Sunshine, on my shoulder

3.09.2007

Plugity plugs.
A couple today, Sunshine has been updated with number 14, perhaps the best of the bunch so far. Also, there was a small update in The Deck of Many Things today.

Also Malach is working a new deal with Amazon, and now has control over a on-site Amazon store, featuring deals and products my reader might be interested in. It is just off our main store and located here. Current catagories include, RPGS, Software, Books, Music, and I will probably add Games/Toys. I am probably going to catagorize the music. Enjoy, and remember Malach does get small % of sales out there, so it helps support this site, and my extravagent lifestyle.

You are listening too.
I skipped a couple of US releases namely, a reissue of early hits, and The Beatles VI. VI produced one hit, Eight Days a Week, but VI was mostly b-sides of early hits, so there was nothing particulary groundbreaking about it. Which brings us to HELP! .

Now HELP! is best remembered as a psuedo-soundtrack to a movie by the same name. The movie is a sort of cult classic, and is some of the first real creative stuff The Beatles had done whilst high. The Album is also known as the Album before the period of some of the most amazing music ever made and HELP! sometimes get brushed off. HELP! is definitely a transitional album, away from the pop rock, to a more experimental phase, and not to downplay the pop rock, but they were about to go places no one had ever seen. Again at the time there were differences in the UK and US albums, and more albums being released in the US, and this would continue through to Revolver.

One of the first things many Beatles fans noticed about HELP! was that it was the first time The Beatles had really begun to diverge away from happy love songs. Love Me Do was being replaced by stuff like Yesterday. It also shows the huge influence that Bob Dylan was having on the Beatles at the time, especially Lennon who's Hide Your Love Away (and one Malach's favorite all time songs) was basically a Dylan song. The title song is a supposed lamenting on their fame.

We start with Ticket To Ride, the albums first release. Those first few guitar chords, boy do they set a place and time, and take to you mid/late 60's. This was the first single and hit off the album, and again, was very different lyrically than what many Beatles fans were used to. Ringo's drums, the tribal noise really bring this song together, and the overall slowing down of the entire album is a definite nod to folk music. You can see where they are going musically and will end up later that year with Rubber Soul. I am gonna play a few off of this one.

Younger readers, who did not grow up listening to the Beatles, imaginee, the New Kids on The Block, over 3 years, morphed into Guns and Roses. This is what has happened from Meet the Beatles until now.

Anna Nicole
Just gets more interesting . . . I still got my money on Trim Spa, that murdering bastard!

Sticks and stone may break my bones . .
but evidently posting on YouTube, will hurt you. Hey Turkey, their is a reason you country is named Turkey. Ut, there goes Malach getting blocked too.

Hey.
Yet another drunk to play on the Raiders . . . who want to bet that Pacman Jones ends there, or perhaps the Bengals.

What say the Angryman.
Malach is not a big fan of guns. DC recent handgun ban got struck down, really not too surprisingly by the Supreme Court citing the Second Amendment. Here's my take. When our founding fathers made The Constitution, they never saw repeating easily concealable high powered handguns, machine pistols, sub machine guns, assault rifle, and the like. Honestly, I don't have a issue with a person want to own a gun for personal protection, or hunting, but there has to be some limit. It is much to easy for anyone to buy a gun. I can walk down the street of New Bedford and probably buy a gun within 15 minutes illegally, and probably something more than a handgun. This country is much to cowboy, and violent.

Honestly.
I don't see an issue with this as the classes are not required to graduate and the descision is up to the school to offer the courses, my only concern is why stop with the Bible? Why not the Qu'ran or the Talmud?

Daylight Savings Switchover.
Yeah the internet is going to blow up!

MORE THAN A FEELING!
Yeah Brad Delp, your dead. The Angry Piper is going to be so upset.

Wow, this is a little ass backwards.
Courtney Love evidently owes someone big time drug REHAB money.

Wow Eddie Van Halen.
Looking good brother, and those missing teeth?

Malach's Quote of the Day.
About a year ago, I started seeing these ads in the paper for 'Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation'. First it was a little ad. The next week, it was twice as big. And after a month, it was a full page-it just took over. Something in that triggered a bunch of associations and projections. Like, what kind of activities do you have to engage in to get to the point where you need to bring a laser into the equation? - Beck

I am Malach and I want to know, who stole the soul?