MOON SHINE, the first Song Fu tune by the RiffTones, now has a beautiful and horrifying image to go with it.
Listen to our song here at you stare placidly, even lovingly, at the picture below…
Many thanks to Len Peralta of Jawbone Radio, who gave us this gift, and its accompanying curse. (NOTE: it’s not supposed to be Kevin, I swear. And the liquid-ish stuff underneath him is a sophisticated use of color shading, not anything else. I swear.)
If you go to the Jawbone Radio site, you can see Len’s nifty illustrations for the other two Song Fu “moon” songs as well.
And here’s an interview I did with Len and his wife Nora in July.
Finally, Len has some information which will prove crucial over the next several decades….
When someone ASKS you “What’s the baby using?”
The ANSWER is “25.”
Len explains below:
19 responses so far ↓
1 Veronica on Sep 2, 2008 at 7:24 am
I love the flagrant tambourine + appropriate sound effects.
Did he wet himself? No, that’s just the moon, right?
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Reply from Veronica on September 2, 2008:
Ah, I see I’ve asked a question that has been answered. Gaah.
The artwork is really fun - it kind of has a cleaned up John K. thing going on.
2 Charlie W on Sep 2, 2008 at 7:43 am
He made moonshine in his pants.
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3 Mr. Slick on Sep 2, 2008 at 8:56 am
You know you have a drinking problem when the moon is laughing at you.
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Reply from MSTJedi on September 2, 2008:
When isn’t the moon laughing at me? Oh, he tries to deny it, doing it behind my back, but I know. I know!
Reply from Mr. Slick on September 2, 2008:
I feel your pain. Not only does the moon laugh @ me but he also spreads rumors about me and others to the sun. Sure he has those 2 scoops of raisins but he knows things… he knows things.
4 Casey on Sep 2, 2008 at 9:16 am
Great image! almost exactly the sort of mental picture I got when I heard the song… save the yellow puddle.
Ack! … I swear if I hear a “what’s the baby using” reference on a Riff… I will… Well there isn’t much I can do.. but know that I am upset.
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5 Len on Sep 2, 2008 at 9:20 am
Hey, thanks for linking up the image, Bill. And thank you to Veronica for comparing my art to John K. That’s a huge compliment. I was actually trying to channel Jack Davis (as always) while drawing it, but I’ll take the Kricfalusi comparison too!
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6 Danni on Sep 2, 2008 at 9:21 am
So from what I can see from the results, you guys beat out Jonathan Coulton by one vote for second - are you officially moving on to Round 2?
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Reply from Bill Corbett on September 2, 2008:
I think we’re all moving on, unlike the last, pre-RiffTones edition of Song Fu. My understanding is that it will all be tallied up at the end.
If someone knows differently, please tell me before I embarrass myself (further).
7 Nanobots on Sep 2, 2008 at 10:01 am
Excellent image! Just what I wanted for the song in my iTunes collection.
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8 Nanobots on Sep 2, 2008 at 10:15 am
Ah, now I see why the RiffTunes would be good friends with Jawbone radio:
http://jawboneradio.blogspot.com/2008/08/ode-to-bacon.html
and
http://jawboneradio.blogspot.com/2008/08/jawbone-219-ode-to-bacon.html
Yes, some “Ode to Bacon”s.
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9 Nanobots on Sep 2, 2008 at 10:18 am
Ah, I see why the Rifftunes crew would be such good friends with Jawbone radio:
http://jawboneradio.blogspot.com/2008/08/ode-to-bacon.html
and
http://jawboneradio.blogspot.com/2008/08/jawbone-219-ode-to-bacon.html
Yes, some “Ode to Bacon”s.
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10 RifftraxIsForever on Sep 2, 2008 at 10:20 am
The moon kind of looks like that demon cheese Timer with a shorter nose I think.
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Reply from RemmieBarrow on September 2, 2008:
Timer just had a face lift.
Reply from RifftraxIsForever on September 3, 2008:
exactly!
11 Riff_Martian on Sep 2, 2008 at 10:32 am
So who here knows what the “25″ actually is?
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Reply from greg on September 3, 2008:
It’s a forced meme. Basically, if you say something enough times, the entire internet will start saying it.
Reply from Russ Rogers on September 4, 2008:
The more time that’s invested in a pointless activity, the more importance it seems to convey. This is the logic (if it can be said that there is any) behind most fraternity hazings and many modern religions! It’s called cognitive dissonance. What’s the baby using? 25.
There is no cleverness to 25. 43 is a clever number. 25 is square, not clever. It’s just a number. It’s just what the baby is using. If it was clever, it would be funny. And if it were funny, it wouldn’t be funny that people know it. The beauty of 25 is that if you know that’s what the baby is using, you won’t be confused by the question! You will just give the answer, nod, smile, chuckle, scratch your head and move on with your day. That is until you ask or someone else asks you again, “What’s the baby using?” 25.
A clever answer like, 52 or “The baby had 25, but ate three and then puked up one, so the baby is only using 23 today,” is no good. Clever isn’t the point! Clever isn’t clever. In this case, clever is just stupid. The answer is 25. If you don’t answer “25″ then you don’t know the answer or you’ve missed the point entirely. Because the point is that there is no point at all. What’s the baby using? 25.
What’s the point of a meaningless activity if we analyze it to death and try to understand it’s meaning? What’s the baby using? 25. It’s not a forced meme, just pointless. What’s the point of a meaningless activity if we are willing to give up on it quickly or easily? Treadmill sales would crash if everyone gave up on pointless activity. So go ahead, jog to nowhere and just freely admit that the baby is still using 25.
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