Por Facetious & Friends ← Pg. 12-15 Previo pista por este artista.
Lanzado el 9/9/2017.
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Also released on Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff: The Album.

Pistas que referencian The Sock Ruse:

De Additional Tracks:

• DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE por SerialSymphony

Pistas que samplean The Sock Ruse:

De Additional Tracks:

• DAVE STRIDER'S COOL MIXTAPE por SerialSymphony

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This commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff: The Album, where it's named Pg. 7.

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) 20/10/2024

Page 7.

Alex Votl: (HSMusic Discord, excerpt) 20/10/2024

lmao trying to transcribe the lyrics i don’t even think we could do that

i remember me and avery sitting down sharing a phone and a sm58
and then picking out which parts would run over the other vocal part
and which parts to repeat
and then jumping up an down going OHHHH THIS SOUNDS GOOD

we had the sbahj page open on an iphone 3
and it kept shutting off
bc we didn’t know how to keep the screen on so we’d take turns tapping the screen while singing into the mic lmao

weird anecdote, sorry

This commentary is specific to this release, Land of Fans and Music 4.

Alex Votl: (muisc, booklet commentary)

this project was pieced together over the course of 5 years with tons of help from my friends. it started out as an inside joke from the homestuck tinychat community around 2011, but i see it more as an homage to the series and the fandom. thanks for the memories everyone. it was a blast.

Nick Tucker: (i HAVE the arts, booklet commentary)

The most common way of perceiving the passing of time into a concept that humans can understand often involves the idea of moving forward through time, as if we foresee what is in our path, and approach it in a straight line. A more accurate way of looking at it is that we are reversing into the events of tomorrow, with no real idea of what awaits us. When we look ahead, we see our past, and that informes our actions. The Maori turn of phrase, "ka mura, ka muri" means to walk backwards into the future.

In the modern classic piece of literature, "Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: The Sock Ruse", the titular Hella Jeff orchestrates an intricate plot to distract his compatriot Sweet Bro with the most unassuming of items: a pair of lost grey socks. The items in question, the socks, are lying in plain sight. However, there is an unintended turn. Sweet Bro spins off into a monologue, nay, a soliloquy as to the nature of socks and marijuana consumption. Hella Jeff did not forsee this consequence. But he does not hesitate to capitalise, fulfilling his desires nonetheless.

The vehicle in possession, the theme of walking backwards into the future is rendered physically manifest, with the metaphor of reversing Sweet Bro's car into a large body of water outside the companions' lakeside property. This is the point from which I drew my inspiration for my illustration. This is the now. This is the moment. Where is Hella Jeff going? He knows not. There is dramatic irony here: we, the readers and long-time followers of Dave Strider's work know full well what will unfold: nothing, ad infinitum. But Hella Jeff is living in the moment: he HAS the car. He knows not what awaits him.

He makes eye contact with you, slyly breaking the fourth wall. Almost... beckoning. Come with me, he says. Live for the present. Become an animal of the now.