Flagrantly Wrong or Unmitigated
Deane sends me this thesaurusized version of the opening of Baby Got Back (as inspired by Chris Falvey on McSweeney’s):
Oh my supernatural being, Becky, look at her fleshy mounds above her legs
it is so extensive
She appears to be one of those spoken rhyming vocals guys romantic and/or sexual involvement
Who can explain the nature of those spoken rhyming vocal guys?
They only converse with her because she has the appearance of a somebody who receives money in return for sexual intercourse
I mean her fleshy mounds
It’s just so extensive
I can’t believe her fleshy mounds are so round
Suspended over there
I mean, it’s flagrantly wrong or unmitigated
Look, she’s just so belonging to an ethnic group with dark skin
I enjoy big fleshy mounds and I cannot say something that is untrue to deceive you
You other brothers can’t refuse to acknowledge
That when a girl walks in with an extremely small physical length around her stomach
And a globular thing in the front of your human head
You become more likely to move rapidly upward or forward in a series of rapid movements
Trippy
Old news, but if I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me: Barney vs. 2Pac
Thing a Week 13 – Drive
I don’t know what’s going on here, other to say that the gentleman in this song likes his car very much and doesn’t speak English that well. This is mostly a sketch at this point, it could stand to be dressed up quite a bit, but studio time was hard to come by this week so you’re going to have to suffer. I’m assuming that all the car companies will want to license it immediately for their commercials about people who LOVE TO DRIVE, especially if the car in the commercial is a Scion xB. All pimped out and phat. As they used to say in my day, “a bad ride.”
Here is the song: Drive
Illegal Lyrics
From Billboard via BoingBoing, a little good news from the front. A guy named Walter Ritter created a free application called Pearlyrics, which displays the lyrics of the song that’s currently playing in iTunes. If there are lyrics in the mp3, it displays those, otherwise it searches a few lyrics websites and saves what it finds. It’s a pretty good idea, and it certainly doesn’t sound like it should be illegal. Nonetheless, Warner/Chappell sent a cease and desist letter, and Ritter pulled it from the site to avoid any legal entanglements.
The EFF posted an open letter to Warner/Chappell, pointing out that since the software is only doing what any user could legally do with their hands and an internet browser, it’s not in fact an infringement of US copyright law. They also suggest that making legal threats against the makers of such software might expose Warner/Chappell to federal liability. Yesterday Warner/Chappell apologized to Walter Ritter, who has a nice post on the Pearlyrics site about it.
I’m so happy I could buy a CD. I think the high-profile Sony disaster has made content owners a little more careful about throwing their weight around – nobody wants to come across as dumb and anti-consumer as Sony did. It’s also nice to know that some actual grown-up lawyers like the ones at EFF are looking out for our interests.
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