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Songs you're working on (59)

Doctroid

If you're the pee-on-a-hydrant type, mention what songs you're working on here.

Song titles from my daughter - Kibological I think (1)

Charlie

The Truth of Lies
Cellphones of Candlelight
The Difference between a Wright Bastard and Funny Liars
Sawdust of Central
The Alabaster at Fantasy Fest

Reverse Stalking (8)

Jacob Haller

I thought I might start a thread to keep track of sites that link to us. Here's one:

http://hipsterplease.blogspot.com/2007/02/radio-free-hipster-ep-16-robot-friends.html

All Roads Lead Away From Rome (30)

Doctroid

As the Cartel moves into its prog rock era, I see them taking on a nerdly keyboards guy who, having joined the band, foists upon them a long, serious, intellectual, instrumental piece for the new album. Not to be outdone by the gods of 1970s prog rock like Emerson, Wakeman, and Waters, he ventures into the weirdness of microtonal 15-tone equal temperament. Needless to say, there is immediate talk of firing him from the band.

RSS (6)

Doctroid

What's with this board's RSS? Goolge Reader doesn't see half the new posts. But I just tried using Safari's builtin RSS, and it does seem to get the new posts. Unfortunately I normally do not use Safari.

Is there something nonstandard about the RSS source?

Rights, Licensing, and all that (20)

Major Zed!!orbrrtOp

Thought it would be helpful to make this discussion more public.

"Online Dating" Lyrics (252)

Sheryl Zettner

John (Don't know his last name) at OK Cupid said I could put lyrics up here in case someone wanted to try to come up with music to go with them.

I guess this is being offered as an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. I don't want my lyrics altered, unless I am consulted and agree to any changes.

Another Idea for a Song (37)

Sheryl Zettner

I know we are still working on the "Online Dating" song, but I was going through my poetry today and was thinking that maybe my poem about domestic spying could make a funny song too. So I thought I would at least post it.

Anyway, I broke it up and added a short chorus. I guess this would be on the same Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license as before (as that seemed to work well.) I know it's kind of short for a song, although I initially made the poem short on purpose to keep to the basics. But it could be filled out with lots of segments of private phone calls being intercepted.

"Online Dating" video (18)

Major Zed!!orbrrtOp

Sheryl - you wrote "I assume you know that if the song is to really get exposure, it will eventually have to be re-recorded as a video by an anorexic, half naked bleach blond caked in makeup and making love to her computer screen. lol Are you talented with video software too? :-D"

How about... webcam shots of people looking into their screens as they are "on the hunt"? An assortment of facial expressions from hopeful and bemused all the way to shocked and disgusted. Some video clips - rolling eyes, rubbing eyes, slumping over. Still shots of expressions. Repeated motifs - the same person in the morning with coffee, the afternoon with a can of soda, the evening doing shots of tequila. There's room for main talent, an actress lip-synching the song while playing the part of looking in the screen like everybody else. Alternative shots - a whiteboard with a list of names along the top and criteria down the side, with matrix entries being filled in - return to the whiteboard from time to time as it is being filled in - video of the woman's hand furiously scribbling or erasing, changing her mind and un-erasing, then erasing again.

Bad Coelacanth song idea (7)

Charlie

So I have been trying to figure out how to at least finish up the first disc of BC. I recently saw Was (Not Was) and it got me to playing with some of the funk guitar patterns. Combine that with looking at Welcome to the Crotch Kicking Dept, and I got the idea to do it as a James Brown song.

Lots of "ow" and "uhn", and other J.B. stuff it actually makes sense.