Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Wall

I found this Alvin & the Chipmunks video off youtube late last year and wanted to share it with everyone.

I remember watching this episode as a little kid...

Alvin, Simon and Theodore are traveling with their father, Dave, to Germany to play at a concert in Berlin (either East or West-- I can't remember).

They meet a little blond girl named Katrina who throws a ball-- with messages taped onto it-- over the Berlin wall each day so that she can communicate with her brother, who's on the other side of the city.

Somehow, the Chipmunks end up on the other side of the Berlin Wall and start playing their concert (in this video). They sing about the Wall falling down and the reverberations from their music causes the Wall to collapse. We see Katrina reunited with her brother, an old man brought back together with his granddaughter, and the Chipmunks with Dave.

The episode ends with Alvin waking up on the airplane, which is just landing in Berlin-- the entire scenario had just been a dream and the Wall is still standing.

Alvin thinks back to that image of Katrina hugging her brother, though, and the vision of hope lives on...

Apparently, this episode was aired BEFORE the Berlin Wall actually came down-- so maybe Alvin & the Chipmunks inspired history.

Here are the actual lyrics to the song:

<<Far from the battlefield, far from war,
We've got to look for an open door,
All of us working, all of us searching for peace.

We dream of a time when we all are one,
Clinging to hope under Earths bright sun,
So lets get together, things will be better if we try, hear our cry.

Someday the pain of war will be healed,
Someday we'll mean and speak what we feel.
Let the wall come down, tumble to the ground,
and love will live in peace all around.

So lets raise our voice so they all can hear,
Over the wall, they will raise a cheer,
All of us clinging, all of us singing the cry, we will try.

Someday the pain of war will be healed,
Someday we'll mean and speak what we feel.
Let the wall come down, tumble to the ground,
And love will live in peace all around.
Let the wall come down, and tumble to the ground,
And love will live in peace all around.>>

Still with the New York Giants...

OK, a new rant (and this time-- at 3AM in the morning!!) for the new year.

I'm hearing a bunch of sports commentators say that Sunday's Super Bowl was the "greatest game ever" and that it was even better than last year's Giants' win over the previously undefeated Patriots and I think that's total BS.

Sure, it was an exciting final 10 minutes and it was fun to watch overall, but I can't believe that people would dare compare it with one of the biggest upsets ever. How often does an underdog wild card team beat the undefeated opponent in the biggest game of the year?? And how is a game where the heavily favored Steelers basically dominate throughout comparable to last year???

I was reading some news article in the NJ Star-Ledger about David Tyree's helmet catch vs. James Harrison's 100-yard interception touchdown and this one poster said it best:

<<The knee-jerk reaction to coronate this game as the greatest thing in sports history is both laughable and pathetic. This was a snoozefest for 50 minutes with the Cards shooting themselves in the thigh at every opportunity while the Steelers wouldn't take it away. Harrison's run was a great play but it was also a horrendous effort by AZ to make a tackle. George Martin's return in '86 vs. Denver was a better play let alone "The Catch" from last year. That one occured on the game-winning drive that defeated "the Greatest Team Ever" had the Patriots won. Last time I checked the Cards were a 7-time loser this year and easily the worst team entering the playoffs.>>

- jintfan76

I couldn't agree more, man!

And to all you jerks in the news media, who are trying to diminish the Big Blue: get a reality check. =P

Next year, G-men. Next year...__________

On another sports rant, I just wanted to mention that I find it very unsurprising that Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has been outed as a pothead. He was always incredibly arrogant and condescending, and I'm not surprised that he thought that he could also get away with doing illegal drugs.

I find it pretty standard that the media built him just to tear him down. Now watch him be the big story leading up to the London games in 2012-- even though he won't win another 8 gold medals. And then the controversy will pour in over whether he's lost his edge and the cycle will continue.

OK, bitterness be gone! I need to go into this Chinese New Year with a clearer mind...