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It's just called "Worms." Creepy song -- one I've liked for a long time.

http://www.lyricstime.com/the-pogues-worms-lyrics.html

...
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong

Once there were parking lots
Now it's a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it

This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it

I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it

And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it

I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it

We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it

This was a discount store,
Now it's turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it

Don't leave me stranded here
I can't get used to this lifestyle

Nothing But Flowers

Possibly ... http://www.lyricstime.com/motorhead-iron-horse-lyrics.html

This may help.

I don't know about a radiation detector, but I do have some entertainment suggestions for your music player, assuming of course that it doesn't get fried by the radiation...

"Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al

"Hot Frogs On The Loose" by Fred Small

On a more respectful note, there is also Small's "Cranes Over Hiroshima".

I don't know about a radiation detector, but I do have some entertainment suggestions for your music player, assuming of course that it doesn't get fried by the radiation...

"Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al

"Hot Frogs On The Loose" by Fred Small

On a more respectful note, there is also Small's "Cranes Over Hiroshima".

http://www.lyricstime.com/95-south-whoot-there-it-is-lyrics.html

http://youtu.be/TiVFfOOm_GI

http://www.lyricstime.com/frank-zappa-trouble-every-day-lyrics.html

"Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white"

F. Zappa

Ya, racists assholes make me feel like that all the time. The question is, what can I actually do about it?

Agree on the amazing nature of the scene. The music, however, is the first verse of Psalm 115, "Non Nobis Domine." Lyrics here: http://www.lyricstime.com/steve-green-no-nobis-domine-lyrics.html

The powers that be in China basically view the working class as economic cannon fodder.

What exactly is it that makes you think that the powers that be in the USA are any different? Did you forget about shooting veterans on the white house lawn? Did you forget about the mass graves of Panamanians on the military base in Panama, people killed in our name? Have you forgotten that only a few of us have strong labor laws (union members) while the rest of us are being pushed further towards poverty by an economy which includes ever more part-time and ever fewer full-time jobs? Did you notice that the banks received bailouts instead of the creation of public works projects which would actually have produced genuine benefit instead of simply permitting execs to take home huge bonuses, bonuses which will be converted to foreign currencies as rapidly as possible?

We can't afford to be so complacent. There will come a day (or perhaps it is already here) when our "leaders" will view us the same way. This is a situation that can not be tolerated.

You're tolerating it right now.

What about hip hop use that fuck a rap battle what about a gat battle lets
take it to the beast and see which cat tattle
Is it 'Kiss vs. Beans or P vs. Hov'
What about the real niggaz vs. the 5-0
This is M-1, DP, don't you forget
Cause you can talk talk talk but it don't mean shit
I ain't gotta pop your top to see where your brains went
This rap shit is bigger then entertainment
It's the people vs. the pigs when it all boils down
It ain't 'Pac vs. Big it;s whos getting the power
And power ain't money dog its self determination
Like taking Hot and making this the real People's Station
THAT'S WAR

Giving bailouts to the bankers is WAR
Dumping currency to produce inflation is an act of WAR
Putting you on the watch list for your political views that's WAR
Exporting our pollution to China is a strategy of WAR
You don't even fucking know that you're losing the WAR.

It's lonely out here in the left-of-left position, but at least I can't be conflated with half-asses.

Here is more for you then. The lyrics mentioning Alice Cooper from "What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?" written by Frank Zappa. It seems on topic with this thread ;-)

http://www.lyricstime.com/frank-zappa-what-kind-of-girl-do-you-think-we-are-lyrics.html ...
Mark:
Well, I'll tell ya
Well I get off bein' juked
With a baby octopus
And spewed upon with creamed corn . . .
An' my girlfriend, she digs it
With a hot Yoo-hoo bottle
While somebody's screamin':
CORKS 'N SAFETIES
PIGS 'N DONKEYS
ALICE COOPER, baby . . .
WAAAAH!

Bob:
Well, it gets me so hot
I could scream

Chorus:
ALICE COOPER, ALICE COOPER! WAAAAH!
ALICE COOPER, ALICE COOPER! WAAAAH! ...

i'm a bit older than you, and i surely do remember "old times".

but i surely won't argue about restricting places for the young people. what i would argue for, deposits. they deposit a value that covers biggest damage they could do to the place in a single run, and live with it. i would be pretty much happy with such a system in my time, actually.
i had very little income, but then i saw people open bath/guest house to visitors only to get fireplace glass getting smashed that cost ~$(usd)500 - and their revenue for the evening was ~$240. not a way to make some money. so deposit $1000, get it back at the end. whatever, borrow it from your parents who will probably not be excited about writing that amount off for their spoiled brat. i'm somewhat reminded about a couple of songs :)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ramones/beatonthebrat.html
http://www.lyricstime.com/sham-69-hey-little-rich-boy-lyrics.html

If this sounds like hell to you, hop in your El Camino, crank up the Metallica, and head to McBurgerndy's-Fil-A-Bell. Buy three triple whopper chicken bacon cheese towers, a SuperJumbo Coke, a sixty ounce curly mayonnaise french fry bucket, and of course thirty dozen cinnamon twisters. (Don't forget your blood sugar! Your kidney dialysis isn't until next week.) Stuff two of the burgers into your mouth, gorge on the fries...

