Google Poetics is a project to record the beautiful poetry that Google’s autocomplete feature sometimes writes.
Inspired by this recent example, I recorded a song the lyrics of which are entirely Google autocomplete suggestions.
Tag: song
Google Poetics: once in darkness
Song In Code: Ramones, I wanna be sedated
Just the first verse:
go = Proc.new { sleep 24.hours }
self.wants :sedatation
begin ; nil ; end
case go ; where "no" ; nil ; end
self.wants :sedatation
self.get '/airport'
self.put '/airport/plane'
before self.insane? do
3.times { hurry! }
end
return if self.can_control? :fingers
return if self.can_control? :brain
5.times { "no" }
I recorded me singing it, which is kinda stupid tbh.
I used mencoder to convert this to something Youtube found tasty. Like this:
mencoder -ss 15 -endpos 1:18 -vf pp=al:f,scale=480:360 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=libx264:mbd=1:vbitrate=2000 MOV01362.MPG -o MOV01362.x264
Also, pimp for another Geek/Ukelele project: Ukepedia, all 3 million Wikipedia articles one song at a time