Genius Meanings
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Tenacious D – Inward Singing
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“Inward Singing” is a comedy sketch where Jack announces to Kyle that he wants to shows off a thing called inward singing. He demonstrates how you can use it to sing while
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Tenacious D – Karate
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This song first appeared on Tenacious D’s show on HBO (Which ran from November 28, 1997 – March 15, 2000) when Jack Black (Jables) met a girl called Flarna who works in a tattoo
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Tenacious D – Fuck Her Gently
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“Fuck Her Gently” is one of Tenacious D’s most famous and beloved songs. In it, the D give advice on how to give your special lady the D.
It was released as a single to radio with
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Tenacious D – Dio
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“Dio” is an homage to Ronnie James Dio.
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Tenacious D – Kyle Quit the Band
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The title says it all. Kyle quits the band, comes back a week later, and The D throws “a big ol' bash” for Kyle’s return.
This song was on the Tenacious Demo produced by Andrew
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Tenacious D – Friendship Test
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The skit leading into the track “Friendship.”
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Tenacious D – Karate Schnitzel
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Coming off of a skit and song on friendship, Jack and Kyle’s friendship is about to be tested, when Jack finds that his schnitzel is gone. This skit also leads into the track “
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Tenacious D – Pat Riley
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[Intro] / You know a lot of times when me and Kage sit down to write a song / The ideas blast forth bleeding together like wine / Now only once every hundred years or so / Does
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xaev – call me
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[Intro: Carly Rae Jepsen] / Hey, I just met you and this is crazy / But here's my number, so call me, maybe / And all the other boys try to chase me / (MS Project, Bringing you the
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Tenacious D – Friendship
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On the aptly named “Friendship,” JB and KG talk about their relationship with each other.
The duo performed the song on the first episode of the MTV show Crank Yankers.
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Tenacious D – City Hall
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“City Hall” is part song, part skit and makes for an epic album closer. The song includes the hidden track “Malibu Nights.”
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Tenacious D – Cock Pushups
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The idea of “Cock pushups” became a plot point in the movie Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny.
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Tenacious D – One Note Song
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The first skit on the album follows the intro to the album opener. Jack and Kyle are trying to think of awesome riffs! Jack’s got an idea…
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Tenacious D – Hard Fucking
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A skit providing the introduction to the famous Tenacious D track “Fuck Her Gently.”
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Tenacious D – Rock Your Socks
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four, five / 6-6-6 / [Verse 1] / It doesn't matter if it is good, it only matters if it rocks / The main thing that we do is to rock your socks off
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Tenacious D – Wonderboy
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“Wonderboy” was released as the second and last single off of Tenacious D. On “Wonderboy” Jack Black (as Wonderboy) is talking about his arch rival “Young Nastyman” (Kyle Gass
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Tenacious D – Double Team
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On “Double Team,” Jack describes a sexual encounter with a woman that he and KG share.
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Tenacious D – Drive-Thru
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JB: Kage. / KG: Yeah? / JB: Let's go to the drive-thru. / KG: Oh good, I'm starvin'. / *vroom noise* / EMPLOYEE: May I help you? / JB: Yeah, um, uh... / EMP: Can I have your order
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Walt Whitman – Song of Myself
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Walt Whitman’s masterpiece. A grand tribute to democracy, sex, the body, the soul, and the open road. If there’s such a thing as The Great American Poem, this is it.
“Song of
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Samuel Beckett – First Love
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First published as Premier amour by Edition de Minuit, Paris 1970; English trans. published by Calder and Boyars (18 Brewer St. London) in 1973) [ISBN 0 7145 0965 5.] Square
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Terry Eagleton – How to Read a Poem (Chap. 1: The Functions of Criticism)
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Like all tenacious myths which refuse to vanish whatever the evidence, it is there to serve specific interests. The idea that literary theorists killed poetry ...
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William James – CHAPTER XVI. MEMORY.
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In the last chapter what concerned us was the direct intuition of time. We found it limited to intervals of considerably less than a minute. Beyond its borders extends the immense
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William James – CHAPTER XXIV. [1]INSTINCT
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INSTINCT is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such away as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance. That
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Michel de Montaigne (Ft. Charles Cotton) – Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Chap. 2.17)
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Of Presumption / There is another sort of glory, which is the having too good an opinion of our own worth. 'Tis an inconsiderate
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Edmund Burke – Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Edmund Burke’s arguments are highly shaped by his Anglican religion, as he sees the French revolution’s secular ideals as being set up to fail.
He also criticizes the French for
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