Here Comes the Big Giant Dork

Neno Reviews "Here Comes the Big Red Car"

I love The Wiggles. I picked up a couple of their videos at a rummage sale when my first was a newborn, thinking, "Yeah, maybe she'll want to watch videos some day." Ha. Ha. Ha. She was full-on obsessed with the Wiggly, Wiggly Foursome for about a year before it began tapering off, mostly when she was able to follow the plots and storylines of longer videos. I love that The Wiggles are full-on cheese ball, but they know it. They're in on the joke too. I love that they are real, live musicians, and I love that they get my kid dancing and singing and loving up on the music without having to insert risque jokes, a la Disney.

We bought the Big Red Car CD because it included the music originally featured in "Dance Party," one of those old videos I picked up at that rummage sale so many moons ago. You know, back when the Big Red Car was a Big Red Piece of Cardboard (sorry, all of my friends have totally heard that joke and it wasn't even funny in the first place). We've since seen the Big Red Car video and, personally, I truly, truly enjoy the giant banana. If I had a giant banana, I'd totally get it a hammock. Sorry again. God, I'm a dork.

Okay, anyway. The CD is great. My personal favorite is "I'm a Cow." Because really, I eat grass and I moo all day, I'm a cow, I'm a cow. Excellent stuff, there. I also really like "Here We Go Dorothy," which is a bit on the beatnik jazz side. You know, for an Australian kids' band. But, I'm a sentimental, sappy mother, so of course my very favorite song on the CD is "Georgia's Song," Daddy's right here with you now, and it's your song that I sing. Oh, the tears.

I really could have done without E's Murray impression repeating the line Oh me, oh my, he barks all day and night over and over and over again in falsetto. But then that part of my soul died, and it didn't bother me so much anymore. I'm also not the world's biggest fan of Captain Feathersword's vocal talents, but whatever.

In conclusion, and without a proper segue, I'm really sorry about Greg's medical problems as of late. He will be greatly missed in our house.

This is a trial - I've got these neato links up at the top to let you know what I'm reading, listening to, etc. I thought it might be interesting (and by that I mean "boring") for me to review these things, then like, link to the reviews. But, you know, we'll see.