December 1st, 2006
Bush joins a gamelan
Ok, so a bit of guilty pleasure just now. CNN.com has a movie clip of Danny Devito’s drunken appearance on The View. I don’t really care about this, and frankly, I sympathize with his need to take pain medicine before encountering that crowd, but that’s not what I’m blogging about.
Interestingly, the clip at the very end contains a couple seconds of Bush playing a Javanese saron (presumably after he listened to a gamelan performance in Singapore). He apparently requested to play afterwards, and doesn’t seem to do so bad. I had thought, in fact, that he had been trained. But it’s raw musical talent. Good for him.
Want to be like Bush? Check out this cool vitual gamelan you can play yourself.
