Comments on: Mathowie's Community Blog

Mathowie's Community Blog

cortex — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:40:04 -0800

This song is called mathowie's community blog, and it's about mathowie, and the community blog, but mathowie's community blog is not the name of the community blog, that's just the name of the song. - lyrical brilliance by It's Raining Florence Henderson, with extra bits of artistic license taken in the studio. - Arlo-esque lead vocals by French Fry, aka Alex Millard, aka my brother.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:42:30 -0800

37 seperate takes comprise the final lead vocal mixdown. I played that whole goddam 22 minute guitar part in one take, and just left the fuckups in.

By: French Fry

French Fry — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:44:49 -0800

Sweet Mercy Our Sound Baby Is Born!

And it's all sticky

By: gsteff

gsteff — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:48:05 -0800

Christ on a popsicle stick. You're a machine. Excellent.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:49:58 -0800

Holy hell! This thing clocks in at almost 22 minutes. I'm at work and can't listen to it yet (my co-workers would be bemused, if not annoyed) but damn cortex... you deserve some kind of award or something for pure dedication to keeping us MeFites happy/amused/distracted. Kudos!

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:50:05 -0800

Well, French Fry was the poor sumbitch who had to sing/say it, and listen to me yelling "cut" every two minutes. I just plied him with water and whiskey until he spit the whole thing out.

By: French Fry

French Fry — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:54:46 -0800

I just plied him with water and whiskey

AND HOW!

By: adrian_h

adrian_h — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:59:19 -0800

Man, the Arlo impersonation is dead-on. Nicely done!

By: stefanie

stefanie — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:01:33 -0800

Awesome... just awesome.

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:01:39 -0800

This is very nice, thanks.

By: False Dichotomy

False Dichotomy — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:21:14 -0800

Well done - Thank you both! The "Photoshop... Tee Em" bit brought tears to my eyes.

By: cholly

cholly — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:23:06 -0800

Thats great, dude. Serious kudos.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:28:08 -0800

Very, very cool. Pony request? Can somebody whip up a piece of cover art for the iTunes crowd?

By: amery

amery — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:36:57 -0800

Ok, "jiff"? Nerd war!

No, seriously, this is great.

By: b33j

b33j — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:39:23 -0800

I was so hoping this would happen. It's a beautiful thing. Thank you, all of you.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:10:10 -0800

Magnifique! Give that man another bottle of Scotch. And don't water it this time.

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:16:20 -0800

Majestic! I really liked the post, and didn't realize until now that the "-IRFL" in the sig stood for "It's Raining Florence Henderson."

Well done, both of you.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:09:29 -0800

And don't water it this time.

Oh, give us some credit! Separate glasses, sir.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:13:41 -0800

Seven shades of awesome.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:20:57 -0800

We know cortex is married, but is brother French Fry available for sexing up?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:31:37 -0800

Sweet mother of God.

By: senor biggles

senor biggles — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:38:09 -0800

Nicely executed.

By: RichardP

RichardP — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:02:09 -0800

cgc373: Can somebody whip up a piece of cover art for the iTunes crowd?

I'm no graphic artist, but for what its worth, here's my humble effort:

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:50:31 -0800

awesome!

By: kalimac

kalimac — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:01:57 -0800

holy jesus.

I bow before you all.

By: Hobgoblin

Hobgoblin — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:43:34 -0800

Here at Dialupville, I am going out to haul brush while my phone line grudgingly allows me to download this over the next hour and 45 min. Can't wait to hear it!

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:44:51 -0800

"We're not worthy!"

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:12:50 -0800

Fantastic. This is just great!

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:21:25 -0800

RichardP is on the job! Thanks, everybody!

By: furtive

furtive — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:28:37 -0800

Awesome!

By: occhiblu

occhiblu — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:10:24 -0800

A truly beautiful team effort. Kudos to all!

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:07:59 -0800

remarkable

By: BrodieShadeTree

BrodieShadeTree — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:38:24 -0800

HORRIFYING! and by horrifying I mean totally awesome.

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:53:22 -0800

Wow. Just, well, wow.

By: garypratt

garypratt — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:22:42 -0800

As a 35-year Arlo fan, I am blown away - absolutely amazing!!!

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:36:59 -0800

There.... there are no words. *brushes tear*

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:52:21 -0800

Aw, dood, you left out the Coulter joke (I guess it wouldn't really translate) and "this treason-- it vibrates?" but small and niggling criticisms. This is beyond awesome. I will have ten thousand of your babies.

By: ktrey

ktrey — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:02:36 -0800

Absolutely Amazing! Muchos Kudos!

By: jeversol

jeversol — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:10:41 -0800

*standing ovation*

By: lelilo

lelilo — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:12:57 -0800

Definitely Best of the Web ("at mathowie's community blog"). The original was wonderful enough, and now the recorded version (plus the album cover) make things even better. Congratulations to all involved.

May you be wired much funds (from Nigeria and elsewhere).

By: casarkos

casarkos — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:27:21 -0800

^_^ \m/

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:20:11 -0800

I have no idea who Arlo is, but this is fucking fantastic.

