{"id":231,"date":"2008-08-21T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-09-24T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T09:18:06","slug":"the-moon-is-made-of-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"The Moon Is Made of Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my entry for the first round of the Song Fu #2 competition over at QuickstopEntertainment.com<\/a>. It’s 100% werewolf-free, which is kind of remarkable, because the task was to write a song about the moon. Please visit the link above and check out the competition; vote for whoever you think deserves it most – hopefully for me. Note that there are Song Fu Challengers (including me) and Song Fu Masters; you may vote once in each group.<\/p>\n

My friend Robert made a post in the NP.de-forum<\/a> back in 2002, stating that the moon was made of cheese. I had always wanted to turn this idea into a song, so now was the perfect opportunity. I toyed around with some other ideas (some involving werewolves) and I even made a song called The First Monkey on the Moon; but the narrative of that song lacked an adequate flow; plus, the story was (apparently) a lame imitation of (Song Fu Master) Jonathan Coulton<\/a>. I’ll post that one in the near future, anyway. But back to my actual entry: I recorded it last Tuesday and Wednesday. First came the rhythm track and a whole bunch of keyboard sounds. Next, I recorded some rather heavy electric guitars. That was possibly a mistake, but the deadline was on Wednesday. So I just added some acoustic guitar and, of course, the vocals, before I mixed and posted the song. I’m aware that the vocals are very loud. I made that decision, because the lyrics are an integral part of the challenge. They’re posted below; the Dogma<\/a> reference was in there early on (as I’m a big fan of former QuickstopClerk Kevin Smith<\/a>), whereas the Coulton reference came at the eleventh hour. Oh, and I added some handclaps! No ukulele, sorry. But hey, if I manage to move on to round two (i.e., if you all vote for me), I might use it, eventually.<\/p>\n

Download the song: mp3<\/a> ogg<\/a> (more music<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Aliens in Nevada, magic crystal balls
\nSuperstitious cargo cults, creepy voodoo dolls
\nFriday, the 13th, absolution of sins
\nSome believe that science holds an answer to everything<\/p>\n

Some believe in fate and some in love
\nAnd some believe in God above
\nSome believe in cover-up conspiracies
\nAnd I believe that the moon is made of cheese
\nThere’s no doubt, no doubt, no doubt about it
\nThere’s no doubt, no doubt, no doubt at all<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flying Spaghetti Monsters, a talisman as guide
\nSanta Claus and horoscopes, love at first sight
\nNessie in the water, Catholicism Wow!
\nSome believe that mankind will survive this all somehow<\/p>\n

Some believe in blue and some in red
\nAnd there are some who believe that Paul is dead
\nSome believe they know who killed the Kennedys
\nAnd I, I believe that the moon is made of cheese
\nThere’s no doubt, no doubt, no doubt about it
\nThere’s no doubt, no doubt, no doubt at all
\nThere’s no doubt, no doubt, no doubt about it
\nThere’s no doubt, no doubt, no doubt at all
\nNo doubt, no doubt, no doubt about it
\nThere’s no doubt, no doubt: the moon is made of cheese<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

(words and music by Johannes Schult)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my entry for the first round of the Song Fu #2 competition over at QuickstopEntertainment.com. It’s 100% werewolf-free, which is kind of remarkable, because the task was to write a song about the moon. Please visit the link above and check out the competition; vote for whoever you think deserves it most – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}