Magma's MDK misheard! Slavoj Zizek, Yoko Ono and Santa Claus! An epic tale!

alextem...@gmail.com

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Jun 15, 2008, 10:56:18 AM6/15/08

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Dear friends,

Have you ever listened to Magma's "Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh" and
thought: Hey, this sounds like English?

Have you ever wondered if maybe the whole thing actually *was* in
English -- secretly?

Have you ever thought that maybe it was actually a story about
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek getting his heart broken by Yoko
Ono, Wittgenstein waiting for presents from Santa Claus disguised as
Gandalf, Theodor Adorno practicing Wicca, war in the Middle East,
smashing the patriarchy, and whether or not Jewish theological texts
are capable of rocking and rolling?

If so, you've come to the right post, because your suspicions have
been confirmed! Watch and be amazed at:
"Magma's Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh Mishëard, Or, Theoretical
Perspectives on Conflict in the Middle Earth... er, East: Religious
Conflict and Constructed Languages"!
Watch it here:
http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/113247.html

English lyrics by A.R.T. (that's me) and T.C.S.
Storyboard and animation by T.C.S.
Total ridiculousness by the internet

Enjoy!

Alex Temple
www.alextemplemusic.com

R. Totale

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Jun 15, 2008, 12:51:21 PM6/15/08

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:56:18 -0700 (PDT), alextem...@gmail.com
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>Total ridiculousness by the internet
>
>Enjoy!

That's great, Alex. My neighbors suffer, indeed!

Jeremy Weissenburger

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Jun 15, 2008, 3:54:25 PM6/15/08

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On 6/15/08 10:56 AM, in article
10961dd1-dabb-42e4...@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com,
"alextem...@gmail.com" <alextem...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Watch it here:
> http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/113247.html

Awesome job, man. Sick stuff!

--Jeremy

--

Dante: "You HATE people!"
Randal: "But I love gatherings. Isn't it ironic?"

Tracy_...@frontiernet.net

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Jun 15, 2008, 4:13:20 PM6/15/08

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:54:25 -0400, Jeremy Weissenburger
<jweisse...@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
>
>On 6/15/08 10:56 AM, in article
>10961dd1-dabb-42e4...@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com,
>"alextem...@gmail.com" <alextem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Watch it here:
>> http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/113247.html
>
>Awesome job, man. Sick stuff!

Ditto. Pretty darn funny... hehehehehe

Oliver B. Warzecha

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Jun 16, 2008, 7:25:49 PM6/16/08

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The circle's bacon!
Hear!

Now this was first class fun...

OBW

RS

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Jun 17, 2008, 1:22:49 AM6/17/08

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Great stuff! Thanks. I hope you do a few of their other works.

--
Robert Pearson
ParaMind Brainstorming Software http://www.paramind.net
Creative Virtue Press/Telical Books/Regenerative Music
http://www.rspearson.com/

alextem...@gmail.com

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Jun 17, 2008, 12:05:53 PM6/17/08

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On Jun 17, 1:22 am, RS <paramindsoftw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great stuff! Thanks. I hope you do a few of their other works.

T.C.S., my collaborator on this, has done a couple of other misheard
lyric videos (without me) which you should definitely check out:

Kansas's "Point of Know Return" (now a history of Jewish breads, with
commentary from Michel Foucault):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nmwze-9yt_U

Nightwish's "Wishmaster" (now a story about Odysseus, golems, the Marx
Brothers, and the decline of Western civilization):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xrhUFNkPNnM

Steven Davies-Morris

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Jun 20, 2008, 1:18:07 PM6/20/08

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Brilliant and goofy. [applause]
--
Cheers, SDM -- a 21st Century Schizoid Man
Systems Theory internet music project: <www.systemstheory.net>
on MySpace: <www.myspace.com/systemstheory>
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Steven Davies-Morris

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Jun 20, 2008, 1:18:45 PM6/20/08

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You're on a roll now! Keep up the good (deranged) work!