a bird's heart ([info]willowshines) wrote,
@ 2005-04-20 03:30:00
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Current mood: exanimate
Current music:dan the automator, "king of new york"

so i have to do this final project for my rock'n'roll class.

here's the assignment.

suggestions?


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[info]funkicarus
2005-04-20 12:46 am UTC (link)
do one about someone travelling all over america for years and years and then dying of drug overdose in the end!

the last track could be grateful dead's friend of the devil |3 or lou reed's heroin.

does that prof write everything like that? cos dag yo he is cool in that case.

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:03 am UTC (link)
friend of the devil is a GREAT idea! hhhm ...

also, he does. best. professor. ever.

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[info]jai
2005-04-20 02:04 am UTC (link)
AMERICA (FUCK YEAH!)

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[info]funkicarus
2005-04-20 02:20 am UTC (link)
there's always 'the whitehouse burned' by the arrogant worms/three dead trolls in a baggie, and corky and the juice pigs' 'america'

BOTH ARE QUITE THE AMERICA FUCK YEAH

OR YOU COULD USE THE AMERICA WE STAND AS ONE VIDEO MUSIC. that fits very well with THIS VERY SUGGESTION.

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[info]jai
2005-04-20 06:46 am UTC (link)
OH SHIT AMERICA WE STAND AS ONE HAS GOT TO BE ON THERE!!! even if as a bit of bonus material

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:03 am UTC (link)
THAT is a great idea.

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[info]gingersomething
2005-04-20 03:06 am UTC (link)
i don't have suggestions for specific themes or songs, but as far as the documentation goes, http://www.allmusic.com will have everything you need.

but you probably already knew that.

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:02 am UTC (link)
haha, yesterday in class somebody was complaining about it, and i said that exact same thing.

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[info]shaelahrw
2005-04-20 04:38 am UTC (link)
That is a really awesome assignment. Although I feel like I'm supposed to be insulted by this:

"You could even do an all-Irish or all-Canadian or all-Icelandic CD (if you can squeeze a drop of blood from a sugercube)."

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[info]polishq
2005-04-20 08:47 am UTC (link)
No no no - it's clever! The part in parentheses is a Yo La Tengo lyric, and Bjork's old band was the Sugarcubes! WHOOOOAAAA

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:02 am UTC (link)
what [info]polishq said!

it's most just crazy that he misspelled sugarcube.

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[info]ex_candodgeb32
2005-04-20 04:55 am UTC (link)
It appears your professor has made a written request for you to violate the copyright laws of the United States, as well as international copyright law. I think you should blow off the entire assignment and then demand an "A". He would rather give away an "A" than have his ass reported to the Dean, right?

Don't give me any "you don't have" to burn the cd crap.” The assignment clearly intimates a superior grade if you bolster his stolen music collection while doing you assignment.


Of course I’m kidding around. Do the assignment. You will learn a lot and be a better teacher/lawyer/doctor/whatever for having done it.

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:01 am UTC (link)
it's actually funny that you say all that, cause he and i had a long conversation before he posted the assignment over whether or not he could get away with assigning it at all.

i said i wouldn't tell.

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[info]ex_candodgeb32
2005-04-20 01:49 pm UTC (link)
That's funny. Actually it is a very creative assignment and he is clearly a skilled teacher. I was 100% kidding.

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[info]djswifty
2005-04-20 07:12 am UTC (link)
Jesus Christ, that's a fantastic assignment! And also, is this dude me?

"or all-Icelandic CD (if you can squeeze a drop of blood from a sugercube)"
YO LA TENGO REFERENCE WHAT'S UP

"Water dissolving...and water removing. There is water at the bottom of the ocean. Under the water, carry the water... Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!"

TALKING HEADS REFERENCE HOW YOU DOIN'

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 10:58 am UTC (link)
i agree!

BUT SWIFTY THIS COMMENT IS MISSING THE KEY FEATURE OF "SUGGESTION"

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[info]djswifty
2005-04-20 12:53 pm UTC (link)
HOLD ON I WAS SLEEPY

Cat Power: "American Flag"
PIEBALD AMEIRCAN HARTS HEY UR PART OF IT LA~
M83: "America"
Nation of Ulysses: 13-Point Plan to Destroy America
Assfagut: "Christopher Columbus Did Not Discover America" (the lyrics to which are "1492/14 Ninety Fuck You")
Trans Am: "American Kooter"
Why: "Afterschool America"
Hymie's Basement: "America Won"/"America Too"

And
Madvillain: "America's Most Blunted"

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[info]djswifty
2005-04-20 12:54 pm UTC (link)
Also the song I wrote which is on a hand-held tape recorder:
America
Where are you
America
Gonna find you in my truck
Gonna look in the fields
Gonna look in the streams
America
Where AAAARE you
AMEEEERICAAAAAA

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[info]djswifty
2005-04-20 12:55 pm UTC (link)
Or
Suicide: "Rocket USA"
Beach Boys or Melt-Banana: "Surfin' USA"

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[info]djswifty
2005-04-20 12:56 pm UTC (link) 
swifty@Hitomi:~$ locate america</a>

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[info]radiophobia
2005-04-20 07:39 am UTC (link)
goddammit how come I never got to do this in school. FUCKING FUCK FUCK

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[info]helloday
2005-04-20 08:27 am UTC (link)
I want to bone your professor

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:00 am UTC (link)
oh yeah?

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[info]polishq
2005-04-20 08:48 am UTC (link)
I am suddenly kicking myself for never taking this class.

As for suggestions... I suggest many Mountain Goats songs. That dude's always Going To places. In America. And Seeing them Right.

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:00 am UTC (link)
that is a very very good idea.

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[info]andthenhitler
2005-04-20 09:04 am UTC (link)


Project complete.

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[info]willowshines
2005-04-20 11:03 am UTC (link)
clearly i have found a graphic that needs using.

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[info]gonadsandstrife
2005-04-20 11:25 am UTC (link)
Neil Diamond's "America" MUST! MUSTMUSTMUST!!! be on there!! (Yes, I own it, like the good little Jew boy that I am...or amn't.)

If you could make it a BOX set....& then have ONE song for every state...& maybe a territory or 2....wow. I bet it's possible.

Or regionals...

Oh. Oh oh ohOHohohohoh! American studies, right? OK...so cultural identity, right? Have it be music about like...EVERYONE. Magdalen Hsu-Li would be great for the Asian aspect & I can help you with the Suth Asian areas (India, Pakistan, & the like)...just a big-ass melting pot of shit. Brilliant.

YOU MUST CALL ME. I WILL COME OVER AND HELP YOU. LET ME BE YOUR YODA.

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[info]whobunkyboo
2006-09-12 05:21 am UTC (link)
I totally read that as "ass-melting pot of shit" and was reminded of the very unfortunate chicken vandaloo we ate the other night...

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[info]zappagurl
2005-11-03 06:24 am UTC (link)
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[info]whobunkyboo
2006-09-12 05:20 am UTC (link)
And then throw in CD 2: NOT America. Featuring songs about other great nations, and Not America...

(Guess what's *coughdavidbowie* running through my head right now?)

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