Young Devin Funck

August 23, 2008 7:08 PM

Just wanted to call your attention to this comment by Astro Zombie. I can only favorite once and flag it once.
posted by fixedgear to MetaFilter-related at 7:08 PM (47 comments total)

Please, musical mefites, someone make songs from it.
posted by rtha at 7:20 PM on August 23, 2008

If someone were to want to apply some music and a melody to that thing, I would love it.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:26 PM on August 23, 2008

Play some Funcky music....
posted by Rumple at 7:27 PM on August 23, 2008

MeFi music post.
posted by fixedgear at 7:29 PM on August 23, 2008

Good stuff, I keep hearing some bastard hybrid of Leon Redbone and Johnny Horton in my mind's ear when I read it.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:12 PM on August 23, 2008

Good catch! Both men were my father.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:17 PM on August 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

You know, I'm getting a little Astro Zombie fatigue at this point. Not a lot, mind you; just a little.
posted by yhbc at 8:19 PM on August 23, 2008

Well, there are four of us.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:19 PM on August 23, 2008 [3 favorites]

Fittingly, the Misfits Choir will be doing backing vocals on the album release.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 8:26 PM on August 23, 2008

He who is tired of Astro Zombie is tired of the world. Or...the underworld.
posted by ColdChef at 8:30 PM on August 23, 2008 [2 favorites]

Screams out for the Red Sovine "Phantom 309" treatment.
posted by fourcheesemac at 8:30 PM on August 23, 2008

Leon Redbone, fuck YES.
posted by middleclasstool at 9:40 PM on August 23, 2008

Okay, here's a recording. I like AZ's voice better than mine on this, but I think it's the right sort of feel at least.
posted by cortex at 10:02 PM on August 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

You know, I'm getting a little Astro Zombie fatigue at this point. Not a lot, mind you; just a little.

I believe the proper remedy involves a chainsaw. In your case, maybe a very small one.
posted by felix betachat at 10:04 PM on August 23, 2008

Oh yay, another comment that's a song parody.
posted by smackfu at 10:42 PM on August 23, 2008

Oh yay, another comment that's a song parody.

I've never liked these for some reason. I seem to be in the minority there though. Of course I usually just skip them entirely.
posted by puke & cry at 10:51 PM on August 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

Not to shit on Astro Zombie of course. Unless he's into that.
posted by puke & cry at 10:52 PM on August 23, 2008

What song do you think is being parodied, smackfu, and by whom?
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:06 PM on August 23, 2008

Oh, I see. I think you are presuming my initial comment was a song parody. It wasn't; I just got it into my head to write poems every so often as a comment. I've always liked the newspaper doggerel that used to show up with some frequency, where people would wrfie fast and dirty rhymed couplets about current events, and this now seems to be something of a lost tradition, so I just thought I would revive it, at least for myself. Didn't expect it would get this sort of response, although I couldn't be more flattered by it.
posted by Astro Zombie at 11:24 PM on August 23, 2008

It seems spectacularly unlikely that there's any grime MCs on MetaFilter Music, but if so, this would work for them, too. Just take most of the definite articles out, replace the references to Slidell with the appropriate postcode, and it'd be ready for spitting over bars, as the youngers say. (Realising this will probably ruin my ability to listen to both grime and murder ballads forever. Bum.)
posted by jack_mo at 3:20 AM on August 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Play some Funcky music....

I just heard this Wild Cherry song on the local oldies station yesterday, and noticed it has now been changed for radio play—no longer including the words "white boy."
posted by terrapin at 3:53 AM on August 24, 2008

Cold Chef, although movement is possible in both the ana and kata directions, I'd prefer we think of this realm as the overworld. Seems a little more classy and less creepy that way.
posted by Meatbomb at 4:15 AM on August 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Oh yay, another comment that's a song parody.

