Tim Fogarty’s Blog

I really want to do more than just post these video clips. But just can’t seem to focus on something to write about. I had started to write about Martin and I taking ‘the kid’ ice skating in Culver City on Super Bowl Sunday, but only got down a few sentences. (While Martin was born in Colombia, his family moved to Queens when he was 11, so he’s rather competent on ice. Which is good because he was able to hold onto the kid while I held onto the wall. The kid took to the ice very well. He’s becoming fearless with us, a significant change from a year ago.)

I could tell you about the last 24 hours, in which I sliced open my finger, then an hour later pull a tendon in my calf at the gym and now can barely walk, woke up this morning to my cat vomiting inches from my face, and then found out that I lost out on a project that I spent 3 weeks writing a proposal (and prototype) for back in November. The family run company is not in the US, and as recently as early January they said “we’ll meet and talk about it when we’re in the US in February.” Then today I see on their blog the announcement of their new site, meaning that they had been negotiating with someone else all along. What can you do?

Or I could tell you all about the really really big project (with investors) that has been consuming my every waking minute for the last three months, going without a salary, borrowing money to do so, that could still fall through because ‘the economics aren’t right’.

But instead I’ll stick with these video clips.

If you saw Sunday’s Oscars (held just a few blocks from my house) you saw Jon McLaughlin perform So Close from Enchanted. He cleans up pretty well! Here is a scruffier version performing his songs Industry and Beautiful Disaster.

One of my favorites, Rufus Wainwright performing Beautiful Child

Mandy Moore performing Umbrella, a cover of a song by Rihanna. I wonder which one is closer to how the composer imagined it.

And finally some comedy: Torchwool - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.