A week or so before the recent election, I saw an article about crypto scams and how the people behind them were pouring lots of money into the election in the hopes of electing candidates who would be sympathetic to those scams, i.e., Republicans. Prominent among the crypto scammers and thus the money pourers were the Winklevoss twins.

You may recall the Winklevoss twins from the movie The Social Network where they were portrayed by Armie Hammer.

I decided to make a short video about the crypto scams—a very short, hopefully humorous video.

It was going to be a mere 30 seconds long.

However, it required a soundtrack. I knew exactly the piece of music I wanted, and I quickly found a karaoke version of it, which I downloaded and then edited out just the 30 second portion that I needed.

Then came the hard part. I had to add the vocal line. 

I’m not a singer, but I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to sync up my vocals to that orchestra accompaniment. The problem was that the orchestral accompaniment had no melody cues to latch onto. In fact, after the two introductory measures, I could barely even follow the meter of the piece. I ended up having to count out the beats manually while I tried to add the vocal line. And I had to have two distinct vocal lines, so I had to make two usable recordings and then sync them together. The two vocal recordings didn’t match well enough, so I even had to do some cutting and pasting to get them to sync.

Then in the middle of all this, my new neighbor started hammering, so it was impossible to do any more work on the recording or the video.

The long and short of it is that once I finally had a (semi-)usable soundtrack, the election was nigh and I had lost all my enthusiasm for making the video, so I never got around to doing the visuals.

So there the audio track sits.

I was simply going to let it there, but given how many hours I had to put into it to get even a half-way usable track, I decided to publish it anyway.

Not that it’s very good, but maybe you’ll get a snicker out of it.