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Monday Mattoid Musings - Independence Day Reprise
July 8th, 2008 categories: Monday Mattoid Musings, Off-the-Wall
Definition of mattoid : Nobody is ever partly pregnant, but what about being semi-insane? If you know an unhinged genius, borderline psychopath, quirky monomaniac, extreme eccentric, deranged philosopher or restless crank, you know a mattoid. The mattoid is not quite around the bend but always has the turn signal switched on. From an Italian word for “insane”.
We just came out of one of the great holidays for our country. It’s one of the few holidays we don’t get too stuck in religon, politics, whatever. July 4 is the birthday of our great country. Of course it is three or four days past July 4 and this is Tuesday NOT Monday (yesterday turned crazy so I am late with this), but I just had to toss out my salutes to a few great performances of the National Anthem.
Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but it drives me nuts when some celebrity sings the National Anthem and adds their “artistic intrepretation” and performs it in some barely recognizable version. I get goose bumps every time I hear this performed.
So with that said, here are three versions that I really like (no specific order):
Whitney Houston at Super Bowl XXV in 1991:
Then there is Faith Hill:
And one last one (maybe the best because of who it is):
Have a great week….