A Fun Game
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 6:07PM Sometimes I like to take reviews of my music (good or bad), and remove words until they all read as ridiculously negative. It's a tradition I started with Mason Proper. It's probably a defense mechanism to help soften the blow of any actual negative reviews that do spring up. A little reminder not to take things too seriously, and not to let it paralyze me.
Here's one based on this review from the good people of Obscure Sound. I think it's more fun if you read the original review first.
Absofacto produces a… sound that reconstitutes… ghosts. A lazy music…(blank), (blank), and (blank)… with lightly salted asparagus… cliché. Random violin interjections that are vaguely reminiscent of… every other band.
Lazy… such clichés. Suffice it to say, Sinking Islands is a… record; reverb is employed to give… hard… missteps. Absofacto’s greatest trick is… quite the same way rock junkies may have been hitherto trained to expect.
Some of these tracks seem ripe for… some teenager looking ruefully in some other teenager’s window at night… in an equally lazy visual… on some ongoing… drama… An insult, but unfortunately many… songs seem to…not be any huge artistic achievement… Never… enough to break through… It... isn’t… what we’re looking for… when we get brutally honest…
Evening Limericks Are Just as Legitimate as Morning Ones
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:49PM A lazy young man born in Italy
found life to be pointless and piddly.
He decided, as such,
that he wouldn't do much,
and the things he did do, he'd do shittily.
--
I once met a gypsie in Queens
who sold me some magical beans,
which I shouldn't have bought
because all that I got
was a headache and pretty weird dreams.
--
There once was a girl named Simone
whose body was just skin and bones
Till she, once, in Maryland
was tossed in a barrel and
sold with some broomsticks to Rome.
One Does Not Need an Excuse to Write Morning Limericks
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 8:11AM I wish I could tell a good joke,
but whenever I try I just choke.
so I'm washing my hands
of the matter, and plan
to live life as a humorless bloke.
--
There once was a bucket of eyes
just sitting there under the skies,
but nobody noted its
presence, or toted it
home to be baked into pies.
--
There was a man riddled with warts
who had wonderful news to report,
but whenever he spoke
the people would choke
and their faces would oddly contort.
--
There was a magician named Fred,
whose magical word was "Kazed!"
His tricks were so boring
he had to stop touring
and start trimming hedges instead.
I Sure Like This - Zahid Jiwa
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 11:33AM 'Whose Side Are You On Anyway?' Chords
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 10:54AM A few people asked if I could write out the chords for Whose Side Are You On Anyway? so here it is. All I ask in return is if you learn it, record yourself playing it and send me a video or an mp3 or something.
Have fun! I'll probably transcribe a couple other ones soon too. If you notice any mistakes, add a comment. I didn't really double-check my work.
Absofacto - Whose Side Are You On Anyway? Key of E-Minor ----------------------------------------------------------------- Verse Chord Voicings D=x57x7x C=x35x5x Em=x79x8x G=x(10)12x12x F=x8(10)x10x Chorus Chord Voicings Am=x02210 Em=022000 C=x32010 G=32003 Dadd4=x5403x Fmaj7=x33210 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Intro Am Em C G Am Em C Am Em C G F C -------------------------------------------------------------- [D]I've got to [C]change my ways [Em] [G] Too many [D]times you just [C]string me along [Em] Pass by the [F]window, and [Em] what's in it for me? [F] Just some [C]notes on your palm to read [D]_____ -------------------------------------------------------------- [Am]Who-ooh-[Em]ooh-oose [C]side are you [G]on, anyway? [Em]___[G] You've got to [C]get back to the [Dadd4]water [Am]I [Em]know my [C]lines in the [G]sand washed away [Fmaj7] [C]Now I've got to [D]I've got to change my ways. -------------------------------------------------------------- [G]They threw the [D]whole mess into [C] the ocean [Em]While filling out [F]forms fulfilled [Em]some fictional [F]chores now I [G]I've got to [F]change my [C]ways [D]A cheaper [C]suit or a [Em]handful of days [G]Blessed all the [D]blank walls [C]as they fall Was it [Em]some rule you said [F]could bend? [Em]____[F] Or some [C]corners to cut again? [D] ------------------------------------------------------------- [Am]Who-ooh-[Em]ooh-oose [C]side are you [G]on, anyway? [Em]___[G] You've got to [C]get back to the [Dadd4]water [Am]I [Em]know my [C]lines in the [G]sand washed away [Fmaj7] [C]Now I've got to [D]I've got to change my ways. -------------------------------------------------------------- D C Em G D C