{"id":4196,"date":"2019-01-08T08:33:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2019-01-08T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:19:41","slug":"ulcer-rock-biptunia-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"“Ulcer Rock” – BipTunia song"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Words, Music, voice: Michael W. Dean
\nVoice: Phil Wormuth<\/p>\n

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LYRICS:<\/strong>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em><\/p>\n

This is Mr. Michael Dean. I’m out in the world being awesome. So I’m not in.
\nBut if you’d like to read a true story to me, from one of my novels,
\nfrom something that happened in my life, you may do so at the tone.<\/p>\n

In 1997, I was temping as the receptionist at a dot-com in San Fran called “Paradigm Consulting.” and there are two companies called that now, neither are this company.<\/p>\n

Pretty sure they’re out of business, like most dot-coms I worked for back then.<\/p>\n

They had about 50 employees, all working on computers in one big room. Not sure what they were doing.<\/p>\n

I was answering the phones there for a week. Was South of Market in San Fran, on Howard Street around 3rd or 4th, on the north side of the street.<\/p>\n

At the end of the week, on my break, I went into the break room.<\/p>\n

Two guys who worked there had their feet up on the table and were playing Tomb Raider on a 6-foot projection television.<\/p>\n

I said, ” I’ve worked here a week, and also just read our entire website. I can’t figure out what, if anything, we do\u2026.”<\/p>\n

One of the gamers said, without looking up from the game, in a total deadpan voice “We enter into contracts with multinational corporations, renege on the contracts, and then sue them.”<\/p>\n

He sounded totally serious and neither of them laughed. They just kept playing Tomb Raider.<\/p>\n

I had no follow-up questions.<\/p>\n

Ulcer rock.
\nMy mother, back when she was alive,
\nused to say things to me like….
\nShe called the music I listened to “Ulcer Music.”<\/p>\n

She actually had an ulcer, from working too hard
\nat the store she owned, the Oriental Bazaar.<\/p>\n

But she really didn’t like rock music.
\nShe called acid rock “heroin rock.”
\nHEROIN ROCK!<\/em>
\n…which people later called my band Bomb, that,
\nback in the day…<\/p>\n

But she called music I liked, you know, Rolling Stones,
\nBeatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin,
\n“ulcer music.”<\/p>\n

Yup. Ulcer Music.
\nSo I guess that’s what Phil and I make now,
\nin BipTunia,
\nUlcer Music.<\/p>\n

Ulcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em><\/p>\n

Ulcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em>
\nUlcer rock!<\/em> etc….<\/p>\n

==–
\nMWD Note:<\/strong>
\nThe phone number dialed is the Tommy Tutone number<\/a>, with my area code added. That is not a working number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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