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So… lately I’ve been sort of blanking on the whole “stuff to talk about” front. I’ll probably get back into the groove of things sooner or later, but I’ve decided to just play around for a while. What constitutes this playing? Well, The Sister, way back when, came up with an ingenious idea: Before He Eats (original–duh). She messed around with a few lyrics and got some rather entertaining results (“I dug my teeth into the side/of a double-quarter-pounder with cheese and fries/spilled my Coke onto the leather seat…”). Lately, I’ve had to read a lot of Plato. Now, I like reading Plato, but not tons and tons of it every other night. Thus, I needed a way to procrastinate on it: finishing the song.

So I finished it and emailed it to The Sister, at which point she called me a dork (long story short, she’s taken to relentlessly making fun of my increasing geekiness–I’ll explain later). Luckily, I haven’t and don’t intend to tell her about this here blog. So, with a YouTube account, camera, singing ability (optional), and instrumental versions of pop songs, I would totally rewrite and post a number them on YouTube. Well, at least I can rewrite, eh? Thus, without further ado, since a YouTube search for “Before He Eats” brings up some (albeit crappy) results, today’s pop song that I’ll make tolerable by changing the lyrics is this’un (you wouldn’t click it if I told you the name). Lyrics are below the fold, because it won’t let me un-double-space. Enjoy:

This is nothing like what I want,

Not my rebellion.

I got caught up kissing Han

On board the Falcon.

He’s not like a nice man,

But locked in Carbonite.

Luke’s gotten his new hand,

Let’s start the fight.

 

I tried to rescue Han Solo,

But got caught during my attempt.

Wore a bikini made of gold,

Then killed Jabba out of contempt.

Han knocks down Fett,

The sarlacc’s fed,

No one is feeling regret.

I tried to rescue Han Solo.

Han Solo…

 

No, I will not give up the base,

It doesn’t matter.

You blew Alderaan into space,

All with my father.

You scruffy nerf herder,

We all know you shot first.

Short for a stormtrooper,

I shouldn’t flirt.

 

I tried to rescue Han Solo,

But got caught during my attempt.

Wore a bikini made of gold,

Then killed Jabba out of contempt.

Han knocks down Fett,

The sarlacc’s fed,

No one is feeling regret.

I tried to rescue Han Solo.

Han Solo…

 

Ewoks defeat the empire.

We blow up contractors for hire.

Luke burns our father on a pyre.

Darth Vader is repented

Such a big deal, the Jedi’s back.

 

I tried to rescue Han Solo,

But got caught during my attempt.

Wore a bikini made of gold,

Then killed Jabba out of contempt.

Han knocks down Fett,

The sarlacc’s fed,

No one is feeling regret.

I tried to rescue Han Solo.

Han Solo…

Any suggestions for changing this or of new songs to write/steal/mangle are welcome!

The Sister’s been in town this week, which means I’ve been out doing stuff with her essentially all day every day. Thus, I haven’t really been able to relax for my break yet. So I plan to do that this last week before going back to the dorm. Therefore, posting will probably cease for a bit, unless I just happen to get a thought stuck in my head that must be taken care of.

Until then, I leave you with music (really, what else?).

White Room:

…and good ol’ Jimi:

I hold a general disdain for hippies, but I must admit tons of great (perhaps the best) music came out of their generation.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to my puzzle–the one with pieces that can pretty succinctly be broken down into sky, eagle, eagle with sky, and miscellaneous background. Nevermind, it’s done now. The internet broke, so I finished it while waiting for it to be fixed (actually, waiting for my mom to call back and tell me how to fix it, but the problem solved itself first).

So, I felt I should put something up here around now. I was planning on making the post by yesterday, but stuff came up (like running one of my mom’s many WoW characters through an instance, for example).

As any reader probably knows by now, I’ve been in a music/band-discovering kind of mood lately. That being said, I think I may have found a temporary favorite artist–at least of the classic rock genre. Yet my parents don’t have a single one of their albums…

Perhaps three weeks ago or so, I was on my way over to my sister’s place. A rather neat song came on the radio and I ended up rather enjoying it. When it ended, the person mentioned the name of it and stated that it was by Foreigner. Now, this rang a very loud, obnoxious bell in my head, as I knew there was a song with which I’d been obsessed in the past by that particular band. Unfortunately, however, I couldn’t remember for the life of me what it was.

Luckily, that particular song came on the radio the very next morning as I left to return home. Naturally, that was Cold as Ice, and I have, in fact, mentioned it on here before, mostly in reference to a funny scene from Supernatural (Here. It’s the link that says “this video”). Of course, by that time, I’d long since forgotten what the one I’d heard the day before was. Nonetheless, I went on glorious YouTube and found a couple more that I quickly grew to enjoy.

This brings me to last friday after Tang Soo do. I got in my awesome mini-tank of a car and headed out of the parking lot. As I was about to turn onto the street, the song that had been playing ended and the announcer was nice enough to let me know what it was. Lo and behold, it was the one for which I had been searching! It just so happens that it turned out to be Blue Morning, Blue day, which I’ve since not enjoyed quite as much. It’s got a bit of a Munsters feel at times, though it’s still certainly good.

The other day, then, I was going through a good list of various songs by both them and Blue Oyster Cult (love them too) whilst cleaning my room, which by then had Double Vision and Jukebox Hero among the ranks. However, the video I’ll actually be embedding is Urgent, just because it’s the one that was playing when my mom walked in and approved of the percentage of floor space visible. She commented that it was good, and that our NJ friend also liked it.

And it won’t stop either. While writing this post, I also found that Foreigner did Blinded by Science. This is starting to get a little annoying.