April 28, 2010
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An Awesome Swatty (Auto-Tune the News)
Those who know me or have been reading my blog for a long time might be aware that I attended Swarthmore College in the class of 2002. I’m not a big fan of school pride or anything like that but I was very amused to find out that Evan Gregory of the Gregory Brothers gave what is perhaps one of the most unique commencement speeches of all time for the Swarthmore College class of 2009:
So who are the Gregory Brothers and why should you care? Well basically it’s Evan his two brothers and his wife who have been making very awesome music together for quite a while. Most famously they are responsible for the incredibly awesome award winning viral videos known as Auto-Tune The News:
All this is just to say that this is one Awesome Swatty (campus name for Swarthmore students). I look forward to following his family’s work in the future.
Comments (5)
I agree. truly awesome!
actually… the date on the commencement speech is 2001. How had I not heard this before? How did we not know Mr. Gregory?
@bjerre - That’s what I thought he said too but I thought I must have heard wrong. I mean 2001 wasn’t our class, but it’s close enough. What’s more I actually thought I attended that commencement ceremony. Was I like sleep walking or something? I don’t remember this person at all.
Then again I do have the worst memory on the planet Earth so no real surprise there.
@nephyo - holy shit, k-man! i didn’t realize it was evan gregory from our swat class. and thanks for sharing the video. dude, that’s my dad on 1:25. chinaman in the lower right hand corner. lol. insanely awesome.
The videos, about which I was unaware, are powerful and well-executed. Thanks both for that and for the excellent writing here; a real treat to read. (I jumped to your site on the strength of a lucid reply to someone who’d pasted a stooopid email ‘trashing’ snopes.)
I was almost a Swatty myself, in ’67; accepted, but got a full scholarship at a different institution. Too bad, and I still regret it somewhat.
Thanks for the breath of fresh air in the Xangan riptide, so to speak (Actually not that mixed a metaphor)/ JS/ Tel Aviv