Al's Brain

[ludovica64]

Even though I pretty much memorized the Brain Song from watching it somewhere between 15 and 20 times, I have now written down the lyrics for the Brain Song as well as I can remember them. Would that count as a spoiler? or maybe no-ones interested?

[Big Spoon]

I'd be interested in seeing the lyrics typed up. And I'd say go ahead and make it a spoiler, for those who are still trying to catch it.

[ludovica64]

OK don't shout at me if this is wrong I am not a biologist, but this is what the words sound like to me. I'm sure Diva will have the right spellings etc

Warning, DON'T LOOK if you are wanting Al's Brain to be unspoilered

SPOILER Your Brain is divided into two hemispheres
Your left controls your right side and your right controls your left side
And theyre both tied together in a neat little package
By the totally awesome Corpus Collosum
When you peel away that meninges layer
Wipe off that cerebral spinal fluid
And you're looking at the four lobes of the brain

(You all know what I am talking about, Say it with me now)
Frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital
And each one has a very special job, yeah
Each one knows exactly what to do
As you're watching my disembodied head
Your eyes cones are sending stimuli to your thalamus
Which joins up to your occipital lobe
(Which of course processes visual information)
As youre listening to these words right here
The vibrations of the scilia down in your ear
Are sending those impulses along to your temporal lobe

And I know right now youre probably thinking
"Al. how can these different parts of the brain
Communicate with each other?"
Well to answer that question
I'm gonna have to break it down to a microscopic level

This is a neuron, a funky funky neuron
You got your axxon on the one side
You got your dendrox on the other
See the dendrox receives the signal from another neuron
Which sparks a chemical reaction in the nucleus
Creating a nerve impulse which travels down a long long myelin coated strand

Through which the neurotransmitter molecules enter the vesicle of the axxon terminal
And as neurotransmitters jump the millionth of an inch
Across the synaptic gap
And smash into the receptors
Of the dendrox of another neuron
Connecting neuron to neuron to neuron to neuron
All across your entire brain
(Oh Yeah)
The more you use your brain (your brain)
The more connections youre gonna make
And the smarter, the smarter youre gonna be (dup doowah)
Im talking bout your brain (dup doowah)
You gotta hand it to your brain (dup doowah)
Yeah yeah thats your Brain

[Orthography Enthusiast]

Awesome, Ludo! You put your repeat trips to good use.
Al's Brain, spoilered and spell-checked:
SPOILER Your Brain is divided into two hemispheres
Your left controls your right side and your right controls your left side
And theyre both tied together in a neat little package
By the totally awesome Corpus Callosum
When you peel away that meninges layer
Wipe off that cerebrospinal fluid
And you're looking at the four lobes of the brain

(You all know what I am talking about, Say it with me now)
Frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital
And each one has a very special job, yeah
Each one knows exactly what to do
As you're watching my disembodied head
Your eyes cones are sending stimuli to your thalamus
Which joins up to your occipital lobe
(Which of course processes visual information)
As youre listening to these words right here
The vibrations of the cilia down in your ear
Are sending those impulses along to your temporal lobe

And I know right now youre probably thinking
"Al. how can these different parts of the brain
Communicate with each other?"
Well to answer that question
I'm gonna have to break it down to a microscopic level

This is a neuron, a funky funky neuron
You got your axon on the one side
You got your dendrites on the other
See the dendrite receives the signal from another neuron
Which sparks a chemical reaction in the nucleus
Creating a nerve impulse which travels down a long long myelin coated strand

Through which the neurotransmitter molecules enter the vesicle of the axon terminal
And as neurotransmitters jump the millionth of an inch
Across the synaptic gap
And smash into the receptors
Of the dendrite of another neuron
Connecting neuron to neuron to neuron to neuron
All across your entire brain
(Oh Yeah)
The more you use your brain (your brain)
The more connections you're gonna make
And the smarter, the smarter you're gonna be (doop doowah)
Im talking 'bout your brain (doop doowah)
You gotta hand it to your brain (doop doowah)
Yeah yeah that's your Brain

[ludovica64]

Nice one Helen! Thanks..

[Orthography Enthusiast]

After another trip through Al's Brain, I want to make a correction to the lyrics. It's not SPOILER
Your eyes cones are sending stimuli to your thalamus,
it's SPOILER
Your rods and cones are sending stimuli to your thalamus That's all.

[Squirrelygirl]

Thank you both so much! I only saw the show twice and thought it was impossible for anyone to get all the words down, but I underestimated the power of Al fans!

WTG Ludo!

[Kristine]

I saw it yesterday with my boyfriend, twice. It was awesome- I loved it! I thought it was cool that he used Emo's quote in the preshow holding area. The 3D makes the video look really interesting. In the scenes with the LN tank in the background, I kept staring at it because it was so 3D and pretty, haha. It made Al look kinda strange, proportion-wise. The neurons flying by was a little nauseating. The depth of field was too broad in that part, too many in-focus things were moving fast, and I had to look away.

[ludovica64]

What's stopping you from doing so?

Adrian

I was wanting to get a shirt at AlFest because I dont have a credit card AND I didnt want to pay a ton of shipping charges

And Linda.. I did watch it about twenty times, so some was bound to sink in.. and thanks Helen I was not sure that line was right, yours sounds much better!

[Orthography Enthusiast]

250,000 visits to Al's Brain.

They SAID over 250,000 people, but I think some of us went more than once...