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Hey, Let's Get Known
(from left to right: Jona Bechtolt, Mike Merrill, and Zac Pennington, ready for your unnatural adulation. and um, respect.) A slight revision in the form of massive overhaul: this is the point in the song where that man's voice shouts "REMIX!" and they bring in the diwali riddims. and ludacris comes in for a verse.
I know it might be a difficult adjustment for all of you to make, as I'm sure you've come to depend on my particular brand of irreverent social critique so seamlessly guised as "musical criticisms," but let's face it: to consistently commit myself to the sort of quality control my vast audience subjects me to is something of a daunting task. and, as I'm sure you can appreciate, not really enough about ME for my tastes. and just as i resigned to my position of a desk-chained workhorse, the solution to my plight became all-to-clear: exploit the inspiration.
Allow me to welcome you to Let's Get Famous, ver. 2.0. The Subject? What it should've been from the get go: Let's Get Famous. This is owning desire. This is battling archaic ideology. This is proactive. This is getting legit. This is reclamation.
The means may be uncertain, but the goal is as clear as the gleam from my still-spinning rims: we're gonna be famous. and I'm going tell you how.
More to come, I assure you. Much, much more.
Comments
Likewise, am I "sketched-out" by these overt, semi-playful intentious of "getty famous." YOU GUYS SCARE ME. What's scarrier, I suppose, is that you guys are proud of the fact that Steve and I are made uncomfortable by these language games. Whack.
Posted by: Flint at March 28, 2004 5:07 PM
I like you guys, though. A lot.
It's like: is it a joke? Or isn't it? We will never know.
Posted by: Steve at March 28, 2004 6:30 PM
EFF FAMOUS! You guys are TOO CUTE! Zac, you picked my nose. We are officially friends.
Love,
Your Friend Krystal
Posted by: krystal at March 29, 2004 12:44 AM
As I am sure Zac will later expand upon this, I will keep it brief. The reason we choose Let's Get Famous as our intended goal is because Fame represents an easily identifiable destination that is both within our grasp and indeterminately far away. Imagine you are standing in the plains looking at a mountain range. Within that mountain range you will find rivers, lakes, valleys, caves, small villages, magic mushrooms, trails, trees, and many other metaphors for human experience. But where do you go? You may be perfectly happy in the rolling foothills, or just wander about and end up about two miles south drifting along the river. These are all fine. But up on that far craggy peak sits a small red flag with four letters in bright yellow. F. A. M. E. From atop Fame Mountain you can see into all the valleys, and along the way you will find caves and great places to snowboard. It's not the destination, it's the journey. And once you reach it, you have all these new opportunities and a new vantage point. Is there another mountain range? Another land or continent? A rocket ship? Who knows. Everyone's path to Mt. Fame will be different, and they will arrive with different skills and abilities and we'll have a big party.
Posted by: KmikeyM at March 29, 2004 8:51 AM
This makes me so uncomfortable. You are good at what you do, and what you do is really shady.
Posted by: Steve Schroeder at March 27, 2004 6:09 PM