Granted » Music http://grant.robinson.name/blog Grant Robinson's thoughts and findings on design, games and digitalia Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:00:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Vimeo’s fun with auto-tuning http://grant.robinson.name/blog/2009/05/vimeos-fun-with-auto-tuning/ http://grant.robinson.name/blog/2009/05/vimeos-fun-with-auto-tuning/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 09:32:30 +0000 Grant http://grant.robinson.name/blog/?p=71

Vimeo’s Auto Tuning video has been online for a couple of months now, but it’s still giving me joy. I thought it was worth sharing on the off chance someone’s missed it – although I suspect you need to be in the web-design scene to fully get it.

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Lyrics:

Moon Buggy Honeymoon
Grant and Lorin’s Wedding Present Song

Hey there Lozza and G, freshly married and busting with glee
I suggest one thing for your honeymoon, why not hoon with a buggy on the moon?
Relax about rock cavities; you can jump real far in moon gravity
Forget about flying saucers, your buggy has space mortars
When aliens spot you zipping along, they pause and they say:
“Our cruisers can’t repel firepower of that magnitude”
So sit back and enjoy the ride, and by the way,
Congratulations guys!

Bloody good effort Lozza and G
You’ve got yourself all married
Quite a clever move by you guys
Cause now you’ve got a friendship that the police will recognise

Congratulations
From here on in the church will bless your romancing
And even though this is written beforehand
I’m pretty sure the party’s gonna be awesome
But now it’s time for moon buggy adventuring

Moon buggy time go on get in
Time to take one for a spin
Guess who’s your driving instructor?
It’s Yoda, Jedi Master!
So yo Yoda, what have you got in store on the honeymoon moon cruise today?
“Things you will see, other places”
That’s sounds awesome, let’s cruise!
“Patience!”
But we’re ready to go…and you know what happened to Anakan when you held him back

Lunar navigation in your moon buggy
Starlight constellations make it easy to see
Women are from Eastbourne and men are from Timaru
We’re all in this together when we’re cruising on the moon

There’s no coverage for your iPhone
But Willis came along so you will never be alone
On the moon he’s no ordinary pet
He’s a galactic cosmic space cat!
But now it’s time for moon buggy adventuring

Yo Yoda, how about a solo on that space organ!

But now it’s time for popcorn and ice-cream

Yoda would just like to say one more thing
He said he’s checked his user interface, and that marmite is better than vegemite because it’s got more force in it
And he also said there is no one ring to rule them all…but then he winked.

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Why is it that all major league UK rock bands end up turning into U2? Has Bono personally impregnated every arena dressing room with his juices so anyone within 20 feet catches Big Music like scabies?

Classic. Read the full review here.

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