cs4241-21a · oblaufuss · Oct 14, 2021 · Oct 14, 2021 · Oct 14, 2021 · Oct 14, 2021
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+Assignment 4 - Creative Coding
+===
+http://a4-owen-blaufuss.glitch.me
+
+An interactive bar graph to explore the lyrical volume of the band They Might Be Giants over time.
+
+NOTE: The lyrics are stored as a large number of small files. They are only requested once, on page load, but Glitch doesn't seem to like this volume of requests; refreshing the page many times back to back may result in being rate-limited.
+
+Requirements
+------------
+- Server, created using Express
+- [D3.js](https://d3js.org)
+- User interface wtih following parameters:
+    - X axis display radio button choices
+    - X axis display album name dropdown list
+    - Y axis display radio button choices
+    - Y axis display custom search box
+
+Challenges
+----------
+- Due to the format in which the lyrics were downloaded, a large volume of network requests is made on page load. Making this happen efficiently and ensuring that all these requests had finished before display was a bit of a challenge.
+- The lengths and formatting of different songs and albums was difficult to predict and work around. To avoid having to make major changes for edge cases, an alternate solution, hovertext on each bar, was used as a label.
+
+Special thanks:
+-----------
+- [TMBW](https://tmbw.net), the They Might Be Giants wiki
+- [TMBotG's web scraper](https://github.com/bgporter/tmbotg), for collecting the lyrics 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_'85-Radio-Special-Thank-You.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_'85-Radio-Special-Thank-You.lyric
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+Hello.
+
+They Might Be Giants are happy to be on a radio program for the first time in their long, illustrious careers. 1985 has been a very good year for They Might Be Giants.
+
+In January, Bill began at a new school.
+Everyone liked him, and he likes everything.
+
+In March, we were all trapped deep inside a subway car racing down tracks going faster, much faster, until they never let us out a full ten blocks later.
+
+In April, we all sang a duet with Tina Turner.
+In a way it was nice, and it was our favorite song.
+But we spent the entire summer resting up, looking for some vital link missing in the big picture. Bill said he had found it, but in fact he had lost it.
+
+Well, in September Bill chipped a tooth skywriting far above the planet Earth, and then came the end of the year when we were on our very last radio show, which we are glad that you have become a part of.
+
+Thank you for listening to They Might Be Giants.
+We do have a Dial-a-Song service at 718-387-6962.
+(Sound of tape rewinding) service at 718-387-6962.
+
+Thank you.
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_32-Footsteps.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_32-Footsteps.lyric
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+32 footsteps leading to the room where the paint doesn't want to dry
+32 footsteps running down the road where the dirt reaches the sky
+32 feathers in my brand new Indian headdress
+32 new moons shining in 32 skies
+What's the reason? Why'd she go?
+Where's my baby? I don't know
+32 footsteps, counted them myself, 32 footsteps
+
+Bing bang bingalong cing cang cingalong
+Ding dang dingalong day
+Fing fang fingalong ging gang gingalong
+Hing hang hingalong hay
+Jing jang jingalong king kang kingalong
+Ling lang lingalong lay
+Ming mang mingalong ning nang ningalong
+Ping pang pingalong pay
+
+What's the reason? Why'd she go?
+Where's my baby? I don't know
+32 footsteps, counted them myself, 32 footsteps
+
+32 lies my ears never saw when the floorboards gave way
+32 walls come tumbling down and the night turns to day
+32 infantrymen running in place
+32 boxcars, all of them have your face
+
+What's the reason? Why'd she leave?
+Don't you know we're on the eve of
+32 footsteps? Counted them myself, 32 footsteps
+
+(no) 28
+(no) 29
+30 (no)
+31
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Absolutely-Bill's-Mood.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Absolutely-Bill's-Mood.lyric
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+I was born in a lighthouse, my mother was the sea
+I crawled to school each morning, when it occurred to me
+That life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see
+And this is what it said to me
+
+My room is comfortably small
+With rubber lining the walls
+And there's someone always calling my name
+He calls when I'm alone
+And he calls when I'm not home
+And he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+
+Now listen all you swingers, don't you try to tag along
+I know monkey see, but monkey's dead, for you it would be wrong
+Put a dime in my jukebox, you'll only hear this song
+And it won't be fun for long
+
+Because my room is comfortably small
+With rubber lining the walls
+And there's someone always calling my name
+He calls when I'm alone
+And he calls when I'm not home
+And he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+
+Thank you
+Thank you
+
+My room is comfortably small
+With rubber lining the walls
+And there's someone always calling my name
+He calls when I'm alone
+And he calls when I'm not home
+And he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
+I'm insane
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Alienation's-For-The-Rich.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Alienation's-For-The-Rich.lyric
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+This song is dedicated to all you modern day troubadours out there
+And I think I know who you are
+
+I gotta get a job
+I got to get some pay
+My son's gotta go to art school
+He's leavin' in three days
+And the TV is in Esperanto
+You know that that's a bitch
+But alienation's for the rich
+And I'm feelin' a-poorer every day
+A-hey hey hey
+
+Well I ain't feelin' happy
+About the state of things in my life
+But I'm workin' to make it better
+With a six of Miller High Life
+Just drinkin' and a-drivin'
+A-makin' sure my dues get paid
+Because alienation's for the rich
+And I'm feelin' a-poorer every day
+A-hey hey hey
+
+Ah hahahaha!
