Back in February 2006, Chris Pirillo, the organizer of the legendary Gnomedex tech conference, asked me to record a theme song for this year’s Gnomedex 6.0 event, taking place June 29, 30, and July 1 in Seattle. He asked other attendees to send in audio voice snippets for me to include, and now it’s ready. Lyrics are lower on this page.
This is the full version, with lead and background vocals and speech samples. “Tell Me About Gnomedex (Full Version)” (2.6 MB MP3 file) is also available via iTunes and on the Podsafe Music Network. Karaoke and instrumental versions are also here.
Speech samples from very kind Gnomedexer contributors, and from Sarah Pullman, Chris, and Ponzi on Geek Entertainment Television, February 2006. The full song is © 2006 by Derek K. Miller (SOCAN). Mastered by Les Thorn. All versions are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, which means you can do whatever you like with them (sample, remix, share, sync to video, etc.) as long as you give me and Gnomedex credit. Okay?
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Tell Me About Gnomedex (Full Version)
Tell Me About Gnomedex (the Gnomedex 6.0 Theme)
(C) 2006 by Derek K. Miller (SOCAN), some rights reserved
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/
with help from Chris, Ponzi, and the Gnomedexers
 
    Tell me about Gnomedex
 
    It's difficult to explain
    It's Indharasophang
 
Gnomedex, it's geeky fun
Gnomedex keeps out of the sun
Gnomedex, for the girls and boys
Gnomedex, with all the high-tech toys
 
Podcastin', aggregatin', video bloggin', crazy taggin'
Photo galleries, startup salaries
Chris and Ponzi running madly
And of course don't you forget all the free schwag
To be had
 
    Is that because everyone wants to be a gnome, or what?
 
    These are my people
 
    Every conference that sucked
    And I turned it around
    
    I attended my first Gnomedex at the age of six
    Everything I know about life, love, and the human condition
    I learned at Gnomedex
    If mankind can still be saved
    The answers will be found
    Among the pocket protectors and fanny packs
    
    These are my people
    
    For geeks, by geeks, about geeks
    
    Gnomedex is like traveling into the future
    But they still have beer
    
    All our good friends at Gnomedex 6.0
    
    It's the Woodstock of conferences, podcasting, and blogging
    
    People's eyes light up when they give each other ideas
    And then they go off and talk about it
    
    I'd like to go to Gnomedex
    A wuh-a-wuh-a-wuh-a
 
The audience might heckle you up on the stage
Your choice of web feed format might cause a rage
You know I think we really oughta try
To blow that bandwidth, all that bandwidth, sky high!
 
(World's shortest heavy-metal solo)
 
Forget CES and Macworld, OSCON and Foo Camp
MacBooks, Tablet PCs, mobile phones say "look at me!"
Don't know what makes it so good
We'd write an algorithm to explain it if we could
(But we can't)
 
Gnomedex tickets are hard to get
Gnomedex, is it Web 3.0 yet?
Gnomedex, it's geeky fun
Gnomedex, it keeps us out of the sun
 
    Tell me about Gnomedex
 
    If someone says "Hey, can I come and pitch my product?"
    We basically kick 'em in the shin
 

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