Baiting TIA

[illusionofjoy]

masochistmonkey's apartment is fucking freezing! I do not know how this man does not sleep without blankets. Maybe he just hides the blankets when company comes over, so as to perpetuate the myth that he has superhuman powers. In any case, it's cold enough that my shaking hands are making it difficult to type, which means that any more keyboard playing is out of the question. When I get back to my place, I'm cranking the heat up to 80 and piling another blanket on my bed!

On the up side (regarding keyboard playing), I completed a one-minute instrumental interlude today. I can't really call it a song as such, being that it's lacking in a melody and whatever else technically makes something a song (bugger looking it up right now, my dictionary is in my apartment...which is probably really warm right now). The only vocals on the track are by George W. Bush. Yeah, you read correctly: I got George W. Bush to do some spoken-word for a track on Division. Of course, he doesn't know he's doing it...

The story goes like this: I'm wondering how to make the track more necessary to the album's theme, being that this is an intro to a major-ass protest song. Instrumental interludes are nice and all, but I speak much better through lyrics than I ever could through music alone (unless I choose to dwell in the realm of nebulous emotion). In any case, I think, "hmm...what if I download some of George W. Bush's speeches from the internet and splice them at the end of this song before the protest song starts?" I take the idea and run to the internet with it.

The resulting soundbyte is much better than I had hoped for. I managed to find a site that featured all sorts of snippets of Bush's voice. This allowed me to effectively make the man say whatever the hell I wanted. Thus, I have the "president" of the United States making a statement that war with Iraq was a bad idea. Brilliant, even if I do say so myself.

And yes, I did pan the voice hard left, just to be that much more of a prick.