Keeper Mallinson on 19/2/2007 at 23:42

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Hey guys, remember way back in the day when we listened really hard to Thief 2's cutscene to see just what the creepy little girl was saying? I might need your help doing the same thing with something else.

I'm a slam poet; it's a kind of performance poetry done in many major cities in North America, and it's growing. If you're even in Vancouver, you could probably even see me perform. Anyways, it got out, and the English class I help teach now wants me to perform for them, to show them what it's like. Welp, all of my pieces are all obscene or have things teachers wouldn't want students to have, everything from anti-prudist extremism to lots of irremoveable swearing to an anti-Atkins I-eat-what-I-fucken-want message. So, I'm doing a cover. It's a dedication to all the world-changers, etc.

Problem: this guy, as wonderful as he is, has Micromachine Man syndrome. hetalksreallyfastlikethisfrommatel. And, in this recording, he seems to have fly-girls. So there's background noise and he's speed-slamming. It's fine for most of the piece, but all of a sudden he starts speeding. Can you help me decipher this short riff?
There's two clips I can't quite decipher.
The first clip is (http://prosplace.homestead.com/files/STL_clip.mp3) here.

Here's what I got from it so-far, the square- and triangular-brackets being places where I'm not sure.

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‘You ever been
Wheeled in, reamed out, picked on, put down,
Ever been around to hear the sound of your
Own heart-break
Stop to take the time to take [ ]

‘You ever been seen and not heard
&#8216;You ever <heard> the line for those who try to find some way to
Define what you are [...] from afar

<Stand out, stand up, speak up for thou>
&#8216;You ever been told you're too young, you're too old
From the soul-sat line,
We look at the Bible
We gotta receive it.
Beat the deadlines.
So don't try to define it. This is time we will find.
So don't try to define it. This is time we will find.
So don't try to define it. This is time we will find.


[ ] to allow and now you know why

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(http://prosplace.homestead.com/files/STL_clip_2.mp3) Here's the 2nd clip. I know most of it, there are just a couple references I can't decipher, partly because he's the new micromachine man and partly because there are a few references I don't quite know. Something about someone shutting down a park? A sound that got two guys banned from the USA?

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...because he said the Earth was round
For the two [ ] who found the sound that got them banned in the USA
And imagine if we could still hear John Lennon play

This is for the somebody who stood up today and said &#8220;No&#8221;
For every <armarole> who shut down the <park>
This is for Salman Rushdie
Mahatma Gandhi,
You, me, this city, this country
We will always have a choice
When we stand up to the crowd and tell the world,
&#8220;This is my voice
There are many like it
But this one is mine&#8221;.


*edit* By the way, I should give props to the poet, even here: he's Shane Koyzcan, one of the best slam poets in the world. Fuck, Margaret Atwood opened for him at a show once.

Hidden_7 on 20/2/2007 at 03:22

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Sorry, I'm no help on the deciphering front, but out of curiosity you meant Vancouver, B.C., right? Not WA? If so (the former) when / where do you preform and when / where does this stuff usually go on?

The Alchemist on 20/2/2007 at 05:21

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For the two [ ] who found the sound that got them banned in the USA

I think what he said was (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Live_Crew) "2 Live Crew found the sound that got them banned."