"Art"

i was listening to the Wire tribute in my car and so i was all thinking about how great Wire is and all...and their lyrics...and when i got home this idea for a song just kind've popped in my head so i wrote the lyrics down...often, lyrics don't stand too well alone w/out the song (as rhyming most always seems really cheesy w/out the music...) but this doesn't rhyme, and i think it might work pretty well alone...as i mentioned before, i was thinking of Wire, so it's pretty Colin Newman-ish...but it also has some David Byrne and Mark E. Smith elements floating around too...not that the three singers don't have fairly similar styles anyways...or something...less talk, more rock:

Upon wanting to paint
A picture for you,
I obtained a brush
and some paint and a canvas.
A hideous mess now
Covers the white.
All the wrong light
Is now being absorbed.

[chorus]
Is this art? Is this trash?
Is there a difference? you say.
Is this art? Is this trash?
Is there really a difference?
Is this art? Is this trash?
Is there a difference? you say.
Is there a difference? is what you say to me.
Is there a difference? is what you say to me.
Is there a difference? is what you say to me.
Is there a difference? is what you say to me.

When I paint,
I don't know what I am doing.
The colors bleed out
In all directions.
All the colors, they bleed
Into black so slowly,
And I sit here staring
At this hideous image.
I swear it's an accident,
This hideous image!
This hideous image
I've created for you.
This hideous image,
But it's what you want.
This hideous image!
This hideous image!

[repeat chorus, of course]

SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!!

now all i need is to be in some wacky 80s comedy...

i think i did OKAY on my operating systems exam last night...there were 4 parts...i know i did near perfect on the first two parts...i think i got the third part right and i know i at least got it mostly right...but the fourth part, it was one big essay-ish question...i was a bit fucked up on that one, and i just put down some bullshit...not even good bullshit...oh well...it won't be graded on the typical a: 90-100, b: 80-89, etc...it'll be based in relation to how the whole class does and whatnot...and i'm pretty sure i at least got a c...maybe a b...i quite hope...but i won't expect it or anything...

my physics class had been cancelled for today, so i only had to go to calculus...then i returned and wrote those lyrics i posted this morning...then i took a little nap...

David reminded me (i'm mad at myself for forgetting about this) that we should try to get tickets to Conan if it's not too late...i've tried calling the number today, but i haven't been able to get through at all...grrr...it doesn't look like we'll be able to go to that...we can try standby tickets, but the chances of that working prob'ly aren't too great either...

but i just found out that Sonic Youth is going to be playing the Memphis in May music festival on May 6!!!!!!!!!! and i'm REALLY excited about that now! even though the festival's pretty icky, Sonic Youth made even going to a Pearl Jam concert worth it...(two of 'em, actually...)

and only 5 days 'til NYfukkinC!!! woohoo!!!

survey?

stolen from Jamie...couldn't resist this one, as it's a chance to do what i love most: shamelessly flaunting my cred...or something...

Who Are You?
"We are The Fall. The difference between us and them is that we have brains." - The Fall
"We are 138 in the eye of the tiger." - The Misfits
"I am the fly in the ointment, I can spread more disease than the fleas which nibble away at your window display." - Wire
"I'm a 2 + 2 = 4 man." - Devo
"Look at the face in the mirror and you'll find the one that you despise." - Two Dollar Guitar
"Zurich is stained and it's not my fault, I am not one half of the problem." - Pavement
"I'm the royal tough titty and you're gonna taste my love." - Sonic Youth
"I am not what you want." - Cat Power
"Though I'm not a loser myself, a loser has nothing to sell, I could easily sell myself." - Sentridoh

Where Do You Come From?
"I come from the land of the ice and snow." - Led Zeppelin (sorry, couldn't resist...it's funny, damnit...)
"We're D-E-V-O from O-H-I-O." - Devo
"Did i forget to mention, forget to mention Memphis? Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks. Do I smell? I smell home cooking. It's only the river, it's only the river." - Talking Heads
"I'm from New York City, breathe it out, and let it in." - Sonic Youth

What Do You Look Like?
"Oh, you've got blue eyes." - New Order (partially ripped off of Jamie...)
"You look like a rosary and you smell like a Jew." - Sonic Youth
"'Hey faggot!' and he squirted me again!" - Dead Kennedys
"If you're so terribly good-looking, then why do you sleep alone tonight?" - The Smiths

What Do You Want To Be?
"I wanna be sedated." - Ramones
"Now I wanna be your dog." - The Stooges
"I wanna be a field day for the sundays so they can fuck up my life." - Wire

What Can't You Do?
"You remind me that I can't read." - Low
"I can't give you what I have not." - Richard Hell
"I can't give you anything." - Ramones
"I can't trust myself to do something any more than i could think of a thing to do." - Bedhead

What Is Love?
"Love's a disease, a viral infection." - Y Pants
"This is a lie." - The Cure
"There's nothing to trust, just lust." - Buzzcocks
"Because we don't need love. I believe that we don't need love. There'll come a day when we won't need love." - Talking Heads
"Love is a bastard, it tears you apart." - Subhumans
"A brand new tangled web you're spinning." - Sebadoh
"And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is mine." - The Smiths
"It's all over, I will die. And it's all love in your eyes." - Two Dollar Guitar

What Is Friendship?
"I was complaining, I was down in the dumps. I feel so strong now 'cause you pulled me up." - Talking Heads
"Was I just your medicine? Was I just your fucking friend? And when will I begin to get it?" - Two Dollar Guitar (more of my bitter attack on love, but it still applies here...)

Are You Strong?
"When I'm touched, I bleed." - Swans

What Are You Afraid Of?
"Afraid of babies." - Sentridoh
"I'm not afraid to say I'm scared." - Sonic Youth

What Comforts You?
"I kill children just to watch 'em die." - Dead Kennedys

What Would You Tell The Person Who Loves You?
"The damage is done." - Yo La Tengo
"Hold my head as if this was a kiss of love." - Two Dollar Guitar
"Every time I look at you I wonder what to do." - Sonic Youth
"Don't ask me to apologize, and I won't ask you to forgive me." - Elvis Costello

What Do You Want To Do?
"I must fight this sickness." - The Cure
"I'll take, you, New York. I'll make it happen." - Tom Waits
"I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand. Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?" - Joy Division
"Think of a number, divide it by two." - Wire

Who Do You Love
"I'm not in love." - Talking Heads
"There is no love in this world anymore." - Buzzcocks