Comments on: Zooey Deschanel plays "What Are You Doing New Years Eve?" on ukulele

By: aeon

aeon — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:47:00 +0000

I was starting to get a bit tired of all the ukulele stuff on here… Then I succumbed and bought our daughter one for Christmas. She promptly ignored it in favour of a pink tutu and fairy wings (not from me, honest), so I picked it up and started playing around with it. They are actually great fun and not at all hard to get nice harmony from either. So no hate from me, I’m a convert and that was sweet. :-)

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:26:00 +0000

I don’t need an excuse to wear a tiara.

By: CSBD

CSBD — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:23:00 +0000

I was afraid to even click on this… but I must admit that after hearing it I was quite surprised that she is a much better singer than actor.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:51:00 +0000

I suspect the tiara haters don’t realize that they are both dressed for a New Year’s Eve party.

By: Michael Haggerty

Michael Haggerty — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:02:00 +0000

Urgh. Like eating Jolly Roger Candy Canes soaked in double thick molasses, coated in a layer of sea salt and crystal sugar, surrounded by a shell of neopolitan ice cream layered in magic shell, doused in a stream of marachino cherry juice that was then dipped into a bucket of jimmies and cracked peanut butter brittle, with a thick wad of Cool Whip and raw egg whites dunked on top.

Too much. A couple seconds into the song and I was wishing someone would replace the calendar with one that skips the holidays altogether. That Gordon-Levitt fellow just made it worse.

Why can’t Lemmy from Motorhead do a holiday video with Philthy Campbell to counterbalance piles like this?

By: yri

yri — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:58:00 +0000

I thought it was adorable.

Then again, I never tire of ukulele girls (or boys), and I like the tiara, so it’s well established I have no actual taste.

Which is quite freeing, really. :-)

By: LinkMan

LinkMan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:21:00 +0000

I also think the image is mirrored. I can’t quite make out the writing on the music on the piano in the background, but based on its placement on the music stand and the orientation of the binding, it looks mirrored.

By: manicbassman

manicbassman — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:17:00 +0000

ps. that’s on a telecaster electro-acoustic ukulele as well…

By: DrunkenOrangetree

DrunkenOrangetree — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Why in the world lefties feel they need to play their instrument backwards is beyond me. The guitar is already left-handed.

By: Sxe

Sxe — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:37:00 +0000

Sickeningly sweet… too much for me.

By: manicbassman

manicbassman — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:35:00 +0000

all the other toobs out there of here are of her playing right handed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_pGxE7cJRs

By: extra88

extra88 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:35:00 +0000

The length of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s name.

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:53:00 +0000

I want to go to there.

:-)

By: Djau Qui

Djau Qui — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:28:00 +0000

I’d pay good money to see a movie where these two form a band and must battle crooked producers, evil IP lawyers and grumpy Internet commenters to reach stardom and happiness.

Hollywood : make it so. It would make a freaking TRUCKLOAD of money, ‘sides.

By: Jamie Craig

Jamie Craig — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:37:00 +0000

Noo, tiaras are great, if you’ve got the look for ‘em.

Totally works for Zooey. :)

By: morkl

morkl — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:47:00 +0000

Custom? Left handed guitars are mass produced too, just not in the same
quantities as the right handed ones, and people who play left-handedly tend to use lefty guitars. Except, of course, Jimi Hendrix.

By: scott compton

scott compton — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:22:00 +0000

I believe Rasputin is correct. If you notice the guitar in the background, the pick guard should be on the right side of the hole. It’s possible that it’s a custom left-version, but I kind of doubt it…

By: Sooper8

Sooper8 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:02:00 +0000

I am sick of hearing things that other people are sick of hearing….but personally I like it, nice arrangement and great voices

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:26:00 +0000

We don’t take kindly to people being sick of people being sick of things ’round here.

By: Moonpie Nobot

Moonpie Nobot — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:55:00 +0000

I am so sick of people being sick of things :)

By: Christopher Miller

Christopher Miller — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:51:00 +0000

I didn’t know real girls wore tiaras.

By: petsounds

petsounds — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:33:00 +0000

I’m so fucking sick of ukelele girls. And Joseph-Gordon Levitt. But this was a nice job.

Zooey, call me! *makes phone gesture with hand*

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:34:00 +0000

She’s the most manic and pixieish of manic pixie dream girls.

By: Dan Allard

Dan Allard — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:27:00 +0000

What makes this ‘accompanied by’ rather than a duet?

By: Rasputin

Rasputin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:15:00 +0000

Depends. If it’s a Mac, doesn’t the front facing camera on there mirror the actual image?

By: jaytkay

jaytkay — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:11:00 +0000

Well that was charming.

By: Amelia_G

Amelia_G — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:08:00 +0000

I loved this! Thank you. She’s so precise, and fun, and the rich rich voice was lovely. Without wanting to dis Zoë in any way: tiaras. There’s something wrong about them, irl.

By: MachineElf

MachineElf — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:48:00 +0000

Two people having fun, making music and harmony together is not ‘wholly unremarkable’. It is the stuff that makes life wonderful.

Certainly a whole lot more enjoyable than yet another cynical Boing Boing commenter in any case…

By: semiotix

semiotix — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:22:00 +0000

Oh, man, I know what you mean. Everything... EVERYTHING about this is custom-tailored to arouse the most frothy internet hate storm this side of "Friday." They're so pretty. And it's a standard. And the production values are so disarmingly shoddy. And she's on a FREAKING UKULELE! This must be what all those computers on Star Trek felt like when Kirk fed them a logical paradox. ERROR ERROR HOW CAN I LOVE WHAT I HATE ERROR

By: mat catastrophe

mat catastrophe — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:16:00 +0000

Just wait ’til you see him as Batman.