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What cheer, SoutheasternNewEnglandTypeMeFites? What say you to a Providence, RI, meetup next Friday, October 3rd?
posted to MetaTalk by The Great Big Mulp
at 8:44 AM on September 25, 2008
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Is there some way to tell the Windows Media Center software just to use a specific TV tuner card input (rca, s-video, etc) avoiding its incessant search for a cable box or its requirements that I use the remote? I know I did it, once ...
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 11:13 AM on September 20, 2008
Tonight, I created a really, really, really good remake of an old song of mine. I don't even know if I have a copy of the original anymore, but ... whoa ... this thing ended up being kind of epic. Features horns and toy pianos, a reed organ, both regular and electric ukulele, some drums. I even tried my hand at playing the bass. Short, simple lyrics within (of which I am also rather proud)!
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:33 PM on July 13, 2008
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This is a short song I've made for my girlfriend in the past half hour or so. It is a true story.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 7:00 PM on July 12, 2008
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I know this song has been uploaded right at the very end (if not shortly beyond) of the MeFi Music Challenge, but I went through a number of songs in the long debate to find a MeFite's song to cover, eventually landing on the one that most frequently gets stuck in my head. That song is
Colonel Roger (is a Soldier from the Future) by
chiefbluefeather.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:15 PM on June 30, 2008
(4 comments)
I need to replace a power supply on a FlexPOS 150 (a touchscreen-based point-of-sale computer). However, one ever-looming obstacle towers over me like some malevolent god-beast (with a lot of screws): how the hell do I take this machine apart?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:12 AM on June 14, 2008
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This is an old song and a personal song. Its basic premise fits quite nicely with my life, thus making it relatively personal. Marginally complex vocals around an easy-to-follow framework, written while afraid of the leaving of an ex of four years past.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:22 PM on October 3, 2007
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This is a much better version of a song I submitted a while back. Many of the chorus-related mistakes mentioned in the comments have been fixed, and I have added a few vocal layers, along with some horns. It's really quite probably the best song I've ever put together.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:00 PM on August 1, 2007
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This is a little song I put together for my mom's birthday a few days ago. Unfortunately, tuning was an issue, especially with all the untunables -- the toy piano, old keyboard w/dying batteries, and dollar store recorder. Well, I think it's still kinda fun, regardless.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 11:38 AM on July 30, 2007
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This is an older song, comprised about six years ago. It is an angsty song, concocted in response to the second lesbian with whom I was madly enamored declining and telling me I was "beatific". It is a poppy song, and I wouldn't post it were it not, in my opinion, catchy. I'm well over the emotions, but the song is still kinda cute.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:24 PM on July 21, 2007
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I had promised Sarah I would write her a song. Granted, that was while we were dating. We're not anymore. But I did promise, and she is a superly awesome person, wholly deserving of a song. The chorus comes from a facecloth we found in a dollar store, and it's words, three of which being nonexistent, can be found within the bowels of this music post.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:00 PM on July 18, 2007
(10 comments)
I wanted to make a song with a few of the instruments I rarely use, like the reed organ and toy piano. I thought about coming up with lyrics, but my hangover makes my brain feel ... not working so good. So I threw in some kazoo instead. Enjoy!