By: buriednexttoyou

buriednexttoyou — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:37:38 -0800

Inspired and brilliant! Kudos!

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:02:24 -0800

BRAVO! BRAVISSIMO!! BRA-FREAKIN-VO!!!
This MetaMegaMagnumOpusVegeMin is the absolute
Bestest.
Of.
The.
Web.
Evar!!!11!!@@@22@@

By: kindall

kindall — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:16:28 -0800

I have no idea who Arlo is

Better not let the baby Jesus hear that. You'll make Him cry.

A dead-on impersonation.

By: mookieproof

mookieproof — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:20:29 -0800

wow.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:10:02 -0800

Would you call this "MetaFilker"?

By: F Mackenzie

F Mackenzie — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:21:55 -0800

I don't want you going to hell happy

Thank you IRFH, thank you cortex.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:25:48 -0800

It's scenarios like this that make me lament the fact I play music for a living and have no time to do it for fun.

Though I suppose that drunken crowds and willing women ten years my junior does qualify as fun, I suppose.

By: booksherpa

booksherpa — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:42:22 -0800

I believe in the concept of reincarnation, because I believe I *WILL* have a life where I possess actual musical talent. It clearly ain't this one.

Now I remember why I value it so highly. Thanks to all involved.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:49:27 -0800

awesome.

By: Colloquial Collision

Colloquial Collision — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:38:29 -0800

Stunning.

By: dame

dame — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:44:33 -0800

Thanks all.

By: Shave

Shave — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:45:14 -0800

BOTW - Yee-haa!

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:45:54 -0800

!!!!

By: MythMaker

MythMaker — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:34:52 -0800

This is amazing! Congrats!

By: WCityMike

WCityMike — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:53:44 -0800

So who'd you recruit for the concluding chorus?

And, need it be said a trillionth time, holy cripes. MeFi filk ...

By: Terminal Verbosity

Terminal Verbosity — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:21:08 -0800

It's over (all 22 minutes of it -- sweet jeebus) and I'm still grinning. Fantastic. Nice job, all.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:00:41 -0800

So who'd you recruit for the concluding chorus?

My wife and French Fry's girlfriend. Anyone else would have thought we were nuts!

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:01:04 -0800

</i>...

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:28:44 -0800

I love the way he says "d00d". Awesome.

By: Kudos

Kudos — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:46:28 -0800

I've been looking at metafilter several times a week for almost three years now. This is why i paid my $5.

By: cmyk

cmyk — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:55:36 -0800

... I love you guys.

By: tidecat

tidecat — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:31:49 -0800

Thank you, metafilter! You all restore my faith in humanity.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:16:32 -0800

Quite awesome.

(also, is it just me, or does Cortex's brother sound kinda like Cleveland from Family Guy?)

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 09:22:20 -0800

Sourwookie, whether or not cortex is a professional musician, and I think he is, there's professional musicians doing stuff like this, just as there are professional writers writing stuff for fun. You don't think you have the time. That's fine. Other people do.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:39:09 -0800

Hoof, ease up, EB. I don't think sourwookie meant anything negative, and there's nothing that odd about the notion of not having the time/energy/will to do something recreationally when you're already doing it as work. It's not a universal, of course, but it's more than plausible. It's all good.

(And I'm not a professional musician, in a meaningful sense—maybe once I make some money, though.)

By: ryran

ryran — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:05:00 -0800

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who had no idea about the whole Arlo thing... this is still damn impressive though guys. Rock on.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:38:06 -0800

Among the listeners, I have to say I am most impressed by the endurance of those of you who have no context for Arlo or Alice's Restaurant. What an exceedingly mysterious exercise this thing must have seemed to you on first listen.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:27:51 -0800

Indeed. Now i have to find out who this Arlo is :)

By: danb

danb — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:32:33 -0800

Genre: Arlocore.

Haha.

By: tdismukes

tdismukes — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:24:57 -0800

Amazing work.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:59:48 -0800

The "group W chatroom". The small touches like this make it great.

This might be the best parody I've heard in a long time. I just opened it, let it play and browsed MeTa, amused as hell.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:38:02 -0800

This is freaking genius. Dead on Arlo, gang. Hysterical.

By: 29

29 — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:43:47 -0800

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:05:38 -0800

There's a fascinating +favorite feedback loop on this tune; it just never dies. I'm not sure whether to be delighted or embarassed.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:10:10 -0800

Delighted.

By: French Fry

French Fry — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:47:05 -0800

De-Barassed?

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:13:31 -0800

You mean be-pantsed?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:55:49 -0800

Disunenchanted, to be sure.

By: RussHy

RussHy — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:38:11 -0800

I don't know what to say. Best of the Web? No, this is the Best of the Best of the Web.

By: dg

dg — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:05:13 -0800

[this is good]

By: DMan

DMan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:34:46 -0800

[this is still good]

By: cashman

cashman — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:53:34 -0800

Latest late pass ever, but man that was just nuts! the part about a digital taint, or something to that affect, got me.