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Tuesday, 2 May 2006
Ego Surfing
Ha! Ha! I am on the Intarweb!

The response to my Snakes on a Plane song has been almost entirely gratifying, as I track the blogs and forums it travels to.

Almost entirely. Occasionally I'll run across a comment like this one:

that song was god awful, just like everything over at fark.

sounds like a fucking midi file with a man who loved his weird al and country music singing over it. what a waste.

It's hard to not respond to something like that with anger, but I've managed to remember myself. Such comments are in the exceptional minority, fortunately.

I gotta do more songs in that style, even if just to use the iv-#iv°7-V7 cadence again; that progression kicks ass. Now if only I was capable of writing serious lyrics.


Posted by godfrey (link)
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It's on my iPod! (And I made Billie Piper's "Chav" the artwork--for the usual no good reason.)
Posted by Zach on 2 May 2006 18:21
Five! Five people I know like it!

Ah ha ha ha ha!

Ah ha ha ha ha!

Posted by Godfrey on 2 May 2006 19:15
Aha. I see someone is conflating "I don't like it" with "it's not good." My favourite mistake to watch.
Posted by Bea on 4 May 2006 09:14
Your blog is syndicating on LJ, your 2 most recent post just showed up.
Posted by Ginevra on 4 May 2006 11:30
You gotta go with what you know! You keep on writing those goofy songs.
Posted by Lisa on 4 May 2006 20:15
Not only that, but the idiot confused "swing" with "country." Clearly not worth the pixels.
Posted by Zach on 5 May 2006 05:27
Well, I can only imagine that he heard in my voice the result of living in the South for 14 years.

Especially this last two; northern Florida is much more southern than Tampa. I work all day long with Southern-accented people, and, like Leonard Zelig, I unconsciously adapt in order to fit in.

Posted by Godfrey on 5 May 2006 05:49