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 7:49 PM on July 8, 2007
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This isn't a particularly good song, so I recommend you don't listen if you like music. Which you do. Pay no attention to all my shitty lyrics peppering your music page, now, if you please.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:34 PM on July 4, 2007
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This is a short, NSFW song about an aggravating place. It was thrown together in a two-hour burst of creative intoxication this afternoon, though most of the lyrics have been bumbling around in my head for the past few weeks.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 11:17 PM on June 26, 2007
(10 comments)
I've got some friends who have recently started a porn store, but they need a way to advertise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:33 PM on May 28, 2007
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I made this little song last night. The lyrics, albeit very simple, have been stuck in my head for some time. And they reminded me of Captain Fred Stone and Flyball drifting silently through the cosmos. I guess this would have to be before Flyball hooked up with Moofa, the cat from mars, and had kittens. And a warning: the first time through the chorus is a bit rough.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:18 AM on February 23, 2007
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This song showed up in the middle of a very stoned 45 minute jam session with my band
The Next, for which I play the drums. None of us remember making this song. It's kinda fun and catchy.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 8:30 AM on February 17, 2007
(4 comments)
Can you help me find a book which traverses Russian history from, well, as far back as possible up to the Russian Revolution of 1917?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 5:15 PM on December 17, 2006
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The weekend before last found me hanging out with my special lady friend in the historic district of New Bedford, MA. Now, New Bedford is really a rather depressing place, being one of the eastern cities that has outlived its major industry, but one lovely thing we did get to see was the
Seamen's Bethel, the church in which Moby Dick's famous
Father Mapple sermon was delivered. Oh, and I promise never to attempt to rap again. (And it's NSFW)
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:45 PM on November 21, 2006
(4 comments)
So, I've been offered a job by a party company as a celebrity impersonator. If I decide to take it, and some corporate event requires someone who looks an awful lot like
this guy, what sorts of thing can I expect to be doing?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 12:15 PM on November 16, 2006
(30 comments)
This thread reminded me that I wanted to cover this horrible, awful song. One of a series of vile covers I've been planning. For my own amusement and hastily thrown together. Don't worry -- I only went as far as the first chorus.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 7:34 AM on November 9, 2006
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While listening to the final mixdown of this song, which is about my search for a place to which to move at the end of the month, I received a phone call from someone looking for a roommate. Coincidence! And, yes, I am playing glasses with varying amounts of water in them.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 1:18 PM on November 7, 2006
(12 comments)
Last Thursday, my roommate told me he is moving out at the end of the month. What should I do?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:57 AM on October 24, 2006
(10 comments)
This song is for an old friend, a guy named Todd. He came up with this revenge scheme, see, and that's what this song is. It kind of collapses at the end. I'd fix it, but I find it sorta cute. Baffling lyrics within.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:07 PM on October 13, 2006
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Y'know, I've dug your music. So, in commemoration of your
self-linkage, I've composed a brief song. Take no offence to the last line, please. But don't self-link, goddammit. If you're still even here.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 11:35 PM on October 7, 2006
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Ben, the lead singer in the band for which I am the drummer, requested I upload this song. The band's name is The Next, and the song is an impromptu jam in which he was searching for something about which to sing. As it turned out, we practice in an old fabric dying factory, and the board next to the office in which we play had many labels. One of which is "In Frame Room". Another is "Scheduled for Dying". It is the first upon which the lyrics were based.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:57 PM on October 6, 2006
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I am the drummer in this kinda punkish/metalish rock band called The Next. And this is one of our songs. It is very, very different from the sort of thing I tend to do whilst
solo. And this is the best recording of it we've made, thusfar.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 5:30 PM on October 5, 2006
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Y'know, I'm the sort that tends to attract those crazy people, the ones on the bus, as the sort to whom their life stories should be told. This song is about some of the things that go on in my brain whilst they are telling me said stories. I mean, every once in a while. Usually they're quite coherent. And, on occasion, I am that crazy person on the bus.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:09 PM on September 18, 2006
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If I can teach myself how to use AutoCad by Wednesday, I will be employed. If not, the search must continue.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:54 PM on September 16, 2006
