Said I to Bjorn in the year of our Lord 1999, “We should truly mimic our favorite rock band, The Led Zeppelin, and produce an epic, yet incredibly short, tune obviously written about J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. Perhaps we could have severe guitar chords followed by the repetition of the name ‘Gollum.'”<\/p>\n
Said Bjorn to me, “It is done.”<\/p>\n
And it was good<\/a>. And, lo, was a genre<\/a> born unto us. And then, some guy<\/a> made some movies and our rightful riches were handed to the plagiarized, yet altogether worthy, work of a hack<\/a>.<\/p>\n (Apologies for the lame bookends of MTV on that last link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Said I to Bjorn in the year of our Lord 1999, “We should truly mimic our favorite rock band, The Led Zeppelin, and produce an epic, yet incredibly short, tune obviously written about J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. Perhaps we could have severe guitar chords followed by the repetition of the name ‘Gollum.’” Said Bjorn to me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-1S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=60","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":0},"title":"Resistance of banality through proliferation.","date":"2\/24\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Another welcome is due to my good friend, Bjorn, without whose company I spiral into mediocrity. I am jealous that his comments are already bursting with conversation, but he is deserving and so may live. For now.","rel":"","context":"In "Found Art"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":112,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=112","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":1},"title":"The heart of rock and roll is still beating.","date":"4\/22\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"More on this thread between Bjorn and the world of rock, somethingawful chimes in. Someone better do something about this soon, or my little brother's generation will never understand what the words \"new\" and \"music\" sound like together. UPDATE: Road trip to save music.","rel":"","context":"In "Ennui"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":123,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=123","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":2},"title":"This is so on.","date":"5\/5\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Bjorn and I are likely candidates for live-action Pacman. In fact, I can't imagine it existing and our not partaking. It's like our clones live in New York or something. No, you're not invited. But if we get the Minibosses play our gig, you can carry their shit if they'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "For the geek in you"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=54","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":3},"title":"I’m working on this funny post.","date":"2\/19\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Meanwhile, here are some things that will happen: ? I will install my G4 Macintosh at home with my KVM switch tonight. ? Hank \"Henry\" Rollins will speak to me in that way he does on Sunday night. ? My friend Bjorn will comment on this post. ? Email will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Self-service"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":525,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=525","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":4},"title":"The entry with more links than words.","date":"3\/13\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I got through the post below, then had myself a click over to Linus' place and laughed and laughed at this Pac-Man movie. [.WMV, 2.3MB] Reminds me of Pacmanhattan, which Bjorn and I want to emulate in good ol' Wisconsin. The title of this post is a lie.","rel":"","context":"In "Found Art"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":84,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=84","url_meta":{"origin":116,"position":5},"title":"How to rock in 3 easy lessons.","date":"3\/29\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The greatest man living today returned from Scotland recently, and I had the opportunity to lay down some beats over which he created music. His family was gracious as always, and his sister was also home, which meant once again there were two Nelsons in the band. 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