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New song: “The Sirens of Treasure Island”

Angela — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:51:13 +0000

We took a trip to Vegas! Generally, we had a great time! And for this month’s Song Fu challenge, we had to write a song about a “Battle.” Naturally, the “Sirens of TI” show came to mind… so here it is! It’s a free download on Bandcamp.

We have new songs! “The Mystery’s Gone,” “The Final Countdown,” “The Internet National Anthem”

Angela — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:15:40 +0000

I’ve been doing a bad job of keeping this blog up-to-date on our songwriting: but it is happening! We are writing new songs at least monthly for Song Fu. And here they are:

A song about “loss” – and mostly Twitter – “The Mystery’s Gone”

A song about the very last day of a terrible job – “The Final Countdown”

A patriotic song for “People Like Us” – “The Internet National Anthem”

And a bonus – we wrote a song that was played on the Comedy Bang Bang Podcast – it’s an inside joke if you don’t listen to them, but you might still enjoy it.

We also wrote the theme song for “CredCast” – which is a podcast created by our friend Thaddeous. Listen to that on his podcast!

As always, new videos of original songs, covers and concerts are always going up on our YouTube channel.

Song Fu 1: “The Way I Glow”

Angela — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:53:45 +0000

This month, we had to write and record a song “about bioluminescence,” because John Hodgman told us to, and we’re doing a thing called Song Fu, which, among other things, requires that we occasionally do what John Hodgman tells us to do. (This is a blog post I wrote explaining Song Fu.)

We recorded a podcast with Ken Plume & Molly Lewis about the songwriting process for this month. YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT. (mp3 link)

And you can listen to the song we wrote about Bioluminescence, and even download it, if you want:

It’s called “The Way I Glow.”

The Songwriting Process

When the prompt for this month’s challenge was announced, I immediately decided that I didn’t want to be “too literal” in the interpretation of the challenge. This is one of the many winning strategies that I’ve learned from the reality fashion-designer-TV show Project Runway: don’t be too literal about the challenge. (Also: be true to your own aesthetic, be nice to nice people, and don’t use tulle).

There were a lot of ways still to go with Bioluminescence, however. For example: did you know that there is a bioluminescent creature with a Latin name that literally means “vampire squid from hell”? It’s true. Ask Wikipedia.

“The Way I Glow” is a song from the point of view of a bioluminescent girl, who is heartbroken and angry and maybe a little confused about why this dude broke up with her.

We must thank the scientists on Twitter (and my Bio 100 teacher) who helped us understand the affects of Green Fluorescent Protein: I’ve learned, for example, that if you tried to make a person glow the way you make mice glow with GFP, it would mostly show up in a person’s mucous membranes–mouth, nose, eyes, etc. Learning! Yay!

Plugs & Links

Stay tuned for next month’s Song Fu. The prompt will be announced on the Song Fu website on February 6.

Just over a dozen songwriters responded to this month’s Song Fu prompt. You can see all those entries in the Song Fu forum. You should also listen to and spend money on the song Molly Lewis wrote for this prompt, which I will embed below.

New Song! Uncle Geek’s House

Angela — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:01:05 +0000

This song is dedicated to our Uncle Ed, whose birthday is this week.

Lyrics:

let’s all go to Uncle Geeks house
where we all get pie at 3:14
we don’t have to go on camping trips
we can stay inside and read

come with me to Uncle Geek’s house
where the floors are cables laid in rows
the walls are made of circuit boards
and the food is 1s & 0s

when we’re with our Uncle Geek
we know that being cool means being brainy
books are great and code is good;
and fun isn’t ruined if it is rainy

when we get to Uncle Geek’s house
he’ll be waiting for us to arrive
he’ll first give us a great big hug
and then a password for the wifi

when it’s time to go to sleep
we’ll get a bedtime story from Uncle Geek
about Billy, Steve and Steve
and the very first PCs

when we are at Uncle Geek’s house
we can listen to Weird Al all day
we measure pizza with a protractor
and wish we didn’t have to go away

Mr. Bear – A children’s song

Angela — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:32:52 +0000

Other quick updates: We’ve stopped numbering our songs by week. We skipped some weeks, and for copyright reasons we don’t sell the covers on Bandcamp – so… we’ll just post songs when we write them and not keep track of “numbers,” k?

Also: you should check out our Tumblr. Angela (that’s me!) is posting opinions and submitted fan art and other Internetty things we like over there, as well as our songs and lyrics henceforth. Perhaps that is a better blog platform: it is yet to be seen.

A song about EVE Online

Angela — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:08:06 +0000

Had to check with the boyfriend if it was ok to write this one. He said it was alright.

Week 22: I’m Going to Go Back There Someday (& PAX is next week!?)

Angela — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:39:10 +0000

Sometimes I think we don’t need a blog. Because these days the video pretty much speaks for itself. But here we are. For your enjoyment, here is:
This music song video-

And this vlog-

TO COME TO OUR THURSDAY, August 25, Pre-pax House Show: e-mail “doubleaclick@gmail.com” and tell us: the you want to come to the show/find out about the show, and how many people you are. And we’ll tell you what’s up.
Thank you!

Week 21: Spock Impersonator

Angela — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:49:12 +0000

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Ok.. here it is. This song comes with a recommended accompanying Flickr Gallery.

Listen to the song:
Spock Impersonator (extended) by The Doubleclicks

If you want, you can watch the shorter version of this song on YouTube.

LOVE YOU! Enjoy the musics.

Week 19: Oh, Mr. Darcy

Angela — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:34:59 +0000

And, we’re back! I have been working on this song for over a year. This week was just the right time, I guess.

Yay!

Newsy things:

We have a show next Wednesday with visiting geek-rocker Blue from Hello, The Future. In addition to making weekly nerdy songs (like this one which has been stuck in my head for weeks), Blue is managing the Mink Car Cover project–which we finished recording for today! I hope!
We played four shows with Marian Call last week. It was amazing. She is going to play in Texas next, so if you live in Texas – go see her!

Note: We know that it’s a BBC miniseries, not a Lifetime miniseries. We didn’t mess it up on purpose, but we did mess it up. We aren’t going to fix the video, but we will correct the lyric whenever we play the song in the future. Sorry, everybody!

Week 18: The Perfect One For Me

Angela — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:41:24 +0000

I guess we are mean. Here’s a mean song.

In other news: SO MUCH EXCITEMENT is happening. Later this month, we will be playing in BEND and PORTLAND and SEATTLE with Marian Call. Please tell everyone you know to come, and to buy tickets for Seattle.

Here’s a cool poster for the big Portland show::

Ohmygoodness. Happiness.