My New Years' Resolution is to be more optimistic, glass half-full nonsense. Part of this is to take care to write down and remind myself of all the things in this world that make me happy. Today at work, one of my regular customers, Peggy, was talking to me and Nicole about her childhood obsession with both punk rock and yodeling. After listening to her gush about yodeling for so long, I realized she's right. It is an amazing talent. It uses two distinct aspects of the human vocal chord and a system of echoes to create an almost unearthly noise. So I came home and looked up videos, eventually finding this gem:
I really and truly admire people like Kerry Christensen. Yodeling isn't that cool, and it is by no means popular anywhere really in America. For the first two minutest of this video, I was waiting for it to reveal itself as a SNL sketch, but it is this man's life, and he does it well. He perseveres in his knee high socks and laderhosen with held and larynx held high. It really is an astounding talent though. Really and truly. His jokes make me cringe, but my jaw is on the floor in amazement.
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Yes yodeling is not known to be "cool" but Jewel has been known to yodel during some of her live performances. And really I could listen to her all day!
Wow thank you for sharing that clip. I really enjoyed it!
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