Pat Tallman Sighting!

[drpangloss]

I suppose I could be wrong, I believe that Pat Tallman shows up about halfway through this video. (You can find it at http://americawestandasone.com/video.html) There's no other point, really. But it's always a pleasure to see Pat, especially when one least expects it.

Go see for yourself.

[modernmajorgeneral]

The David Coverdale lookalike in the video got a sweet mullet.

[David Panzer]

I like the look on the baby that Pat is holding. Either a gas bubble or knowing they've lucked out at an early age.

So this leftover from 80's pop rock thinks he's jesus? If so, it kinda explains the pseudo-christian elements in it.

[modernmajorgeneral]

I'm confused by the baby. It has Asian features, but the photo of the deceased husband is of a decidedly caucusoidal persuasion. Was Pat cheating on her man?

[Andrew_Swallow]

I'm confused by the baby. It has Asian features, but the photo of the deceased husband is of a decidedly caucusoidal persuasion. Was Pat cheating on her man?

Since Pat's husband is a Vorlon - probably.

[AmyG]

Wow. What can I say? That song righteously sucked, the guy loaded it up with faux rhymes (he rhymed "air" with "tear" for god's sakes!), and he can't even pronounce the name of the country, which is in the title of the song! It is NOT "Uh-mehr-uh-kuh," but rather "Uh-mehr-ih-kuh." I know that the current President would have you believe otherwise, but trust me, that ain't it.

I also noticed the baby with Asian features when the dead husband was clearly not Asian, so I'm with you on that, modernmajorgeneral.

And also, modernmajorgeneral, I think the term you're looking for is "David Coverversion." I wouldn't have called him a David Coverversion, mainly because of the hair color (and he wasn't quite buff enough), but to each his own I suppose.

Anyway, terrible song. Really craporama.

Amy

[Dr Maturin]

<< and he can't even pronounce the name of the country, which is in the title of the song! It is NOT "Uh-mehr-uh-kuh," but rather "Uh-mehr-ih-kuh." I know that the current President would have you believe otherwise, but trust me, that ain't it.>>

No, that isn't an elitist attitude. Not at all.

[AmyG]

No, that isn't an elitist attitude. Not at all.

I don't think it is. Because unless he pronounced everything else in the song like a person from the region where they say "Uh-muhr-uh-kuh" or even "Uh-muhr-kuh" (only three syllables), then he doesn't get a pass for it being a regionalism or an issue of dialect, as far as I'm concerned.

But I probably would have been a bit softer on his mispronunciation if the song hadn't sucked so much. There are plenty of good patriotic songs; that wasn't one of 'em.

Amy (admittedly something of a grammar/usage/pronunciation Nazi)

[grumbler]

(admittedly something of a grammar/usage/pronunciation Nazi)

How can you worry about pronunciation when we face the threat of "moolahs" armed with "nookular" weapons?

[Capt.Montoya]

How can you worry about pronunciation when we face the threat of "moolahs" armed with "nookular" weapons?

How can someone worry about pronunciation when the song is as unbearably schmaltzy as it can be and the video only makes it more unbearably so...

And can anyone explain to me what it means that the site is called America West And As One?

Nice seeing Pat, but I'd worry if she isn't getting better jobs.

[David Panzer]

I think there's a space between the we and stand.

Major General- I never thought he looked like David Coverdale. More like the guy from Journey.

[AmyG]

Hey, I first read the URL as "America West And As One," too!

And I don't think he looked like David Coverdale _or_ Steve Perry. I thought Dwight Twilley, or maybe Billy Squier. Or the lead singer of the Black Crowes - the one who sounds uncannily like Robert Palmer.

Amy

[David Panzer]

Ok, I can see that as well. But none of them have f'ed up teeth like that dude. So, the guy in the video gets possessed by glowing things, thinks he's jesus and goes around school playgrounds touching kids on the head, stalking grieving widows in cemetaries and wanders around the beach waving a flag and transporting people onto a cliff he's standing on thereby removing those people from their places of work. But since the guy thinks he's jesus, it's ok.

[AmyG]

I dunno. More than all that, I was disturbed that someone had dyed the ocean red, white, and blue. When he let it wash up over him in the beginning, I was sure he was going to ruin that nice pair of pants.

[David Panzer]

Don't forget that dashing purple bandana on his pants too.