{"id":8469,"date":"2009-09-21T18:23:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T00:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2009-09-21T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T01:13:15","slug":"music-monday-re-visiting-stus-song-and-guessing-a-tigers-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/music-monday-re-visiting-stus-song-and-guessing-a-tigers-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Re-visiting &#8220;Stu&#8217;s Song&#8221; and Guessing a Tiger&#8217;s Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ojkUv4aWY_0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ojkUv4aWY_0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>Our friend Gullotta spawned this mad need to hear Ed Helms sing &#8220;Stu&#8217;s Song&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hangover_(film)\" class=\"external external_icon\">THE HANGOVER<\/a>.  Facebook statuses are the gateway drugs to unstoppable earwigs. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you different. <\/p>\n<p>The search begat a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/theplaylist.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/beautiful-stus-song-by-ed-helms-from.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Playlist<\/a> which begat an interview link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=55933\" class=\"external external_icon\">Coming Soon<\/a>. It&#8217;s there we learn how Stu&#8217;s Song was born.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>CS: The song that Ed [Helms] played on piano, was that completely made-up on the spot? <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Phillips:<\/strong> It was improvised as in it was never in any script, but it wasn&#8217;t improvised like &#8220;Action,&#8221; and then he made it up on the spot. He wrote it that morning though. I said, &#8220;Do you know what would be funny?&#8221; &#8217;cause he kept playing the piano on set in between takes. He&#8217;s a really good piano player and he has a good voice oddly. I said, &#8220;You know what would be funny? We should just do a song.&#8221; He&#8217;s like, &#8220;Where would that go in the movie?&#8221; I said, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we put it in the scene while we&#8217;re killing time after we drug the tiger?&#8221; He&#8217;s like, &#8220;Great,&#8221; and we just threw out ideas of what that song would be about and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=55933\" class=\"external external_icon\">settled on &#8220;What Do Tigers Dream Of,&#8221; and then he just went off and wrote it.<\/a> It was great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Play the song(above or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/5e531d1fa8\/the-hangover-movie-stu-s-song-restricted\" class=\"external external_icon\">restricted if you&#8217;re nasty<\/a>) while singing along(lyrics below the cut) and re-live the best HANGOVER of your lives.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do tigers dream of<br \/>\nwhen they take a little tiger snooze? <\/p>\n<p>Do they dream of mauling zebras<br \/>\nor Halle Berry in her cat woman suit? <\/p>\n<p>Dont you worry your pretty striped head<br \/>\nwere gonna get you back to tyson and\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf your cozy tiger bed!! <\/p>\n<p>and then were gonna find our best friend doug<br \/>\nand then were gonna give him a best friend hug!<\/p>\n<p>DOUG-DOUG-DOUG-DOUG-DOUGY-DOUG -DOUG&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>but if hes been murdered by a crystal meth tweakers!<\/p>\n<p> well then were shit out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edhelms.org\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Ed Helms<\/a> in The Hangover<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ojkUv4aWY_0\" class=\"external external_icon\">cozy tiger bed you tube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theplaylist.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/beautiful-stus-song-by-ed-helms-from.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">the playlist<\/a>, coming soon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Gullotta spawned this mad need to hear Ed Helms sing &#8220;Stu&#8217;s Song&#8221; from THE HANGOVER. Facebook statuses are the gateway drugs to unstoppable earwigs. Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you different. The search begat a link to The Playlist which begat an interview link to Coming Soon. It&#8217;s there we learn how Stu&#8217;s Song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,52,56,60],"tags":[1537,1532,1534,1470,1476,1533,1536,1535,125],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-just-freaking-neat","category-movies","category-music","tag-coming-soon","tag-ed-helms","tag-lyrics","tag-music-monday","tag-music-to-our-ears","tag-the-hangover","tag-the-playlist","tag-tigers","tag-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}