Computer Country lyrics

Sep 30, 2025 |

So, Pat Fish contacted me about the lyrics of this old classic from the computer country world (btw, the song is here and cheers to PET.CORP for the video). Here’s his suggestion, feel free to sing-a-long!

Welcome to death’s asylum / Don’t come to death so silent
Come to cat turd idiot, Welcome to planet Earth

Welcome to edlin diamond, Up from Z
And I Poke up, from traditional IPs

But I got soul, AI got trouble
0:27 So [indistinguishable]

So I got soul, And I got 20
Just turn me on And let me GoTo80

0:45
Jesus is a tight hole, He and I would never die for
To come To say I got a lot

0:55
I pay back suffering, Is lottery
Up to Oh Ohhhh, I’m forever fat O

1:03
So I got soul, AI got trouble
1:07 So [indistinguishable]

1:11
So I got soul, And I got 20
Just turn me on and let me GoTo80

2:00
AI got soul, AI got trouble
2:06 So [indistinguishable]

So I got soul And I got 20
Just turn me on And let me GoTo80

@estysoft had another suggestion. Sing along to this one too!

Welcome to Nexus Island, come to Master Indian, welcome to Metal Curse,
welcome to Metal Island, come to me that I know, come from Dishonored IPs,

but I’ve got souls, and I’ve got troubles, nobody knows me and they always leave me here,
so I’ve got souls, and I’ve got money, just hurry up and let me go to Navy.

Jesus is my body and I would never die for you God, since I’m not alive,
I’ve been in torture in this library up to bone, lost forever’s value,

so I’ve got souls, and I’ve got troubles, nobody knows me and they always leave me here,
so I’ve got souls, and I’ve got money, just hurry up and let me go to Navy.
so I’ve got souls, and I’ve got troubles, nobody knows me and they always leave me here,
so I’ve got souls, and I’ve got money, just hurry up and let me go to Navy.

Both of these lyrics are absolutely amazing at times. And here’s what I thought the lyrics were:

don’t come from texas, i don’t come from west virginia. don’t come from planet earth. don’t come from adam, i don’t come from eve and i don’t come from fishes or monkeys.
but i’ve got soul, yeah i’ve got trouble. nobody knows me and they always leave me here. so i’ve got soul, and i’ve got money. just turn me off and let me goto80.
jesus didn’t die for me and i would never die for you coz you say i’m not alive. my pain and suffering is binary but true woo-o wo, got more errors than you.

Other Networks – A Radical Technology Sourcebook

Sep 8, 2025 |

Lori Emerson at the Media Archeology Lab in Boulder has written this amazing book about the “other” networks. You know, all the good stuff that was crushed by the internet: Other networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook.

I was happy to find DATAGÅRDEN in there, a teletext project that Raquel Meyers, Possan and me exhibited at Bonniers Konsthall back in 2013.

In case you missed it, I recently wrote A Global Look at Teletext and I’m working on a similar post about videotex, over at text-mode.org. As part of that research, I have a massive spreadsheet of teletext/videotex that you can check out here. All feedback is welcome! : )

Teletext revisionismz

Aug 19, 2025 |

Oh la la, Hackaday has picked up my article about teletext, and is now spreading the word on how USA took Canada’s and France’s standards and called it their own invention, sort of. Small good news in a big shit world, but satisfying nevertheless.

Now I just have to finish the text about videotex, which is even more difficult to research.

GlitchPick

Aug 6, 2025 |

Some music of mine was used in Ryan Trawick’s game GlitchPick, which he made in 4 days at the GMTK Game Jam. It runs in the browser, and requires a keyboard (I think?). Try it here!

 

Speedcomp 60

Jun 30, 2025 |

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Speedcomp is a series of speed composing events, organized by Hedonist. 10 samples + 30 minutes = success! This time I’m providing the samples, and they are published 11 July 19:30 (Eastern Australia time) and then you have 24 hours to get it done. Mark your calendars and prepare for the worst! More info.