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Why? - Good Friday

2009-10-05T06:21:31Z

Ryan:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Why? - Good Friday
| runtime=6.14
| appearson=[http://www.discogs.com/release/1153051 tom 111] }}

{{stub}}

== Samples/Lyrics ==
<blockquote>
if you grew up with white boys 
who only look at black and puerto rican porno 
cause they want something that their dad don't got 
then you know where you're at 
 
mortaring your earholes shut in a rush with wet coke 
in a starbucks bathroom with the door closed 
on booze, i'm left in residue and confused 
like the first time you used soft water 
down on my luck, caught unaware 
like houdini when the last fist struck 
 
if i'm sinking and laughing at something sunken in, i am 
 
sucking dick for drink tickets 
at the free bar at my cousin's bat mitzvah 
cutting the punch line and it ain't no joke 
devoid of all hope circus mirrors and pot smoke 
picking fights on dyke night 
with shirlies and lokes and snatching purses 
 
doing out on karaoke and forgetting all the verses 
blowing kisses to disinterested bitches 
playing lead lay in a bad way on broadway 
sending sexy smses to my ex's new man cause i can 
on the road trying to break an old van 
eating pussy for new fangs, i am what the hell 
using purell till my hands bleed and swell 
missing mail at a motel 6, i'm unwell 
 
if i'm sinking and laughing at something sunken in, i am 
 
it feels exciting touching your handwriting 
getting horny by reading it and repeating poor me 
intently staring at the picture of your feet on the sticker 
at the r. crumb exhibit, i wonder who's sicker 
 
jerking off in an art museum john till my dick hurts 
the kind of shit i won't admit to my head shrinker 
not even in a whisper to my own little sister 
i just act like a dick and talk shit when i'm with her 
 
aught six i'll say the friday before easter 
was not what i cried to myself in the pisser 
and with you in the front row at the silver jews show 
and you act like you didn't notice, my fear of the bear 
at showbiz pizza when i was six was overwhelming and not dissimilar to this 
 
if i'm sinking and something sunken in, i am 
 
at jacob han's on tour i wake up 
hung over on a hardwood floor 
from a dream about how your dress 
hangs off of your little breasts 
i'd rather be dead than call this song 
how i lost your respect but god bless or get neglected 
and i'll see you when the sun sets east, don't forget me 
</blockquote>

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Remixes by boc]]

Why? - Good Friday

2009-10-05T06:18:59Z

Ryan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crumb

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Why? - Good Friday
| runtime=6.14
| appearson=[http://www.discogs.com/release/1153051 tom 111] }}

{{stub}}

== Samples/Lyrics ==
<blockquote>
if you grew up with white boys 
who only look at black and puerto rican porno 
cause they want something that their dad don't got 
then you know where you're at 
 
mortaring your earholes shut in a rush with wet coke 
in a starbucks bathroom with the door closed 
on booze, i'm left in residue and confused 
like the first time you used soft water 
down on my luck, caught unaware 
like houdini when the last fist struck 
 
if i'm sinking and laughing at something sunken in, i am 
 
sucking dick for drink tickets 
at the free bar at my cousin's bat mitzvah 
cutting the punch line and it ain't no joke 
devoid of all hope circus mirrors and pot smoke 
picking fights on dyke night 
with shirlies and lokes and snatching purses 
 
doing out on karaoke and forgetting all the verses 
blowing kisses to disinterested bitches 
playing lead lay in a bad way on broadway 
sending sexy smses to my ex's new man cause i can 
on the road trying to break an old van 
eating pussy for new fangs, i am what the hell 
using purell till my hands bleed and swell 
missing mail at a motel 6, i'm unwell 
 
if i'm sinking and laughing at something sunken in, i am 
 
it feels exciting touching your handwriting 
getting horny by reading it and repeating poor me 
intently staring at the picture of your feet on the sticker 
at the r. crumb exhibit, i wonder who's sicker 
 
jerking off in an art museum john till my dick hurts 
the kind of shit i won't admit to my head shrinker 
not even in a whisper to my own little sister 
i just act like a dick and talk shit when i'm with her 
 
aught six i'll say the friday before easter 
was not what i cried to myself in the pisser 
and with you in the front row at the silver jews show 
and you act like you didn't notice, my fear of the bear 
at showbiz pizza when i saw six was overwhelming and not dissimilar to this 
 
if i'm sinking and something sunken in, i am 
 
at jacob han's on tour i wake up 
hung over on a hardwood floor 
from a dream about how your dress 
hangs off of your little breasts 
i'd rather be dead than call this song 
how i lost your respect but god bless or get neglected 
and i'll see you when the sun sets east, don't forget me 
</blockquote>

[[Category:Released tracks]]
[[Category:Remixes by boc]]

Magic Window

2009-06-03T04:10:04Z

Ryan:

{{Infobox Song|
| name=Magic Window
| runtime=1:46
| appearson=[[Geogaddi]]}}

'''Magic Window''' is is track number 23 on the [[Geogaddi]] album. The song is one minute and forty-six seconds of pure silence.

