It turns me on

6.24.2007

Because you expect plugs from Malach's site . . .
Tainted Love Erotic Stories updated with the next and final chapter of Along the Road (Chapter 4). Again TLES is rated 18+, and take care there is some advertising for porn in the archive.

RIP Rod Beck, because . . .
He spent a couple of year in Fenway toward the end of the his career, was a fun guy and entertaining, he will be missed. RIP brother . . .

Because we love our Sox.
Sox win, Yankess lose, lead is 11. Mood: Malach still predicts 12+ by the all star break.

Because we hate the oil companies.
Bring gas back down below $2 a gallon and I will be happier.

Because "Chemical Ali" is an awesome name for a bad guy.
We will sort of miss you homie.

Because Juan Pablo Montoya is my favorite race car driver . .
we congratulate you . . . why is Malach's fave . . . because NASCAR is becoming more like Talladega Nights every weekend.

Because Malach likes to scare you.
BOO!

Because we had a video yesterday, today we have a quote.
I always disagree ... when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. In the same way, a man can kill a tiger because he is not like a tiger and uses his brain to invent the rifle, which no tiger could ever do. ~ George Orwell

Because I am Malach I can do this.

Numbah 9

6.10.2007

Plugs.
One I forgot to tell you about yesterday. ChuckaConde the shirt and also the mousepad.

The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Kind of back on track, trying to win series, won 2 out of three in Arizona, keep this up they will be fine. The Mood: Our lead is shrinking!

Hey, the price of gas in down.
It only averaging $3.11 a gallon across the US. Locally BJ Wholesale (North Dartmouth, MA) had it at $2.85 yesterday.

Hey Everybody.
Paris is sorry and hopes everyone can find it in their hearts to meet the kindler gentler Paris Hilton.

Hi, I am Wesley Snipes.
And you see the IRS is going after me because I am black.

Uhh, Wesley Snipes, the IRS don't care who your are when you owe them millions of dollars. And yes, they are focusing on you, not so much because you are black, but because you owe them millions of dollars. See how that works?

Malach's Quote/Video of the Day

I am Malach and I caught you a delicious bass.

Ok, Fixed the Feed

5.25.2007

But first as always, plugs.
Sunshine number 39 is up, and as usual, totally true, but there are even worse situations.

Hey, guess who got the number one comment on Schilling's blog.

Ok, my RSS Feed.
So here is the problem. I use Ice Rocket RSS Feed Builder to build the feed, love their feed builder. Here's the problem, I use Feed Burner to promote the feed, they are awesome also. Basically Ice Rocket sends this to Feed Burner, and you end up with something translated, plus Feed Burner has all sort of cool feature thy provide with, one of the big ones being this.

So here is the problem. I have been using a feed since 2003. That feed got so huge, Feed Burner no longer supported it. To top it off, Ice Rocket has no way to archive or easily edit your feeds so it won't get bigger than the 512K that Feed Burner accepts.

So this left me with a quandry. I love both Ice Rocket and Feed Burner, but I need Feed Burner more than I do Ice Rocket. So I came up with and idea. Why not just use the .xml that come with this blog? So I did. Blogger feeds are easy to regulate so this won't happen again. Also I am not totally convinced someone registering for my feed nowadays wants to read through 2000 old feed updated dating back to 2003.

So, my new feed will look a lot different than the old one. It will contain these blog posts, so the 40 or so of you that subscribe, don't be shocked. Also if you just subscribed for site updates, I do put those in a section right at the beginning of every blog called "Plugs", so you won't miss an update, you will just get them once a day all at once. And to top it off, the feed address did not change and it also contains categories, and I don't have to manually update the feed. We will see how this works.

The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Day off yesterday, now a rain delay in Texas, and from what I understand it is only about 65 there. It was 95 here all day and still in the 80's right now. Mood: Hot.

Ok, when I was in high school.
Someone left a carton of milk inside one of those old huge steam radiators and it took them about 2 week to find the nasty smell.

Can the little man fight Big Oil?
Suprisingly this could work, most small gas station make a silver of profit per gallon of gas, my father used to own one. Of course just wait until Wal*Mart start selling gas.

Damn the Man!
It is the 1960's all over again brother! I can just picture Just Me out there protesting!

Advice for those of Death Row.
If you are going by Lethal Injection, get really fat.

Well.
It looks like Malach might starting playing around with his Facebook account.

Now this!
Would make a really good webcomic.

Malach Quote/Video of the Day

I am Malach and you just took a ride on one of my favorite roller coasters.

That's Shaft I'm Talkin' 'Bout!

5.21.2007

Plugs.
Just a new 8 1/2 by Eleven. Number 535. Not really Lucas's best work, but 'tis a set up piece I supposed.

Heroes.
So, Heroes is kind of like a Quentin Tarrantino movie. First they bring back George Takei in a kick ass role, and now, Richard Roundtree. He's a bad motherf- SHUT YOUR MOUTH!. So is Heroes. Nice season ender, with a interesting cliff hanger for Hiro.

Bud Dwyer.
OK, a few of you more morbid types, wanted to know a bit more about the video I posted in yesterday's blog. More specifically about some of the people in the later half of the video: the suicide, and the guy shot in the head while walking by phone booths. The video was a snippet of the Micheal Moore anti-firearms documentary Bowling for Columbine.

