30 Day Music Project Day 13 - A Song That is a Guilty Pleasure

For a time (well, two times, technically) I was a theatre major. I liked to perform, I admire performers, but it was just too difficult for me to stay. Sure, this and this may have had something to do with keeping me off stage, but a large part of it had to do with my disinterest in musicals. While I followed sports and listened to not-quite-mainstream music, the overwhelming majority of my classmates were all-or-none Broadway fans. While I didn't have RENT on autorepeat on my cd player/ipod/whathaveyou like every other person in the Creative Arts building, one or two musicals did sneak their way into my favorites.
...some even had puppets.
...and got airtime on 'The View'





Lyrics from "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" as filtered through translationparty.com

Sometimes a little bit racist, everyone. If you have not been attacked, but I hung in this study should have been this week. ID, please refer to the guide to avoid the visually impaired. Perhaps it is we make decisions based on race, he must face the fact that all the people.

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30 Day Song Project Day 12 - A Song by a Band You Hate

I don't condone throwing rocks at anybody merely for being douchebags. However, this does make me smirk a bit and I'd rather post that than anything actually written or performed by Nickleback.



The translationparty.com take on this is a bit confusing, but I like it.
This:
Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
And live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat

...turned into this:
We, Rokkusutasanhiru the optical drive housing prices have AC to get the daily operations of the house, no place to eat a girl in all the drugs we 15 10 Burkina Faso

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30 day song challenge - day 11 - a song from your favorite band

There's a lot of really good Ben Folds clips out there on YouTube. He plays some interesting stuff with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and he's got some pretty solid official music videos.
Over the years, though, this song has sort of placed itself in the front of the pack (by a nose in front of about five others) as my favorite.


"Philosophy" lyrics as filtered through translationparty.com

I would do a good job, I'm sorry, you must please understand that you are looking for you to promote it. I'm not mad I Betweens

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30 Day Song Challenge Day 10 - A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep

The Opening 2:25 of this song is inordinately peaceful to me for some reason.
Then that snare kicks in and it builds me back into a pleasant consciousness.



Lyrics from 'Emma Blowgun's Last Stand' as filtered through Translation Party:

We are your mother, your father, I laughed, and the false hope that many people, I think it can damage you know.

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30 Day Song Challenge Day 9 - A Song that You Can Dance To

I'm not a good dancer. I have never attempted the Humpty Hump. Nevertheless, this is perhaps my favorite bassline ever, so I am posting it out of respect

Lyrics to "The Humpty Hump" as filtered through Translation Party

The nose is large. I do not think I'm ashamed. In many cases, I have not been paid to the size of pickles.

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30 Day Song Challenge day 08 - a song that you know all the words to

From Kindergarten through 4th grade, I attended Whittier Elementary, a public school in Toledo made up largely of lower middle class kids whose parents worked at the Jeep factory. Not exactly a population that would typically be jonesing for an operetta. But my school was lucky enough to have a Mr. Szor, a music teacher who saw something in my class that would have gone uncultivated in most other places. With the support of parents and extreme enthusiasm of the kids, we put on a play.
But not just any play.
We put on a 19th Century Gilbert and Sullivan musical called 'The Pirates of Penzance' with a cast made up entirely of Fourth Graders. Learned in large part by repeatedly watching a movie version of the show starring Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, and Linda Ronstadt we delivered every note of music and every bit of dialogue in script, disregarding the fact that we had absolutely no concept of what we were saying a large chunk of the time.
This production is what got me on a stage for the first time and the experience has helped to shape me as a person.
My role, you ask? I was the very model of a modern major general.


...and I rocked that shit.



lyrics from "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" as filtered through Translation Party:

Today, a typical bottling plant, the problem of most animal models
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30 Day Music Project Day 7 - A SOng That Reminds You of a Certain Event

When I was in high school Dad and I went to a giant picnic/festival thing for the United Steelworkers of Pennsylvania at a massive metropark. In one of the more surreal moments of my life, we watched Don Mclean play a 35-minute rendition of American Pie. Almost as surreal as this youtube clip...

Lyrics from "American Pie" as filtered through Translation Party:

Goodbye, miss american pie. However, in my Chevrolet, banks, banks had dried leaves. And they were drinking whiskey and rye singing the good old boys "This is the day I die," she said.

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