Video with Reggie Watts
I definitely won’t make a habit out of posting links to videos. Generally speaking, I really dislike the trend towards both sound (podcasts) and video (youtube and friends) clips on the web at the moment. I soak up a lot of information, going through hundreds of articles, blog posts and emails every day before getting on to what I really should be doing. I read quickly, but I also quickly skim through the content to see if it actually interests me and often skip through as much as half of it without even remembering properly what it was I skipped. This habit of mine has most definitely left me more impatient than I used to be (and would like to be), so taking five, ten, fifteen minutes to fully focus on a stream that I can’t skim through in any way tends to make me extremely frustrated.
That said, I’ve played this video of Reggie Watts at least five times now. He’s doing an amazing job at improvising a song with just his own voice and a sampling box. It’s the kind of stuff that the little boy inside me dreams of being able to do.
