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Music for the CSUA Movie (Politburo to Major Tom)

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Who needs "Banned in Boston" when you can be "Banned in Berkeley.EDU"?

If we were to make our own movie, we would definetely need a cool soundtrack
for it.  Unfortunately, people's tastes in music vary too much.  We'd
probably end up with a wierd mix of stuff like The Who's "Netrek Wizard,"
AC/DC's "Big Disks," Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Fill your Disk," Genesis's
"The Way we Wall," TMBG's "FoodP Bell," Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Walled
on Soda," "At the End of the Disk" from Les Mis, and "Ogging Style" by Snoop
Doggy Dogg.  Hopefully we'd be able to get by without Billy Ray's "Achy
Breaky Disk."

I would personally vote for David Bowie's "Disk-Space Oddity" as the theme
song for the whole thing.  You've all heard that one, right?  You haven't?
Well, it goes something like this:
	Politburo to Mojo Tom,
	Politburo to Mojo Tom,
	Take root's password and use it to log on.

	Politburo to Mojo Tom
	Commencing slowdown, ho's cl is now on
	Check partitions and may the force be with you.

	This is Politburo to Mojo Tom,
	You've really made free space
	And the users want to to know if they can put gif's there
	Now it's time to leave the console if you dare.

	       "This is Mojo Tom to Politburo
		I'm stepping through the logs
		And they list things in a most peculiar way
		But the disks look no different today.

		For here am I sitting by a fast Mac
		Far across the bay
		Soda's kernel is fu
		And there's nothing I can do.

		Though VM's past one hundred thousand K
		Ho's CL is running still
		And I hope Mehlhaff knows just what to do.
		Tell yer mom I love her very much she knows."

	Politburo to Mojo Tom
	The network's dead, there's something wrong.
	Can you hear me Mojo Tom?
	Can you hear me Mojo Tom?
	Can you hear me Mojo Tom?
	Can you....

	       "Here I am logged in from netcom
		Far across the bay
		Soda's kernel is fu
		And there's nothing I can do..."