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By: Burzycki.org - Tech and Interesting Facts

Burzycki.org - Tech and Interesting Facts — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:51:36 +0000

[...] didn’t. Uh, oh, nobody tell him. Phil won’t notice, he’s too busy watching old YouTube video of Shatner singing Rocket Man. Yikes! Larry Sessions at Earth & Sky Blogs shows you how to measure the Sun. And finally, [...]

By: Brian G

Brian G — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:44:29 +0000

Dear god I had to stop that. Why oh WHY must you torture us with that? I had to go find the original on YouTube just to get the Shat version out of my head, though I think it never will now.

By: Clair

Clair — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:34:02 +0000

I love this stuff.

By: Mortar

Mortar — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:52:35 +0000

I thought it was funny, which I’m sure it was intended to be. Shatner knows he can’t sing so why not play it for laughs?

As for Nimoy’s Bilbo, I liked it. I used to have his LP, the one with the drawing of him with a sucker in his mouth, and I actually enjoyed it. I guess I just go for the off-beat kind of stuff, which is also why I love Dementia music.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:09:39 +0000

Don’t forget Shatner’s rap rendition of Mark Antony’s soliloquy from ‘Julius Caesar’, as featured in the film ‘Free Enterprise’
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3yerCiByca4

By: Mooney

Mooney — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:00:06 +0000

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the OH GOD GET ME AN ICE PICK! I MUST RE-UN-DISREMEMBER THIS MOMENT AGAIN!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:17:42 +0000

This is by far the most epic proof that Shatner fails at looking cool.

SO BAD!

By: William Brinkman

William Brinkman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:51:09 +0000

The producers must have been high as a kite when they scripted this performance. Then a year later, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released.

By: ShellyD

ShellyD — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:49:22 +0000

Was that Trilogy of Terror’s Karen Black at the very beginning? Wow.

By: chris H

chris H — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:05:42 +0000

well theres 5 mins of my life i wont get back, thax phil, or should we call you Fry

ps theropod i fell the same way, though the stewie skit was just as boring

By: Davidlpf

Davidlpf — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:48:04 +0000

Think Nimoy singing, I walk the Line. Now that is somewhat painful could be worse it could be Roseanne Barr singing the US national athem.

By: CherylT

CherylT — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:06:36 +0000

After this program aired, 500,000 trekkies around the world lit up a cigarette for the first time, coughed their lungs out, and never listened to Elton John songs again. Sorry, but I find this hilarious. Shades of Denny Crane in that third clone which I guess in its day was cutting edge technology. One thing I will say, I have never seen Bernie Taupin look so hot, proving once again that Elton does in fact have good taste in men.

By: Johnny Vector

Johnny Vector — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:40:12 +0000

Anybody here remember “Spy” magazine? They once printed a scatter plot of celebrities, in which the x axis was something like “level of self-parody reached” and the y axis was “self-awareness of that level”. Waaaaay out in the upper-right corner was Shatner.

The technical term for that corner of the graph, I believe, is “camp”.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:19:23 +0000

Oh, yeah, and: Mmmmmmm, Kate Bush…

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:18:24 +0000

Gosh! “The Shat” really earned his nickname, didn’t he?

I prefer Kate Bush’s cover of the same song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYSCHKmvcIY

When I was a PhD student, and finding things a bit tough, the line “And all this science I don’t understand / It’s just my job five days a week,” really struck a chord with me (as it were).

By: alfaniner

alfaniner — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:56:30 +0000

Amazing that we had both this and the Star Wars Holiday Special in the same year! Ah, the late ’70′s!

It’s cool to know that WW reads this blog too. I have two of his books — just waiting for Phil to come out with his next one, to catch up.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:43:22 +0000

What ? No William Shatner singing Common People with Joe Jackson and Ben Folds ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eISBTBwWKeE

and of course, time to repost Shatner singing ‘My Way’ to George Lucas, the cast of Star Wars in front of a chorus line of Dancing Stormtroopers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55YD8QhQ3o

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:18:54 +0000

Wow…. Janine, those clips were funky, man! That opening number brought back memories.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:13:30 +0000

I would just love to see him take on the old Adam and the Ants hit “Stand and Deliver” and especially enjoy the last verse:

da diddley qa qa da diddley qa qa
da diddley qa qa da diddley qa qa

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:59:37 +0000

If you like that, look up his “Tambourine Man” – EPIC!

By: Jennifer Gray

Jennifer Gray — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:30:09 +0000

Oooooooooo, that’s really bad…

LOL!

By: Universe Today » Astrosphere for January 16, 2008

Universe Today » Astrosphere for January 16, 2008 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:01:27 +0000

[...] Uh, oh, nobody tell him. Phil won't notice, he's too busy watching old YouTube video of Shatner singing Rocket Man. [...]

By: Wil

Wil — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:30:10 +0000

I absolutely love this video. I first saw it in the 80s when one of my tape-trading friends showed it to me on VHS. If I asked him real nice, Brent Spiner would to do an impression of this performance, and I can still see his gold face scrunched up while he pretends to hold a cigarette and broods. Phil, you may want to change your links to WILLIAM F*** SHATNER Part 1 and Part 2, which I wrote for my book Dancing Barefoot, and reprinted for my Suicide Girls Geek in Review column last year. Your readers may want to know that SG is considered "Adult" and is blocked by most webfilters. My articles are SFW, but do contain language that you probably wouldn't want to use around your grandparents.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:36:17 +0000

I like Stewie’s version a little better:

http://bebo.com/watch/997898260

That’s the good stuff…

By: Davidlpf

Davidlpf — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:32:45 +0000

Well I have a whole cd called Spaced Out with Shatner and Nimoy signing on it, it was giving to me as a birthday gift.