Friday Friday FUN FUN FUN

So I hope everyone had a wonderful week last week. Probably looking at the news though, you didn't. There was devastating tsunamis in Japan, war is erupting in Libya, and now that I get back to RPI and the internet, I was introduced to this...

Oh my god.


For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of seeing this great piece of pop culture should go ahead and take a look see now, as for the rest of this post I will be taking an in depth look at the lyrics and the meaning behind the song and the video.


Ok, you watched it, what'd you think? 


Yeah, I thought so.




So here we go:


So the song opens up with a sweeping electronic drone, it already sounds poppy, so I think we can guess what to expect.

Alright so heres this calendar flipping through the pages until we get to the titular "Friday" also Black drops her first well crafted line:

(Yeah, Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ark)

Oo-ooh-ooh, hoo yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Yeah-ah-ah

Yeah-ah-ah

Yeah-ah-ah

Yeah-ah-ah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Very original, very moving. If the rest of the song has a much ground breaking stuff like this it'll be sure to be a hit.

Also who chose using the video effect that makes her look like the demon possessed girl at the end of Paranormal Activity? Gah. 

Alright! 7:00 am and were waking up for school, lets see what she has to say about this.

7am, waking up in the morning

Ooooooooook. Well see thats not really singing that just commenting on what you're doing, lets see how she puts her lyrical spin on it. 

Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs

Well that doesn't rhyme...  but still, she just woke up lets give the girl a chance to redeem herself. ALSO, how does "Going downstairs"  make you fresh? I know when I get up and stumble down the stairs it sure doesn't make me magically "fresh"

Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal

Seein’ everything, the time is goin’

Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’

Alright now I'm getting suspicious, those are just things you see, they are not real lyrics or even singing. She's just saying things autotuned and put to a beat. And also, we see those things too! I see in the video everyone is "rushin" don't tell me I already saw that, you're the one with your back turned dummy. CONTINUING ON!

Gotta get down to the bus stop 

Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends) 

Does she have ADD? She can't even describe to me all of her bus stop hijinks before getting completely thrown off kilter by her friends. Another question, her friends can drive? She is thirteen, and all of her friends look like a bunch of eleven year olds pulled right out of a GAP commercial How they are legally licensed to drive I will never know. 

Kickin' in the front seat 

Sittin' in the back seat 

Gotta make my mind up 

Which seat can I take? 

WHAT!? You are confused about what seat to take!? She probably just arbitrarily picked which BOWL she just had to have, just pick a damn seat. Also I can see that the front is full of pre-pubescent five year olds so I suggest hopping in back. How hard is this decision that it requires four lines of lyrics to describe. Thank god she didn't get on the bus I think her head would have exploded with all the choices. 


Now here we go here's the big hook, the chorus. 

It's Friday, Friday 

Gotta get down on Friday 

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend 

Friday, Friday 

Gettin' down on Friday 

Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend 

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah) 

Partyin', partyin' (Yeah) 

Fun, fun, fun, fun 

Lookin' forward to the weekend 

Alright... In the chorus Friday is said a total of six times, partyin' is said four times, weekend is said four times and FUN FUN FUN FUN is said once. Those are some deep lyrics. I think she is alluding to Americas culture of weekend parties and hard work during the business days. She is making a statement about how many people party too hard on the weekend and this ends up becoming their only means of escape from the monotony of work. They look forward to this weekend of sex, drugs and binge drinking so much that it becomes all they work for, and in the end what started as a little bit of weekend partyin' has become a drug in itself, with many addicted college students and working adults alike. 

Or shes simply stating its Friday. 

Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday 

Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin') 

We-we-we so excited 

We so excited 

We gonna have a ball today 

Tomorrow is Saturday 

And Sunday comes after ... wards 

I don't want this weekend to end 

*Sigh*

She was just letting us know what day of the week it is. Thanks Rebecca Black, the human calendar. 

Now I would like to take a look at this child molester rapper guy.

R-B, Rebecca Black 

So chillin' in the front seat (In the front seat) 

In the back seat (In the back seat) 

I'm drivin', cruisin' (Yeah, yeah) 

Fast lanes, switchin' lanes 

Wit' a car up on my side (Woo!) 

(C'mon) Passin' by is a school bus in front of me 

Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream 

Check my time, it's Friday, it's a weekend 

We gonna have fun, c'mon, c'mon, y'all 

What the hell does this gibberish mean? I have heard Sims talk more sensical things than this crap. This guy is making more sense than this moron who phoned that rap in:

Yeah I can't understand anything hes saying and it still makes more sense than "Passin' by is a school bus in front of me Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream"  What is a rap sequence doing in the song anyway. It is obviously aimed at middle school disney channel girls who will eat this crap up like its candy. They don;t need to see some hack job Kanye West wanna be rappin about school busses passing him on the freeway. 

And in the end, what kind of coll rapper lets a school bus pass him. 

Ugh.

So there it is. My take on FRIDAY. Sorry it took so long, I'm busy. 

Well, by busy  I mean I'm 12th prestige now in Black Ops

A Look at Foo UPDATE

So I just wanted to let everyone know that there is another reason to love Dave Grohl.

Why he has played in Nine Inch Nails.

Yes Grohl did some of the drums in the album With Teeth one of the best albums ever created.

Here is one of my all time favorite NIN songs, "All the Love in the World", featuring Mr. Grohl.

you may carry on with you life now.

Ladies and Gentlemen...

