(I unfortunately later lost
letsbombiran.com 'cause I was never sent an email telling me it
expired.
Someone took all of my
images, words, mp3s and videos, put a bunch of google ads
up,
and is making a killing. The
American Way. ;-)
11:04 AM, Tuesday
March 7th, 2006:
Well I was gonna
wait to even make this public until the cartoon was
finished, but Pat just let me know it would be close
to 3 months before he could even start. So… I
started the prep to do it all by myself. Then of
course the prep turned into "trying something" and
before I knew it the weekend was over. Whew. I could
half-ass it really easy, but I believe the standard
needs to be so much higher for me to get any exposure
out of it. So I'm gonna labor over this puppy like it
were a Trinitrons Show and do everything in my ability
to make it look every bit as good as Jib-Jab's
political cartoons.
With that being
said, I'm gonna make this a two to three parter as I
piece together the video over the next several months.
This will take a looooooooong time. First off I
actually got the domain name
LetsBombIran.com.
Hells yes. When you go there, you see the
following:
Ed. 12/27/07 -
I unfortunately later lost letsbombiran.com 'cause I
was never sent an email telling me it expired. Someone
took all of my images, words, mp3s and videos, put a
bunch of google ads up, and is making a killing. The
American Way. So don't go there damnit. Bastard.
:-)
(click the title for the mp3
- cartoon coming soon, sneak peek here)
Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb
Bomb Iran,
Bomb Bomb Bomb,
Bomb... Let's Bomb
Iran!
Let's take a stand and
Bomb Iran!
They're Evil-doers yes
it's true, there's nothin' left to do,
But Bomb Iran, Bomb
Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!
Went to Iraq, caught
lotsa flack,
No turnin' back so
while we're there let's just attack,
And Bomb Iran! Bomb
Bomb, Bomb... Let's Bomb
Iran!
They're a threat to me
and you, there's nothin' left to do,
But Bomb Iran, Bomb
Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!
Troops will have to
see, a tour of duty 3,
They may get the shaft
and you know we'll have to draft,
To Bomb Iran! Bomb
Bomb, Bomb... Let's Bomb
Iran!
They got the nukes you
know it's true, there's nothin' left to do,
But Bomb Iran, Bomb
Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!
Bombed Afghanistan,
but gave up the Taliban,
Hey at least this
rhymes with "stan" and that's enough to make a
plan
To Bomb Iran! Bomb
Bomb, Bomb... Let's Bomb
Iran!
You're a commie if you
doubt and my time is running out,
To Bomb Iran, Bomb
Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!
(click for
video)
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video)
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video)
BombIran.com
would've been better, but alas that was taken. Either
way, it's so important to have a name that you can say
out loud to someone, and they have no questions on how
to type it. Like "It's the number four, T, V, S dot
com". That sucks. So I was lucky to grab that name for
sure.
The story behind
the song is really funny. I touched on it in the entry
about going back to Columbus. I was getting a cold and
was feeling "drunk" because my body was going through
the ensuing war inside my body. It lead to me dreaming
up the "NEIN" bit, and as well - this song. The song
however happened on the plane, and wouldn't you know
all I had to write on was the barf bag. God that
rules. I took a picture of it on the plane (much to
the chagrin of the flight attendant who informed me I
would not being doing that again - LOL).
What was funny,
was it occurred to me while I was writing the lyrics:
"BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB BOMB IRAN" - that I was probably
risking a serious in-flight situation had anyone seen
what I was writing. LOL. And of course, you kind of
have to sing what you're writing while you're writing
it… so here I am sitting on a plane writing and
singing BOMB over and over. Brilliant Adam. You're way
too tan to be pullin' that shit. LOL.
I had the idea of
the cartoon right away but was very leery. Jib-Jab
wins the political cartoon game. Winnnnnnnnnnner. I
have to find a way to be different…then again
THAT is the type of animation I want for it. I find it
extremely funny (South Park originated it) to see cut
outs with the open-mouth puppet speak… it just
makes the most powerful people in the world…look
goofy and you can't help but giggle. But first, the
song…
Now the original
"Barbara Ann" was recorded live. I could find no
karaoke versions, but luckily during the song the band
does an instrumental. Unfortunately it's an
instrumental with a dozen people yelling and clapping
off-beat over it. (sigh) But being it was all I had to
work with, I looped it and made it work as well as I
could. Still some slightly annoying parts that make it
difficult to understand my lyrics, but it's
workable.
Next up of course
was singing it. It lead to a pretty harrowing
realization: "Holy Shit, the Beach Boys could sing". I
mean REALLLY sing. I guess it was my arrogance with my
singing ability - but I really thought it would be a
breeze. I'm lucky to have a pretty large range and can
hit nearly 4 octaves…unfortunately, hitting them
well enough that people will enjoy listening to them
is a different story. It took several, several hours
to warm my voice up, drink some tea, and really
practice to nail some of those harmonies and high
parts. The Beach Boys still sound better, lol…but
then again none of them ever tried to do every
member's part so I guess I should be proud of
that.
The end result is
actually surprisingly good. It sounds pretty legit. It
sounds professional and paired with a really funny
cartoon…the prospect of this getting some
national spotlight is very good. Of course now I'm in
charge of that part and that's tough. Unlike my voice,
I have zero confidence in my animating skills other
than I am highly critical and will redo things 1,000
times before I consider it "good enough".
So
last weekend I worked my friggin' ass off
on 2 sections for a grand total of
20
seconds.
LOL. Amazingly - it looks really
good…even better than some parts of
the Jib-Jab cartoons. The problem of
course is I'm really screwed on one issue:
Making it sound like the Beach
Boys…or making all the lyrics easy to
understand. You can't do both. Now I have
the "bouncing bomb" for the choruses, but
I had to take the words out during the
verse because it was just waaaaaaaaay too
busy. Quite the Quagmire (Ooooooooo
right).
So I went back to
the original song and started just taking out voices,
figuring - less voices singing at once, and you'd be
able to understand it better… but it just sounded
like so much ASS that way. I'm still not really sure
how this issue will be resolved. Realize however, that
the compression on the video hurts the audio quality
and in the final cartoon this will be resolved. The
song during the video will be mp3 quality and the
video actually SHOWS every line pretty clearly. I just
see no other way to do this piece and maintain the
quality of the song. Grrrr.
I know I said at
the beginning of this that the cartoon would take
months to finish, but I keep forgetting who we're
talking about here. LOL. I actually woke up today at
4:30 AM and started thinking about it, then proceeded
to get up and work on it for 3 more hours before work.
It is completely controlling my brain right now. Why
does this happen the MOMENT I go back to work? Christ
this is the same shit that derailed me in September. I
was doin fine at work - Katrina hit, and that was IT.
Couldn't concentrate on a DAMN thing. Now there's
this. GRRRR. Of course now I actually really need
income, so I'll temper my heart a bit, but still -
timing man…
…and by the
way - I'm well aware that this entry was pretty
perfect "Entry 500" material. It would seem almost
ridiculous for me to make this Entry #499 when it puts
all the pressure on #500 to be bigger. In the future,
people will come to this site, and this entry's
colorful button will stick out like a sore thumb...
yet what will ever be thought of 500? Well, let me
assure you - 500 is bigger in every way. Although this
cartoon could very well be the break I've been looking
for…what lies within #500 is truly extraordinary,
and in the life of The Journey is much more
influential. It IS The Journey.
