November 2009
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October 2009
15 posts
Lyrics forthcoming. Can’t find them right...
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You would not believe your eyes If ten million...
The World’s Most Skeptical Man
’80s...
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Another song I made a LONG time ago, and that I...
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Recorded the day of release of Deathly Hallows....
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One, five, six, and four.
After neglecting this blog, I’m back with an impossible task.
The four most common chords in music have a way of coming back, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. The most popular chord progression in all of popular music is the ubiquitous 1-5-6-4, which shows up in almost every genre in some order. (Songs in minor keys are often of the 6-4-1-5...
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LET’S DROP
Metro Station is a rather...
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Ten
of eighteen songs are now recorded in at least some form for Album II.
I might even have it ready to ship off by early November, which means it WOULD MAKE A PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT because I’m full of myself like that
I’m also up late.
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Three trips now
the medical helicopter has touched down while I’ve been recording. Why do people around here have to get in accidents or get so deathly ill so often
(I’ll let that politically loaded question just sort of wander off rather than grabbing it by the neck and strangling it until somebody rescues it)
I just pitch-shifted Shake It by Metro Station...
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Every day, a new song presents it self to me and...
But then on second thought maybe the bag
September 2009
37 posts
Auto brand Saturn to cease after 2010 →
Arthur C. Clarke was wrong. Saturn is the one that turns into Lucifer after Odyssey Two. Duh.
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“With great power comes great current squared times resistance.”
The best song in existence.
I will keep posting...
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This is the BEST BAND EVER. Spread the word....
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Finally, another long-winded music rant.
Because I know you all were waiting for one. (Summer Girls by LFO) This rant was originally about a certain dance single, but I was expertly reminded of this song by another person and I got to thinking about it.
For starters. LFO does not first and foremost denote a group where kid-friendly sitcom music meets the lyric delivery style of Tony Soprano on Prozac meets the lyrics of your average...
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Lost in translation
(N-nouns in German are words that have an extra N on the end in certain contexts.)
Professor: As you can see, there is also a brief list of N-nouns in the book, but since you are only needing to translate from German to English, it should suffice if you remember that they exist, and differentiate which definite or indefinite article you would need to use for a plural versus an N-noun form.
Student: So that's why the assistant [from the previous exercise] was different? It was because he was an N-word?
Professor: That's right. Assistant is an N-word. Anything else about N-words?
[awkward five-second silence]
Student 2: N-noun, not N-word.
Professor: Same thing.
(This is what happens when your language professor's first language is actually the language you're learning.)
I would go and order most of these things just to... →
I think I got a Neopolitan milkshake once from McDonalds by accident anyway when one of the more incompetent employees messed up the shake machine…
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I want to give this person a hug so badly. →
This is just pure amazingness. This person deserves as much publicity as possible.
RIP, the best website on the internet.
Joe Wilson Is Your Pre-existing Condition is no more.
For the uninformed, the website simply displayed a quick blurb about something embarrassing or evil that Joe Wilson did, with a hyperlink to refresh the page to retrieve another random blurb. The site had a small donation link for Rob Miller, Wilson’s 2010 challenger for his House seat, and contributed to the more than $900,000 that he...
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So incompetent that we break RIVERS! →
Okay, so it’s not really broken, but the description in the story about having the river closing and opening brings to mind some weird mental imagery.
Think of single words...
that we associate so closely with certain people/concepts. If you can come up with fake hiphop song titles using that word, and people will know exactly who you’re talking about, then that concept/person has really made the big time.
For example:
White and Maverick Straight Outta Mavericks Dwight Dwight Baby Boom Boom House Malaise Is
By the way, if anybody actually makes any of these, I...
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You know when you run into your teacher at the...
You know how it’s the most awkward thing ever?
Weeeellllll…
Imagine how much more awkward it would get if:
You’re the teacher.
The kid is older than you.
The store is a Burger King.
It’s at a time and a day when 90% of the people wandering into a Burger King are drunk or at least sufficiently impaired to think that wandering into a Burger King at that time of day is...
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Hot Rod
is a gratuitously gigantic ironically awkward moment. Welcome to 21st-century entertainment.
I’m somewhat tired today but THIS is running...
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Jalapeño Cheddar Ramen
Seriously? What is this? Spicy mac and cheese using long skinny noodles? (Actually, surprised Kraft hasn’t done something like this already.)
I guess the fusion instant noodle crowd rejected Pesto Falafel Pad Thai
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Artists I have managed to never listen to
Leona Lewis
Kings of Leon
Mariah Carey
Alicia Keys
Flo-Rida
Usher
T-Pain would fall into this category if not for I’m On a Boat
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I want to meet the guy
who decided to commercialize television.
Tremendous foresight and lack of foresight simultaneously. (financial gain vs. destroying culture as we know it)
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Straight into the mouth of the beast
I stared down Michele Bachmann earlier today. And I won. (Well, her eyes glazed over again and she kept on talking about welfare being the most evil thing ever done in the history of mankind.) Ron Paul, on the other hand, is about as unflappable as they come.
There was a ‘town hall’ today with Bachmann and Paul, most of which was libertarian political pitching by various local people,...
I am totally using this in class tomorrow. I don't...
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain? Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain? Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain? Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain? To hug the mountain, to envelop that mountain To hug the mountain, to envelop that mountain To hug the mountain, to envelop that...
Hugo Chavez claims it doesn't smell of sulfur... →
Yeah, right. They’re in freaking New York. Good luck trying to make it not smell like sulfur.
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Sidewalk corner ramps
are for wheels.
If you are WALKING, and a bicycle or a wheelchair comes along, you THINK it might be a good idea to step out of the sidewalk ramp to allow them to pass?
I can understand if it’s a bicyclist, but when you can clearly see somebody on a wheelchair, and you’re walking SLOWLY enough that they want to pass you, and THEN you don’t move out of the way, I can’t...
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Twitter
would be greatly improved with a 5-minute waiting period between consecutive tweets.
Twitter is not for long blog posts. There is a 140-character limit for a reason. Stop tweeting 17 times if you want to talk about how your grandmother’s dog got stuck in your next-door neighbor’s fence and how you had to pour acetic acid on his leash to get him unstuck. Maybe you should upgrade to...
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Rant numero uno. Lyrics and repetition
This rant is about…popular music! This’ll be a common phenomenon.
You walk up to a person, they’ll list off a few songs that they might prefer over any other. If you ask them why they prefer this song, they might list off any number of reasons, although one of the primary ones (other than catchy beats) would be the lyrics. Unless it’s rap (which generally does happen to...
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