it's hard to play the saxophone with something in your hand

[cimorene]

I was explaining to my dad the other day how my jury-rigged method for dealing with anxiety aka counterphobic coping mechanism (reading and reading and more reading) isn't necessarily a good thing, even if it does reduce my level of anxiety.

For illustration I used "Put Down the Duckie", sung on Sesame Street to Ernie by Mr Hoots and his jazz band with help from Jeremy Irons, Pee Wee Herman, Paul Simon, and a lot of people I still don't recognize.

I think this should go in my "favorite jazz songs" playlist, as soon as I get an mp3.

...Or, more explicitly, after an anxious social situation (eg class each Tuesday) my upset engenders such a powerful compulsive need to cling to something to read that I sometimes find it impossible to stop reading, even if I really need to do something else like laundry or eating or sleeping.

Comments

[vass]

That is a wonderful song. I googled it: there's a cast list here.

[cimorene]

Hahha. Awesome, thanks!

[norabombay]

I'm actually a little disturbed by how many of them I recognized. I didn't know the names of the individual athletes, but I knew the teams.

It was only the older brittish couple, who threw me.

But that was an awesome thing for my day.

[cimorene]

One of the ones I did. I'm not positive about what show they're from (though I know I've seen pics from it before), but the dude I'm pretty sure is the same one that played Bodie & Doyle's boss in The Professionals.

[msilverstar]

We had a DVD of Sesame Street songs and that was the climactic song. Every so often, when I want a child to put something down, I sing it (quietly).