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By: firefly grove » Blog Archive » Hotel Hell

firefly grove » Blog Archive » Hotel Hell — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:52:31 +0000

[...] Eat that cocoa and play a song, A big elk’s footprints did say But you’ll have to wander for 40 odd days Its the price that I have to pay [...]

By: The Bottle by Big Elk [Video] - [tmbchr]â„¢

The Bottle by Big Elk [Video] - [tmbchr]â„¢ — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:11:57 +0000

[...] And speaking of, Skip Wiley has recorded an awesome and totally different version of my song “Hotel Hell”. Check that shit out! Remember: there is no official version! [...]

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:23:54 +0000

Yeah totally. I realized the other day too that a song title of mine was lifted unknowingly from another song. I thought I “wrote” it, but I had just processed it on some non-conscious level and removed it from its original context. I think this is a major element of how poetic forms transmit through time and across generations and cultures: outright theft, both knowing and unknowing.

Also want to come back and write about how this fits into modern linear literacy versus old-fashioned oral-based “literary” forms, but that thought is still brewing somewhere dark beneath the surface…

By: JK

JK — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:42:05 +0000

Sure. Same thing with jazz and blues. Also classical, now that I think of it. And hell, why not DJs who spin dance, beat or rhythm “standards” at clubs etc too?

Also, shit, how about certain lines in hip-hop songs? “Throw yo hands in the ayah” etc. Those are old lines from seminal hip hop that turn up in new songs and ad lib all the time.