Thats a Bailout!
I’m strongly opposed to the idea of government interfering in businesses that exist on a proven free market. Therefore I’m opposed to the idea of the much talked about bailout. In light of this I thought I’d make fun of it with a pseudo apocalyptic song set to a recognizable tune. You can watch the video bellow and download the song on the bottom of the post.
Here are the unofficial lyrics
When you loan people dough and then say whoops, oh no! that’s a bailout
When you buy up those loans though no one else condones, that’s a bailout
Give away other people’s pay don’t care what they say, its ok, that’s a bailout
Give it to those who did just screw those like me and you, its not new, that’s a bailout
When you load it with pork just to make the votes work, that’s a bailout
When every expert knows this won’t keep your shirt, that’s a bailout
Say goodbye, to free markets because we’ll decide on a bailout
When you nationalize those with failed merchandise, that’s a bailout
When its no big surprise that we all fear demise, that’s bailout
When we screw the future just to save car makers, that’s a bailout
There’s no way this can ever sway the econo-may, but they say that’s a bailout
Forget though, this scenario, would just further woe, but oh no, that’s a bailout
When you remove the risk just for investor bliss, that’s a bailout
When you give us not choice but to silence our voice that’s a bailout
When you choose not to loose, but instead to abuse that’s a bailout
It will happen again and again and again, that’s a bailout
When you throw money high so it falls from the sky, that’s a bailout
When you bow to your knees to the big industry, that’s a bailout
Go ahead avoid what we dread, have to wait instead, worse ahead, its a bailout
Forget that capitalism’s trap is let it nap, but they snap to a bailout
When you throw around dough like its worth less than snow, that’s a bailout
Whey you don’t care about how this will turn out, that’s a bailout
When no longer we hold free markets untold, that’s a bailout
When the treasury’s drained and economy bained, that’s a bailout
One Last Chance, the MP3 posting.
I was bored last night with my new shiny controller keyboard. I was playing with a few melodic ideas, and decided to record a jam session (I need a better word than that, but it escapes me) based on those ideas. The following is a one take improvisation, with a few stray notes edited out.
Thats Why RIT Has No Girls
Its true, there is a particular fact that RIT tries to hide from its prospective students. Particularly the ones looking to go into a computing field are sheltered the most. That fact is there are significantly more males than females attending RIT. I’ve had several classes with all men. Needless to say this has had an effect on my psyche. In my experience, the particular effects tend to side less on the romantic aspects, and more along the lines of a lack of female perspective in conversations.
A good portion of the ratio stems from the kind of subjects taught at RIT. The majority of subjects are technical including Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioinframatics. We do have an art school with majors such as Photography, and Design, but that one school can’t make up for the hoards of computer scientists RIT churns out. Still, there is a particular culture at RIT that might also play a role in repelling females. There are also aspects that close males off from contact with the few females here. That culture and its peculiarities are the central theme of this song.
I myself do much of what is in the song. Though I’ve never played WOW, I’ve definately been enamored a little too much with a video game from time to time and even though I may shower daily, I’ve let my hair grow to very unattractive lengths. So, even if I’m not literally guilty, I am in spirit.
Here is a rough sketch of the lyrics. I may have deviated from a few words, but its mostly all here.
We are a tech school brimming with nerds
Talk about Linux, Perl and Leopard
We don’t consider it mildly absurd
Thats why RIT has no Girls
Ain’t got no social skills its a shame
ask for a reason, its all the same
won’t get off of them video games
thats why RIT has no girls.
We like to play world of warcraft
what is a bath,
Its wet, I’ll Bet
We chant at sports games pi i times 3
Thats why RIT has no girls.
Won’t even lift our heads when we walk.
Don’t dare to stop and sit down and talk.
Social interaction just makes us balk.
Thats why RIT has no girls.
We’ll cancel a date to settle catan
yes get the wheat port it is 2 to 1
forget most others don’t find it fun
Thats Why RIT has no girls.
We like to stay in-doors all day long
sun is too strong
it burns, we squirm
We’ll spend a full day locked in our room
Thats why RIT has no Girls
PS:
This song is a parody of “The Lady Is A Tramp” a little more obscure than my previous song.
Injuries and thier Consequences
I won’t tell you what song this parodies, I will tell you that you know it. It was inspired by being told “If I poke you in the Eye, I’ll think my wish will come true”.
Gentle Snow
Not much to say about this one. I started it out as a cheesy 80’s style synth thing. It went another way for some reason. It made me think of falling snow.
Shady Shayko
I was asked to write a piece of music as a reward for solving a series of puzzles given to a friend for his birthday. That was none other than Nic Shayko. Unintentionally stealing from Smoke on the Watter, the harmony parts are nothing more than a remodulation of the same audio file. Its possible to take a piece of audio and increase or decrease its pitch without changing its playback speed (running a tape fast makes it high pitch for example, but this method does not have any effect on how long it takes to play the audio).
