The homey Simon Rex aka Dirt Nasty made this short film. I dunno why it’s so funny but it is. Palatial Regalia.

This kid’s voice is something really special. He’s 13 years old. I can’t find a myspace for him, but he has a channel on YouTube. Kinda reminds me of a young Stevie. What’s more is that this kid is sick on the drums, kinda like Stevie. I didn’t know until a couple of years ago that Stevie Wonder played drums on Minnie Riperton’s “Reasons”, one of the most amazing tracks of all time.

Ms. Riperton, who passed in 1979 at the age of 32, had a 5 and half octave vocal range. To put that in perspective, Mariah Carey’s got a 5 octave vocal range. Rumors of her posessing an 8 octave vocal range are entirely false, although it was said that around the release her second album’s single “Emotions”, listeners who were playing a CD version of the song lound in the cars with the windows opened, reported having their garage doors activated by her voice. I actually remember hearing this when I was a kid.