I do occasionally succumb to peer pressure (was 'generate your album name, etc on wikipedia')
I do occasionally succumb to peer pressure (was ‘generate your album name, etc on wikipedia’)
You know the drill.. repeated hits of “random article” on wikipedia to successively generate your fictional band name, album name and some number of songs. I liked the one who said “my albums tend to have fewer songs”.. Mike Oldfield anyone? ANyways, it’s pretty cool to see William S. Burroughs “cutups” method become mainstream. Wikipedia says “Cutups (or cut ups, a term originally coined by William S. Burroughs to describe some of his literary experiments that involved literally”cutting up” different texts and rearranging the pieces to create a new piece.)” It’s worthwhile to note that that last link, if you click on it, will send you to the article about mashups. In a sense, literary exercises like this were a precursor to much of modern music, include not only mashups, but much of the electronic dance scene which has “raided the 20th century” for sample material to make meat pies of music. Robert Anton Wilson has written often about the cutup method, how it can be used to generate pretty plausible-sounding prose, not to mention free-form poetry. It’s a testament to our “asleepness” while we are reading, or perhaps a relative measure of such unconsciousness how long, when presented with such drive, one stops and stars reassessing whether this is worth reading. If only we there was as easy a method for generating the lyrics for those songs. Anyways, here’s my album.. Cyrtopodion amictopholis KKFN
- University of Bergen
- Animal repellent
- Doodlebug
- 1866 in Ireland
- Syamantaka
- Jumada
- Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Artwork
- Finlaggan
- Don Lanphere
- Patrol Boat
- Organisations with former royal patronage in Hong Kong
- Sobrado
- UGT
- Blanchland Abbey