Song 135 - "Hedonol"

Here is a preview of things to come: I'm going to write a suite of miniature fixed media works for which artist Matt DeFord (art department coordinator, Northwestern State University of Louisiana) will be creating videos.  Each work will be based on a word randomly selected from the dictionary and will be a loop of a maximum of six seconds in duration.  Here is the first piece (with just the definition shown, video will come later).  This is best heard in stereo headphones (or other good stereo sound setup), as you will miss things if you don't hear it in stereo.

Song 134 - "All of Me Loves All Star Trek"

This is a parody of "All of Me" by John Legend called "All of Me Loves All Star Trek."  I did my best to emulate as precisely as possible the sound of the original recording.  I began by transcribing the piano part as exactly as I could hear it.  I recorded the piano part and cut out the highs and lows in the EQ for the first four measures to make it sound more tinny. I then added the light pad sound in the second half of the song.  After recording the main vocal, I recorded vocal harmonies for the last two choruses and set a delay effect on the them twenty times over to get the robotic voice effect.  Then I copied the higher voice and doubled it up an octave electronically.
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Lyrics:
What would I do without my Star Trek?
TV today is such a train wreck.
You've got me binge viewing,
Reviewing each show on my blog.
The best way to watch them is up for debate.
Original order or by the stardate?
And every different series has strange fan theories,
Believe them or not.

I argue on forums what's canon or not.
Minutae I give way too much thought.

'Cause all of me loves all Star Trek
Over interstellar distance
Through your three of five year missions.
I've purchased all your shows.
I give you all my dough.
And I bought the movies also
Although every other one is awful.
'Cause I'm a trekkie or a trekker.
Call me whichever one you prefer, oh oh.

How many times do I have to tell you?
I even love Voyager and Enterprise, too.
The Animated Series is sort of dreary,
But I guess it's okay.
It's an addiction that I abuse.
My worst distraction, my Andorian blues.
I can't stop watching and rewatching
Every single day.

I've spent several years learning to speak Klingon.
I impress my friends at Scificon.

'Cause all of me loves all Star Trek.
I buy all your action figures,
All your collector's cards and stickers.
Just keep producing stuff,
'Cause I can't get enough.
And I own several types of tricorders,
And my room looks like Enterprise quarters.
'Cause I give you all my cash
To buy your souvenir trash, oh oh.
Give me all your trash.

Cards on the table, we're playing Fizzbin.
Changing the rules, I can't win.

'Cause all of me loves all Star Trek
Over interstellar distance
Through your three of five year missions.
I've purchased all your shows.
I give you all my dough.
And I bought the movies also
Although every other one is awful.
'Cause I'm a trekkie or a trekker.
Call me whichever one you prefer.
'Cause I'm a trekkie or a trekker.
Call me whichever one you prefer, oh oh.

Song 133 - "The Laughing Vulcan and His Dog"

This is a song based on a title suggested in the Star Trek: the Next Generation episode "Disaster."

Lyrics:
V.1

  D                      A            D
I went planet Vulcan and what a sunny place

D                         A7             D
I met a Vulcan man with a smile upon his face

G               D         G              D
He had a little doggy and he was smiling too

  G               D             E7                 A7
I never knew that smiling was a thing that Vulcans do.



CHORUS:
    D6                                  G                 D6
The laughing Vulcan and his dog are the funniest sight to see.

    G                D6     Bm7           Em               A7    
I'd like to tell you why he laughs, but I don't know honestly.

D6                          G              D6
Maybe he mind-melded with a giggle box one day,

        G               D6      Bm7      Em
But the laughing Vulcan and his dog keep grinning

   A7               D6
As they go on their way.


V.2

  D                              A                 D
I know you don't believe me. You think I'm telling lies.

D                           A7              D
I'm only telling you what I saw with my own eyes.

G                    D                       G                    D
They say that dog is man's best friend, he's Vulcan's best friend too.

    G                  D           E7                A7
And some day you'll discover ev'ry word I've said is true.

CHORUS

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Song 132 - "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May"

This is my setting of Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time."  The painting is called "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May" and is by John William Waterhouse.

Text:

GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
  Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
  To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,         5
  The higher he 's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
  And nearer he 's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
  When youth and blood are warmer;  10
But being spent, the worse, and worst
  Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
  And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,  15
  You may for ever tarry.

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