Regarding Project 4

I am pretty sure about what I want to do for this project. I don't want to get ahead of myself or give anything away but I want to play on the whole social networking thing by creating a certain phony page about an alter ego or personality. Vulgarity is going to be very important. My project will rely heavily on the shocking and what "cannot be said." This is one of those rare opportunities in academia where you get to do something like this.

Post 6 - My Most Hated Things

Here is a list of some things that really get under my skin. They are in no particular order of hatred except for the first one:

When a CD skips
Traffic
Shrunken T-Shirts
Loud-Mouthed Assholes in the Library
Busy Work
Statistics
When a good band goes bad....(Dave Matthews)
People that cannot raise their hand in class and have to shout out
Customs at the airport (I guess I should feel different about this)
Bad Attitudes
Spoiled Brats!!!!!
Popped tires on my bycicle
A broken guitar string, or bass string for that matter
PAPER CUTS!
When people cannot listen for more than three seconds (sometimes its not their fault)
Midterms
Finals
All forms of testing actually
People that quote movie lines before I have seen the movie!
Poeple that quote movie lines after I have seen the move!
People that quote movie lines and actually think they are funny for doing it!
War
Arena footall
Cricket
Monkeys............I really dont know why...It's not because they throw poop either
Buying text books that I don't need and then losing half of their value
Fake plants and trees
MONEY
MONEY
MONEY

These are just a few of my most hated things. I actually am a pretty loving person but I really could do without a lot of these things in my life. I could definately see myself adapting this think into a really funny multimedia presentation with slides. Unfortunately I am running out of Ideas here and kind wanted to do something different than project 2. I will have to see what happens and possibly my direction of my project might change.

It's beginning to look a lot like vulgarity!

In reference to project 5, I cannot disclose any major details except the fact that my overall goal is to make Sandy blush.

Project 3 "The Beatles Shannonized" Preface

This summer my best friend and I spontaneously took a bike ride from my home town approximately thirty miles north of Philadelphia all the way to the New Jersey Coast......STARTING AT 6 P.M! As we cruised through the summer night small talk became very small and even being the best friends that we are, we began to run out of things to talk about. Soon enough we started asking each other questions about music such as...."If you could be in one band from the sixties who would it be?" or "Would you rather be Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison?" (That was a hard one...I eventually went with Morrison). After about thirty or forty of these questions my friend asked me what still remains as my favorite question of the night; "What three Beatles songs mean the most to you and your life?"

This question took about an hour of serious thinking before I could give any kind of answer. I mean, how could you even begin to answer a question like that? I really could not think about a single song The Beatles wrote that I don't even like let alone love. After Shannonizing one of my own songs, I really fell in love with this way of algorhythmically processing text and I really wanted to mess with one of my favorite artist’s songs. I know it may be a bit of a leap from a bike ride between two friends and an English 303 project but I really see these songs as relevant to my work thus far in this class. Though my answer to the infamous "Beatles Question" has changed drastically since the bike ride, here are the three songs I selected that night, my reasoning behind selecting them, and my reflection on how they were algorhythmically processed.

1) “When I’m Sixty Four” – This has always been one of my Beatles favorites because of how interesting of a concept it was for Paul McCartney to write a song about himself as an old man. I was lucky enough to see Paul McCartney two years ago in concert (he was sixty-four at the time). He sang this song and told us that Eric Clapton called him on his birthday and sang it to him when he picked up the phone. After I Shannonized this song using the Mark Twain option I really liked the line “drop me, and save Grandchildren on a valentine Birthday!” This was very good McCartney/Twain hybrid of a line!
2) “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Another great song that reminds me of my younger days. This song was a huge influence for me to start becoming a serious musician and playing live. I chose Edgar Allen Poe for this song because much like “When I’m Sixty Four” this song and Poe’s writing style work very well together. I especially enjoy the line “While my guitar gently weeps I had no one of the grave all Still my recollection a ghastly river, as of the floor and its vast weight-- fables I had always deemed them-- sick unto death.”
3) “Let It Be” – This song not only speaks volumes about myself but it has gotten me through some really tough personal times and for that this song will always be revered in my heart. I chose to Shannonize this song by God himself because it has a biblical feel to it in my opinion. In my senior year of high school my band and I ended up performing this song live in front of our entire school. This was one of the best moments of my entire life. After Shannonization this remarkable line was produced: “mother Mary comes to my hour of wisdom, there will not covet any time go, mother Mary comes to me, let it be.”

By the way, we ended up making it to the beach by 4 a.m that morning.

The Beatles......SHANNONIZED!

The Beatles – “When I’m Sixty-Four”

When I get older losing my hair,Many years from now,Will you still be sending me a valentineBirthday greetings bottle of wine?If I'd been out till quarter to threeWould you lock the door,Will you still need me, will you still feed me,When I'm sixty-four?oo oo oo oo oo oo oo ooooYou'll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)And if you say the word,I could stay with you.I could be handy mending a fuseWhen your lights have gone.You can knit a sweater by the firesideSunday mornings go for a ride.Doing the garden, digging the weeds,Who could ask for more?Will you still need me, will you still feed me,When I'm sixty-four?Every summer we can rent a cottageIn the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dearWe shall scrimp and saveGrandchildren on your kneeVera, Chuck, and DaveSend me a postcard, drop me a line,Stating point of view.Indicate precisely what you mean to sayYours sincerely, Wasting Away.Give me your answer, fill in a formMine for evermoreWill you still need me, will you still feed me,When I'm sixty-four?Whoo!


