• Response to Bella Brave's Favorite YB Song •
• Response to Bella Brave's "Favorite YB Song" •
Originally Posted 1628 PDT 15 JUL 08
- This was my first post to ysabellabrave.com -
- My second post to ysabellabrave.com then follows -
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Once I committed to becoming a member of the Ysabella Brave Community I wasted little time participating. This is my first post to the Message Board, written a mere two days after joining. Member BellaBrave initiated the topic Favorite YB song, posing the question, “What’s your favorite Ysabella song?” My response became the seed which ultimately germinated into my postulate, which I paraphrase, “All of Ysabella Brave’s work is her best and my favorite.”
There were over a whopping 100 responses to this interrogatory before I arrived on the scene. Nevertheless, at that time it had been languishing for some three months. My brazen retort managed to catch Bob Robertson’s attention. The opening line of his response was, “Clamchucker: That was beautifully written!” This induced him to compose that Guest Book greeting on my profile page which initiated our friendship.
Bob’s response just happens to contain the words I needed to hear. I had made the conscious effort to “come on strong” with my answer. I was uncertain how it would be received. Based on my contributions to the Ysabella Brave Community, one might tend to conclude I am socially forthcoming and strong. This is not true. I am shy and tend to hold my tongue in social situations. This is yet another inexplicable effect Ysabella Brave has upon me. When writing about her I am passionate. At any rate, enjoy reading my brief response to BellaBrave, which follows.
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Greetings:
This is an inherently unfair question. How could any mortal possibly select a favorite from a body of work so stupendously well produced and interpreted? Computing the absolute value for Pi would probably be an easier task. I shall, nevertheless, have a go at it.
If I were tied to the waterboard and forced to answer, I would have to select Moon River. This is purely for nostalgic reasons. It was during research on this piece I discovered Ysabella Brave. This has endeared it to me. I have written at length (too much length, probably) on this elsewhere, so suffice it to say I generally close each day with a listen to Moon River. It works better than Phenobarbital in preparing me for a relaxing, good night’s slumber.
But then there is Let’s Misbehave, where she sings in dialect and is so bubbly I am inspired to run out and dance in the streets. Likewise is Swinging on a Star. Don’t Know Why is just soooo pretty, and Do Do Do so adorable . . . where do I stop?
Regarding her original work, All You Have to be is You is way up there simply because of its sheer beauty and optimistic sentiment. “. . . Look around, there’s stars on the ground. . . .” It is enough to rip your heart out. But The Moon was Red is so original it is musically unclassifiable — unique — never heard anything like it. Nice I Guess is so catchy I wake up in the middle of the night humming it (incidentally, the final scene in that video is unabashedly ingenious). Baby One rocks the house down.
I could go on and on, and I have at times, ad nauseam. Also, we are limited to a measly sixty-five thousand characters here. Next time, why not ask a relatively simple question, such as, “What is the meaning of life?” or “Please explain the mathematical derivations by which Albert Einstein formulated ‘Energy equals Mass times the Speed of Light Squared?’” Those are duck soup compared to this.
Your pal,
Clamchucker
• Response to Are there going to be any •
• Ysabella Brave T-Shirts, Cups, etc? . . . •
Originally Posted 2018 PDT 19 JUL 08
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Three months prior to my arrival at ysabellabrave.com, respected community member Molamini posted the topic, Are there going to be any Ysabella Brave T-Shirts, Cups, etc? . . . The general response to Molamini ’s query was moderate yet positive. It is my understanding that preliminary efforts were initiated by Ysabella Brave to produce t-shirts and possibly coffee mugs. Apparently the project either collapsed or was abandoned. I believe she could make a modest income from such a project based on the size of her fan base. It is somewhat labor intensive, however, having to deal with production, promotion, inventory, shipping, handling, etc.
As with my first post, I took a somewhat aggressive tack when responding to this four days after joining the community. I complimented the fans for such a fine marketing concept, then admonished them for not thinking “big.” In the conclusion I used a subliminal technique to encourage participation. I “confessed” I could only develop one other possible large scale concept for merchandise marketing. That was successful only with Molamini, who responded several weeks later and suggested producing an Ysabella Brave space shuttle.
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Greetings:
The t-shirts and mugs are a great idea, and there is no doubt they would sell like hotcakes. The only problem I see is that we are thinking on too small a scale here.
What we need to market is the Ysabella Brave Signature Series Limited Edition GM Suburban SUV. It would be equipped with a 3,500 catpower engine that would purr like Mun-Ha. When you kick in the supercharger, the earth would shake as per the opening notes to Baby One. It would get forty-five miles on a box of Friskies, highway, thirty-eight miles per box, city (your mileage may vary). It would have an Energetic Super Star efficiency rating.
The vehicle would have four pink-wall all terrain tires. The driver door would sport a giant Ysabella Brave lip print. The interior would be pink polka dot, with blonde hair extensions hanging from the rear view mirror, as well as the radio antenna. The windshield washer/wipers would automatically remove all bird Do Do Do.
There would be a Moon Was Red moon roof. The suspension would utilize the patented Quiet Man Ride system. The gear shift knob would be sterling silver, shaped like an human skull, etched with the words Bones of Yesterday (the initials of which are YB backwards). The steering system would be capable of automatically executing an All You Have To Be Is U turn.
It would not have a radio per se, but would use a mobile satellite up/downlink permanently online with the two YouTube channels and ysabellabrave.com. The stock rear view camera used for the dash display would be a Kodak EasyShare Z760 Digital Camera. The side view mirrors would look like cat’s ears.
The headlamps would look like four busted desk lamps. Written on the tailgate in permanent pink lipstick would be the famous YB script logo and the words Ysabella Brave Signature Series. When you sound the horn, it blares out Let’s Misbehave! audible at 200 feet.
In the glove box would be pink touch-up paint and a bottle of dark hair dye for when the driver is bored with the blonde hair extensions and looking for a change. A GPS system is unnecessary because you would already be in heaven. All in all it would be a fanblabulous Machine. Well, at any rate, Nice, I Guess. . . .
The only other “large scale” concept I can currently come up with would be a possible Ysabella Brave Signature Series Limited Edition One Hundred Thousand Ton Nimitz class Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier, but that would be a topic for another discussion.
Waddya think?
Your pal,
Clamchucker
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