Imitation is the weakest form of flattery

SELF EXPLANATORY.

cover of the one and only skinny puppy's smothered hope, blueunicorn style.

fans will love it or hate it. some say i ruined it and some say i made it better. i say the glass is too big.

Blueunicorn here. We all know that there are touchstone moments in life that imprint themselves within our individual memories. In the words of the prophet “menomena” who says.. “Everyone will think back to what they were wearing or who they were dating when the bones were found.”
Sometimes certain music will imprint itself to a certain timeline or a moment. Like the time you had that really bad car accident and the song playing at the time was “Richard hung himself” by the band DI. Or the fact you cant hear The Tear Garden without thinking about that girl Anne you dated when you were 16.
What does this have to do with the next installment of “imitation is the weakest form of flattery” You ask yourself?... starting from on or about 2014 until present… blueunicorn has been suffering under a cloud of unfortunate darkness and tumultuous despair…. Sometimes not so bad. Other times not so good… mostly by self design. however, in 2017 there was a hole that opened from amidst the storm and one single beam of warmth bled through and shone upon the blueunicorn. For the briefest of moments Blueunicorn remembered what it was to have the glow of the summer sun fall upon his face.
But as the fates would weave…, that ray of sunshine was intermittent and finite. Soon it would fade and the clouds would roll together and pinch that beam out like the sphincters of gods.
So is there a moral to this story? Some reason its being written and or read right now at this moment? Nope. Only that Blueunicorn chose this song because it is the song that imprinted upon his memory when that miracle happened. It encompasses the ideas between a sad hopefulness and a cynical joy.
Blueunicorn will leave with one final thought that may or may not have relevance. A person can live their life complaining about the rain, or they can remember and embrace that one time that the sun shone upon their face. Blueunicorn does both or neither, because the rain never seems to stop and the light is radioactive and rainbow is a one dimensional illusion that can only be seen from a certain perspective. Blueunicorn likes it fine that way. Enjoy.

Imitation is the weakest form of flattery #3
(cover) Gotye : Heart's a Mess
from the album Like Drawing Blood (2007)
(please dont sue me I'm poor.)

instrumentation:
vocals- Me
back-up vocals-Me, princess
headbutt
old spanish guitar-Me
unplugged acoustic strat-Me
toy ukulele-me
sheet metal Me
forming spike- Me
boingy sping- Me
boingy dulcimer- Me
maraca- Me
galvanized fence bars- Me
wind chimes- Me
basket of bottle caps- me
growler bottles-me
bomber bottle flutes-me
beer bottle flutes- me
(incitentally these bottle caps and bottles were overlooked while listing instrumentation. blueunicorn may or may not fix this but blueunicorn is very lazy. the youtoobs version will be fixed and it will be a hole in the universe where two same and yet different identically unique items exist and yet not exist. thusly the unicornium "is")

video concept and design:
blueunicorn 2021

cast:
blueunicorn-Me
Blueunicorns alter ego- Me
princess headbutt- herself

special thanks to Oni Manko for
pushing the button on the camera
26 times. blueunicorn could have
done it without you but it would
have taken much longer.

special-er thanks to Nate Ober
for the blue unicorn animation
that he made of a blueunicorn
for blueunicorn.

The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this
production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased),
places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.

except for blueunicorn...
and blueunicorn's alter ego...
and princess headbutt.

they are real.

if you too are suffering from alcoholism and loneliness.....

blueunicorn recommends calling blueunicorn and inviting
blueunicorn over. blueunicorn will come over and help you
drink half as much and you wont be lonely. Problem solved.