Posts Tagged ‘lyrics’

Up Up Down Down…

Posted: 18 June 2008 in Uncategorized
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This post is spoiler free.

I finally got to see Juno tonight. It’s been sitting at the top of my Netflix queue for nearly two months with a long wait. What a great movie! One of my favorite parts was the soundtrack. There were several great songs by Kimya Dawson (of the Moldy Peaches) and then a performance by the two leads of the Moldy Peaches song “Anyone Else But You.” The version sung in the movie is missing a few stanzas. My favorite of the missing ones is below (sung by Kimya):

“Up up down down left right left right B A start
Just because we use cheats
Doesn’t mean we’re not smart
I don’t see what anyone can see in anyone else
But you…”

Go geek references (and Thundercats)! And speaking of cheats, trying using that cheat code in Google Reader (minus the start button at the end of course).

And returning to Netflix: they are removing individual profiles from accounts as of September 1st. What a boneheaded, retardafreakin’ idea. Supposedly it will help them make the website better. I hope it’s a lot better since this change has me pissed.

Late Night Spektor

Posted: 29 April 2008 in Uncategorized
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NLP app idea:  construct random songs by scraping lyrics websites and stringing together common phrases.  It’s a Pandora night for me and here were a couple lyrics that struck me as particularly meaningful.  Both by Regina Spektor, introduced to me by Pandora before she became (semi-)famous.

And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else’s heart
Pumping someone else’s blood
- “On the Radio”

Beneath the stars came fallin’ on our heads
But they’re just old light, they’re just old light
- “Samson”

I love how she takes the beautiful image of stars falling on their heads and strips it bare of all romanticism and attached meanings, exposing them for what they are:  old light.

Mrs. McGrath

Posted: 6 October 2007 in Uncategorized
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While listening to Pandora a few months ago I heard “Mrs. McGrath” by Pete Seeger and found it catchy, but like most songs I hear on Pandora, it passed and didn’t come again for a long while. But today I was sitting around and started singing the chorus:

Would you too-rye-ah
Foddle-diddle-dah
toorye oorye oorye-ah
Would you toorye-ah
Foddle diddle dah
toorye oorye oorye-ah

Feeling the need to pursue the song and listen to the full version, I found the name and then found the version I liked on iTunes. Of course, sharing is difficult, but I did find a version on YouTube by Raymond Crooke, bless him. The way Pete Seeger sang it was a little more clean and having the crowd singing the chorus in the background stirs me deeply in a way that Raymond doesn’t quite capture, but his version is the more traditional one. Pete Seeger was singing that concert at Carnegie Hall in 1963, and I’m guessing the audience was a bunch of hippies.

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