An Ocky concordance

[imomus]

Now that my Ocky Milk album has effectively been published, I've put the complete lyrics (as well as a few photos and videos relating to the songs) online.



Here are a few facts abstracted from that lyrics page. A sort of Ocky Concordance, if you will.

Languages used: English, French, Japanese, nonsense language, automatic web translation-speak.

Places mentioned: Alexanderplatz, France, Liverpool, Disneyland, Waterloo station, Borneo, Inner Mongolia, the Alps, Calcutta, Jamaica, Tibet, the Caucases, Asia Minor, Zanzibar, China, Morecambe, Blackpool.

Historical figures or characters mentioned: Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, Hades, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charlie Chaplin, Mantovani, Torquato Tasso, Hiawatha, Josiah Wedgewood, Count Ossie, Ho Chi Mihn, Diogenes, Saint Augustine.

Fictional characters: Various Moop Bears, Flirty Lady, The Bird-Catcher of Hades, Dr Selbert Lanolin, The Viscompte de Lisle, The Marquis of Rochdale, an Inner Mongolian Cow Sour Yoghurt Supergirl, a Calcutta Book Dealer, a Zulu, some Galloping Ghosts, a Fox-Hunting Man, Big Sam, Ocky Milkman's Wife, the Grim Reaper, Miss Bryce, and a "Gokkun Princess Bukakke Jeweller".

Total album word count: 2097.

Comments

[zephyrcrow.livejournal.com]

Still waiting on some songs in Esperanto.

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

zephyrcrow, I call your bluff! You do not really speak Esperanto, do you?

I looked at some Esperanto-language books one time and then my ADHD kicked in.

[zephyrcrow.livejournal.com]

I speak some, probably the equivalent of a first- or second-grader. It looks more complicated than it is; if you can memorize what different words mean, the grammar is incredibly simple and you just plug words in where they go. A really good book is called "Esperanto: Learning and Using the International Language," by some dude whose name I don't remember. Also, Wikipedia has a cool article on Esperanto culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_culture).

Here's Persone (http://bertilow.com/persone/index.html), an Esperanto rock band. Kinda bland mid-nineties stuff, but you can hear what la internacia lingvo sounds like in song. Also highly recommended: Esperanto rap (http://www.dolchamar.com/audiovideo.htm). Hilarious.