I present... NINE INCH SNAILS

from Muppets Tonight. hahahaha

Covers Covers Covers

So I don't watch Glee. I would like to make that point right away, you know, just so there's no confusion. But today I saw that they did a cover of "Landslide" and that reminded me of the Smashing Pumpkins cover of the song. This led to me thinking about cover songs in general and I decided to make this list. Here are some of my favorite cover songs:

Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins covering Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks

Bad Company - Five Finger Death Punch covering Bad Company

Metal - Nine Inch Nails covering Gary Numan 

Land of Confusion - Disturbed covering Genesis

Personal Jesus - Marilyn Manson covering Depeche Mode

Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm covering Micheal Jackson

And my favorite cover would have to go to Obadiah Parker with his cover of "Hey Ya" by Outkast 

So maybe not all of these versions of the songs are better than the original, but certainly a few are. Let me know what some of your favorite cover songs are. Thats all for now.

Skateboard

So I wanted to share the new look of my skateboard that I just finished this morning. I'm pretty sure this'll be the final touches I put on it, but gotta say I think it's pretty sweet.I did everything you see on the board by myself with just some paint and a little bit of permanent marker. There you have it, hope people think its cool.

Here was step one, finished this part a while ago. used it for a while, you can see the scuff marks. 

And here is the final design, thats a small bit of purple up in the corner too.

There you have it, my skateboard.

Alien Life Found?

So there's been a lot of talk on the interwebs lately that alien life has been found. While I am skeptical because I have seen to many claims of this before, and it always seems to turn out be be weird normal earth life. Here's the link to the story, see what you think: Shocking Photo's of Alien Life!

OH GOD IT'S HIDEOUS! I hope those photos of terrifying alien life from mars aren't too shocking for our younger readers.

Wait a minute I am being told thats not the alien life everyone is talking about. Here's TIME's take on the story. A little more comprehensible than the previous story.

In other news Trent Reznor, not from mars but still a rock star, might be crafting the soundtrack for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Also Trent could have a cameo role in the film. Its a Tim Burton affair, so while I'm not the biggest fan, almost anything Trent does I am forced to support through NIN law. So with this being my first post actually talking about my favorite band Nine Inch Nails, I leave you with a song everyone should listen too. A beautiful instrumental piece from The Fragile that really conveys deep power and emotion through chilling piano and drum combinations... La Mer.

GAH IT'S BACK!

There Were Too Many D's Man... TO MANY D'S!

So Star Wars 3D has an official release date, February 10th, 2012. Episode I will lead the assault, probably with each other movie coming a year or so after. Are you excited? Am I excited? I guess. I don't know. This is good and bad. Bad because I don;t really care much for 3D movies, and it's not like Star Wars was film to be in 3D, so I bet it won't be the best quality. I am excited however to get a chance to see the movies again on the big screen, especially the original trilogy. Of course I'm sure when we do get to A New Hope I'm sure the films will be the "digitally remastered" crap that has plagued the dvd and blu-ray releases of star wars for the last decade. Never the less it will be a great chance to see the classic movies I have loved since a child on the big screen, and an excuse to get my girlfriend to see them for the first time.

Wookie Rape... not as fun as it sounds

Here's the link to the story:
http://starwars.com/movies/episode-i/3dannouncedate/index.html

Banhammer

So I would like to have a serious discussion for a minute about banning. Banning is the act of getting temporarily or permanently suspended from playing an online videogame. The game I would like to talk about is Call of Duty: Black Ops. Now in Modern Warfare 2 cheating and modding was rampant. I can't count how many games I got into with constant chopper gunners and never ending nuke countdowns. In MW2 I sure hope a lot of people got banned. Now in Blops, I never have seen a modder, and as far as I know it is impossible, but still people get banned due to boosting. Boosting is where you artificially inflate your rank and experience, usually by playing a game filled with idle players. Now I understand bans and rank resets on people who boost, but I think Treyarch must be careful when drawing the line between players boosting, and exploiting THEIR mistakes or inadequacies. The Flowing tweets are between some random twitter user, and Josh Olin, a developer at Treyarch. 

(Tweeter): @JD_2020 http://www.youtube.com/embed/jTqRJsUo9Oc I call shenanigans

JD_2020: @(Tweeter) They all got temporarily banned, and rank reset. That's a form of boosting, so be sure not to do it. 

The video in question

Now if you watch the video it shows players going 501-8, by spawn trapping the enemy team, constantly over and over. I can't say that the teams weren't working together, or that the entire video is all legit gameplay, but from the info I see, there is no modding, cheating or hacking. So why did these players get their rank reset, and get a temporary ban? It seems like the enemy team was just dumb, and obviously shouldn't have stayed in the game, and the players got lucky with that. Some of the team does quit, and brings more legitimacy to the video. So the real question is... is this cheating or is this Treyarch sloppily covering up their overlooks of how spawning works in Blops? Now I can't say for sure it would be easy to make a better spawn system, but I know in Halo there are spawn areas, where players will randomly spawn based on enemy proximity and the current situation. My friends and i investigated the spawns, and it seems like there are only about five spots enemies can spawn in Havana. With six teamates you could easily pull this off as long as you get a team of dummies who don't quit out when they should. I believe that the players did nothing against the rules here, and although  maybe it wasn't the most ethical way to play, they committed no crimes and are not deserving of the reset. The are exploiting the poor spawn system in the game, and Treyarch are suimply trying to make it go away with the simple answer, bans, instead of the better solution, better post game support and patching.