When it comes to being cool, solid beatboxing skills top the charts. I know this from first hand experience mainly because it’s about the only unique talent I exercise that garners any adoration from the masses. You can take me out to a formal cocktail party, dress me up in a fancy suit, and give me tricks to entertain the guests all night long but the moment I sense some dead air or a bored audience I’m running to the DJ booth to grab the microphone and start a good old fashioned beatbox battle. Suddenly my go to stories about getting stranded in Scottsdale at a bachelor party take a backseat to the rhythmic pulses passed on by my great ancestors Biz Markie and Justin Timberlake. Heads start bobbing, and feet are a tappin’. Now we have ourselves a party!
And now that my rant is over with, you’ll understand why this dude beatboxing with a Swiss alphorn is about as cool as cool gets. The alphorn, the didgeridoo, and the Tibetan horn all have that distinct tone. They all had ceremonial uses and practical uses (and still do) to each culture that’s used them in all their different forms. But I like to think this is the most practical use of them all: for looking and sounding really cool. This is how our ancestors intended they be used. Forget how great of a surfer you are or how big that gap you hucked last winter was. Those skills are obsolete. Whatever your special and random go-to talent happens to be, it’s high time you go find a new one because you’ve just been one upped.
