Epic
"perfect in power
matchless in glory
nothing is greater, Brilliant Creator
friend of mine"
-Kristian Stanfill, "Beautiful Jesus"
Asher started singing a different song when I put this one on the stereo a while ago. He sang a couple of lines then announced that the title of this other song was "The Cries of the Squid in the Sea". He then sang another couple of lines and stopped to announce "this song is pretty long." I said, "it's only 3 minutes" thinking he was talking about the Kristian Stanfill song and he said, "No... it's 3 HOURS!" And proceeded to keep singing.
Now, if I was a better parent I would've run and gotten the recorder sooner, but at least after 45 minutes of constant improvisation I realized he was serious about this being a THREE HOUR EPIC operetta involving sharks and the poor squid in the sea. I'm uncertain as to the plot - for a while it sounded like the squid was in a video game trying to beat the sharks, but now it sounds like the squid is being prevented from attending school by the sharks (or maybe something else... we haven't heard from the sharks in a while.)
Of course, my son isn't bound by such pedestrian concepts as plot or theme. This is a THREE HOUR EPIC after all, covering great swaths of love and loss - the trials and tribulations of our entire race as projected onto a poor, lonely, crying squid. Weep, weep, my brothers and sisters. Face your mortality in a sobbing calamari!
Recording coming later. Sorry Asher - maybe I'll take it down off our blog when you reach adolescence (said the liar).
matchless in glory
nothing is greater, Brilliant Creator
friend of mine"
-Kristian Stanfill, "Beautiful Jesus"
Asher started singing a different song when I put this one on the stereo a while ago. He sang a couple of lines then announced that the title of this other song was "The Cries of the Squid in the Sea". He then sang another couple of lines and stopped to announce "this song is pretty long." I said, "it's only 3 minutes" thinking he was talking about the Kristian Stanfill song and he said, "No... it's 3 HOURS!" And proceeded to keep singing.
Now, if I was a better parent I would've run and gotten the recorder sooner, but at least after 45 minutes of constant improvisation I realized he was serious about this being a THREE HOUR EPIC operetta involving sharks and the poor squid in the sea. I'm uncertain as to the plot - for a while it sounded like the squid was in a video game trying to beat the sharks, but now it sounds like the squid is being prevented from attending school by the sharks (or maybe something else... we haven't heard from the sharks in a while.)
Of course, my son isn't bound by such pedestrian concepts as plot or theme. This is a THREE HOUR EPIC after all, covering great swaths of love and loss - the trials and tribulations of our entire race as projected onto a poor, lonely, crying squid. Weep, weep, my brothers and sisters. Face your mortality in a sobbing calamari!
Recording coming later. Sorry Asher - maybe I'll take it down off our blog when you reach adolescence (said the liar).
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I'm still patiently waiting for the video of this :).
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