Jonathan Coulton 5-14-09 - Big Bad World One @Gle3nn

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Jonathan Coulton performs the sad but upbeat Big Bad World One.

$Jonathan Coulton 5-15-09 - Mandelbrot Set Jonathan Coulton performs his tribute to the great mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician Every one of them is a splinter in my eye I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve I fear the Cantor Ternary Set And the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights Left him well equipped to face those demons down He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules He used his giant brain to turn the game around And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head A bulbous pointy form He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down Take a point called Z in the complex plane Let Z1 be Z squared plus C And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on If the series of Zs should always stay Close to Z and never trend away That point is in the Mandelbrot Set Mandelbrot Set youre a Rorschach Test on fire Youre a day-glo pterodactyl Youre a heart-shaped box of springs and wire Youre one badass fucking fractal And youre just in time to save the day Sweeping all our fears away You can change the world in a tiny way Mandelbrots in heaven, at least he will be when hes dead Right now hes still alive and teaching math at Yale He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none And his geometry succeeds where others fail If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home Just take a point called Z in the complex plane Let Z1 be Z squared plus C And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on If the series of Zs should always stay Close to Z and never trend away That point is in the Mandelbrot Set Mandelbrot Set youre a Rorschach Test on fire Youre a day-glo pterodactyl Youre a heart-shaped box of springs and wire Youre one badass fucking fractal And youre just in time to save the day Sweeping all our fears away You can change the world in a tiny way And youre just in time to save the day Sweeping all our fears away You can change the world in a tiny way Go on change the world in a tiny way Come on change the world in a tiny way The verses are : E A F#m A B E (repeat) then the chords get nice and flavourful: Amaj7 Emaj7 (repeat twice more) F#m B E Sprinkle in some Esus2 and Esus4 to emulate the nifty synthesizer line. Another verse as above, then the pre-chorus bit: E E Esus4 Esus4 and other fun noodling things as you recite mathematical formulae, and so on. then more pre-chorus bit: A A B B Ab Ab C#m C#m, A B E The the chorus (I encourage dancing while playing it: take no pity on fragile objects near you, unless they are fragile relatives) B E B E E7, F#m Amaj7 F#m Amaj7 F#m A E Repeat various bits until achieving mathematical enlightenment.$

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