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This is a song a son made by mixing drunken voice messages his Dad left him, with piano and electronic beats. Be advised: "It should've been your throat instead of your umbilical cord" is the most postable quote I could find.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJxLgpmhex4&fea ... r_embedded

damn.

He needs to get help. The son not the father. There is no help for the father. But the son needs to let go. Keeping that stuff is like constantly nicking yourself with a razor, eventually it is going to hit an artery.

The YouTube page is full of people telling him to change his number.

I do quite like, though, that he turned something so despicable into art. Creation from destruction, kind of.

I'd love to make a song out of these bleeding heart comments.

That was sweet.

lorin wrote:He needs to get help. The son not the father. There is no help for the father. But the son needs to let go. Keeping that stuff is like constantly nicking yourself with a razor, eventually it is going to hit an artery.

Providing this is all real and not just an attempt to become the next internet phenomenon. You see, I'm not attacking Cambo or this thread, but I have learned to be careful about such things. Everyone could record a few offending statements, put them on a bad beat over it and invent a heart warming story and hey presto, you're the next StarWarsKid.

Vader wrote:

lorin wrote:He needs to get help. The son not the father. There is no help for the father. But the son needs to let go. Keeping that stuff is like constantly nicking yourself with a razor, eventually it is going to hit an artery.

Providing this is all real and not just an attempt to become the next internet phenomenon. You see, I'm not attacking Cambo or this thread, but I have learned to be careful about such things. Everyone could record a few offending statements, put them on a bad beat over it and invent a heart warming story and hey presto, you're the next StarWarsKid.

Brilliant idea! You rip the die krupps beat (fatherland, I think!) and I'll record a string of bad mommy sayings. Here comes our internets gold!

if you need cussing to a beat - will help.

This is the most heartbreaking thing I've seen in a week filled with heartbreaking news.

Vader wrote:

lorin wrote:He needs to get help. The son not the father. There is no help for the father. But the son needs to let go. Keeping that stuff is like constantly nicking yourself with a razor, eventually it is going to hit an artery.

Providing this is all real and not just an attempt to become the next internet phenomenon. You see, I'm not attacking Cambo or this thread, but I have learned to be careful about such things. Everyone could record a few offending statements, put them on a bad beat over it and invent a heart warming story and hey presto, you're the next StarWarsKid.

You make a fair point Vader- it's very hard to know the authenticity of anything found on the web.

At the very least, though, someone has created a moving piece of art and claimed it was real. I'm still touched by it either way. One thing I am sure of is that there are fathers out there who do treat there sons this way. If this video's just a fictional representation of that, well, it should still break our hearts.

Cambo wrote:At the very least, though, someone has created a moving piece of art and claimed it was real. I'm still touched by it either way. One thing I am sure of is that there are fathers out there who do treat there sons this way. If this video's just a fictional representation of that, well, it should still break our hearts.

You sum up how I feel about it.

This is the saddest thing. Makes me want to call my Dad and tell him how wonderful he is. For all his mistakes, he always made me feel valued. I think I'll send him an e-mail right now.

Vader wrote:

lorin wrote:He needs to get help. The son not the father. There is no help for the father. But the son needs to let go. Keeping that stuff is like constantly nicking yourself with a razor, eventually it is going to hit an artery.

Providing this is all real and not just an attempt to become the next internet phenomenon. You see, I'm not attacking Cambo or this thread, but I have learned to be careful about such things. Everyone could record a few offending statements, put them on a bad beat over it and invent a heart warming story and hey presto, you're the next StarWarsKid.

Yeah, I definitely see your point.

I think this guy was making more a point of just taking something ugly and turning it into something beautiful: it's about perspective. Those statements his father made were from a recorded conversation. Maybe the kid WAS a handful. Maybe the kid took advantage of his dad for so many years, that his dad blew up at him and the son happened to record it. Maybe the son provoked the dad into doing it. You never hear what the son has to say.

I remember a specific instance where my father blew up at me. He said some naaaaasty things. If I had recorded him in that moment saying those things, put a beat to it, uploaded to YouTube...I probably would have gotten a ton of hits, too. It doesn't make it right how he handled himself, but....he wasn't a terrible father.

anyone taken at their worst would sound horrible. but it sounds like more than one convo the dad was having. and it ranged pretty far into the horrible.