Public Anime
I think it was at Baycon in the early 90s some guy put up these parody
song lyrics under the name "Public Anime" (a parody itself on Public
Enemy).
I've had this song stuck in my head lately whenever "Loser" by Beck
comes on my Pandora. At least the chorus and a few choice lines like
"Kadokawa nose job." I once searched and found a reference to who
originally made these posters and actually emailed him and got a
response. He said he was going to send me a few posters, but he never
did. That's okay, cause I found this poster while cleaning up recently,
and I scanned it and typed up the lyrics. So there. I originally
grabbed it at the end of a con before everything was taken down.
Oh, I scanned it in two halves and matched it up pretty well. It was a bit wrinkled, but not too bad.
Scans: jpg tiff
Text:
In a tribe of chimpanzees I was the Monkey King Mutate my brain
into the anime junkie With the three inch eyeballs, spraypaint the
shopping mall: Sonoda rules with the cheesecake gunmoll Sing of
stagefright and put it in neutral Roadbuster flaming with the loser
at the cruise control Baby's in Sacramento with the IRC Got the
Lodoss War box set, sleep on my LDs Patten came saying I'm insane to
complain about a shotgun wedding to Svea in Czech Don't believe
everything that you see Like Morisato Keiichi with a Belldandy
doujinshi So save some face and pay Macek in the dark Eatin' all
your fish heads and living in a trailer park Yo--cut it Boku wa
otaku...I'm a loser, baby--so why don't you kill me? (double-barrel
ESWAT) Boku wa otaku...I'm a loser, baby--so why don't you kill
me? Forces of evil in a dojo nightmare Croon all the music in a
karaoke gas chamber 'Cause one's got a weasel in the furry zine bag
Reader's got a tent pole but Bambi's on the rag With the re-run
shows and the Kadokawa nose job The daytime crap of the
filk-singer's rap He choked himself with a UFO catcher doll Got a
Visa bill and a ten-story hotel fall I can't write if I can't relate
Trade cash for the cel for the manga for the smell And my time is a
piece of soot with no Totoro And Pocky Sticks for dinner Boku wa
otaku...I'm a loser, baby--so why don't you kill me? (Gettin' crazy
with the bean paste!) Boku wa otaku...I'm a loser, baby--so why
don't you kill me? (Drive-by hammer face) .......... Yo--bring it on
down..........?erutuF niatpaC fo rehtom eht s'ohW... (One does not
care to acknowledge the mistakes of one's youth) ..........I'm a
Newtype I'm a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it Boku wa
otaku...I'm a loser, baby--so why don't you kill me? (I can't believe
you!) Boku wa otaku...I'm a loser, baby--so why don't you kill me?
(Ano...) Boku wa otaku...I'm a loser, baby--so why don't you kill
me? (Nihongo o hanashimasuka, baby) Boku wa otaku...I'm a loser
baby--so why don't you kill me? (You know what I'm saying?)