Happy Birthday Toyi!

9.29.2006

31 years young!
For you special day, you requested a song that you could stand, well this one here is for you.

You are Listening too . . .
Midlife Crisis, Faith No More. Faith No More was a pretty amazing band (one of the best names ever for a band) especially after the addition of Mike Patton. Everyone is familiar with The Real Thing, and how much ground it broke. This song is off their forth album (second with Patton) Angel Dust, arguably one of the best albums of ALL TIME. What makes this album amazing is this album had a lot of influence from Patton, by the rest of FNM. The album is a chaotic fight, so beautifully done. It shows the definite pull of Patton to a more avant gard area, Bottum pulling back with his pop sensibilities, Martin with his titanic arena rock guitar. Amazing stuff. It is a must buy for anyone. I am going to play a few off of this one.

I also saw this tour, Helmet opened up for them. Probably the scariest show I have ever been too (1500 no seats). Loudest too. The bass was so loud it jiggled the internal organs so much it made me vomit. Amazing show. Easily in my top 3.

Your So Vain.
So Malach gave you his rant on Alanis Morrisette's song Ironic yesterday, today my friends, we are going to explore another of my pet peeves, the song Your So Vain, by Carly Simon. Now I am not going to get into who the song is about, I really don't care. What I do want to talk about though is the song itself.

Your so vain, you'd probably think this song is about you.

Nice, line even after all these years. Here's the problem. If you made a song with those lyrics, you made a song about. Just because he is that vain, that he would think the song is about him, makes the song about him. So you are stuck in a catch 22 if you will. You don't want to the song to be about him, but it is.

Some more Deja Vu.
Malach put up a couple more videos of Electric Company skits at the WoW. Mom you will love the second one as we used to sing that when we were young. The kids were singing it today. I am going to post quite a few more Deja Vu clips there in the coming weeks. I got some good one lined up.

Help out a friend of Malach.
Tedszee, the brain behind 8 1/2 by Eleven, whose webcomic was so memorably killed in Fat Bug 1.3 (warning mature content in link), and who in turn ripped Fat Bug. Is holding a contest of sorts. Punchline 3. The basic concepts is to go to his forum, and leave a phrase, which he will use as a punchline in an upcoming comic. Here's a link to the contest and where you can leave the phrase. Methinks Tedszee needs some buckos influence on this one.

Stool Sample Webcomics.
I am almost done the main page there. Hopefully by Sunday. After that I will be rolling out some new feature for Stool Sample. And Drix's Gallery has updated yet again. My new website client got in touch with me today, and he loves the direction I am taking his site in. So I will be working on that dilligently next week, I will also try to finish up the new Fat Bug.

Dr. Murk and his journey to Sobriety.
Began today. I spoke with him over the phone and he is doing good. Follow his blog, he is going to update it regularly on this.

In sports.
Trust me on this one: Patriots 20 Cincinatti 7. This is way too much like The Rams in the first Superbowl, and the holding of the Colts a few years ago at RCA to 3 points.

Malach's Quote of the Day.
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw

I am Malach, and look how vain I am, I write a daily blog, like anyone cares what I am thinking.