Etherape Art

Not much to do with music, but I decided to run Etherape and Ktorrent at the same time, and the results look kind of cool!

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Whats that mean?

There is no more a joyous sport then listening to peoples interpretation of obscure lyrics. I don't think that there is anyone out there that interprets lyrics the same as the person next to them, and most are quite surprised, and oft disappointed, when they actually find out what the author of the lyrics actually had in mind.

Take, for example, "Horse with no name" by America. Most thought it was about a mystical journey. Some radio stations banned it because they thought it was totally about drugs, "Horse" being a slang term for heroin. To this day there are still many interpretations of this song floating around. One of my favorite quotes about the song is from the late comedian Richard Jeni who mocked the song's title by quipping. "You're in the desert,You got nothing else to do. Name the freakin' horse!

The truth of the matter is it was written on a very depressingly rainy day in england by a lad who grew up at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

"Stairway to Heaven" is another one subject to so many interpretations it'll make your head spin. Here is a song that even Robert Plant admits doesn't really mean anything, Written in one afternoon, it's just a bunch of words strung together to match a Melodie that Jimmy Page was noodling around with.(there may have been mind altering substances involved) They never in a million years thought it would become one of the greatest hits of all time. Ask anyone what the song means and you will never get the same answer twice.

David Bowie used to write songs by cutting words out of papers and magazines, mixing them up in a bowl or hat or something and pulling them out one by one and making them into lyrics. You too can do the same. There is a product out there called "Magnetic poetry" tiny fridge magnets with words printed on them that you can move around and rearrange into poems, lyrics, shopping lists, sexual innuendo, whatever.

You can try it online here

I have this contraption called a "Think Tank", a big round ball containing a bunch of words printed on little plastic strips. you turn the knobs on the side and it brings up words to the window.

And here is what I wrote with it...

advantageous humanitarian scraps
the cornerstone gaslight of platonic translation
underscores the chilliness of the blacktop
and tugs the antediluvian deodorant of psychiatry
rewriting the menacing pantomime of revolving extrusion
vaulting full grown immediacy
authorizing the trend of an integral narcotic
the almighty extension of cosmopolitan stress

What does this mean?
Dunno. Doesn't mean squat to me, but I'm sure that out there there are people that will read this and worship me as a god, or think I am the next Leonard Cohen.
Sorry to disappoint folks. Not even close. I'm just a guy with balls full of words.

I'll close by saying the whole thing about music is taking that song and making it fit your life and situation. What you perceive a song is about is subject to what is happening in your life at that particular time, so go ahead and enjoy! You may not hear the song the way author has written it but, I'm sure that they won't mind as long as you buy it.
Peace

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