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Well, last week I had stepped out for a cigarette and witnessed a snippet of a conversation between a man and his daughter. They were both riding their bicycles down the sidewalk through the plazain which I work, and my guess would place the daughter at about 9 or 10 years old. As they rode past me, I heard the man say to the girl, "I just want to feed the ducks, and you keep pulling me away." And that's pretty much the basis for this song. It gets kinda awesome about halfway through. I mean, I think so, anyway.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 9:18 PM on September 4, 2006
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So, anyway, this song is based on a quote in
this article. Twas made in the past hour and a half, upon the inspiration of cortex's breaking-news-story related songs. And it's short as hell. Which is somewhat oxymoronical, depending on your viewpoint of such things.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:58 PM on August 13, 2006
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So, here's the deal. I'm very drunk, and I've just cpme bacl frp, hosting a party at my girlfriend;s house. And I want to post a song to you humans. Amd. tjpigj ot5 ,au b3e and p;d spmg. I dn't feee; it is not wprth menntionings. It is called "Qipheyo". And I don't know what that word means. It's a little reggae, a little mariachi, and a little drum 'n bass. And I'm a lot drunk.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 7:30 PM on August 6, 2006
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So, this is another old tracker piece. A little bit ambient, a little bit kick-ass beat. I don't recall the circumstances under which I composed this song beyond that it was a remix of a song I made whilst on meth. For the one and only time. At any rate, it makes for nice background music. And it features my first ukulele, which was eventually lost to an apartment fire.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 12:45 AM on July 30, 2006
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This is one of my old instrumental tracker compositions. Man, I miss using trackers. I wonder if'n I can get FastTracker working on this machine. Hmmmm. I don't recall from whence the choral sample has come. But it's pretty. I know that much. (And, yeah, I wasn't really into coming up with song names at the time.)
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 11:26 AM on July 27, 2006
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So, at the time of the creation of this brief song, I was trying to force myself to write a song a week. Searching for something about which to sing, I stumbled across the Myspace profile of someone who looked an awful lot like someone I used to know. That's the basic gist of it, really. Twas submitted for the MeFi Compilation album, but, alas, I could do little to remove the hiss.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 10:14 AM on July 24, 2006
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So, this is how I've spent the afternoon. Constructing a cover of what is, in my opinion, the greatest video game theme ever composed. For your enjoyment. Yes, I know it falls apart a little, in some places. But that's because it's a cappella. And it's a cappella because it would have taken much longer to make were I to have used instruments. Oh! And I'm exhausted. And it seemed like a good idea at the time. Enjoy!
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 5:13 PM on July 19, 2006
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This song is a few months old. It's about kittens. When it was made, I was trying to compose a song a week. I got about eight weeks into that project.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 1:31 PM on July 14, 2006
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A week or so ago I embarked upon a thorough kitchen cleaning in a seemingly failed attempt to dissuade the cockroaches from continuing to live in it. Without paying rent. Whatever I used to clean the wooden cabinets, and I don't quite recall what it was, was also, I discovered, removing the varnish as well. And that is what this song is about. And it's (almost entirely) a capella.
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 3:15 PM on July 12, 2006
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Exhausted, on an all-too-brief lunchbreak this past Friday, I was smoking a cigarette, watching an ant cart around a dragonfly corpse. And I thought, "Damn. It's a good thing they aren't big enough to carry cigarettes. And that they don't smoke."
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 8:52 PM on July 8, 2006
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Have the robots become sentient? What will all the robots think when they watch us humans go through our daily lives? Will they know I was very drunk, alone in my band's creepy practice space? Will they still like me?
posted to MeFi Music by The Great Big Mulp
at 3:35 PM on July 5, 2006
(3 comments)
ki(10)z!!!
A veritable tiny treasure trove of centered text and songs ranging from awful to awesome await! ki(10)z is my band. Which includes me. My New Year's resolution was to try to write a song a week, but I seem to have fallen quite far behind. At any rate, these are some songs.
posted to Projects by The Great Big Mulp
at 1:34 PM on April 16, 2006
Does anyone have any information on O. Dorsey, inventor of the door knob (and doorstop)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 12:29 PM on December 11, 2005
(6 comments)
I am trying to find articles online which delve into the origins of naming human offspring and whether or not other species have audible monickers as well.
posted to Ask Metafilter by The Great Big Mulp
at 12:43 PM on May 21, 2005
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