What Cheer, Netop?

At band practice tonight (when I could have been bowling with knitdrinkprov! arrrr!) we were going over a new song which had a section in stop time.

So I was talking about what was supposed to be happening in the stop time section, except I kept accidentally saying 'stop sign' instead of 'stop time', which totally confused Ed the drummer.

He asked for explanation and I realized my mistake and said, 'Sorry, in the stop time section ...'

He said, 'Oh, stop time! I thought you said stop sign.'

I said, "That's because I did stay sop stine.' Which should have been a joke, but actually my brain was temporarily out of order.

The end.

Also, apparently I'm a jerk. I guess that isn't a big surprise. [Not a request for intervention or anything, particularly since it seems to be resolved, but I thought the whole interaction was interesting.]

One of the things that I have been thinking about regarding the dance band is that when we play at AS220 we will have to perform all original material (I assume that policy will still be in place), and almost all of our original material is written and performed by Chris (the exception being a song I wrote for my nephew Ezra in February).

So I've been thinking about writing more songs; kind of difficult. The other week I was listening through some stuff I recorded and I thought that Interests Are Stupid might have some dance band possibilities, although I wasn't sure whether we would actually want to do it or not. So I emailed the link around to the other members of the band and asked what they thought.

Some time passed, and after a week or so Chris sent me a note about something unrelated which included this:

Also, on the orrig JH song you asked about last week: Musically I like it and I think we could do some interesting thing. Lyrically I think its kind of thin. I rarely feel that joke lyrics hold up to repeated listenings. This week I told the same jar-of-jellybeans joke 4 times 4 different people. It was not funny after the second time, because it wasn't funny to me and I couldn't put my heart into it. That being said, if you want to stand by the lyric and you want to do the song, its OK with me.

...which is reasonable and fair enough. However, the font I use to read my email (Monaco) has the unfortunate feature that lowercase 'a's and 'o's look pretty similar, so where Chris had written 'I rarely feel that joke lyrics hold up to repeated listenings' I thought he had written 'I rarely feel that jake lyrics hold up to repeated listenings'. 'Ow! The sting of honest criticism!' I thought.

Anyway, I was relieved today when I reread the email and discovered what it actually said.

The end.

We played a lot of goofy stuff last night that is unlikely to ever be performed publicly. It was a lot of fun! Among the pieces played were:

- Back in Black (sort of)
- Tequila
- Wipe Out
- Earth Angel
- A medley of Also Sprach Zarathustra, Violence, and Folsom Prison Blues.

Less goofy songs that were played included:

- Hard to Handle
- Money (That's What I Want)
- Rock & Roll [the Velvet Underground song]
- Cities
- cats [a Chris Monti original]
- Leaving in the Morning (another CMonti song)
- Papa Was A Rolling Stone
- I Feel Like Dynamite
- I'm The Slime
- You Gotta Serve Somebody

This probably demonstrates that goofiness is somewhat in the eye of the beholder.