it speaks to the new generation of today's youth with the use of technology. second, because how could a song with ex-fugee wyclef jean and the legendary paul simon not be awesome? it's impossible. look...

the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

2 comments:

Anonymous, 8:19 AM: K...so the cello was cool. Except the guys seemed to think they were in the blue man group with those facial expressions! And the song sounded like the mario bros. level on the flying ship! lol..The last song was my fave. Wycleff and Paul? Genius.
Crazy Momma, 9:57 AM: Love them!

Paul Simon is awesome - The Boxer has been played over and over lately.

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