what the fuck is going on? (my 52nd poem of the year)
sirblob
you can jive
having the time of your life
see that girl
watch that scene
diggin the dancing queen
every time i saw tv
or i read the newspaper
there were all these stories
about stevie and the raper
the zercon connection
and the peter reich case
the loonie land times
with their budget in disgrace
i asked myself
what am I to believe
when the cancer is a killer
john player wins a lead
with masters of the universe
and designer death
they all be talkin
about princess di's dress
yes, this is a very nice dress
when i was younger,
i knew just who to hate
from the teachers in our classroom
to the leaders of our state
i've registered to vote
this pleasant land's free
so I took the intercity
for democracy and me
i knocked at the door
but they did na let me in
so I kicked it down
and I walked right in
she was standing at the bar
while healy cut his truss
question time, make it work
dancing queen
queen
dancing queen
oh yeah
you can jive
see that girl
dancing queen
i just want to know
who's in control
is it you or god
or the bloke down the dole
her answers were shate
but I dinna give up
so I went to the law
but it dint even wake up
so I went to the palace
that good queen bess
she asked me to dance
said she'd like a rest
boy d'll be king
"i'd love to get the throne"
here's the keys to the castle
your in control
dancing queen
proud and sweet
only seventeen
"wot about charles?"
"i like charles"
dancing queen
feel the beats on the tabourine
oh, yeah!
"rock, I've got the kingdom"
having the time of her life
"you want a ?"
"what you talking about, do i get to go home first?"
"? me an rock"
"i want a lot of money"
?
"have you ever met abba?"
"I'd love to meet abba"
"they used to be one of my favorite groups"
god save the queen!
You can da
you can ji
having the time of her life
see that girl
dancing queen
god save the queen, yeah, just destroy!!!
fuck that! Let's listen to the jams!
Orson Wells as CitizenCain
"sirblob" <sirb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178684105.5...@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> you can dance
if you want to
you can leave your plagirism behind
but if you don't dance you ain't no poster of mine
George Dance
Yes!! Can't say I like all (or even most) of it, but the concept, and
the blending of the song lyrics with your own material (least I think
that part is yurs?) is dead on. (Even if you wrote none of it, it's
still an original creation in the way you've put it all together.)
This is exactly the way to use others' material to create something
new. It reminded me of an artist I read about in a novel this week,
who painted reproductons of the old masters, chopped them up with an
axe, and glued the pieces back together in new ways.
Could be you've found your niche/groove.
sirblob
oh come on folks this is the klf, nobody could be more copyleft than
them, the buggers even burnt a million pounds once
Diana
"The JAMs' primary instrument was the digital sampler with which they
would plagiarise the history of popular music, cutting chunks from
existing works and pasting them into new contexts, underpinned by
rudimentary beatbox rhythms and overlayed with Drummond's raps, of
social commentary, esoteric metaphors and mockery."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF
sirblob
precisely, and the queen and i is beautiful
George Dance
Well, I can't laugh at anyone else being taken in by sirblob anymore,
now that he (or she) has caught me, too.
At least sirblob admitted it. And also explained why he's doing it -
for copyleft purposes. Though it's not the copyright violations that
really bother me, but the plagiarism - the lack of any originality, of
any sense of him (or her), in the work.
One quote from that wiki article sounds like me, a half hour or so
ago, when I first read this piece: "It's hard to understand what it
feels like to come across something you believe to be totally new."
And then to find out it isn't new at all ... bummer.
George Dance
Damn! You got me. And to think, just last fall I saw a KLF CD in the
local thrift shop, and didn't pick it up because I only knew one
song. I'll not pass up that chance again, if it ever comes around.
All I know by the KLF is :Justified & Anbcient," the song they did
with Tammy Wynette. I remember my daughter (not even in school back
then) coming up with her first original joke based on that:
Q - "Where do cows live?"
A -
sirblob
where?
sirb...@hotmail.com
i do no such thing. i just do it cuz why not. and who says im doing
it; all my poetry is mine. do not dare hermeneut me or ill sludge you.
George Dance
A - Moo-moo land!
Kevin Gerbil
with their budget in disgrace"
I think you'll find it's 'loony-left council'. Although the label of
1987 does say it is copyright free, it's sad to see someone just
repeating it all like a parrot, especially 20 years late, plus getting
some of it wrong.