The guy blowing his brains out is Bud Dwyer. He was a PA politician, whom after a scandal, basically blew his brains out on live TV after calling a press confernce in 1987. The Filter song Hey Man Nice Shot is based on the incident. You can actually view the entire video at Live Leak (you need to register and present age verification).

The one of the other guy getting shot in front of the phone I remember seeing on TV when I was young. I could not find a ton of info on it and don't remember the names, but the shooter was a father shooting a man who allegedly abused his son.

The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Well the pitching matchup wasn't good, and I figured this would be a loss. Only 8th inning down by four, we will see. Pitching matchup ain't too good for the tomorrow either.

So uh Clinton Portis . . .
Thinks it's no big deal if Micheal Vick is involved in dog fight, in fact, let's quote the fantasy bust of last year: "If that's what he wants to do, do it. I think people should mind their business." Well Clinton Portis, you see, dog fighting, and using your property for dog fighting is a felony in Virginia. Dumb ass. So with that logic, I should be able to oh, say, murder you?

YAY!
We set a new record today! What, it wasn't a good record, why doesn't anyone ever tell me this?

Your Heroin Addiction.
Is keeping the Taliban alive. That could be a good t-shirt.

Malach's Quote of the Day
One had been dismissed — and subsequently executed — for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes — for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. - Drizzt Do'Urden

I am Malach and happiness in a warm bath

Goo Goo G'joob

5.06.2007

Plugs.
There is a very special Sunshine up. Number 35 features an extra special message of brotherly love and peace starring the great and mighty Cthulhu.

You are listening too . .
I am the Walrus. Very interesting song, lyrics wise. The first real use of stream of concious type lyrics in a pop song. You look at these lyrics now, and you see Beck's inspiration for many of his songs.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.

I'm crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.

Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Mister City Policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row.

See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.

I'm crying, I'm crying.

I'm crying, I'm crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.

Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,

Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.

If the sun don't come, you get a tan

From standing in the English rain.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers,

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty,

See how they snide.

I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.

Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo.

It is noted as one The Beatles most experimental and striking songs from the psychedelic period. It is also noted as Lennons most experimental songs for wordplay.

Also weirdly, the song was a B-Side to the number one single Hello/Goodbye. Talk about 2 totally different songs. Lennon readily admits he wrote a bit of the song while tripping on acid. In addition the song combines three originally seperate songs Lennon had been working on at the time. Also as a bit of an inside joke, Lennon added a verse of non-sensical words in the last verse, specifically because he had heard a former teacher of his was analyzing the lyric content of Beatles songs in the classroom. The song also carries some references to Lewis Carrol's poem The Walrus and the Carpenter. Unfortunately, Lennon did not realize the Walrus was the bad guy in the poem, and should of used the Carpenter, which readily admitted in an 1980 interview (Quote Lennon: "It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? [Singing] 'I am the carpenter....'" ).

The song has a pretty rich and well recorded history about many of the lyrics and how they were created. Some is based in real life (ie the police man lyrics, were written while tripping, hearing a siren and singing the lyric along with the siren). There were a number of little song snippets like this, and Lennon began mixing them as one song. Another verse was taken from a nursery ryhme Lennon and his young friends used to sing:

"Yellow matter custard, green slop pie,
All mixed together with a dead dog's eye,
Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick,
Then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick".

Several friends were present when Lennon finished the song, and telling them he was writing it to screw around with people who read into the lyrics is quote as saying: "Let the fuckers work that one out." As for the unsual expression goo goo g'joob, ir has never really been explained by any of The Beatles bu several hypothesis exist. Many feel it is a take off of Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson (koo koo ka choo), but Lennon would not have heard that until the release of The Graduate, which debut almost a month after I am the Walrus was released. Lennon was also a reader of Joyce, and their is a similar kind of exclamation in his final novel Finnegan's Wake. Again, no one is really sure.

Musically the song is very interesting. The song is done in all major or 7th chords, and all the musical letters of the alphabet are used (A, B, C, D, E, F, G). There is also a sample of a radio broadcast of King Lear buried in the song mix. As for the rest of the music, it is accopanied by an orchestra that included violins, cellos, horns, clarinets, and a 16 piece choir.

The song also became instrumental in the Paul is dead rumors that would begin to spread in 1969. Of course Lennon helped to confuse people by stating on a later song, the "Here's another clue for you all, the walrus was Paul."" and then on a 1970 solo album ""I was the walrus, but now I'm John.".

For the video, another innovative early music video, Lennon was wearing the Walrus costume, but on the cover of the album, McCartney was.

HEY!

It is almost 2010, where is my hydrogen car?

Clemens.

Ok bear with me on this. The Yankees signed Clemens for a 1 year $28 million dollar contract. He is basically going to pitch half a year. He just turned 45, and hasn't pitched in the AL since 2003. This will be interesting, for sure. And to make matters worse, he might not get there until the middle of June, what happens in the Bombers are 11 - 12 games out?

The Mood of Red Sox Nation.

We feel like Schilling, disappointed, I would love to see one of my heros comeback to where he started, but honestly, we don't need him. I would rather have Lester, who will be back in a few weeks.

2 out of 3 in Minnesota, not easy to do, and should have won yesturday. The Mood: Missing the Past, but looking forward to the future.

Malach's Quote/Video of the Day

I am the Malach!