Posted by sirblob2 on 05/09/07 05:54

On 9 mai, 07:26, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On May 9, 12:58 am, Diana <Diana_of_the_h...@excite.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On May 9, 12:28 am, George Dance <georgedanc...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> > > On May 9, 12:15 am, sirblob <sirbl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > you can dance
> > > > you can jive
> > > > having the time of your life
> > > > see that girl
> > > > watch that scene
> > > > diggin the dancing queen
>
> > > > every time i saw tv
> > > > or i read the newspaper
> > > > there were all these stories
> > > > about stevie and the raper
> > > > the zercon connection
> > > > and the peter reich case
> > > > the loonie land times
> > > > with their budget in disgrace
> > > > i asked myself
> > > > what am I to believe
> > > > when the cancer is a killer
> > > > john player wins a lead
> > > > with masters of the universe
> > > > and designer death
> > > > they all be talkin
> > > > about princess di's dress
> > > > yes, this is a very nice dress
>
> > > > when i was younger,
> > > > i knew just who to hate
> > > > from the teachers in our classroom
> > > > to the leaders of our state
> > > > i've registered to vote
> > > > this pleasant land's free
> > > > so I took the intercity
> > > > for democracy and me
> > > > i knocked at the door
> > > > but they did na let me in
> > > > so I kicked it down
> > > > and I walked right in
> > > > she was standing at the bar
> > > > while healy cut his truss
> > > > question time, make it work
>
> > > > dancing queen
> > > > queen
> > > > dancing queen
> > > > oh yeah
> > > > you can jive
> > > > see that girl
> > > > dancing queen
>
> > > > i just want to know
> > > > who's in control
> > > > is it you or god
> > > > or the bloke down the dole
> > > > her answers were shate
> > > > but I dinna give up
> > > > so I went to the law
> > > > but it dint even wake up
> > > > so I went to the palace
> > > > that good queen bess
> > > > she asked me to dance
> > > > said she'd like a rest
> > > > boy d'll be king
> > > > "i'd love to get the throne"
> > > > here's the keys to the castle
> > > > your in control
>
> > > > dancing queen
> > > > proud and sweet
> > > > only seventeen
> > > > "wot about charles?"
> > > > "i like charles"
> > > > dancing queen
> > > > feel the beats on the tabourine
> > > > oh, yeah!
> > > > "rock, I've got the kingdom"
> > > > having the time of her life
> > > > "you want a ?"
> > > > "what you talking about, do i get to go home first?"
> > > > "? me an rock"
> > > > "i want a lot of money"
> > > > ?
> > > > "have you ever met abba?"
> > > > "I'd love to meet abba"
> > > > "they used to be one of my favorite groups"
>
> > > > god save the queen!
>
> > > > You can da
> > > > you can ji
> > > > having the time of her life
> > > > see that girl
> > > > dancing queen
>
> > > > god save the queen, yeah, just destroy!!!
>
> > > > fuck that! Let's listen to the jams!
>
> > > Yes!! Can't say I like all (or even most) of it, but the concept, and
> > > the blending of the song lyrics with your own material (least I think
> > > that part is yurs?) is dead on. (Even if you wrote none of it, it's
> > > still an original creation in the way you've put it all together.)
>
> > > This is exactly the way to use others' material to create something
> > > new. It reminded me of an artist I read about in a novel this week,
> > > who painted reproductons of the old masters, chopped them up with an
> > > axe, and glued the pieces back together in new ways.
>
> > > Could be you've found your niche/groove.
>
> > "The JAMs' primary instrument was the digital sampler with which they
> > would plagiarise the history of popular music, cutting chunks from
> > existing works and pasting them into new contexts, underpinned by
> > rudimentary beatbox rhythms and overlayed with Drummond's raps, of
> > social commentary, esoteric metaphors and mockery."
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF-
>
> Well, I can't laugh at anyone else being taken in by sirblob anymore,
> now that he (or she) has caught me, too.
>
> At least sirblob admitted it. And also explained why he's doing it -
> for copyleft purposes.


i do no such thing. i just do it cuz why not. and who says im doing
it; all my poetry is mine. do not dare hermeneut me or ill sludge you.


Though it's not the copyright violations that
> really bother me, but the plagiarism - the lack of any originality, of
> any sense of him (or her), in the work.
>
> One quote from that wiki article sounds like me, a half hour or so
> ago, when I first read this piece: "It's hard to understand what it
> feels like to come across something you believe to be totally new."
> And then to find out it isn't new at all ... bummer.

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