Today's Song: The Girl At The Video Game Store by Perry Gripp
This one is for Sam. He told me that this project is expanding his music horizons. So, Samy, let us explore a little more, you'll be glad you did. So might the rest of you. It is nice that i am able to show a little tangible success from these postings. So far i know i have at least converted on person to watching Community. (Thanks Jason, hope you liked it). It would be appreciated if the rest of you would provide a little feedback, at least let me know your are reading this stuff.
This song is by Parry Gripp. For those of you not familiar with Mr. Gripp, maybe you've heard of his band? Parry Gripp is the lead singer Nerf Herder. Nerf Herder is one of my favorite bands. The band has nerd cred through the roof. Nerf Herder took their name from the movie Star Wars, i know you should all know this but there are a few women who read this and they may not know this. If this were not enough they composed the theme tune for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And if this were not enough, they also wrote Van Halen. Some of you are too young to remember Van Halen, but at one point in the eighties Van Halen was the biggest band in the world. Right at their pinnacle Eddie decided to kick David Lee Roth out of the band. Nerf Herder perfectly captured the feelings of so many Van Halen fans with their 1997 single.
So given my raving for Nerf Herder, why should you listen to Parry's solo efforts. Because i said so, that's why you should listen. This is an appeal to authority. I am so confident of the quality in these songs that i am only going to use logical fallacies to convince you to listen. Young Girl Talking About Herself has been viewed more than 2,422,000 times. With that many views you know it has to be good. That's a little argumentum ad populum for you.
Everyone that i have talked to that has heard a Parry Gripp song has liked it, so everyone likes Parry Gripp and you are part of everyone. Who doesn't like the converse fallacy of accident. If you tell me that you don't like Parry Gripp after watch one of his videos i will unfriend you and everyone else i a friends with will unfriend you as well. I am not above argumentum ad baculum, if it is good enough for our current Speaker of the House it is good enough to me. (Although one wonders if the outcome of the November elections demonstrate the problem with going to the threat well a little too often.)
By the time this posting is concluded i will have expended over seven hundred words exhorting you to watch a Parry Gripp video. That's over three-fourths the length of a new york times article. You know that i wouldn't waste that much time writing about why you should like Parry Gripp songs if they weren't good. Bam, non sequitur, irrelevant conclusion, and proof by verbosity all at once, bitch! (That last one is even a verbal fallacy).
So what was the real point of this exercise. Well one time back in my IU days a professor explained that we must use reason to make our arguments because you cannot prove things irrationally. I disagree, people convince others to believe things by logical fallacies all the time. This is proving something irrationally.
There is another even more powerful irrational force that i have learned that can win arguments conclusively--love. Love makes people do things all the time that are irrational. I love the music of music of Mr. Gripp, not for any good reason, i just do, so should you. But this is not the best example i can think of. I do things i don't want to do all the time, i do them generally without complaining. Why would i do such things, especially if you know how much i like to complain? I do them to make Erin happy. I want her to be happy because i love her. I may not have mentioned that this month, so now is as good a time as any.
I love you, Erin.
Later
Bob
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