Dennis Leary did it better:

You know what I’m gonna do I’m gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps And all leather cow interior And make brown baby seal lions for head lights (yeah) And I’m gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour Gettin' 1 mile per gallon, Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald’s In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers And when I’m done sucking down those greeseball burgers...

Maybe, but by careful not to end up like Joe in this Frank Zappa story:

http://www.lyricstime.com/frank-zappa-sy-borg-lyrics.html ;-))

The Geek

Boston City Hall may be ugly, but it's ugly in an interesting way, comparable to some of Le Corbusier's work. I would not call it a stupid, boring piece of architecture, nor is it flashy and bombastic.

It was (and still is) regarded as a milestone of the Brutalist architecture that was in vogue at the time. There is evidence that city employees felt good about working there.

Besides, it is ideally located near the hub of Boston's subway system. The waterfront would take an extra 15 minutes driving or subway time to get to, and would likely displace a showcase development project from the private sector that citizens might actually look forward to visiting. And I'm sure they'd make it really big, the better to house hundreds of additional city employees and dozens of extra departments to serve empire-building bureaucrats.

What a Swell Party This Is

"Have you heard that Mimsie Starr
Just got pinched in the As...tor bar?
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!

Have you heard? It's in the stars,
Next July we collide with Mars!
Well, did you evah?
What a swell party this is!"

http://www.lyricstime.com/dead-kennedys-stealing-people-s-mail-lyrics.html

"Dead Kennedys sue Wikileaks!"

Now that is a headline!

I was more thinking along the lines of making sure they don't step on the chickens and soil our quilts.

If that reference is too obscure for you, you could always clone them, open a theme park, and then give them lots of puzzles to do (upon pain of excruciating death!)

Sounds more like "thrash-back" instead of "cash-back". I hope Yahoo!'s board and investors breathe a collective sigh of relief that they have a new magic bullet to fend of Murdoch and msoft. What bullet? Offer the shoppers the same "benefit" that ms is seemingly thrashing about with. It's is analogous to the paper rebates in many respects.

Ha! So, now, once again, msoft is showing it is POOR at innovating. Yet ANOTHER reason Yahoo! needs to vigorously resist this attempted shotgun rape, umm, wedding. And, resistance can be in the form of further open-sourcing or threatening more open-sourcing to keep msoft and it's wealthy minion mouth-pieces at bay.

Now, Yahoo! and Google can globally offer what mshaft is seemingly wanting to offer only to US residents or CONUS-based purchases. Maybe it is the case that msoft IS globally offering "thrash-backs" in each country, but that might not be tenable considering how relatively low prices *might* be in non-CONUS consumer markets. But, Yahoo! and Google together, and with Baidu, and, say, CyWorld, and the analogs in Japan, Taiwan, etc, can do a REAL SLAM-DUNK whammo on msoft.

GO YAHOO!, GOOGLE, BAIDU, YAHOO! JAPAN, CYWORLD, et al. DO IT. DO IT!

And, dance, thresh, thrash, and jig at msoft's expense to the tune of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2yCgO1vRT8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_It_('Til_You're_Satisfied)

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http://www.lyricstime.com/cookie.php

But, I laughed reading the following:

"much better."

"Microsoft is like a bad restaurant - no matter what the incentive, you don't want to eat there. Their product isn't working and their share of the market proves that." "

Maybe msoft should consider a saying one of my friends (Chinese and Vietnamese) said about Chinese restaurants: "The dirtier the bathroom, the better the food." But, then, is there an anallog in msoft's case? They've pretty much beaten black and blue their customers, partners and suppliers. What's next, turning them into food chips? Will we hear, "MICROSOFT IS PEEEEE-POHL"? (ala "Soylent Green")

Maybe the Japanese scientists are just huge Wesley Willis fans?

The real problem is: "Music industry", there one word too much in there.

let me refer you to lyrics by the great and sadly missed Australian band TISM :

Wesley Willis' mother will be overjoyed!

Dude, if you are a good cop, get out. Get a real job. Get a better job. Become a whistleblower as well.

It isn't worth your time to remain in a place where you are going to get so much crap. Cops aren't loved, cops do do shitty things, and you are tarred with the same brush.

