{"id":1145,"date":"2008-10-13T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2008-10-14T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:16:25","slug":"spx-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"SPX Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vy’s got a sketch I did at this year’s SPX posted over on her Flickr account<\/a> along with a ton of other great sketches and photos from the show.\u00a0 The theme of the sketchbook was “dreams” and most folks were doing visual interpretations of their dreams.\u00a0 I, though, rarely remember any of my dreams and so I had to take another route.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, one of my favorite songs to play on the Ukulele is “I’ll See You in My Dreams<\/a>,” which has been recorded by a ton of folks since its original heyday in the mid-twenties.\u00a0 As my wife can attest (and my daughter would as well, were she able to speak yet) I have a terrible singing voice, but I certainly don’t let that stop me from singing to the dog, the cat, my daughter, myself, etc.\u00a0 “I’ll See You in My Dreams” has the (dis)honor of also being one of my worst numbers, as it’s just slightly out of my range at a number of key points in the song.<\/p>\n

At any rate, instead of drawing one of my dreams, I drew myself here playing and singing “I’ll See You in My Dreams” with predictable results from both the moon and a nearby cat:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a great version of the same song, by someone who actually can<\/em> sing:
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Vy’s got a sketch I did at this year’s SPX posted over on her Flickr account along with a ton of other great sketches and photos from the show.\u00a0 The theme of the sketchbook was “dreams” and most folks were doing visual interpretations of their dreams.\u00a0 I, though, rarely remember any of my dreams and … <\/p>\n

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