== Comments ==
* Yes, despite persistent rumours to the contrary, it really is absolutely empty. It's easy enough for anyone who disagrees to check by ripping to WAV. And the vinyl version of the track ought to be a giveaway .... The 3xLP vinyl version of [[Geogaddi]] devotes the final side of vinyl to this track. There is no groove on that side, just a basic outline picture of a family: parents and two children. It's a bit similar to the plaque on the Pioneer space probe, an image that appeared briefly on an older version of the [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] website. Where the speed (33rpm or 45rmp) would usually appear, instead we have the cryptic "162.225 MHz". This is a frequency used by the military or coastguard [Robert Frost]. [Ken Stewart] also pointed out that it is a frequency used in the UK for (licensed) private mobile radion services, as listed [http://www.mark.brett.com/specbw.phpl here].
* While "Magic Window" is a completely empty track, that is not to say that the title does not have some hidden significance. You might like to take a look at the entry for the topic "magic window" in this [http://www.lunarsight.com/glossary.php glossary], or search for some combination of "magic window" and the name (Thomas E.) "Bearden". It also brings the play time of the album up to 66'06" (maybe - see next).
* As for that question of the total play-length of the album. Since it's been contested, [DC] decided to settle the question once and for all, in detail. Some players show 66'04", some (like mine) show 66'06". Rip all the tracks to WAV. Each track on a CD has a play time equal to a multiple of 1/75th of a second, call this a frame; each track is made of a whole number of frames.
** The frames per track are: [1] 4427 [2] 24109 [3] 2822 [4] 16124 [5] 5645 [6] 27953 [7] 6160 [8] 24775 [9] 5788 [10] 19535 [11] 2646 [12] 19394 [13] 5367 [14] 31694 [15] 2039 [16] 17504 [17] 7554 [18] 5143 [19] 17662 [20] 6503 [21] 23568 [22] 12902 [23] 7986.
** The total of frames is: 297300, which is exactly 3964 seconds, which is 66 minutes and FOUR seconds precisely. The variations may come about from some CD players rounding track times to the nearest second before adding. CD Audio standard reserves precisely 2 seconds worth of frames ahead of any actual audio data (users of Nero CD Burning software may be familiar with the inability to alter the 2 second "track pause" setting for the first track of any Audio CD, for instance), the discrepancy may depend on the ability of a CD Player to factor this segment into its computation of the total time.
** The ISRC provided for the track on the Geogaddi CD is the string "GB1010011010," which is an invalid ISRC. The binary number 1010011010 is 666 decimal.
** A curious footnote to all of this is that when you rip the album as WAV files, the total file size is about 666 MB (666.8MB) (thanks to [Jeremy Pulley] for pointing that out about the file size). This is a nice coincidence, but it comes naturally out of the maths: the total file size in MB of 66'04" of audio is: (4x44100x3964)/(1024x1024) = 666.86MB
** Not counting WAV headers, which are negligible in size, and make no difference to the figures just given). [DC]
* [Nick Potter] has pointed out some interesting things about this blank track, and the cryptic frequency: 150-160 KHz (not MHz) is among the ranges given for Bearden's "Magic Windows" (see [http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/2888/freq6.phpl], specifically, the bottom half of the listing, which mentions Bearden's book "Excalibur Briefing" - you'll find the discussion of magic window frequencies there). Another interesting possible reference is that "Magic Window" is the name of an American educational magazine for children - see [http://www.largeprintreviews.com/childmagicwindow_magazine.phpl] for more information. Since [[Boards of Canada|BoC]] often combine several meanings and references in their titles, it might be a reference to any of these.
* It is of interest that the [[Music70|music70 website]] lists the track as "magic window fnord". Those familiar with "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" will recognize the reference. [Nick Potter] submitted the following observation: in the novel, "fnord" is a word that people in general have been trained not to see - instead, it merely induces a vague feeling of anxiety in the reader. The [[Music70|music70]] listing may therefore have a slightly deeper meaning than being a simple reference to the novel; it may be a jokey suggestion that the track is indeed present, but that we have simply been programmed not to hear it.