Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

Madonna

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I was going to post about this, but Amy beat me to it. I can do nothing but vouch for the fact that the entire situation is totally bizarre, and more of a comment on the oddness of U-City than it is an illustration of the failing of social work in Philadelphia. Or something.

And, anyhow, there’s a pretty big difference between Superman and Dick Tracy. For one, did Superman have “Vogue” on his soundtrack? No. I think a comparison of Batman and Dick Tracy would be more apt, since Batman‘s album of in-character Prince tunes can nearly compete with Dick‘s LP of Madonna channellings herself through the Material Girl’s of yesteryear.

I think my laundry’s done.

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For the record: 52 songs, 10,000+ words, 43 mentions of Gina. 12 links to Rabi. 1 entire demo cd sans covers. 4 acoustic Madonna songs. 11 songs recorded during blogathon. hundreds of people fed through donations to manna. 39 songs recorded in under a week. 2 washburn acoustic guitars. one cold shower and a corresponding gratuitous ass shot. 4 songs about people who were listening to the ‘thon. 2hours 57minutes & 48seconds of music. And, i only said “tired” once (and it was in lyrics!).

https://crushingkrisis.com/2001/07/4825040/

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Oh, and, just to prove that i’m really not getting any more awake as this goes on but am still functioning on higher levels of logic, i somehow managed to sing “when a boy loves a boy and a girl loves a girl” in the “La Isla Bonita.” Hah! Especially considering who i was recording it for. Hah!

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Some notes on the requests. That’s the order i recorded them in, but not that they were asked for. I needed lyrics for 1-3, chords for 2-3, and lots of righteous misplaced gender angst for 4. I kept the first complete take of each song, and the only one with a significant false start was Rabi’s. I did “Outta Me” first because i’ve recorded it before and i know i can ad-lib all over the place. I thought Yucca’s would be very hard but it was simple because i spent a long time transcribing it last summer so that it would make sense on such an occasion. I was planning to do “La Isla” anyway, but had been putting off transcribing the chords. Please note that i incorporate the guitar solo into my strumming, because i care that much about solo acoustic Madonna covers (of which we’ve seen four, so far). I did invert the instrumental bit and then didn’t sing to it like Madonna does; however, i pounded on my guitar quite a bit like she did at the concert to make up for it. A year ago today i couldn’t sing “Not a Pretty Girl” and play it at the same time, and now it’s one of the easiest Ani songs for me to cover except for that it’s always using all four of my fingers and i tend to abuse my guitar a lot when i play it. Enjoy, ladies and gents.

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