No, not the country. The amazing, amazing song from Toto.
There are too many amazing things about this video.
Like 1:09, where the globe spins around to AFRICA. IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT. OR THE VIDEO.
Yep, that's what the song is about. Africa.
Or whenever they cut to the band singing, they’re standing on a giant book. Was this green screen, or did they build a giant book stage? It’s probably green screen, however, still ridiculous and cheezy.
We shrunk down to be able to play for the gnome king.
Let’s not forget the main singer. Aside from the fact that he looks like a date rapist, you know that this dude got SO MUCH PUSSY when this song was in its prime.
"Hey baby, remember 'It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you' - yeah, that was alllll me."
…So did this guy.
Nice pornstache dude.
And this guy.
I LIKE TO PLAY TEH KEYBOARDS YEYYYYYYYY.
He kinnnnnd of looks like the not-right-in-the-head little brother that they HAD to have in the band or else “mom wouldn’t let us play in the garage” type scenarios.
Anyways, originally I started to really dig this song (and I mean as opposed to being unaware while listening to it on top-whatever stations when I was a kid) because of this scene from Scrubs.
That plus the combination of a best friend who was also digging the ridiculousness of the video and a fiance who is also, for whatever reason, enjoying the rock out factor of the song, lead to it being one of the best singing-out-loud-top-of-the-lungs-in-the-car songs.
I leave you with the ever lovely Aryiel, as I dropped her off at the train station in the rain from San Diego. And of course, the drive there looked like Africa. A very rainy Africa. I only WISH I was making this up. The best part was during the singing of the song at the top of our lungs, we couldn’t decide what the lyrics were. (I had sung “I guess it rains down in Africa” which… was wrong. After the use of smart phones and google, we found out it’s “I bless the rains down in Africa” – which .. I guess.. makes just as much sense…)
After this, when she got out of the car, we were magically in the plains of Africa. True story.
So clearly neither of us have posted in a while – we haven’t given up, it’s just that I’ve been busy and Aryiel has not-so-great internet. Either way, we both really want to do The T&A Show – so I’ll be using this as my new home for my little point-and-shoot photo journal, and Aryiel will post… once her internet gets better. PLUS! We’ll be making a Riff Trax for your listening pleasure, along with actually starting to podcast as well. Lastly I’ll be tampering with the site design. La la la. Too much, so little time. Either way, go check out my main website, Cherry Fizz – I’ve made a new splash page, which is probably how you got here in the first place.
Anyways, come back soon, we’ll have much more fun stuff of ours for you to check out.
So Aryiel and I have both upgraded to awesome smart phones, she has an iPhone and I have a G1, the prime carriers of that being AT&T and T-Mobile – ha.
Oh, so, get this. Aryiel went to ER – I have exciting footage that will be cut together sometime soon to show you the epic night of nights. Seriously. What happened was better than any of the video skits we wanted to try to do! As soon as it’s done I’ll post it, bwahaha. Until then, my friends, have a good day, night, whatever.
Aryiel Hartman, soon-to-be-famous actress, and Tiffany Rose Roberts, soon-to-be-famous photographer.
Hello, welcome to the T & A Show, the absolute best place to be if you are the type of person who constantly presses “F5″ to refresh and see something else to distract you from work. This blog features the photos, writings, musings, interests, what-have-you of Aryiel Hartman and Tiffany Rose Roberts.
So here’s what you need to know about us: We are >>deep breath<< liberal, groovy, artistic, strong willed, tryin’ to “make it big,” very silly, ridiculous, inside jokes-makin’, tangent talkin’, peace-lovin’, classy, freedom fighters. Aryiel is an actress full time with a big ol heart (Awwww), and Tiffany is photographer who dreams of being a celebrity portrait artist.
Currently, Tiffany lives in Orange County (Costa Mesa) and Aryiel lives in Los Feliz (Los Angeles.) Tiffany will be your guide to Orange County, whether it’s hip places and things to see you’d never think of, or just enjoying her bar snapshots (maybe you found this blog through that very method!) and Aryiel will be your L.A. storyteller.
This blog is the pre-cursor to our podcast, The T&A Show (properly named after us) that should be coming out within the month, but as that will be a monthly show (or bi-weekly), this will keep people who like our snarky rants, raves, and writings fulfilled. Keep hitting “F5″ and you’ll be perfectly satisfied and never at a lack for funny clips and interesting reads.
