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Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)

by John at 10/27/2005 10:17:00 AM

Stewart has created a brilliant fan video for Grandaddy's haunting song, "Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)" off the superb album Sophtware Slump.

The video was created entirely on a 1979 Apple ][+, and fits the song perfectly. This has made my day. (via Boing Boing)

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The backstory:

"Jed the Humanoid"

Last night something pretty bad happened.
We lost a friend.
All shocked and broken.
Shut down, exploded.

Jeddy 3 is what we first called him,
Then it was Jed,
But Jed's system's dead.
Therefore, so's Jed.

We assembled him in the kitchen,
Made out of this and
Made out of that and
Whatever was at hand.

When we finished Jed we were so proud.
We celebrated,
Congratulated,
For what we'd created.

Jed could run or walk, sing or talk and
Compile thoughts and
Solve lots of problems.
We learned so much from him.

A couple years went by and something happened.
We gave Jed less attention.
We had new inventions.
We left for conventions.

Jed had found our booze and drank every drop.
He fizzled and popped.
He rattled and rocked.
Finally he just stopped.
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