It could be worse. It could be haiku.
posted by Dave Faris at 5:53 AM on August 24, 2008

old lake
a shark bites
the sound of choking
posted by cortex at 6:28 AM on August 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Oh yay, another comment that's a song parody.

Hurrah, another dismissive comment from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. Those are much better.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:05 AM on August 24, 2008

where did the damn shark come from? Don't we have enough carnivores in this tale?
posted by HuronBob at 7:05 AM on August 24, 2008

Every aggressive sea creature is really, like, just a metaphor for a shark, man.
posted by cortex at 7:22 AM on August 24, 2008

Even the sharks?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:26 AM on August 24, 2008

Especially the sharks.
posted by ColdChef at 7:40 AM on August 24, 2008

Metametaphorical, man.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:42 AM on August 24, 2008

Hurrah, another dismissive comment from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. Those are much better.

Hurrah, another dismissive comment about another dismissive comment from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. We could do this all day.
posted by Dave Faris at 7:52 AM on August 24, 2008

Well, it is Sunday, and I've got fuck all to do.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:56 AM on August 24, 2008

Hurrah, another dismissive comment about another dismissive comment from someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

Hey, I know what I'm talking about; if smackfu had said he didn't like the song, or he thought it was boring, that'd be fine -- assy, but fine. It's his prerogative. But he criticized it for being a lame parody, which it isn't, and therefore clearly didn't know what he was being a dink about. There's no law against being a jerk, thank god, but if one is going to be they should at least have their shit straight.

We could do this all day.

I also have nothing to do today, aside from the laundry, which I am in no rush to get to. Also, you smell, Faris!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:25 AM on August 24, 2008

I'm listening to cortex's rendition right now, and it's making my morning.

I truly don't understand the impulse to shit on fun things other people are enjoying, but whatever buffs your bile.

I just heard this Wild Cherry song on the local oldies station yesterday, and noticed it has now been changed for radio play—no longer including the words "white boy."

You've got to be kidding me. I didn't believe in the End Times before, but I'm starting to reconsider my position.
posted by languagehat at 8:28 AM on August 24, 2008

But he criticized it for being a lame parody, which it isn't, and therefore clearly didn't know what he was being a dink about

Sorry, I just assume any comments that look like poems are parodies of songs I don't recognize. Because who posts actual poetry to Metafilter?
posted by smackfu at 9:17 AM on August 24, 2008

What has two thumbs and is a solar powered revived corpse of an astronaut?
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:20 AM on August 24, 2008 [2 favorites]

Is it Johnny Depp?
posted by smackfu at 9:23 AM on August 24, 2008

Yes.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:25 AM on August 24, 2008

Calling "parody" is like calling "double": citation needed.
posted by cortex at 9:31 AM on August 24, 2008

Gene Siskel & Roger Chaffeebert?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:45 AM on August 24, 2008

In the case of calling parody, an oblique reply in the form of a moderately apt line or couplet from the parodied work (or a related work, if you're nasty) is acceptable.
posted by cortex at 9:49 AM on August 24, 2008

Gene Siskel Gene Silicacell.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:26 AM on August 24, 2008

I just heard this Wild Cherry song on the local oldies station yesterday, and noticed it has now been changed for radio play—no longer including the words "white boy."
>You've got to be kidding me. I didn't believe in the End Times before, but I'm starting to reconsider my position.

1. I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!"
2. I looked, and there before me was a [Edited]. Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

Now there's some lame parody for y'all. And citeless, to boot.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:49 AM on August 24, 2008

Great stuff, cortex.
posted by felix betachat at 12:16 PM on August 24, 2008

I assumed smackfu's comment was a JERK parody.
posted by Atom Eyes at 8:55 AM on August 25, 2008

The song is on its way to Devin Funck even as we speak, apparently.
posted by Astro Zombie at 3:39 PM on August 25, 2008

Mods, please sideblog this. For the love of god.
posted by ColdChef at 7:04 PM on August 25, 2008