Satire/ Play

Copyright (c) 2013 John L. Jerz

Satire/ Play

Just how bad can literature get? Re-writing song lyrics (and other forms of satire) can be amusing... This is nothing more than exploring what alternative rhymed phrases can be applied to existing songs.

Note: some of these pages contain links to videos posted on youtube. When playing a video, please adjust the volume on your speakers downward, as some of the videos have unfortunately increased the volume of the music (for some reason) to a slightly higher level.

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only the person who is relaxed can create, and to that mind ideas flow like lightning - Cicero

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents - G.K. Chesterton

Arthur Koestler once described the creative process as one of bisociation, which means precisely this: combining two unlike things to make something new and surprising.

Play is the answer to the question, How does anything new ever come about? - Jean Piaget

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes childhood comes right along with us into adulthood and that is not necessarily bad. - Barbara Brannen

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, re-arranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him? It would be wrong to think he does not take that world very seriously; on the contrary, he takes his play very seriously -Freud

Quantitatively Ease on Down the Road

It's Not That Easy Being Green

Quantitative Easing Revisited

Popped Corn (New Born, Muse)

Slackness (Madness, Muse)

I'll Borrow (Tomorrow)

The Caverns of Copernicus and the Rescue of Jack Scott

Food Rival (Survival, Muse)

Text Your Phone (Turn to Stone, ELO)

Caf 'teria (Hysteria, Muse)

Vangelis Hymne (original lyrics)

Vangelis, Conquest of Paradise (Original Lyrics)

Wall Street Campin' (Sidewalk Surfin')

Ring Ring (ABBA, 2011 version)

Raise the Debt Ceiling (external)

Arizona (Oklahoma)

Wonderfrog (Underdog)

Downsizing (Uprising, Muse)

Super Massive Black Hole (Congressional version)

Triple Crown (Funkytown)

Game of Chance (Bad Romance, Lady Gaga)

Database (Poker Face, Lady Gaga)

Refinance for Me (Take a Chance on Me, ABBA)

Mac OS (SOS, ABBA)

Cybercrime (Turn Back Time, Cher)

Keynote Address, Society of Pessimists

Roll Call (Eyeball)

I've Got You, Abe (I've Got You Babe, Sonny Bono)

Peter Pan (Little Man, Sonny Bono)

Bagel in the Night (Angel in the Night)

The Beat Goes On (2010 version)

I Drink Bottled Water I Don't Buy (I Can Walk on Water I Can Fly)

Pounce (Bounce)

Cravers Fantasy (Ravers Fantasy)

Give-in Thing (Livin' Thing, ELO)

Jack Scott: Monster Hunter

The Public Debt Song (The Alphabet Song)

Deficits too big (Your feets too big)

I Thank My Ex (I Love My Sex, Benny Benassi)

Danger, Brain Dead (Danger Ahead, ELO)

Whimper and Whine (2010 version)

Journey to the Center of the Sun - the sequel (2010)

Congressmen Lack Brains (Everyone Has Pain)

A Little Bit at the Beginning (2010 version)

Non-Stop (Bus Stop)

Brand New Putter (Bread and Butter, The Newbeats)

Have a Slice of Velveeta (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly)

Larry Clown (Leroy Brown, Jim Croce)

Change My Tire (Light My Fire, The Doors)

Why Haven't I Been E-mailed From You (Why Haven't I Heard From You)

Get Set! I was Surfin' the Net (Splish, Splash! I was Takin' a Bath)

Dry Run (Wild One, Jerry Lee Lewis)

Midnight Run (Tall Cool One, Plant)

Spend, Spend (Hi Friend!)

I Don't Want to Sleep on Past Noon (I Don't Want to Live on the Moon)

Light on! (Right on!)

N Apostrophe T (2009 version)

Easy Reid-er Song (Easy Reader Song)

The Menu Song (2009 version)

Be Kind to Your Daily Stress (Be Kind to the Letter S)

Nancy Pelosi (Rubber Ducky)

Borat in His Thong (Everybody's Song)

Why's This Bill Really Long? (What's the Name of That Song?)

La la la la (Health Care Reform Version)

The Deficit (Mah Na Mah Na)

The National Association of 'W' Lovers

Cop of the World (Top of the World, Carpenters)

Chain Reaction (Satisfaction, Benassi)

Evasive Answer (Music Box Dancer, Frank Mills, original lyrics)

The Kids Aren't Alright (2009 version, The Offspring)

Here's the Anti-fungal (Welcome to the Jungle, Guns N' Roses)

Who Let the Frogs Out (Who Let the Dogs Out, Baha Men)

Oops ! ... I Did It Again (Britney Spears)

Hunger Pangs (She Bangs, Ricky Martin)

Vote It Down (Jump Around, House of Pain)

The Cash Advance (The Safety Dance, Men Without Hats)

I Melt With You (2009 version)

Eye in the Sky (2009 version, Alan Parsons Project)

We Got the Tweet (We Got the Beat, Go-Go's)

Stand and Deliver (2009 version, Adam Ant)

Chariots of Fire (original lyrics)

E-mailing (Sailing, Christopher Cross)

Health Care Dance (Neutron Dance, Pointer Sisters)

Goody, Two Clues (Goody Two Shoes, Adam Ant)

A Couple of Trips to WalMart (Total Eclipse of the Heart, Nicki French)

Moria (Gloria, Laura Branigan)

Texting America (Calling America, ELO)

Send In My Replacement (Don't Go In The Basement, Oingo Boingo, Cruikshank)

Good Morning Red Wine (Good Morning Starshine)

