Try to see it my way, Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?

3.23.2007

Plugs for you and your kind.
There is a new 8 1/2 by Eleven, strip 514, and I don't know about you, but Cinn, and Jessica are starting to annoy me. Also, Ben Byrd's latest is up, and so far, this is my favorite of his. It is a short story in a dystopian, cyber punk kind of vein, and is really good. It is called Classification, you must read it now.

The Murk and Malach Show.
Murk and I are starting to get back on track with a monthly podcast. We will be recording this coming monday, so send questions for the mailbag to me or Murk.

You are listening too . .
Sorry, we moved out of Rubber Soul, and onto a double A side single the Beatles released at about the same time. Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out. You are listening to the later. These songs were only available in singles until the release of the June 1966 album Yesterday and Today. Yesterday and Today was a US only release, and was significant becuase it not only contained those songs and some other re-releaseses (Yesterday and the songs removed from the US version of Rubber Soul) it also contained 3 songs that would appear two months later on Revolver. It was also significant for it's original cover, affectionatley known as "the Butcher Cover" (at left). Capitol pulled the cover after some backlash in the US. If you have one of these originals they are worth some decent money (there is an unopened one on ebay right now, going for about $8,000).

We Can Work It Out is a very significant song, and one of the Beatles more popular of this era. First it is one of the only post 1963 songs that had fairly equal creation from both McCartney and Lennon, and one of their best until the later materpeice Day In the Life. McCartney and Lennon juxtapose their lyrics brilliantly, with McCartney's slight more positive and Lennon's more negative. The timing change between the McCartney and Lennon parts are also one of the first examples of a extreme timing change on a Beatles record. Harrsion's little sad waltz time harmonium part also work very well, perfectly adding to the contrasting Lennon parts . . you really cannot imagine the song with out them, and they really make the song..

According to McCartney, the song was originally written about his failing relationship with Jane Asher, but as he wrote more, and Lennon added his bit, it became more universal, again similar to The Word and All You Need is Love later.. The textural wash of the dual voice recordings, the fuzzing, and over mixing really begins to signal the direction they were heading. That direction being of course Revolver which is next, are you excited?

The Iraq War
So the House set a firm limit on spending for 8/08 for the Iraq War. No funds available after that date. Dubya aint to happy. Look at it like this. That will make it a 6 year war. That is almost as long as Vietnam, and twice as long as WWII.

New Spacesuit.
I hope they have something in Fuschia!

Wow.
They keep delisting endangered animals, it give me more things to try for dinner.

How drunk do you need to be?
To pass out at a stop light?

Marshall Faulk
Retired yesterday. Faulk once one of the greatest running backs of all time, pretty much a class act, and changed the position. You will be missed even by this hardcore Pats fan.

HMMM.
Perhaps this is why Vonage has been calling all week.

Holy Crap.
My god, do they have difibrilation through the drive thru too?

Again.
Maybe this time this will pass. Idiots, this needs to occur if you want better internet monitoring. I would if I will have to get an .xxx domain for Fat Bug or TLES?

Malach's Quote of the Day
No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene. - Juan Gris

I am Malach and we can work it out.