Sunday, November 21, 2010

Polka Polka Polka

I went down to my grandparents' house this weekend for a cousin's bridal shower and an early Thanksgiving dinner(well one on each side of the family actually). I am blessed to have such a large loving family, and all 4 of my grandparents still with us. On my dad's side, there is always delicious food at my grandparents' house - and luckily grandma passed her good cooking skills on to my dad, and maybe one day I'll pick it up. On my mom's side it's usually large, loud family gatherings with lots of kids around. This weekend I stayed overnight by myself at my mom's parents' house, which has not happened for a long time. Grandma showed me a bunch of old photos from when my mom was young, and there were some of my dad too since they started dating in high school.

We also did what they normally do on Saturday nights...watch polka dancing on tv. They used to go polka dancing when they were younger, and they like to watch it to reminisce and enjoy the music. I actually didn't mind watching it because I found it amusing, but for different reasons. The particular show we watched was a 1989 episode of Big Joe's Polka who is a big man who wears a sparkly accordion vest, hosts the polka band shows, and makes terrible jokes all the while. One of the bands that played was called the Polka Nuts, and I was surprised to see that they were a family - a dad and three kids younger than me, probably in high school. I wonder if their friends thought it was cool...? They had some pretty awesome 80's hair, and are actually very talented. Besides the singing in this video:

Unfortunately that was the only one from that band on the show that I found on YouTube. I did find this though that is much more impressive with 3 of them playing the hammered dulcimer:


There's my partially sarcastic tribute to polka music. It also makes me think of Home Alone, which oddly the only videos I could find on YouTube of the polka band introduction scene were in different languages. That movie deserves it's own tribute page, maybe closer to Christmas.

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