Very Rare Bear ([info]djswifty) wrote,
@ 2004-05-19 20:11:00
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Current music:All the buns are blank

THE ROCK OPERA THAT I DON'T HAVE A TITLE FOR
01: Introduction
02: EC Exposition
03: Cryptkeeper
04: Segue 1
05: Parents Freaking Out
06: Psychologist's Response
07: Segue 2
08: Congressional Hearing
09: I Am The Comics Code
10: Narrator's Theme

NOW THERE IS ANOTHER ALBUM IN THE WORLD


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[info]slackest
2004-05-19 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Potential Titles for the rock opera that were discarded for various reasons, mostly due to them sucking/not dealing with the content:

-Comicapalooza
-Stan Lee presents
-The Amazing Adventures of Swift and Garber
-HOLY CRAP THIS IS TAKING SO LONG WHY DIDN'T WE JUST WRITE A 10 PAGE PAPER
-William Gaines presents
-The Worldwide Dryer Company II, Electric Boogalo: Now With Less Agnst
-The Emerald Sword
-Stan Lee presents William Gaines presenting the Amazing Adventures of the Emerald Sword

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[info]bunnysuit
2004-05-20 07:34 am UTC (link)
I am big fan of this one: The Worldwide Dryer Company II, Electric Boogalo: Now With Less Agnst

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[info]bunnysuit
2004-05-19 05:26 pm UTC (link)
...AMAZING

if you don't get an A, i will personally assassinate the teacher.

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[info]djswifty
2004-05-20 01:05 am UTC (link)
Actually: He told us we got an automatic A because we did so much work on it. Which rules.

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[info]longlines
2004-05-20 12:17 pm UTC (link)
yay! congrats on surviving, my friend.

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[info]supergeorgina
2004-05-19 05:35 pm UTC (link)
So cool.

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[info]djswifty
2004-05-20 12:45 am UTC (link)
Excellent! Thank you!

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[info]supergeorgina
2004-05-20 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Man, I totally had "I am the Comics Code" in my head while shelving at work today.

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[info]thebeeth
2004-05-19 06:06 pm UTC (link)
"all the buns are blank"
you a mitch hedberg fan, there, swift?
_E

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[info]djswifty
2004-05-19 11:41 pm UTC (link)
All-encompassingly.

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[info]thebeeth
2004-05-20 08:22 am UTC (link)
i saw him in an amazingly 90 minute live set at lehigh university recently. All it took was me shouting out "DUPHRANE!" and he immediatly launched in, "i was at this resturaunt, waiting for my table"
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AND THEY ALL WANT SUNCHIPS!
Do you have his second cd? Its not as unique or amazing, but some seriouslly funny shit.

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(Anonymous)
2004-05-19 07:15 pm UTC (link)
I've always found the history of The Comics Code interesting but reading about it was never as fun as listening to your opera. Not sure if you are performing the music or sampling but either way it all sounds great. Really amazing work! Got here from a link on the Bendis Board--just so you know.

thanks,
natalie

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[info]djswifty
2004-05-19 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for the unexpected and totally amazing praise! All of the music here was performed live by Matt and myself, either with analog instruments or through MIDI sequencing/triggering.

I am pretty pumped that my roommate posted about that. He is good people.

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[info]trilobite
2004-05-19 09:02 pm UTC (link)
I had no idea you were going to actually RECORD IT! Holy crap, that's the coolest thing ever. I wish I was that creative and motivated so I could write rock operas instead of research papers.

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[info]djswifty
2004-05-19 11:30 pm UTC (link)
Pretty much any excuse I have not to write YATP (yet another term paper) I jump on and frantically dry-hump, now that I am about to enter my tenth semester in college (summer sessions inclusive).

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[info]jwgh
2004-05-19 10:35 pm UTC (link)
That's pretty great! I expect you to choreograph, film, and upload to the Internet music videos for all of this within the next four hours, of course.

I feel that you should own a MIDI guitar. Behold! The power of a guitar with the versaitility of MIDI, or vice-versa!

