By Request

It was five years ago this month that I first started taking “requests” online to make songs. These are actually a favor to me because my desire to create videos exceeds my inspiration to think of stuff to do on my own.

My first group of “requests” were actually part of a “dare” thing I used to do on  a regular basis. One of my online friends dared me to go out on to a public street corner wearing women’s underwear and sing Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”. I got help from the girl I was dating at the time.


Small anecdote about how easy it was to impress a lady in her 20’s when I was in my 30’s. I’ll never forget how totally impressed Versailles was that I had toilet paper in my bathroom actually hanging from the toilet paper dispenser. This may actually be on video someplace, but I’ll never forget how she told me about how most guys her age might have some napkins from Taco Bell in their bathroom, if most, a roll of toilet paper on the floor somewhere. That I actually had the real thing hanging from an actual dispenser was a big deal in her mind.

Older men. We have toilet paper.

Fast forward to two years ago, yet again another “dare” and once again, involved wearing women’s clothing in a public place. What is it with the requests and wearing drag?


Soon after that, I posted a request on MySpace, or was it Facebook? I don’t remember. In any case, the point was requesting a request for the least likely song you’d expect to hear on uke. The request I took was the Violent Femme’s “Kiss Off”…


This leads us to today, where once again, I put a post on a social network (it was Facebook. Let’s face it. If I had put it on FriendBurst, no one would have seen it) requesting a request for a song you wouldn’t expect to hear on ukulele…

Got lots of responses. This is what I went with…Of course, I did it in my NSFW video style…



11 Comments

  • D_LEMUR says:

    Older men. We have toilet paper.
    THAT’S RIGHT J……….YOU TELL ALL THOSE YOUNG BUCKS OUT THERE !
    YOU AIN’T SHIT UNLESS YOU GOT TOILET PAPER…..LOLOLOLOLOL……
    On the other hand when I requested you did Masters Of War for me…….there you were willing to do it for me J….
    and that’s a lot bigger than it may seem on the surface you know………
    You got Heart J……………………
    I’VE SAID IT BEFORE,AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN AND THAT IS WHY YOUR ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS ON HERE BOSS………
    sO YEA yours always making lots of funny video’s on here….you know to make people laugh and stuff…..but I see all the work you put into them ,you don’t half ass em and I appreciate all that J…….
    Your a good guy,not a great guy….lolol(no,nono,I am just kidding )
    Gezzz your a great friend J….
    and now finally The Masters Of War cover that you did just because I asked you too….
    Thanks J….
    D.

    😉

  • Joko says:

    Tis the truth… I should have mentioned D Lemur’s request in the original blog, but since it didn’t involve me wearing women’s clothing, however deserving, I can’t put it up in the top two or three…

  • D_LEMUR says:

    Check this out …lolol….you can’t even make this kinda shit up…..
    http://www.myspace.com/tednugent1/friends

    I knew it smelled funny around there….

  • Hyper-Intellect says:

    Hula Honey – maybe. But not even Similar To A Virgin.

  • Marigv says:

    Awww, you put a smile on my face, actually I laughed. 🙂 God, your first vid with Madonna cover is hilarious. It amaze me how men are a lil clumsy with woman stuff…

    And I have to thank you…you did a cover by my request. 🙂

    Here some future ideas:
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  • D_LEMUR says:

    I would pay to see you do some of the covers Marg…suggested oh…lolololololol….Go for it J.
    😛

  • FREEBIRD says:

    Wow you had Dick Clark in your last video.

    I have a request for the very talented Joko.

    :love: :mrgreen: :love:

  • Marigv says:

    If you didn’t chose already here some ideas:
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    …and the winner is…

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