Buckets and Big Ideas

This is a song from my 1993 release, The Big Off, redone with vocals only for this month's MeFiMu Challenge. El cheapo pitch shifter in effect. Video at YouTube or Vimeo.

Recorded and mixed on the afternoon of November 20, 2010. Video recorded in the evening of November 20, 2010. All in a day's work!

BUCKETS AND BIG IDEAS

like a horse to the water you can lead me to it
but if i don't wanna drink you can't make me do it
down at the combination slaughterhouse and restaurant
five'll get you twenty but a ten'll get you what you want
get you what you want
get you what you want
get you what you want

mean enough to fight a circle sawmill
with a tongue like a bell clapper chewing up an ant hill
pocket fulla nothing to take
he shake your hand like he was clubbing a snake

i don't wanna kill two birds with one stone
i don't wanna kill one bird with two stones
i don't wanna kill no bird with no stone
gonna take my bucket and my big ideas
and go home
and go home
and go home

down at the combination golf course and cemetery
life is fulla blisters and it ain't no bowl of strawberries
buck tooth and ugly as a mud fence
just up and fell out without a half a penny spent
a half a penny spent
a half a penny spent

a real fence lifter i can tell you true
but ugly as a skunk cabbage what can you do
half again as much as what you never had
you got the gimme gimmes
yeah you got em pretty bad

i don't wanna kill two birds with one stone
i don't wanna kill one bird with two stones
i don't wanna kill no bird with no stone
gonna take my bucket and my big ideas
and go home
and go home
and go home

copyright P & C Samm Bennett - all rights reserved

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posted by flapjax at midnite (7 comments total)

Damn, flapjax. This is how it's done. It's perfect.

And what did you use to do the video effect?
posted by micayetoca at 6:13 AM on November 21, 2010

Well, man, you've got this brother smilin'! I love this song and especially the lyrics. They are so full of awesome imagery, it's just a blast to listen to.

And the video? Wow, that's definitely one of the coolest things I've seen. Sure, it may not be that super high-tech, but that image (looks like animated ink drawn portrait) of you is iconic! I don't know if you want your face all over the place, but that would make for an awesome t-shirt! (I'd buy 'em.)

Also, must know...what kind of hat are you wearing? So, aweswome!
posted by snsranch at 4:02 PM on November 21, 2010

Thanks so much, mica and sns, for your comments.

mica, I use iMovie, and to arrive at this result I had to go through about 4 processing steps: an effect called edges, then negative, then contrast and, IIRC, gamma. I just fool around until I get something... trial and error.

sns, t-shirts? Yeah, that'd be crazy! And the hat is... a... basket. Yup, not an actual piece of headgear, but, in fact, a basket.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:28 PM on November 21, 2010

Ha, for a basket, it sure looks great. I thought it was a triple decker kufi!
posted by snsranch at 8:32 AM on November 23, 2010

This is a song that a bunch of robots sing while jumping double dutch in a cartoon.
posted by umbú at 11:29 AM on November 23, 2010 [1 favorite]

Do they speak double dutch to a real double dutchess?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:51 AM on November 24, 2010

Do they speak double dutch to a real double dutchess?

Dunno about that Flapjax, all I know is that New Amsterdam....it's become much too much....

Nice one, btw.
posted by MajorDundee at 2:43 PM on November 24, 2010