| Jeffrey Lewis – Bugs & Flowers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Bugs and Flowers looks at the fleeting nature of Life, but at the same time it's omnipresence. The bugs and flowers are so overwhelming that they eat into our temporary "man-made" world (the cross-ties, the rusted tracks). We don't consider the mortality of individual insects but we obsess over that of human beings. Jeff wonders if we can, like the bugs, become a great undulating wave that ebbs and flows with the passage of time. Coming and going. When I die, I'll be eaten by the bugs and the flowers. Why do I care? I'll become part of something else and carry on. I might not experience it, but it comforts me all the same. The reason we are we frightened by the sight of dead bodies is because we can't accept our own mortality. |
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| Jeffrey Lewis – Don't Let the Record Label Take You Out to Lunch Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's a comment on the music industry. More specifically, record labels. I think it's a short list of the things Jeff's learned over the past few years that he thinks would be handy for people (not just new musicians) to remember. It's also about not sacrificing your artistic integrity to make money. Too many people in the music industry and the media do that already. There's one caveat though, like Jeff says: you need them more than they need you. |
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| Futuristic Sex Robotz – Welcome To The Internet Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Line by line, for posers. PC Speaker: Sit down and take five while I defrag your drive - Defragmentation can often take a long time With Jack in the Box tacos and a dope G5 - An apple G5, claimed in 2003 to be the fastest commercial computer ever built If you bought MySpace Records Volume 1 I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my Internet gun - Myspace records was an obvious attempt at capitolising on the digitisation of music which record companies find hard to control. Purchasing this album would contribute to their efforts to do so. My hard drive is huge, MP3s are external - MP3's being stored on an external hard drive as well as a claim pertaining to the size of PC Speakers hard disk drive. Back up off the urinal and write in my LiveJournal - LiveJournal is an online diary or journal service. At the 'puter all night cause my life is nocturnal - 'puter is a loose term for computer, 'nerds' or 'geeks' tend to keep erratic and unnatural sleep patterns such as a nocturnal attitude. Data backup assures that my porn is eternal - Self Explanatory "You crazy," that's what all those bitches got to say - Self Explanatory So I whip it out and post a pic in my LJ Friends only cause I don't want my Mom to see If she saw, she'd cut off the Internet and cable TV - Posting a picture of his penis on his LiveJournal. Friends only means only user accounts which have been accepted as friends on LiveJournal can view the LiveJournal entry. But I don't give a fuck about those Internet hoes I gotta cut 'em off before they want to propose 'Cause the herpes isn't covered by my HMOs Deleted from my buddy list and that's how it goes - Buddy List being a list of friends given the ability to start conversations with PC Speaker. Pertaining to chat protocols like msn, aim, icq. Motherboard: Futuristic Sex Robotz, always on the scene And we'll heat up your case just like an Athlon XP We don't have no love for the Internet skeeze 'Cause our PayPal accounts are overflowing with green - The Athlon XP is a Central Processing Unit chip released by the company AMD. CPU's traditionally generate a lot of heat which must be dissipated through the use of a heatsink and fan. Paypal is a service used to transfer money to other paypal accounts. Coaxke: Trippin balls in bathroom stalls Waitin for a fine-ass bitch to call The THC hits my CPU - THC being the active ingredient in cannabis, CPU being the central processing unit of a computer system And I'm chasin after dimes like an Orthodox Jew - Jews are traditionally said to be greedy or frugal Plug and Play a bitch, I'm a player bitch - Plug and Play is a standard system pertaining to peripherals that need no drivers or use universal drivers that ship with the Windows XP Operating System Like some virus shit, countin website hits - A "hit" being a visit to a website by a user My Punisher fan grill is illin - A customised grill to protect a computer case fan in the shape of the emblem of the popular comic book character "The punisher". This is likely to be ironic. When I see you on the street, your shit will be spillin, I'll infect you with Sasser and MS Blaster, Pop-ups be poppin up faster and faster, - sasser and MS Blaster are both virus for the windows operating systems. Viruses have been known to allow pop ups to increase in both frequency and annoyance. I master a DAT tape full of raw raps, perhaps My shit make your whole crew collapse - A DAT tape is a sequential data storage medium. Typically DAT tapes contain sensitive backup data. All you hackers, who gettin on my case Coaxke is here, and I'll reformat your fuckin face - Reformatting refers to the erasing of all data on a storage medium such as a hard drive or floppy disk, including the master boot record. Reformatting is often a last ditch attempt to salvage a drive. PC Speaker: Sit back, 'cause I got a little story to tell And no I'm not talkin about no AOL - AOL (America OnLine) is widely believed to be a terrible Internet Service Provider on account of their mollycoddling their userbase. I'm talkin about how Firefox saved me from browser hell While I was usin Internet Explorer on my DSL Firefox 0.3, it spoke to me It said "I'll make your life better than you ever could dream I'll get rid of all those pop-ups for free MP3s And I'll blow spyware's head off while it's down on its knees" - Firefox is believed by the majority of tech communities to be superior to internet explorer, notably in the way that it deals with popups. DSL stands for digital subscriber line and pertains to the method of allowing a connection to the internet through the unused frequencies on a standard phone line. It is generally outdated and used mostly in areas without cable connections or fibre optic lines. Spyware is a type of virus, the main aim of which is to transmit data about your computing environment to an external location. PC Speaker: Yo, if you were spyware, you can't hear this shit anymore because you're fuckin dead, motherfucker. We bustin up the block with our iced out modded cases and 120mm Punisher fan-grills, motherfucker, and if your Mom talks shit to us, we'll kill her and burn her in a motherfuckin van, motherfucker, and write about that shit in our LiveJournals, motherfucker, and if you want somethin crazy, like pineapple, fuck you, we'll kill you motherfucker. - Self Explanatory. |
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