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Hotel Mauna Kea
December 11th, 2012
I’ve got some internal funding to do some videos promoting the department with an idea toward graduate student recruiting. We’ll do some straightforward things like interviews with faculty and students, tours of the observatories, maybe some physics demos. We want to show what it’s like here in Wyoming and that we’re friendly and enthusiastic about science.
What I would love to do, but is not so easy, is to create a viral video that doesn’t cast a bad light on us (as some viral videos do upon their subjects). No “Fuck Me Neil DeGrasse Tyson” or “Ghost Girl in the Observatory.” Here’s an example of a great video that is what I’d love to have, at least for a target audience of astronomers and would-be astronomers:
(Nostalgic as I’ve observed there quite a few times myself. It’s really gorgeous and strange.)
What do you think? Any ideas for Wyoming? I don’t think we quite have the talent to pull off a song like this, but we have talent.
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Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh:
“Spent the last year
Rocky Mountain Way
Couldn’t get much higher
Out to pasture
Think it’s safe to say
Time to open fire
And we don’t need the ladies
Crying ‘cuz the storie’s sad
‘Cuz the Rocky Mountain Way
Is better than the way we had
Well he’s tellin’ us this
And he’s tellin’ us that
Changes it every day
Say’s it doesn’t matter
Bases are loaded and Casey’s at bat
Playin’ it play by play
Time to change the batter
And we don’t need the ladies
Crying ‘cuz the storie’s sad, uh huh
Rocky Moutain Way
Is better than the way we had
Hey, hey, hey, hey”
Plus any old honky tonk band can play the music for your video lol
Thanks for the suggestion. Not a bad place to start, but it’ll need astronomizing (is that a word?!) and enough specifics CU Boulder can’t steal it from us…
“We all live in a Yellowstone submarine” as sung by the Betels-geuse
“Quasar the World.” Round up a bunch of washed up, out of style astronomers to sing this one.
“My Grand Tetons bring all the boys to the yard”