Filk: TTTO "California Dreaming"

[azurelunatic]

DHCP's down
And the screens are grey.
I plugged in my box
On the lab's due day
If I could get done
It'd be OK
Network Admin dreaming
On such a crummy day.

Stopped into the lab
To see if I could play
Well the network admin groused
And he said "No way!"
You know the Admin's power-tripping
He knows I'm going to stay
Network Admin dreaming
On such a crummy day.

(instrumental)

DHCP's down
And the screens are grey.
I plugged in my box
On the lab's due day
If I hadn't slacked this
I'd have got an A
Network Admin dreaming
On such a crummy day
Network Admin dreaming
On such a crummy day
On such a crummy day

Lyrics (c) 2002 Joan Laurel [lastname]

Comments

Filk is of the good

[lasayla.livejournal.com]

Heh. Neat.

Although I notice that...

a.) You put your surname on a non-friends-only entry. I thought you didn't do that?
b.) Your surname is spelled differently to how I thought it was.

[raaven.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious! Well done!

Re: Filk is of the good

[raaven.livejournal.com]

Um...I, for one, wouldn't have known that the name at the bottom of the lyrics was the posters, if not for your above post. I thought it was just copied from somewhere.

Re: Filk is of the good

[azurelunatic]

a) I'm more fanatical about having my writing correctly attributed than about privacy
b) It's spelled like it sounds. Think Klingon with a shaved head.

[azurelunatic]

Thanks.

It came to me when the network was down for whatever reason, and we couldn't get online in Linux lab.

[othercat.livejournal.com]

Great song...I wish I could do that, put new words to the original music, but for some reason, I just can't manage it...:>

((Sith Lord In Your Bed doesn't count, because it was you, me and Sithkitten who worked on it...))

[azurelunatic]

I don't really count that among my accomplishments either... I didn't do it by myself... what that song did manage to accomplish? I now know that I can filk...

[azurelunatic]

What would be perfect, of course, would be some appropriately unhappy computer startup and failure sounds where the instrumental section goes...

[ralmathon.livejournal.com]

Good thing I'm not in That lab. or I might have appeared in your song.

[azurelunatic]

Who says you don't? ;)

[ralmathon.livejournal.com]

Well, I must be oblivious then, since I'm not the admin, and I didn't see anything resembling a lab Tech.

Cool!

[boojum.livejournal.com]

Whee! I already have "California Dreaming" on my list of songs to sing randomly. This fits it well enough that they're going to start getting tangled in my head. More confusing people!

Minor niggle: I think "It'd be okay" (where "it'd" is two syllables) would work better than "I'd be all okay".

You could have the voice repeating the tail ends of the lines be a computer-generated voice or one of those "Thank you for calling Foo and Jones, Inc. If you are calling to listen to our lovely hold music, please press 492451" voices.

Re: Cool!

[azurelunatic]

That was one of the minor scan bits that was bugging me; you've just fixed it. Congratulations. :)