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[unbibium]

You know, if I had enough musical talent, lots of free time, and enough man-ovaries to waste all of it on something totally silly, know what I'd do?

I'd write as many sequels to Metallica's "Unforgiven" as I could. Metallica wrote "Unforgiven Too", and it sounded vaguely like the original "Unforgiven" but clearly wasn't, though they did a pretty clear callback at the end. So I'd write "Unforgiven 3" (Unforgiven Free?) that sounded vaguely like Unforgiven Too. Then "Unforgiven For..." with an ellipsis in the title because "for" is a preposition. I think by the time I hit 5, hopefully I'll be so far removed from the original that I won't have to think of another clever word-number-play lyric.

And I'd try to steer the progression such that "Unforgiven 18" would be the theme to Full House.

Then I'd release a crossover sequel called "Unforgiven vs Paranoid".

Comments

[jwgh]

I think 'Unforgiven 3' needs to be called that just so people will know what you're talking about, and 'Unforgiven For ...' should maybe be 'Un-Four-Given'. 'Unforgiven 5' could then be called 'Still Unforgiven'.

The ultimate would be to write a finite-state automata that would endlessly generate an endless cycle of 'Unforgiven's, each a variation on the last one. Ideally you could specify that a given 'Unforgiven' along the series would be the theme to Full House, or 320 World, or Puff, The Magic Dragon, or whatever, and it would try to interpolate between the two spots (which could lead to some really odd variations if you don't allow enough 'space' between). However, it might be best to save that for the 2.0 version. You could then call the Unforgiven-generator 'Unforgiven Infinity', although there are some objections to that given that the program or automata or whatever isn't itself a variation on Unforgiven.

It's not immediately obvious to me how many Unforgivens there are. I think there's only aleph-null, but there might be aleph-one or even more. It probably depends on what kind of variants you're willing to allow, and how you determine whether two variants are actually the same variant or not. (Are you bound to a certain set of instruments? If two variants differ in that one is 250 beats per minute and the other is 251 beats per minute, does anyone care?)

I should probably go to bed.

Unforgiven... IN SPACE!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

There needs to be that one.

Also "Unforgiven Goes Hawaiian."

Re: Unforgiven... IN SPACE!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Donald Knuth and Douglas Hofstadter could have a year-long flamewar about the parameterizability of a meta-Unforgiven.

Re: Unforgiven... IN SPACE!

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

With the example of an Unforgiven that slowly turns into Psalm 23.

Re: Unforgiven... IN SPACE!

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Or Ezekiel 25:17

Re: Unforgiven... IN SPACE!

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

and "unforgiven takes manhatten," in which the music video will involve jason vorhees killing off the members of metalica one by one.

i'll watch that video.

[atillathehung.livejournal.com]

How 'bout Unforgiven for didgeridoo and theremin? I have several didges to choose from and am assembling parts to build a theremin.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Metallica on alternative instruments is so last year (http://www.apocalyptica.com/home/index.php), but I'm in favor of anything having to do with theremins.

[atillathehung.livejournal.com]

Yes, theremins rule. I hope mine will turn out uber-cool. Id like to make a flying saucer-shaped casing for the curcuit board. With the two antenae sticking out, it would look way spiffy.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Full House will be cursed until time ends for starting up the whole Olsen Twins nonsense