Rock star grammar is a subject very dear to me, and woe to the Chicago-style Nazis and prescriptive word-wardens, the Creative Writing teachers and literalist listeners; woe to ’em. Sometimes the demands of the melody outweigh the goal of making sense or even expressing meaning to your audience. Sometimes the song just writes itself, and […]
Archive of posts filed under the Bloggies category.
Elec Man, Faithfully
In our last post, we explored the melody of Mega Man’s cooler older brother Proto Man. Today, we’ll look at one of the original Robot Masters: Elec Man. Elec Man was designed to oversee atomic energy power plants. Like Godzilla, he is a Japanese metaphor for The Bomb. Like other ego-magnetic electro-maniacs, he wears a […]
Proto Man Melody
Proto Man is the cowboy-samurai with a whistle of pure gold. A robo-desperado with the byte motif. He’s also Mega Man’s cooler older brother as is evident by his supercool scarf, sunglasses and shield. First appearing in Mega Man 3, Proto Man has been the long-time crush of gamer girls and gaymers. He can jump […]
Insane Insen
In a recent post, we covered the popular Chinese melody, but what if we want to “turn Japanese” for real? To find out we turn to the Japanese pentatonic Insen scale! In the example above, the tonic would be on the G#, as it is traditionally written. Generally speaking, and don’t call me a racist, […]
Top 13 Bloggies for Dummies
Blogs are for dummies. Dumbed down. Bolden and linked. Dck jcks. Fragmentary sentences in broken textspeak. Bloggers on pop sites talking down to you like u’re a t33nagr. It’s the new Tee Vee. And even better: it gives you the illusion of more control when you actually have less. The Net wasn’t designed to enlighten […]
Zelda’s Lullaby
Link from Legend of Zelda is the original warp whistler. He plays the ocarina in Light World and in Dark. Even his shadow plays the ocarina. It’s a fairy ocarina, and Link carries it with him, somewhere on his person, along with bombs, jugs, and silver arrows. “Zelda’s Lullaby” is a song passed down among […]
Wolf Whistle
The Wolf Whistle is the way we show our appreciation for the feminine form. And the ladies love it! From construction worker catcalls to cartoon wolves, blown in private or openly with two fingers, the “wheeeet-whooo” is a distinctly sexist melody. Can a melody be racist? Is there Classist Music? Tex Avery used the Wolf […]
