Ryan Waller is a partner at Other Means, a Brooklyn-based graphic design studio working with architects, artists, curators, editors, institutions, and schools.
This irreverent and amusing collection consists of over 800 ”misheard” song lyrics, as compiled by poet Kenneth Goldsmith, “the Napster of the malapropism [who] downloads the poetic genius of the masses as they croon to themselves in their showers”-Christian Bok. Goldsmith’s renderings include ”classic” misheard lyrics, such as ”Inna Gadda Da Vida” (“In my gaudy Adidas baby.) as well as hundreds of others: Bob Marley singing ”I shot the sheriff though I swear I was in silky pants,“ Jon Bon Jovi howling ”Thoreau is like Ralph Emerson, Ralph Emerson is what I read.“ An interesting examination of the potential interpretations…