+
+Well I ain't feelin' happy
+About the state of things in my life
+But I'm workin' to make it better
+With a six of Miller High Life
+Just drinkin' and a-drivin'
+A-makin' sure my dues get paid
+Because alienation's for the rich
+And I'm feelin' a-poorer every day
+A-hey hey hey
+A-hey hey hey
+A-hey hey hey
+Ah hahahahahahaha!
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Boat-Of-Car.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Boat-Of-Car.lyric
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+"Daddy'll sing bass"
+"Daddy'll sing bass"
+"Daddy'll sing bass"
+"Daddy'll sing bass"
+
+I took my boat for a car
+I took that car for a ride
+I was trying to get somewhere
+But now I'm following
+The traces of your fingernails
+That run along the windshield
+On the boat of car
+
+"Daddy'll sing bass"
+
+Traces of your fingernails
+That run along the windshield
+On the boat of car
+On the boat of car
+On the boat of car
+On the boat of car
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Chess-Piece-Face.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Chess-Piece-Face.lyric
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+What's gonna happen to Chess Piece Face?
+There go I but for my face
+All I know could be defaced
+By the facts in the life of Chess Piece Face
+
+I don't know where he lives
+Or if he knows to sail
+Or if little schemes like this one
+Ever cross his trail
+
+But I don't believe he's dreaming
+Or if he cares to know
+So I shudder in my lampshade
+
+So what's gonna happen to Chess Piece Face?
+There go I but for my face
+All I know could be defaced
+By the facts in the life of Chess Piece Face
+Chess Piece Face
+Chess Piece Face
+Chess Piece Face
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Critic-Intro.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Critic-Intro.lyric
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+"Every once in awhile, a band comes along that changes the course of
+human history, and that band is They Might Be Giants!" —Tom
+Poston, The New York Times
+
+"Like so many things I can't understand, they left my teeth chattering
+for more!" —Peggy Cass, Aquarian Weekly
+
+"Maestro, I say right on!" —Orson Bean, Sky and Telescope
+
+"If you hear only one song this year, there's something terribly wrong
+with you!" —Kitty Carlisle, Easy Riders
+
+Ladies and gentlemen, do not be alarmed. Please, remain perfectly still.
+What you are about to see is real. The performers are not grinning
+scarecrows sent here to torture and manipulate you. Ladies and
+gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce the Twin Quasars of Rock.
+Please give a warm, friendly hand to They... Might... Be... Giants!
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Don't-Let's-Start-Demo-Version.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Don't-Let's-Start-Demo-Version.lyric
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+Don't, don't, don't let's start
+This is the worst part
+I could believe for all the world
+That you were my precious little girl
+But don't, don't, don't let's start
+I've got a weak heart
+And I don't get around how you get around
+
+Don't, Don't!
+
+I don't want to live in this world anymore
+I don't want to live in this world anymore
+
+Don't, don't, don't let's start
+This is the worst part
+I could believe for all the world
+That you were my precious little girl
+But don't, don't, don't let's start
+I've got a weak heart
+And I don't get around how you get around
diff --git a/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Don't-Let's-Start-Single-Mix.lyric b/data/1986_They-Might-Be-Giants_Don't-Let's-Start-Single-Mix.lyric
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+Don't don't don't let's start
+This is the worst part
+Could believe for all the world
+That you're my precious little girl
+But don't don't don't let's start
+I've got a weak heart
+And I don't get around how you get around
+
+When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone
+You are an animal
+The words I'm singing now
+Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
+Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account
+But don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound
+
+D, world destruction
+Over and overture
+N, do I need
+Apostrophe T, need this torture?
+
+Don't don't don't let's start
+This is the worst part
+Could believe for all the world
+That you're my precious little girl
+But don't don't don't let's start
+I've got a weak heart
+And I don't get around how you get around
+
+No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
+Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
+They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying,
+Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
+Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
+
+D, world destruction
+Over and overture
+N, do I need
+Apostrophe T, need this torture?
+
+Don't don't don't let's start
+This is the worst part
+Could believe for all the world
+That you're my precious little girl
+But don't don't don't let's start
+I've got a weak heart
+And I don't get around how you get around
+
+I don't want to live in this world anymore
+I don't want to live in this world
+
+Don't don't don't let's start
+This is the worst part
+Could believe for all the world
+That you're my precious little girl
+But don't don't don't let's start
+I've got a weak heart
+And I don't get around how you get around