ridgerooms: YOU’RE AN INTERNATIONAL POP STAR, CHARLIE BROWN! Just a silly idea that struck me while working on the Peanuts section of my portfolio update … as “Bells of NYC” (my jam!) got stuck on a loop in my head. Apparently Josh Groban takes his beloved pooch Sweeney everywhere … including on tour. I’ve not seen one of his shows (hey, I only just arrived to the Josh Groban Party™ thanks to the awesomely-introspective ILLUMINATIONS), but this is what I’m picturing the live experience is like. Plus, cartoons (especially Peanuts) are responsible for a great deal of my life-long love of jazz and classical music (it was literally because of Schroeder that I begged for piano lessons), so it was only a matter of time before the two elements mashed up. Incidentally, I guess this makes Groban (Schroeban? Groeder?) the first Peanuts character with a five-o’clock shadow, unless you count Pig Pen’s dirt beard. I, for one, would like to see this Christmas special. Speaking of … um “Christmastime Is Here” on a future Groban Christmas album?? (Or “On Peanuts Playground” with Chris Botti on ANY album …) Please and thank you. Parody fun only … no copyright infringement meant to my former employer

ridgerooms:

YOU’RE AN INTERNATIONAL POP STAR, CHARLIE BROWN!

Just a silly idea that struck me while working on the Peanuts section of my portfolio update … as “Bells of NYC” (my jam!) got stuck on a loop in my head. Apparently Josh Groban takes his beloved pooch Sweeney everywhere … including on tour. I’ve not seen one of his shows (hey, I only just arrived to the Josh Groban Party™ thanks to the awesomely-introspective ILLUMINATIONS), but this is what I’m picturing the live experience is like. Plus, cartoons (especially Peanuts) are responsible for a great deal of my life-long love of jazz and classical music (it was literally because of Schroeder that I begged for piano lessons), so it was only a matter of time before the two elements mashed up. Incidentally, I guess this makes Groban (Schroeban? Groeder?) the first Peanuts character with a five-o’clock shadow, unless you count Pig Pen’s dirt beard.

I, for one, would like to see this Christmas special. Speaking of … um “Christmastime Is Here” on a future Groban Christmas album?? (Or “On Peanuts Playground” with Chris Botti on ANY album …) Please and thank you.

Parody fun only … no copyright infringement meant to my former employer