A Baseball Honeymoon on Ellis Island & A Prefight

Post by **Spud** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:00 pm

C: A&A
M: Honeymoon in Polynesia
Y: Ellis Island
K: Baseball Vs. Opera
Due: Monday 04/25/05 9:59am pst
optional challenge:
K only: Do not make fun of opera

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:14 pm

I'm not sure if I can resist Ellis Isle.

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:15 pm

I don't think I have time to write my own song this week, but I'm a trained opera singer (sadly out of practice...) and I've got a symphonic sample library, if anyone wants to take advantage of it.

Lonbobby · Post by **Lonbobby** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:28 pm

A is for apple! I'm in for "A&A."

Lon

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:31 pm

Tonamel wrote:I don't think I have time to write my own song this week, but I'm a trained opera singer (sadly out of practice...) and I've got a symphonic sample library, if anyone wants to take advantage of it.

But are ya single? I mean...I'm generally in the market for vocals, and your style (from the above description, mind you) fits. What songs have you sang on?

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:07 am

The Sober Irishman wrote:I'm not sure if I can resist Ellis Isle.

Actually, it's spelt Ellice Is. (plural, not singular) - though it's now known as Tuvalu, it's major industry being the sale of .tv domain names - it is part of Polynesia though - nice link in the titles.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:16 am

Caravan Ray wrote: Actually, it's spelt Ellice Is. (plural, not singular) - though it's now known as Tuvalu, it's major industry being the sale of .tv domain names - it is part of Polynesia though - nice link in the titles.

Though I'm sure it would have been nice to arrive in the U.S. via a polynesian island, I think Deep Throat means the Ellis Island in New York Harbour, next to the Statue of Liberty... Unless it's moved, or he doesn't.

http://www.ellisisland.com

Kapitano · Post by **Kapitano** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:26 am

Kamakura wrote: the Ellis Island in New York Harbour, next to the Statue of Liberty...

So are you planning to be in it next week?

Not the harbour, obviously. I mean the statue.

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:08 pm

We will phunt you the following this week:

<a href="http://www.oxen.com/">A & A</a>

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:35 am

Lord save us all from a honeymoon in polynesia...

pegor · Post by **pegor** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:16 pm

I complained about no lyrics and somehow got chest poked hard enough to do an instrumental side fight. Its frigin' mind control I tell ya. It's that jedi hand wave thing - its just wrong! Its evil freewill stealing brain washing bullpucky, Father bingo is beelzabub with a backbeat. Can I back out now and have it look like rightous indignation?

Father Bingo · Post by **Father Bingo** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:40 am

pegor wrote:I complained about no lyrics and somehow got chest poked hard enough to do an instrumental side fight. Its frigin' mind control I tell ya. It's that jedi hand wave thing - its just wrong! Its evil freewill stealing brain washing bullpucky, Father bingo is beelzabub with a backbeat. Can I back out now and have it look like rightous indignation?

Yeah, I laid out the ground work for my "Ellis Island" last night. And man, you're going doooown! Snap into a Slim Jim! Grr!

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:56 pm

roymond wrote:
Tonamel wrote:I don't think I have time to write my own song this week, but I'm a trained opera singer (sadly out of practice...) and I've got a symphonic sample library, if anyone wants to take advantage of it.
But are ya single? I mean...I'm generally in the market for vocals, and your style (from the above description, mind you) fits. What songs have you sang on?

Bah. My ISP died right after my post. I'm guessing there's no time left for this week's fight, but just for future reference: I like to think I can sing!

Mind you, that's pretty quick'n'dirty (no warm up, or anything), but it should give you an idea of my voice.

Father Bingo · Post by **Father Bingo** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:13 am

Does anyone have any recordings of marching band drum lines? I need about 8 bars worth for this week's song.

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:01 am

Father Bingo wrote:Does anyone have any recordings of marching band drum lines? I need about 8 bars worth for this week's song.

<a href="http://www.altavista.com/audio/">http:/ ... /audio/</a>

Audio search tool. Type in marching band drum line and you're sure to find something.

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:18 am

Post by **Spud** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:40 am

Father Bingo wrote:Does anyone have any recordings of marching band drum lines? I need about 8 bars worth for this week's song.

When you search, look for "cadences". I used to be a drum major.

Kapitano · Post by **Kapitano** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:15 am

Denyer wrote:<Picture of a man examining the stuff on his hand>

pegor · Post by **pegor** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:37 am

Father Bingo wrote:Does anyone have any recordings of marching band drum lines? I need about 8 bars worth for this week's song.

NO LYRICS AND ROBO DRUMs ... whata scam! Howz about - Does anyone have 12 3/4 bars of a mandolin charted with a drop D guitar and a flute playing a dorion riff with variations on yata yata...... it's cheating Im outraged! (and at this rate I'm never gonna get this beast born)

LMNOP · Post by **LMNOP** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:46 am

Spud wrote:I used to be a drum major.

Man, what a dork.

I mean, er, hey, me too!

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:48 am

Spud wrote:
Father Bingo wrote:Does anyone have any recordings of marching band drum lines? I need about 8 bars worth for this week's song.
When you search, look for "cadences". I used to be a drum major.

Adding "drum corps" to the search might help weed out some of the unwanted hits, too.

Sure beats lurking the high schools in your area with an audio recorder and one of those furry covered field mikes, heh.

Spud: Awesome. And I'm not surprised at all. Add me to the (growing) list of drum majors on this site

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:10 pm

What's a drum major?

Seriously. This term is kinda foreign to me. Does that just mean that you played drums in a school marching band? Or does it mean that it was at the college level? And is this specific to marching music, or drums in general?

(I'm trying to determine if going to jazz school as a drummer qualifies me for the club... or am I left staring up at the ladder with a pitcher of kool-aid yelling "c'mon guys. Let me up. C'mon).