Unless you like protecting the property of the rich, get out.

http://www.lyricstime.com/frenzal-rhomb-who-d-be-a -cop-lyrics.html

Life On Mars

http://www.lyricstime.com/wesley-willis-al-capone- lyrics.html That's what I'm referring to -- it's what I meant by "Wesley Willis anyone?".

This is what it's like when worlds collide.

Freedom of Speech, that's some motherfuckin' bullshit
You say the wrong thing, they'll lock your ass up quick
The FCC says "Profanity - No Airplay"?
They can suck my dick while I take a shit all day
Think I give a fuck about some silly bitch named Gore?
Yo PMRC, here we go, raw
Yo Tip, what's the matter? You ain't gettin' no dick?
You're bitchin' about rock'n'roll, that's censorship, dumb bitch
The Constitution says we all got a right to speak
Say what we want Tip, your argument is weak
Censor records, TV, school books too
And who decides what's right to hear? You?
Hey PMRC, you stupid fuckin' assholes
The sticker on the record is what makes 'em sell gold
Can't you see, you alcoholic idiots
The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get

[Verse 2]

Continues: http://www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/3426.html

I believe you mean "Camptown Lady". Or maybe it goes by both names, I'm just trying to be anal.

Oh man, I haven't even thought of that song in a long time.

The lyrics are here

'Bitchin' Camaro, Bitchin' Camaro!
I ran over my neighbors
Bitchin' Camaro, Bitchin' Camaro!
Now I'm in all the papers

My folks bought me a bitchin' Camaro
With no insurance to match
So if I happen to run you down
Please don't leave a scratch'

Somehow that seemed more clever when I was 16...

The badger's your friend!
Make friends with the badger!

does it much matter if it's made from silver or the bones on zombies?

Bones of zombies? I thought that was Powdered Milk

...the Grand Wega IIIs, have had their own spate of lamping problems.

Perhaps it is because they're not Cold Lampin'? My AV consultant, Flavor Flav, is the best!

Some friends and I tried to do something like this about 15 years ago, but the state of the art was not there (we were having to develop custom hardware with multiple DSPs, and it would have been at least 2U in size), and a couple of lawsuits scared us off. The nail in the coffin was one lawsuit that really seemed to be on point for us, was a Mercury Sable ad. Bette Middler did not want to sing it for them, so the license only covered the song. The ad agency hired someone else, whose voice sounded identical to hers, to sing Do You Want to Dance. She won big time and had the commercial yanked from the airwaves. Think of a Mercury Sable doing figure 8s and spins (on water) with that song in the background: beautiful ad.

For those who care, its a harder challenge than regular speech synthesis by a couple orders of magnitude.

This song is just six words long

This song is just six words long
This song is just six words long
This song is just six words long
This song is just six words long

Couldn't think of any lyrics
No I never wrote the lyrics
So I'll just sing any old lyric
s That come to mind, child

...

I have some sad, if belated, news to report: the musician Wesley Willis died several weeks ago from Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia at the age of 40. In addition to developing leukemia that ended his life, Wesley endured a life-long battle against schizophrenia. In his struggle, he never gave up any of his dreams. He had a talent for drawing and music. He wrote such hits as "Cut the Mullet," a song that brought an end to that miserable haircut. If you hate the mullet but don't know quite why, you can thank Wesley Willis for starting the trend against them. When Wesley spoke, he spoke his mind. One of his songs includes the lyrics "McDonald's hamburgers are the worst/they are much worse than Burger King.../they serve Quarter Pounders/they will put pounds on you." Who could argue with that? His other works are just as frank and include the songs "I Smoke Weed", "Casper the Homosexual Friendly Ghost", "Suck My Dog's Dick", and "Eat That Mule Shit". Even if you aren't familiar with his works, you can't deny his contribution to the world. Truly an American icon to be missed.

Rock over London.
Rock on Chicago.

Signing out, yo.

If you don't stand for nothing I can't really stand behind you
Who knew you withdrew your point of view
I lost mine, you cry and whine all the time
And I can't stand aside or anywhere near you
I'd get in check, you're a wreck, no respect,
In effect you elect me to fuckin' hate you
I'll break you down on the ground, I've found
You're a clown, I'm around, you want war? I'll take you
Stand aside, take a ride, I won't try, you're a lie, my lyrical lesson will teach you
So take a stand if you can, my man, go where I stand, I'll hold my hand
But in the real world you get squashed and then stung
Get hit bitch, shit, aw then you get hung
in a fantasy all day long, it must be so fun being so fucking dumb

(full lyrics)

Note that "Money for nothing" by the Dire Straits is on the list of files shared by munkyspanker21. How appropriate.

Caught, Can I Get a Witness?

Please note that "Can I Get a Witness?" is the name of a Marvin Gaye song, so most of the title is a "sample."

"What do you mean we're stealing beats? Ya'll can't copyright no beats!" -Flavor Flav

-Peter