Come Visit Cleveland – The Anti Tourism Video
I inadvertently have a lot of things to say about this little video on tourism in Cleveland, Ohio. At some point on Wednesday, I saw this video on my RSS feed reader 10 times. Had no real idea what it was about, so I was working and ignored it.
Then yesterday morning I received a note from my buddy LJ and he said “dude, have you heard the song about Cleveland? It’s hilarious, it reminds me of the song from Team America World Police – what is the name of that band?”
They are called DVDA. The lead singer is Trey Parker.
With that said, it took me a while to put 2 and 2 together and realize that the video in question was the same video from my RSS reader. I continued to humor my friend with talks about the video, but I never really got very far.
There were a few other conversations I had around this video inadvertently that aren’t worth mentioning (namely because it makes me seem like a biggot), but let’s just say that this Cleveland Tourism video was completely under my radar.
Fast forward to tonight when I write this post, drinking some wine and catching up on some video watching, leisure reading and podcast listening. What do I come across while listening to the 93x morning show? The Cleveland Tourism song! It really makes me want to go Cleveland.
Some good lines:
“Come on down to Cleveland town everyone. Come and look at both of our buildings”
“You should come on down the west 6th street. It’s the perfect place if you’re a douchebag”
“Watch all the poor people all wait for buses”
“Who the fuck still uses a pay phone?”
“Here’s the place where there used to be industry. The train is carrying jobs out of Cleveland”
“Cleveland leads the nation in drifters”
“Here’s a statue of Moses Cleveland. He’s the guy who invented Cleveland, YEAH!”