I decided to go with nostalgia, because that’s an easy way to appeal to a lot of people, right? I feel like I could add all sort of stuff — where is the content about the food, the Jack Doritos and the Squeeze-Its and the (delicious) Hostess Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pies? Maybe I should add a third verse?

This was recorded with a combination of the BOSS guitar sim and the mono laptop microphone. It’s slightly over the 4-track limit, since it’s got the double-tracked electric guitars.

Lyrics

I’m gonna wake up at quarter to six
And I’m gonna tiptoe downstairs
I get to watch all the cartoons I want
Today Mom and Dad don’t care
The biggest cereal bowl you’ve ever seen
Ninja Turtles on TV
Days like this were made for fun
To be had by kids like me

Saturday morning, nineteen ninety-one
The day is a blank page
Don’t have anything to do
Except for acting my age

 

After that it’ll be Nintendo
I just rented the new Mario
He’s got a tail just like a raccoon
And he eats a mushroom to grow
Legend of Zelda has me quite perplexed
I’ll scour Hyrule until eleven
Try as I might I just can’t find
The entrance to dungeon seven

 

Mom and Dad made me go outside
I’m lucky I grabbed my Troll Doll
The world is huge, the block is mine
Until sunset when they finally call

 

Saturday, saturday, in ninety-one
The day was a blank page
Didn’t have anything to do
Except for acting my age