I like to hear music that is not a slave to the THREE-MINUTE POP MUSIC FORM.

Why the hell am I still awake?

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[info]djswifty
2004-05-19 11:29 pm UTC (link)
I really want a MIDI guitar, too, especially now that MIDI sample-triggering has gotten amazingly easy thanks to advances in computing. Remember how amazed my dad and I were by the Apple ]['s (i think) ability to approximate kerning in some stick-figure animation studio application you had? All this MIDI stuff is like that, except cooler to me, because I know how to use it. Unfortunately, MIDI guitars were all in the $10K+ range the last time I checked. So I guess I'll have to wait until that whole racehorse jockeying gig kicks in.

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[info]jwgh
2004-05-20 06:36 am UTC (link)
This thing appears to be relatively cheap, though still not something I will actually see my way clear to, say, buying anytime soon.

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[info]jwgh
2004-05-19 10:37 pm UTC (link)
Also, you should mail this to WFMU so they can ignore it just like they ignored the stuff I mailed them.

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call it "comic book"
[info]plasticperson
2004-05-20 12:25 am UTC (link)
dude seriously killer

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SUGGESTIONS?
[info]nibblemaker
2004-05-20 02:47 am UTC (link)
"MOMMY GIVE ME MY COMIC BOOK BACK"

"I Am The Comics Code" is pretty good, if you don't mind letting it be the title track and thus the main focus.

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[info]britishmike
2004-05-20 04:14 am UTC (link)
seriously, this fucking rocks. i downloaded them all and i'm listening to cryptkeeper now. so good. well done! and rock on for getting the A.

i submitted it to b3ta, so here's hoping, right? :)

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holy fuck
[info]ahatefulheart
2004-05-21 10:14 am UTC (link)
uh, Parents Freaking Out is fucking amazing.

you are a champion, don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

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[info]philopian_tubes
2004-05-25 07:03 am UTC (link)
ERM. This page has been linked to by The Morning News (link).

In other news, d equals r times t, JEFFREY WITH ONE F JEFFREY!

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(Anonymous)
2004-05-25 08:09 am UTC (link)
You should come up to Burlington VT and perform it. Ideally as a double-header with Kochalka's "Carrot Boy"

g

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[info]rippetoe
2004-05-26 06:42 pm UTC (link)
YOU. RAWK. RAWK TEH FAWK OWT.

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(Anonymous)
2004-05-27 01:14 am UTC (link)
I haven't listened to these yet, but I intend to. I just wanted to let you know that for the past three-plus years Art Spiegelman (yes, that one) has been trying to get a musical onto Broadway called "Drawn to Death," a fictionalized version of Jack Cole and one of the EC crime artists fates after the Code was created. Cole, the creator of Plastic Man (here called "Rubber Pup") ended up committing suicide, whereas the EC artist murdered his mistress. I don't know the current status of Spiegelman's musical, but the more the merrier, I say. Keep up the great work!

Ken A.

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[info]djswifty
2004-05-27 03:05 am UTC (link)
Man, if I wasn't a big hack I'd write something about great minds thinking alike. As it is, that's amazing news; I love the hell out of Cole's work, and Spiegelman, well, right. I seriously hope that gets made.

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[info]tgrupert
2004-05-28 05:08 am UTC (link)
If it becomes the next "The Producers," Peopel will be in a mad rush to pick up the next great Musical about comic books. Unfortunatly If you construct a Venn Diagram of the peopel that like musical theater and the people that like Comic books you will have enough peopel to fill a theater a hand full of times. You own for makign a GREAT project.

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greetings
(Anonymous)
2004-06-03 12:17 pm UTC (link)
yo, i accidentally stumbled on this page by doing a google search on my band and seeing my name falsely listed as playing with ghost to falco (i would have loved to have played, but it just didnt happen). these are killer dude. good job. i was really excited when i heard about your idea and you really pulled it off. way to go.

-timh m0dnAr

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