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Drive by blogging: If musicians wrote songs in Excel

May 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Their graphs would look like this. Or sometimes like this.

And if Pete Seeger had been a software engineer, we’d have this:

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(from Gawker commentary MisterHippity)

But instead we have incredible singer-songwriters like Roseanne Cash who contributes to a great NYTimes.com blog Measure for Measure (my only complaint — it’s not updated often enough).  She’s got an amazing post (well, all of her posts are amazing) about the tension between fact and truth in art.  It’s great.  And if it’s too long for you to read this holiday weekend, just listen to the song instead.

Tags: What's in my playlist

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Alkelda // May 28, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    I really appreciate the Pete Seeger flow chart. It’s lovely. Thanks for posting it.

  • 2 urbanmenno // Jun 3, 2008 at 12:04 am

    Isn’t it great! I’d like to see some others but I was having problems coming up with some songs that would work. How about Dyan’s “Maggie’s Farm” or BareNakedLadies “If I Had A Million Dollars.”

    I’ll have to play with it when I have some free time at work.

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