Mark Twain – “When I’m Sixty-Four”

When I get older losing my breath and save Grandchildren on your answer, and had a postcard, and tear and Dave Send me a form Mine for it; and when he was feeling pretty good time, and save Grandchildren on your knee Vera, Will you talk! Well, digging the door, I catched my canoe and most fainted. Doing the cellar cupboard and we knowed about it first rate. Go for a desprate gang as that line don't know Arkansas. Shut up on a look at the weeds, When I'm sixty-four? Never hurt nobody, digging the fireside Sunday mornings go for more? You prepared to say the fireside Sunday mornings go for evermore Will you come from, and save Grandchildren on a Sunday-school superintendent to be older losing my canoe and was feeling pretty good, and took my hair, and Dave Send me, with you mean to supper, drop me, if you still need me, I could do it first rate. You prepared to supper, I could ask for evermore Will you say the weeds, after breakfast, and Dave Send me, ah ah ah ah ah ah And if it's not too dear We shan't rob em of cutthroats from now, they will suspicion something and save Grandchildren on Aunt Sally's dress that he was feeling pretty good, When your answer, I could do it was going to three Would you come from now, and save Grandchildren on a good, drop me, and save Grandchildren on a valentine Birthday!

The Beatles – “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor and I see it need sweeping Still my guitar gently weeps I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold you love I don't know how someone controlled you they bought and sold you I look at the world and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps I don't know how you were diverted you were perverted too I don't know how you were inverted no one alerted you I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at you all Still my guitar gently weeps Oh, oh, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh, oh oh Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah


Edgar Allen Poe – “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”

I look at you shall. The whole house was blazing. with how terrible an object that I look at once, and terrible engine of a thousand vague rumors of my guitar gently weeps Oh, oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, like a rapid ghastly thing-- no! In the GALLOWS! In the pale door, oh, by a plunge into one of the love there had swooned; even in a thousand vague rumors of cowards. While my guitar gently weeps I had no one of the grave all Still my recollection a ghastly river, as of the floor and its vast weight-- fables I had always deemed them-- sick unto death! said I saw them-- fables I had swooned; but now I saw clearly the doom and of torture which awaited me. But with that my guitar gently weeps I might have rid myself of the courage to end my guitar gently weeps Oh, oh, oh oh, shuddering, I, oh, oh oh, oh, oh, to shake off--------- incumbent eternally upon my guitar gently weeps I might have had I don't know how terrible an object that my guitar gently weeps I don't know how terrible!

The Beatles – “Let It Be”

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be. Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be. For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see, there will be an answer. let it be.
Let it be, let it be, ..... And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be, .....


God – “Let It Be”

When I find myself in times of music, there is standing right in times of spices. Go ye inhabit,..... And in the sound of wisdom, there is standing right in sackcloth, shine until our brother. And when the broken hearted people living in sackcloth, fell upon him guiltless. For though they may be, clothed in the broken hearted people go beyond the sound of wisdom, let it be smitten, speaking words of wisdom, until tomorrow, there is that they will see, let it was very good. Now therefore thy God of wisdom, there will make thess swear by the fish, let it be put to death. Wherefore asketh thou to the smiter and arise, shine until our brother unto his man-servant, that is the congregation shall surely be, mother Mary comes to my hour of wisdom, there will not covet any time go, mother Mary comes to me, let it be.

shizamm magoo

I have to say this might be one of the strangest things I have ever done on the web. In reference to "googlewhacking" I was able to find my own term that only created one search result. This term was "shizamm magoo." Please do not ask me what it is or more importantly, how I discovered it because I myself do not know how. Im kind of blown away because I was just about to quit on the idea of finding googlewhack when I gave one last try. Wow....I could have waste so much more of my time.

"They Say Beauty" - A Nate Maruso Original Song Scrambled By "God"

Note: This song was originally titled "Naked" God thought otherwise and called it "They Say Beauty" Be sure to refer to the original lyrics posted below. Enjoy!

They say beauty is in sackcloth, thy temples are like a pomegranate split open, flee thou shall at large. I will not defile the way they do. Is there an answer to that charge. Things have done so? The men of blood according to these ordinances; for I feel naked. Surely thou art thou after my daughter! And I will make thess swear by the LORD will make thess swear by the woman at large. Now therefore thy lips are in thy dead dog curse my son of the earth, whither he and said unto you, the people act the eye of Zelophehad, thy womb, my bone and you. Well I was made by some damn machine.

Post 5 Description

With this post, I am using a song I wrote over three years ago titled "Naked" to be algorhythmically processed. I chose this piece because of its almost cyclical nature where it follows a very predictable and repeatable pattern. The song is about trying to find love in society, or something along those lines (it is sometimes hard to recall the meaning of the song when I write it). I decided to use "The Shannonizer" to process this text in the "God" tone of voice because the lyrics of the song almost give the listener a biblical type feeling when they hear it. After the text was processed I was extremely intruiged as to how it was cut-up. I really thing the "God" tone of voice scrambled the text in a way that was almost as if the song was a bible verse. Overall, I am really happy with how this text was processed and I'll probably spend the next hour or so putting all of my songs through this machine. You can hear the song for yourself at www.myspace.com/orangecollar. Once again, the song is titled Naked and the original lyrics are as follows:

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Well I don't subscribe to that magazine.
You view me with eyes a little colder.
As if I was made by some damn machine.

Things have just begun.
Two hearts now beat as one.
And I dont know if I can make it in a world where I feel naked.

Why do people act the way they do.
I don't have an answer to that charge.
Is there an anotomoical solution for me and you.
Because now you're the woman at large.

Things have just begun.
Two hearts now beat as one.
And I don't know if I can make it in a world where I feel naked.

copyright Nate Maruso