Gray, or is it Grey? (prefight)

Post by **Spud** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:39 pm

Discuss.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:45 pm

....or is it gay?

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:50 pm

This is an awesome title. I'm gonna say I'll be in.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:59 pm

I'm so in this one, that if I was any inner I'd be marrow.

...hmm, that's a good one. I hope you guys are writing this shiz down.

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:43 pm

It's been like ten years since I've actually done a songfight! but there has never ever been a better title in the history of time. Much like Joe Namath, in the lead-up to Super Bowl III, I guarantee that I will make up a song. A song that could win at American football.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:34 pm

Why do you guys think this is such a good title? Curious. (I want to understand the primitive mind. j/k!)

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:44 pm

Because YOUR MOM.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:57 pm

frankie big face wrote:Why do you guys think this is such a good title? Curious. (I want to understand the primitive mind. j/k!)

Because who's ever heard of a gray rainbow? Rainbows are happy and gay. If a gay feller ever saw a gray rainbow, he'd call all of his extraordinarily happy bruthuz and have an emergency rainbow painting party.

....which reminds me, rainbows have been stolen by the gays. I remember a happier time when I could wear a rainbow shirt without getting hit on by extraordinarily well dressed men, with extraordinarily white teeth. Now every time I so much as pull out a rainbow key chain, I practically get anus raped.
I say we take back rainbows.

Oh, to answer your question, I'd be in even if it were shit sang'which. Mainly because I'm still a noob and haven't burned out yet. j/k

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:18 pm

Because it sounds like the title of a song that I would write. Even more than that: it sounds like, if I was trapped on a desert island for the rest of my miserable life and could only write one song, that "Gray Rainbow" would be the title of that song.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:29 pm

I think Wes Davis should write about how his rainbow was so gray before he came out, but now it's vibrant and full of piss and vinegar.

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:54 pm

I think Billy's Little Trip should write a suicide note.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:22 pm

Denyer wrote:I think Billy's Little Trip should write a suicide note.

Anything for you home slice. *grabs a crayon and cheeseburger wrapper for authenticity* OK, why should we say you're offing yourself? Here, let me get you started and you can add to it.
To whom it may concern. I'm tired of getting an erection every time I see my dog lick his satchel. I can't take it anymore, plus people make fun of me for being a "little person" and they vomit green stuff whenever they see my mongoloid head. I tried to lose weight, but I just got shorter, so I had to stop. I'm tired of always smelling farts when I stand in the food stamp line. So this is it, I'm through. I'm going to put a noose around my chubby neck and jump off of the Yellow Pages.
Sincerely,
Denied'err

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:25 pm

Another cool one. Wish I had a keyboard, since a piano song is all I can really think of for it.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:41 am

Moon-rainbows appear gray to the human eye, but in actuality they're multicolor. They're just not bright enough to trigger the eye's cones, so the rods (which are monochromatic) take over.

Of course seeing a moon-rainbow is pretty rare since they have such a small window of opportunity (only even being perceivable about 1/5 of the time as a sun-rainbow, during a time of day when fewer people are looking outside ESPECIALLY if it's been raining, in a day and age when light pollution typically drowns it out anyway) and so they seem even more mysterious since it's become so (sadly) rare. And then to add to the mystery, if you photograph it, if it comes out at all it's in color! I think that's pretty awesome.

Also they're structured somewhat differently than a rainbow due to them being backlit by the moon instead of frontlit by the sun (technically a frontlit moonbow is possible but it'd probably be way too faint to be visible) and so even when they are photographed the colors are blurred together much more.

There's some pretty cool pictures of moonbows at http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/

Here's a frontlit moonbow which was taken with a very long exposure (he claims 30 seconds but that's contrary to what he says about it being 400,000 times as long as a daylight exposure since ISO200 film won't record crap in 7/100 of a millisecond even if you somehow have a shutter capable of moving that fast): http://starmatt.com/gallery/astro/moonbow.html I have no idea how he could even see that the moonbow was there in order to take the photo, though maybe he'd been out in the dark for a long time and knew what to look for. (Also it's pretty cool to realize that the night sky is also blue, it's just so dark you don't see it!)

Optics and astronomy are awesome.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:10 am

Wow, you're a plethora of info Fluff. That's pretty interesting. I'll consult with you for accuracies the next time I write about space related stuff.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:18 am

I would have to say that Sven's was the most reasoned response.

LMNOP · Post by **LMNOP** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:49 am

We got your moonbow right here. They've also got your moonbow at Victoria Falls but that's less convenient.

The missus and I spent a long weekend down there back in 2005. Pretty nice park for any of you here in the heartland if you're into hiking and semi-predictable unusual water phenomena.

[edit: my fingers can't spell "predictable"]

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 6:51 am

Haven't decided if I'm in or not, but if I am, here's the idea for my lyrics: "gray rainbow" is a woman who is the right age to have been the subject of the Stones "She's a Rainbow", who is now old and gray.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:42 am

Very cool, fluffy!

This is the best title we've had in a while.
-bill

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:17 am

By the way, I love the time frame of this weeks fight. I can get the mass of it done over the weekend and tweak it all week. I can't guarantee a great song, but I can bet my production will be pretty good.

MC Eric B · Post by **MC Eric B** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:33 pm

Me and my new Casio keyboard are in. But, I have not figured out a good way yet to use it to generate hip-hop beats, so for now I have to write more traditional songs. Problem is I suck at singing. But, hopefully with practice I will get better.

- MC Eric B

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:49 pm

Eric, I'm sure you can do basic beats, right? Listen to Masterhyde. He never gets crazy with his beats, but pulls off great tunes.
You should start a thread in the help and how to's and I'll kick in some advice, or just PM me. List the equipment you're recording on, etc.