Please Do Not Give That to Me: a Musical Transcription

Doc and I love making up silly songs and singing them at each other as we walk around The Mission. If you made it out to the latest 8bitSF, you got to hear Doc and me sing one of these songs for you. A song titled “Please Do Not Give That to Me,” which I have transcribed for you here:

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Learn it. Know it. Live it. Then you’ll be all ready to sing along at our show for DEATH + TAXES + CHIPTUNES on April 15th.

Originally the name of the composition was going to be “Don’t Give Me Dat” which is a closer approximation of how we sing it to each other as we walk down Valencia Street. But Doc and I cracked up at how formal and official the song looked when I started transcribing it into musical notation, that we thought it would be funnier to give it a stuffier-sounding name. Hence: “Please Do Not Give That to Me.”

Daylight Saving’s Time

Well, daylight saving’s time is on again. It is no secret that I am no morning person, so I have a lot of trouble adjusting to daylight saving’s time. I really, really dislike it. It is also really important for me to have light in the morning so I can wake up and feel rested.

This year I’ve tried staying up late last night and waking up early this morning so I’d be good and sleepy tonight. This is not a strategy that I have tried before, at least not as I can remember. I’ve been really, really sleepy all day today so it seems to be working thus far.

I’m still not looking forward to tomorrow morning, though.

Vulcans Aren’t Logical

I’ve started watching Star Trek: Enterprise recently, and it has dredged up all my all frustrations about Vulcans; specifically about how they are not at all logical. All the while being (probably) the least logical species in the universe, they claim that logic is central to their identities.

Interestingly enough, Enterprise episode 17 “Fusion,” depicts Vulcans that think everybody has been interpreting the whole logic philosophy too literally and that a balance of emotion and logic is needed. Never mind that the two are not mutually exclusive. But the strange thing about these characters is that they mostly seemed much more logical than all the other Vulcans. Especially the way Tavin (one of the “emotional Vulcans”) talks about sex – he talks about it in such a precise, open and clinical way whilst other Vulcans are embarrassed by discussions of sex and are reticent to discuss it. Indeed, Tavin is so open about sex that the humans around him feel a bit uncomfortable. But we are supposed to believe that you can only be open and honest about sex if you are illogical and emotional? This enrages me.

I know it is nothing new that TV (and movie) writers often misunderstand logic and how it works, but come on. I’ve also noticed that Vulcans seem to suffer a lot more from the problems of a monolithic patriarchy, compared to the human and Romulan societies as depicted. It seems to me that a purely logical society would have perfect gender equality, as subjugating one gender for the benefit of another is very illogical and harmful to the overall society. But that’s a subject for another post…