Last week, as I was reading and responding to everyone’s responses to Michael Gorman’s blog posts, I re-read a couple of the posts myself… and this phrase from his earlier “blog people” article started running through my head … and wouldn’t leave.So I did what any self-respecting closet musician would do on his day off – I wrote a song!
A little more explanation – I wrote the music (with a little help from GarageBand here and there). For each line of the lyrics, I pulled random Gorman quotes from these three articles.
This is probably some odd self-fulfilling prophecy, since I am a blogger, since Gorman said “entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs” … and that’s pretty much what I did to construct this song!
Now, on to the song! And here’s a game for you while listening: try to find each quote while you’re listening to the song!
I’m No Antidigitalist
Music by David Lee King, lyrics pulled from Gorman quotes
an associated flight from expertise
believers in Biblical inerrancy
authoritative printed sources
an extreme example of technophiliac rambling
human beings learn, essentially, in only two ways
verifiable credentials and demonstrable expertise
derision of the professorial authority figure
hyperventilating not blasphemy
I’m no Antidigitalist
there are obstacles to such a benign outcome
antihuman and intellectually debasing
the endemic confusion of means
the triumph of hope and boosterism over reality
I’m no Antidigitalist
read what they want to read … random facts
read what they want to read … paragraphs
an associated flight from expertise
believers in Biblical inerrancy
human beings learn, essentially, in only two ways
hyperventilating not blasphemy
I’m no Antidigitalist
The structures of scholarship and learning are based on respect for individuality and the authentic expression of individual personalities.
Enjoy!
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Wow!!! Michael Stipe would be proud!!
Thanks for making me laugh so hard this morning
Been a fan since “Are You Blogging This”! David, you kill me. Rawk.
Great Job! Really made my morning.
I love it! We need more bibliopunk!
Also, related, I noticed that Britannica’s blog has been *very selective* about trackbacks… as if we don’t know what the biblioblogosphere actually wrote! Talk about proving a point.
Everyone is tripping and it’s all free!
KGS: what evidence do you have? There are plenty of trackbacks from critical posts. My post on the topic doesn’t appear as a trackback, but that’s because I forgot to ping the EB blog.
*is tripping*
You take the cake for being the funniest biblioblogger, and the most musically-inclined. I think you should get some sort of award for that.
Excellent!!! Is it just me, or does this song and singing style owe a lot to the band Cake? I like.
Starr – I admit, I actually had Cake in mind when I did this. So I must have pulled that one off!
Steve, maybe it’s just MY posts
and perhaps I don’t have the right update services in my WordPress options?
Sorry for this side conversation, but I did verify that my trackbacks are working and I have Pingomatic listed. (Duh, one of my trackbacks is on this post!)
David,
You should get out less.
And do more of this.
Great song, great satire, great sauvignon (oh well, two out of three ain’t bad).
Now I know what it’ll sound like when Michael Stipe, Trent Reznor, and Tom Morello make a record together.
Too bad Johnny Cash isn’t around to cover it…
Best. LIS. Song. Evahr.
Thanks so much for the giggles.
Okay, now I have a new favorite song to replace “Code Monkey.”
Oh! This fills me with delight! Thank you, David. You’ve brightened a bleary Monday.
Cool tune. Sorta reminds me of “My Past Lives” by Too Much Joy.
>>>>> I see a new award category in the CIL/IL future. In addition to InfoTubby’s, I think we just may need InfoGrammys. This is winner in my book – Supreme!
The harmonica breakdown (in addition to other elemenets) makes the song brilliant!
Puts me in mind of Remain in Light era Talking Heads. Very nice.
In the words of the Partridge Family: “I think I love you…” Genious! Love the talking at the end. Very Cake as others have said, but also a little John S. Hall from King Missile!!
David – Great song. Very well done. Nice to see you are learning blues harp. I started playing cross harp in 1994 and had some fun with it in bars during college. I used to have friends who played blues guitar well and we used to jam back in the day. I really miss playing with a good guitarist. Harmonicas are great, but cross harp sounds so much better when we have someone to accompany. Anyway, you are sounding really good. Keep it up.
I keep coming back to listen again and again. This is my new fave blogland song.
David: You ROCK.
Dude,
You are clearly main-entry material.
I love this David! You are on fire!
First of all, you get a day off???
Somebody, somewhere should be paying you something!
JBD
What you people call “music” is nearly as bad a what you call “writing” on your blogs. You are fortunate that I do not crush you simply by using my superior mental powers. I could also use my hair lightening powers or blue blocker sunglasess powers, but those options would be less ironic.