Uniform: VOTE->
We are asking that all alexandluke.com fans take the time to vote on our uniform. You can do so by looking at the righthand side of the site and choosing the option that best suits you.
This is not a decision for you to take lightly. We will be wearing this uniform in videos that we make all over North America.
Please watch the video to view our professionally done artist’s renditions:
After you are done watching the video, please vote! And, tell your friends to vote! And, go to an internet cafe and log onto every computer and vote so your option has a better chance of winning! And, make every computer in the internet cafe’s homepage alexandluke.com!
Thanks,
A&L
Alex and Luke and a Stereo
Our car is named Burt Reynolds. The windows of the car are his eyes, the exhaust is his rear end, the engine is his heart, the windshield wipers are his his eyelashes, and the wheels are his legs. While it may be easy to mistake the car’s horn as his voicebox (it’s not, it’s actually his middle finger being thrust towards you, or a friendly wave of his hand depending on the context), Burt’s voicebox is the stereo and speakers that live inside him, and Alex and I are the brain that controls what he recounts or sings.
Firmly placing this metaphor aside, the stereo is a big part of our trip. It’s going to be playing us music, reading us books, delivering us news, teaching us languages, giving us glimpses into local culture, and hopefully warning us of any weather patterns or ghost attacks to be weary of in the cities we are approaching.
To take advantage of the capabilities of Burt’s stereo we are:
-Ramping up our Podcast subscriptions.
-Doubling our Audible.com Digital Book Plan
-Researching what AM or FM station we should tune into in different regions
-Moving our old CDs onto our computers
-Buying new music to listen to on the road, and…
-Asking for your help!!
We need to find out about more bands, more podcasts, and more radio stations!
We would love to hear any of your suggestions,
alex and luke.
PS: Alternatively, you can send us a mixCD (Burt doesn’t have a cassette player or we would ask for a tape)
Extra Video Footage Montage
Who doesn’t love a montage? Not everything can make it into the regular videos, and this demonstrates why that is…
Any views expressed in this video montage are done so for comedic purposes only, and do not reflect the actual feelings or ideas of Alex and Luke… for example, Luke doesn’t actually want Alex’s face to be eaten by a dog, and Alex doesn’t actually want that dog to bird-feed her face to Luke, and then eat him.
We need a uniform!
We were getting ready for another interview this morning, and trying to figure out what we should wear by coordinating over the phone when it dawned on us that we should probably have some kind of special outfit set aside for this sort of thing. And so we are putting this matter in your hands with another poll.
We want you to help us pick matching outfits (an alexandluke.com uniform, if you will) that we can wear for special occasions, the odd media appearance, and maybe also on Fridays…. Feel free to get creative – suspenders are always a hit, and we love hats of all varieties. Luke looks divine in purple, and Alex wears a lot of menswear… just something to keep in mind.
Go to the discussion section of our Facebook Fan Page here and drop off your suggestions for what this uniform should entail. We will pick the top 5, and post a new poll very soon!
A&L
Baby Steps
We have the ambitious goal of travelling through every State, Province, and Territory in North America. We are hoping that the people in these regions will help us better see their home-states in a way that we couldn’t without their interaction. But prior to being able to interact with people in every region it would help to have at least one person from that region know who we are.
To achieve this we have set a much more attainable goal:
Before we visit every region in North America, we want to have a visitor to our website from every region in North America!
We have already made fantastic progress, but starting today we are launching an initiative to pick up the stragglers.
Starting with:
KENTUCKY
Listen up Bluegrass State, we like you, in fact we are really excited to see you in the coming months. But, not a single person that lives in you has found us interesting enough to visit our website yet. Not cool! We posted a deer video for you as we know you have the densest deer population in the states, we purchased a headlamp to navigate your caves, and we love Abraham Lincoln (someone we understand you hold close to your heart). All we want in return is for you to send a single visitor to our site.
We made you this:
We will be checking our Google Analytics tomorrow to see if you have decided to send us someone.
A very excited,
alexandluke.com
alternatively
If any of you reading know someone in Kentucky and direct them to our site, we will owe you one! Let us know if you do and we will make it worth your while.
A&L
Torontoist + Secrets
One of our favourite Toronto based blogs (if not our absolute favourite) wrote a wonderful article on us today.
It can be read here. The article’s author, Kelli Korducki, has officially done a better job at articulating our project than we were able to do during our radio interview today with a station in Alberta.
Welcome to any new followers of alexandluke.com from the Torontoist. We would love to hear from you on facebook, twitter, and e-mail if you have any suggestions, support, or even unnecessarily hurtful statements.
Also, we have a couple more exciting announcements that we will hopefully be able to divulge next week in regards to getting a bit more attention on our little experiment.
We had the great suggestion today of adding a ‘Press’ section as a menu option on our site. The idea of needing an entire section dedicated to us receiving press coverage kind of makes us giggly, but at the very least it will have the Torontoist’s article in it, which wouldn’t be that bad a thing. It would kind of be like having a great big trophy case with only the Wimbledon trophy in it.
Hitchhiking
There are four Alex’s working at my current place of employment, and one of them lent me a book to read a couple of weeks ago. Tomorrow is my last day at said job, so the book needs to be returned to Alex by the end of the day. I haven’t finished it yet, but so far its right up my alley, and I do hope I come across another copy somewhere along the road so that I can finish it one day.
The book is Timbit Nation: A Hitchhiker’s View of Canada by John Stackhouse. It follows the true story of a journalist as he uses a very traditional (and somewhat frightening) method of travel across his homeland. To be perfectly honest, I’m about 30 minutes into reading it and John has yet to stick his thumb out at any traffic, but that hasn’t stopped my curious mind from thinking about the rather outdated practice of hitchhiking and turning to Google to see what kinds of things are being said about it.
The following are the most interesting things that I learned about hitchhiking through my Google research:
-Hitchhiking is also known as thumbing, tramping, hitching, thumbing up a ride and autostop – “Hey Luke, do you want to ditch the VW in Nebraska and autostop our way to Salt Lake City?” – it has an interesting ring to it…
-If you try sticking your thumb up on the side of the road in Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and Thailand you might have people rather upset with you… thank you Wikipedia… this information may save my life one day.
-The modern practice of hitchhiking, as we know it, is said to have started in America in the 1920’s with the popularization of the automobile… but I can only imagine humans have been hitching rides for as long as they have been travelling on horseback or donkeyback, or any other back…
-Using the keyword “ghost” along with “hitchhiker” yields some delightful results, my favourite being a YouTube video that discusses the biblical history behind the classic ghost-girl-with-scarf hitchhiking tale we all know and love. It features a captivating reenactment and chilling music… I don’t think Luke will be watching any time soon, but if you want to, click here
-Finally after reading up on hitchhiking online, I have confirmed that I will not be stopping for any roadside wanderer any time soon. I like my body parts where they are, thank you very much…
In conclusion, Mr Stackhouse’s journey is an admirable one, and I look forward to enjoying his tales from the safety of the passenger seat of Luke’s car someday soon. But it is a journey I need not experience for myself.
Out of curiosity though – I am eager to know how many people reading this have engaged in hitchhiking themself, so if you have let me know! And make sure you tell me what decade you hitchhiked in… I want to know if it really is an outdated practice.
Yours,
alex