Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Rhythm Methods
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2009 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Seeing the trailer for "Surrogates" put me onto this escalator:
- I don't say "philosophical zombie" nearly enough
- In the future, a "horse of a different color" will be a "brain in a differently-colored jar"
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"Brain in a Jar," to the tune of the Saturday Night Live classic "Dick in a Box":
One: Twist open a jar
Two: Put your brain in that jar
Three: Make her wire up the jar
And that's the way we do it - You can also sing "Ahmadinejad" to the tune of "Dick in a Box"
- Any phrase that scans like "I'm rockin' the suburbs" will also fit "American Woman," and possibly vice-versa
- The titles of both Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon are truncated double dactyls, thus rendering them suitable for either "American Woman" or "Rockin' the Suburbs" filking
- Ergo:
I'm Masoning Dixon
and
Just like Thomas Pynchon did
I'm Masoning Dixon
Except that he was talentedGravity's Rainbow!
Stay away from mee-eee
Gravity's Rainbow!
You're a complex reeee-eeead
Comments
Julia
08 Jun 2009, 20:28 p.m.
Sumana
08 Jun 2009, 21:14 p.m.
Julia, you know that all Dickinson poems can also be sung to "Yellow Rose of Texas," right? So this means that "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Gilligan's Island" lyrics and tunes can switch at will.
Julia
08 Jun 2009, 22:21 p.m.
Yes, I have heard that. Unfortunately I can never remember what "Yellow Rose of Texas" sounds like, though! However, i do love singing, "House of the Rising Sun" to the Gilligan's Island theme.
Daniel
09 Jun 2009, 10:07 a.m.
RE: Pynchon off a deliverable
One can also sing "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night ...." to the Yellow Rose. And Bon Jovi is passable when sung as Bing Crosby. And NIN as country & western.
Dan P
http://www.kith.org/poi/journal
09 Jun 2009, 13:03 p.m.
Re: philosophical zombies, these two have been open in tabs waiting for the right opportunity:
http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc031.htm<br/>http://www.dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc059.html
Holly
http://severalbees.com
11 Jun 2009, 8:48 a.m.
I know neither "Yellow Rose of Texas" nor the Gilligan's Island theme tune, but I do know the latter is said to be interchangeable with the Australian national anthem.
This is awesome! It's like Emily Dickinson poems to the Gilligan's Island theme.
Because I could not stop for Death,<br/>He kindly stopped for me;<br/>The carriage held but just ourselves<br/>And Immortality.<br/> <br/>And Immortality.