A few things for you, our best boyfriends and girlfriends:

1) We’re still recording!  And “BCF the Webcomic” is languishing.  I’ll make more someday, but not too soon - shit is busy, people.  I’m doing some music for an upcoming Killing My Lobster show, for an upcoming KML short, and… shit, for lots of random things, and yet the damn number of hours in the day remains stubbornly constant.  Which means I have to spend some time in my time experiments, attempting to slow down time.  Of course I am wildly successful, but those experiments are filling up all that extra time.  Ah, the bitter, bitter irony.  But we are making recording progress, so that’s super god damn spanking awesome.  With fishy parts on top.  Mmm.

2) UNRELATEDLY, the following is AWESOMENESS that YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT:

Have you heard about Komar & Melamid?  They have done excellent work.  I bought their album “People’s Choice Music” some many years ago, and it contains 2 songs.  They did “research” and “discovered” the characteristics of songs that people do & don’t like.  And created 2 songs - a “good” one and a “bad” one - that followed those rules set out by the results of their research.  And it’s… “awesome.”  Both songs are awful, awful, awful songs.  And so very wonderful.

You can read all about it on their webpage, but some “most wanted” characteristics (which will make their song be “unavoidably and uncontrollably liked by 72 ± 12% of listeners) include:

• moderately sized group of instruments consisting of guitar, piano, sax, bass, drums, violin, cello, synth;
• male & female voices singing in rock/r&b style;
• lyrics narrate a love story;
• moderate duration (about 5 minutes);
• moderate pitch range;
• moderate tempo.

Delicious.  Of course this song has to be wonderful.

And of course the “most unwanted” music:

• over 25 minutes long;
• veers wildly between loud & quiet sections & fast & slow tempos;
• features timbres of extremely high & low pitch;
• large orchestra, including accordion, bagpipe, banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synth;
• operatic soprano raps & sings atonal music, ad jingles, political slogans & elevator music;
• children sings jingles & holiday songs (NOTE: I can’t stress enough how wonderful this aspect of the song makes the song.  It’s… it’s so, so glorious…)
• subject matter: cowboys and holidays.

Wonderful, wonderful.  The Most Unwanted Music… I can’t even do it justice.  It’s a masterpiece.  It’s… well, yes, it is awful.  But it’s not the kind of awful that you don’t want to hear.  It’s the kind of awful you want to hear again and again.  In a 25 minute song kind of way.  And no one could ever really love the Most Wanted one.  Or if you do, well… you should probably flog yourself.  In a non-sexy way.  Just to do it.  While listening to the song.  And eating god damn grapefruit or something; I don’t know.  What’s your problem?  How can you like that one more?  I don’t get you sometime.  Some days, I think you were adopted.  Mom and dad were right to kick you out.

Anyway… so, can you hear these two abominations for yourself?  But of course you can!

Here they are streamed:

Streaming the “Most Unwanted Music” (that’s the one you wanted to hear anyway, you dirty thing you):

And the “Most Wanted Music”:

And hey download and enjoy.  But they probably could also use the money!

• Download The Most Unwanted Song
• Download The Most Wanted Song

They also did research to find the most/least wanted paintings for a variety of countries, but we can discuss those later…

Peace beyond belief… & do all your shopping… at Walmart!

David & such

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