Wii, the cello and the tree man

One can always find a more interesting nugget.

The bit about using a Wii to play the cello, I mean, come on, get real.  Reality is not the issue, as ever. Playing the cello or any other “virtual” instrument with a Wii is merely adding sound effects to a mime. Nobody is fooling anybody. Take it for what it is and move on, quickly, because technological innovations cum obsolescence–that hard lined birth and death life cycle that forever stokes the consumer desire for the latest and hottest gadget–mandates such behavior. Whatever. I would rather play golf with a Wii than the cello. And the ambiguity of that last sentence suggests that a cello can actually be used to play golf. That would be somewhat less likely than playing Bach with a golf club. Unless, of course, you happen to be on the links with some guy named Bach.

To the purpose of this post: I discovered a wonderful story in the same sequence of videos submitted on Youtube.com, far more interesting than anything a Wii could offer. The brief video (embedded below) tells the story of a man afflicted with “root-like” growths emanating mostly from the extremities of his limbs. Irony of the limbs aside, it’s just weird. Now, this guy could use the Wii to play the cello. The video shows him smoking a cigarette, so we are pretty sure he could use a Wii. Even more impressive, and certainly worth movie rights, would be for this young man, named Deedee, to learn how to play the cello despite these tree-like roots growing from his body. As a cellist who excels at avoiding practice by means of every excuse conceived by any conscious entity, I would find such a story heartily inspirational beyond all the collective works of Hallmark.

Certainly the above clip leaves room for a sequel. Aren’t you dying to know if the vitamin cure worked?

Let’s find out, shall we?

So, ladies and gentlemen, what have we learned?  Oh, I don’t know. A few things? Like, I enjoy beginning transitional paragraphs with rhetorical questions, an inherently weak rhetorical device verbally or in writing. Nevertheless, I beg you indulge me while I humbly offer a few parallels.

Deedee’s condition has improved. This improvement has come over time, not overnight. One cannot expect to learn to play the cello overnight, but over time. Modest amounts of vitamin A will probably not contribute an advantage to learning how to play the cello, unless you are afflicted with the type of virus as is our Deedee.

We learn that Deedee’s liver is not in very good shape but we are not informed as to the pathology of this condition. We can assume that this patient’s young life has been of misery and woe, known causes of excessive self-medication in the form of alcoholic beverages, contributing, in turn, to the degradation of the vital organ in question. Cellists of many years experience are also commonly afflicted with similar liver ailments for not dissimilar reasons.

These are only a couple of observations. Now I’ve got to go practice and I think we’re all pretty much bored by now.

Bye, now.

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