Thursday, November 17, 2011

Case Study No. 0072: Brian Smith and The anAACRonisms

The OPAC Sucks
2:12
Music video by the anAACRonisms.
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Copyright 2006 Brian Smith
This video CC: by-nc-sa
OPAC/Cowbell graphic by Anne Mitchell
Deer tick photo by Scott Bauer, US Department of Agriculture
Film clips from memory.loc.gov

"Fisherman's Luck"
"R.F.D. 10,000 B.C."
"The Mysterious Cafe"
Thomas A. Edison Inc.
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division

"Pity the Blind No. 2"
"A Ballroom Tragedy"
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Paper Print Collection

Vocals for titles and credits by OPACapella
www.laughinglibrarian.com

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From laughinglibrarian.com:

The OPAC Sucks
Recorded by: the anAACRonisms

the OPAC sucks, that's all i gotta say
you're outta luck if you can't spell "Hemingway"
i'm getting bad results
don't act like it's my fault

the OPAC sucks, a sad calamity
like it's stuck in 8 million b.c.
the title that i seek
is buried very deep

the OPAC sucks so bad that it's a crime
the law is broken: "save the reader's time"
what does it want from me?
i'm stumbling blindly

the OPAC sucks, people are confused
it runs amok, committing its abuse
years and years and years ago, computers replaced cards
how come finding what i want is still so goddamn hard?

the OPAC sucks, that's all i gotta say ...

(Lyrics and music: Smith)

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