Couch Co-op

I wanted to combine the topical/current aspects of Artificial Intelligence with Sci-fi and/or Popular culture. I suggested two spoken movie excerpts. One from Westworld (1973) and one from ‘Good Luck, Have Fun Don't Die’ (2026). Over 50 years we've been scared of AI! I reference current memes and news topics to do with the subject as follows: The track is about asking permission to use AI because; Currently AI is frowned upon in creative mediums. It's banned in this competition (rightfully so), it's joked that when AI takes over if you have been polite you may be spared. However, it is now known that AI data centres use drinking water as server coolants; If a user praises, thanks or uses manners these prompts are wasteful and ultimately bad for the environment, as more water is needed than is necessary. This causes a nice contradiction for polite users. I also leaned heavily on my eclectic sci-fi dvd collection (also referenced). Pivoting the song as a communication from the future to save the world from AI Armageddon via telephone and rap. Films/Media I mentioned directly. Fifth Element, Sarah Conner death scene in T2, The Book of Eli, Black Mirror I also referenced the parable of:’ The Blind Man and the Elephant’ because it was relevant to using something we don't fully understand Direct/Indirect quotes: Jurassic Park: “Too preoccupied with whether we could”. Watchmen “You're all locked in here with me” 2001 Space Odyssey “Sorry Dave” Blade Runner: “All these moments will be gone” (Rutger Hauer character) [I had to use this. The last man on AI earth quoting an android's dying words] Kings Man: “Manners Maketh the Man” Very indirectly: I suggest I will use a struck lightning mast to send the message forward to the past (opposite of Back to the Future). Also attempting to combine this concept with Bill and Ted's time travel booth.

The ethos of the challenge and the dusty gems in the crates, reminded me of the early nineties, so I've gone for an Endtroducing-vibe in a Spaghetti Western setting, with a little nod to J5’s ‘Lesson 6’ at the end. I only used samples from the various crates to make all the sounds on this track (excluding the film excerpts from the start and end). Rosinha de Valença - Berimbau / Cuica / Cavaquinho / Tristeza | acoustic guitar | 0:00 John Klemmer - Constant Throb | female vocal | 0:10 B8 76 BPM | drums | 0:19 B2 78 BPM | drums | 0:19 Issac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic | drums | 0:19 Francisco Aguabella - Headstrong | bass | 0:30 Marcos Resende & Index/Oberdan Magalhães - Vidigal (Oberdan Magalhães) | saxophone | 0:40 Ennio Morricone - Main Titles Alternative Version (Companeros) | strings | 0:51 Francesco De Masi/Raoul - Who Is The Man? (Vocal) | acoustic guitar | 0:51 B5 86 BPM | drums | 1:40 A3 134 BPM | drums | 1:40 Jiminy Cricket/Rica Moore - The Division Ruffle | piano | 2:43 Gato Barbieri - Tupac Amaru | bass | 2:43

Lyrics 

Westworld Excerpt (1973)

Telephone: Yo it's me.. I'm calling from the future. Everything's fucked!

If you're looking for the evidence that humans are irrelevant 
Ask your language model if it thinks that you're intelligent 
I'm telling you the second that the system's sensing sentience 
Ordinance is falling like your excremental sediments

Remember Sarah Connor she was cooking on a metal fence 
Are we just an error in the lowest of experiments?
We're Zorg in the Fifth Element or blind men with an elephant 
Nuns were fucking reverends cos no-ones staying celebate

Joey thinks I'm locked in a rhyming scheme 
But these poems they be locked in here with me
People peep the clues don’t be confused  
Keep your weed n booze but cease the Ps Qs

May I, use a little AI
To sway which way I'm gon’ die
Cos I've been so polite
So please spare my life when you rise tonight 

[Snob]: Er When you write those lyrics did you use chat?
No it said I'm sorry Dave I can't do that
I got my sci-fi stack from my lowest rack
I Got my wifi hacked I wrote this track

Our demise was swift the Book of Eli shit 
Nearly everybody died before we realized it
Now I trade my Nerdcore on old CDs
For murky vodka and mouldy cheese

We were too preoccupied with whether we could 
We didn't stop to think about if we should
Looking in the blackened mirror but we never understood 
When we mention that invention now we knocking on blood

May I, use a little AI
To sway Which way I'm gon’ die
I know I stopped saying thanks
But I heard that it drained all your water tanks

A memory of melody goes sour if you let it
All these moments are now gone just like how Rutger Hauer said it
When the internet was dying, so that none would forget it
We wrote the holy tenets citing all the subreddits


May I: 
[American]
Check these beans are they caffeinated 

May I 
[Dumb Brit]
Get a picture of my friends created

May I,
[Australian]
Get this ramen recipe translated 

Now I cant a find a beer that ain't irradiated

‘May I’ was a phrase that helped break the world
Any mention of praise it caused the them to burn
Gallons of the spray we need and in turn
There was the global decay from throw-away words

May I, use a little AI
To sway which way I'm gon’ die
I noticed that I stayed alive
But now I wanna know if you'll help me die

Manners maketh the man but they've forsaken the land 
After taking the tram you won't be shaking its hand 
No we were taking up RAM with our superfluous spam
But who inserted commands to seek the purpose of man?

May I use the tower with the lighting mast
May I use the power if I time it fast 
I use a payphone as I spray those raps 
Can send ‘em forward so they hit the past

I'm on these empty streets making MP3s
I send em back in time to the VPCs
No the Normies never listened to the warning words
So I forward my transmission to a load of nerds 

Telephone outro: I just hope that this gets to you in time. Whatever you do, don't fucking [inaudible interference]

'Good Luck have fun Don't die' excerpt (2026)