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sigmaleph:

amakthel:

mehveian:

droosy:

(bake me up) bake me up a pie / (one-third cup) of flour for our pie

How can you see into my pies / Like oven doors? / Leading you down into the store / Where we buy stuff for pie

Without a pie / My spirit’s sleeping somewhere cold / Until you find it there / And give it a pie

(bake me up) / bake me up a pie / (One third cup) / Of flour for our pie / (Save me) / Set the temp and save me from no pie 

(bake me up) / Bid my pie to bake / (one third cup) / Or else my heart will brake / (Save me) / Save me from not having any pie

Now that I know what I’m without / You can’t just leave me / Feed it to me a slice of pie / Bring me a pie

(bake me up) / bake me up a pie / (one third cup) / Of flour for our pie /         (Save me) / Set the temp and save me from not having any pie 

(bake me up) / Bid my crust to flake / (one third cup) / Or else my heart will brake / (Save me) / Save me from the not having any pie

Bring me a pie / (I’ve been living a lie, there’s not any pie) / Bring me a pie

Frozen a pie without your touch / Without your love, darling / Only you, all the pie among the cake

(All of this I, I can’t believe I couldn’t see) / (Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me) / I’ve been pieless a thousand years, it seems / Got to open my eyes to all the pie

(Without a crust) / (Without a pan, without filling) / (Don’t let me die here) / (We must be baking more) / Bring me a pie

(bake me up) / bake me up a pie / (one third cup) / Of flour for our pie / (Save me) / Call my name and save me from the pieless state I’m in

(bake me up) / Bid the pie to bake / (one third cup) / Or else my heart will brake / (Save me) / Save me from this hunger for a pie

Bring me a pie / (I’ve been living a lie, there’s absence of pie) / Bring me a pie

…i should sing this

doooo iiiiit

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#food #music #(I haven’t checked whether all of this scans properly) #(the parts where I know how the tune goes do scan at least)

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drinkyourjuicerodriguez:

just because i’m curious, reblog and put in the tags what musicians your parents loved to listen to and raised you on

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#Fleetwood Mac #(*fistbumps with Llin*) #Billy Joel #some ABBA #Mom had this set of three mix CDs that she played to death #but it can’t be summed up in terms of musicians #I could probably go get them and write up the tracklists if anyone’s curious enough #music

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responsible-reanimation:

As president, my first executive order will be to make it a felony to use popular messaging programs’ notification chimes in techno songs.

I suppose that might reduce the number of incidents of mistaking music for being called (though I have never encountered your specific variation of the problem myself), but your brain would still find something to latch onto sometimes. There’s a bit in the background of a Florence and the Machine song that coincidentally resembles the sound of my mother distantly calling my name. It’s the exact right amount of distant for her being in her bedroom and me being in the living room wearing earbuds. (Guess what the most common circumstances are for me listening to that song.)

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#reply via reblog #music

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(somewhat related to this thread:)

I think I may have just figured out why I hate “The Little Drummer Boy”. (I mean, more than most Christmas songs.)

My mom’s been rewatching The West Wing lately. I was mostly drowning it out on my headphones, as there’s rather a lot of awkwardness in The West Wing for my liking, but when they started playing “The Little Drummer Boy” I didn’t think I could safely drown it out. So, I ended up watching the final bit, and I was like ‘…hang on, wait a minute’.

I asked Mom when she first started watching The West Wing.

“I think I saw this episode when it originally aired.”

The episode was set in the then-present day of Christmas 1999. I was six years old the first time I saw this episode, with several re-runs over the next few years. Tiny Brin at her most relevantly psychologically vulnerable, hearing “The Little Drummer Boy” played over a funeral. Hello, Pavlov, my old friend.

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#oh look an original post #West Wing #death tw #(the following category tags were added retroactively:) #Christmas #music

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responsible-reanimation:

queenshulamit:

batmansymbol:

batmansymbol:

welp

here it is

the final damning evidence that i have no life whatsoever

lyrics at the original post here

so uh, by popular request, mp3 now downloadable here. second from the bottom

I think @davidsevera joined tumblr too late for the period where we were all reblogging this constantly (because everyone had agreed to “always reblog”) and that’s a real shame.

Anyway, let’s bring this song back for 2016.

I forgot about this masterpiece, let’s enjoy it again.

I remembered this masterpiece, but let’s enjoy it again anyway.

(Plus, this way I won’t have to dig back in my archive as far next time I feel like listening to it.)

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#philosophy #music #death tw

Further Jewish Bus Stop Adventures

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sinesalvatorem:

Yesterday, while waiting for the bus, I listened to some music. Certain songs feel good to me in a way that makes listening to them a lot like stimming, so I’ll often play them on repeat. Yesterday I played Sheyn Vi Di Levone, as covered by Gevolt. I closed my eyes and hummed along quietly.

Or, at least, I thought I did. About 20 minutes later I was headbanging while singing loudly in Yiddish. I know this because a piece of snow fell from the top of the bus stop and landed in my hair, snapping me out of it. Then I looked around and everyone was staring.

Me: “Why are you staring?”

Guy: “We just listened to you summon demons from beyond time by screaming in a dreadful and most ancient tongue.”

Me: “Oh, shit. I was singing out loud, wasn’t I?”

Guy: “That was singing? You weren’t loudly declaring your intention to kill us all while choking on the bones of small children?”

Me: “Well, I was singing in Yiddish, so it probably sounded that way…”

Guy: “Yiddish? As in that Jewish language? So, was that a prayer to bring on the apocalypse? Cuz if so, I would appreciate five days notice to convert. What’s the name of your death chant, anyway?”

Me: “Sheyn vi di Levone.”

Guy: “Does that mean ‘vengeful rivers of blood’?”

Me: “Nah, you’re thinking of Passover. ‘Sheyn vi di Levone’ means ‘as beautiful as the moon’. It’s a love song.”

Guy: “…Dude, if that’s what your love songs are like, I understand why you only marry each other.”

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#Judaism #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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sinesalvatorem:

thebaconsandwichofregret:

weepingdildo:

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

Human Beings: These Are My People

(You can hear what the song would have sounded like here.)

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#Mars #Curiosity #proud citizen of The Future #neat #I hadn’t known about this #but I looked up the video

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sinesalvatorem:

wizardshark:

copperbadge:

dukeofbookingham:

hanadoodles:

a song called ‘disco inferno’ just came up on my dash and i automatically registered it as “i learn by means of hell” before i realised the title was actually english and not latin

“I learn by means of hell,” forthcoming rap album from Doctor Faustus

When we figured out that’s what Disco Inferno meant (we translated it as “I learn through suffering”), it became the motto of our Latin class at college, and the unofficial motto of my undergrad. 

thats so fuckin awesome

GPOY

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#language