{"id":38192,"date":"2011-05-29T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tedfromtheinternet-merlin-sometimes-theres\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T14:12:06","slug":"tedfromtheinternet-merlin-sometimes-theres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/tedfromtheinternet-merlin-sometimes-theres\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tedfromtheinternet.tumblr.com\/post\/5956382191\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">tedfromtheinternet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kungfugrippe.com\/post\/5945043047\/shantih-shantih-shantih\">merlin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Sometimes There\u2019s a Man (Part III)<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i-0.us\/thru-hell\">MP3 Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As heard on <a title=\"Back to Work #17: Brick Building Full of Lies\" href=\"http:\/\/5by5.tv\/b2w\/17\">Back to Work s01e17<\/a>, here\u2019s the third part<sup id=\"fnref:p5945043047-fn1\"><a href=\"p5945043047-fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup> of my rock opera about Dan Benjamin (here\u2019s parts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kungfugrippe.com\/post\/5201422193\/ubi-sunt\">one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kungfugrippe.com\/post\/5375334991\/then-when\">two<\/a>). Graciously commissioned by our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/mailchimp.com\/\">MailChimp<\/a>\u2014so, many thanks to them.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in each week for the next part of the album.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot\" href=\"http:\/\/eliotswasteland.tripod.com\/\">Inspiration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>April is the cruelest month, breeding<br \/> Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing<br \/> Memory and desire, stirring<br \/> Dull roots with spring rain.<br \/> Winter kept us warm, covering<br \/> Earth in forgetful snow,<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn:p5945043047-fn1\">\n<p><strong>Mea Culpa<\/strong>. We need to do a whole episode of FU just for me to apologize for this abomination. Sorry: to T.S. Eliot, for butchering <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Waste_Land\">the greatest poem of the 20th century<\/a>; to Ezra Pound, Petronius, Dante, Ovid, Jessie Weston, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Waste_Land#Sources\">et al<\/a>, by extension;  to <a href=\"http:\/\/superchunk.com\/\">Superchunk<\/a>, for stealing their slidey, distorted octaves; to drummers everywhere for only using one lame drum loop; to human ears for rushing out a mix that I will <em>heavily<\/em> tweak as soon as I get a chance;  to The Nerds of <em>Back to Work<\/em> for taking two motherscratching weeks to record FIVE (<em>5<\/em>) different versions of this atrocity. So: <em>Sorry<\/em>.<br \/> That said? I really like this song a lot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=97320958\"><em>Singing is fun<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"p5945043047-fn1\">&#x21a9;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Merlin made a Three (3) part Rock Opera on GarageBand on an iPad and it is excellent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tedfromtheinternet: merlin: Sometimes There\u2019s a Man (Part III) MP3 Download As heard on Back to Work s01e17, here\u2019s the third part1 of my rock opera about Dan Benjamin (here\u2019s parts one and two). Graciously commissioned by our friends at MailChimp\u2014so, many thanks to them. Tune in each week for the next part of the album. 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