Above It All (Conference Call)

18 1/2 minute rap

Gaming in the Dark (Dancing in the Dark, Springsteen)

Joe Biden Teaches Citation and Word Choice

Spending Days (Happy Days)

Journey to the Center of the Sun (1987)

Journey to the Center of the Sun - the sequel (2010)

Mrs. Ignatowski's Class (1978)

changing song lyrics

Kick the Habit (Kill the Rabbit)

I Think I Love Glue (I Think I Love You)

I'll Text You On My Phone (I'm On My Way Back Home)

I'll Fix Your Segway (I'll Meet You Halfway)

Stock Exchange (Time to Change)

Online Day (Sunshine Day)

Pepperoni (Mony Mony, Billy Idol)

To Be A Texter (To Be A Lover, Billy Idol)

Bach vs. the System (Shock to the System, Billy Idol)

The Eccentric Company (The Electric Company)

ESPN (lower case n)

Internet Rock (Telephone Rock)

Hey Dude (Hey Jude)

Basic Subroutines (Yellow Submarine)

Who needs proper spellnig

Database Views (Blue Suede Shoes)

Code Around the Clock (Rock Around the Clock)

Mounds of Software (Sounds of Silence)

Whole Lotta Breakin Goin On (Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On)

Great Walls of Fire (Great Balls of Fire, Jerry Lee Lewis)

Bailout-man (Ultraman)

Greed Chaser (Speed Racer)

The Bailout Show (The Muppet Show)

Keep on Spendin' (Keep on Movin')

The Song of the Count

Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)

Another One Bites the Dust (2009 version)

Viva La Cheata (Cold Play)

Summer of 69 (Bill Gates version)

Dance Around Helm's Deep (Dance Myself To Sleep)

Bailout Cash (I Love Trash)

Yip Yip... (1971)

Freeway! (Subway!)

C is for Coding (C is for Cookie)

Addicted to C (Addicted to Love, Robert Palmer)

I'm Too Sexy (Right Said Fred)

Coding by Myself (Dancing with Myself, Billy Idol)

Super Geek (Super Freak, Rick James)

The New Girl in Wool (The New Girl in School, Jan and Dean)

The Day-timer Planner (The Anacreontic Song, Star Spangled Banner)

Wag City (Drag City)

Ed's Soft Serve (Dead Man's Curve)

Bad Kind of Loan (Bad to the Bone)

I Bid on e-bay (I Did it My Way)

Seventy-Six Savings and Loans (Seventy-Six Trombones)

Trouble in River City (2008 version)

Elvis Sighting (Kung Fu Fighting)

My Favorite Things (2008 version)

Have a Bite of Ice Cream (Hold on Tight to Your Dream, ELO)

Mr. Blue Screen (Mr. Blue Sky, by ELO)

Doggy Doo (Xanadu, by ELO)

Emerald City (Y.M.C.A)

My Old Car Goes On (My Heart Will Go On)

Web Site (Twilight, by ELO)

Working in the Chow Line (Working in the Coal Mine)

This Mouth Was Made for Talking (These Boots Were Made for Walking)

Dairy Queen (Dancing Queen)

I Can't Drive (I'm Alive, by ELO)

The Ring Melts Down (Don't Bring Me Down, by ELO)

All Over the World, 2008 version (by ELO)

The Geek (The Streak, by Stevens)

Here's the One that I Want! (You're the One that I Want)

Warm is the World (Joy to the World)

WOW Rhapsody (Bohemian Rhapsody)

Longer (Dan Fogelberg) 2008 version

Meal three! (Call Me, Blondie)

Broken Glass (Heart of Glass by Blondie)

There's Got to be a Morning After (the Server Crash)

You Speed Up My Life (You Light Up My Life, 2007 version)

I Will Survive (Carl Rove Returns)

Campaign'in USA (Surfin' USA)

Foam on the Tank (Home on the Range)

Al Gore the Showman (Frosty the Snowman)

Achy Breaky Heart (The Dick Cheney Song)

Jingle Bells 2000

Emulate race car drivers... Go too fast. Go too far. Let your mind wander into dangerous ground, into silliness, absurdity, stupidity, impossibility. Surprise your teachers. Astound your friends. Embarrass your parents. Thumb your nose at the laws of nature and science and common sense. Crash. Burn. - Jack Foster, How to Get Ideas, p.61

"One of the students [attending Pine Woods College, a school in New Hampshire that focuses on the arts] said she had 'creative block.' 'What do you do?' I asked her. 'Photography,' she said. 'That's interesting. I don't believe in 'creative block,' I said.

I gave her a suggestion. 'Here's what you can do: Make bad pictures... The worse the better. Take them out of focus with bad compositions, unattractive subjects, bad lighting, bad depth of field, and use all the wrong settings on your camera.' " Robert Fritz, Elements, p.53-54

From Harrison, Bramson, The Art of Thinking:

p.11-12"Only about 11 percent of the people who have taken the inQ [a test of thinking style] show a preference for the Synthesist Style... To 'synthesize' means, essentially, to make something new and original out of things that, by themselves, seem very different from each other. Combining different things - especially ideas - in that way is what Synthesists like to do. Their favorite thought process is likely to be speculative. 'What if we were to take this idea and that idea and put them together? What would we have?' The motto of the Synthesist is 'What if...'

Synthesists are integrators. They like to discover two or more things that to other people may appear to have little or no relationship, and find ways to fit them into a new, creative combination.

Nonsense wakes up brain cells -Dr. Seuss

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. -Heraclitus, Greek philosopher (500 BCE)

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.

-Jean Cocteau

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