Not really a plug, but kind of.
No site updates tonight, I had a night game, and just got back. We won against the team we were tied for second for. Also, the Sandlot Softball site is back up, so you can follow along.
Also read about Ratzy's big plan over at the WoW. Look like most of us are going to Hell.
Malach's Silver Hammer.
I just realized I forgot to tell about Malach's Silver Hammer. First, Geek Alert. Malach is a RPG character I have been using for about 20 years. Know jokingly as Malach the Merciless, full name Malach diMedici. I always revive Malach when I roll really well in character creation, the latest version of Malach was in D20 Dungeons and Dragons and had an 18, a 17, 2 16's, and everything else was above 12. He is always a Mage. His one quirk he always had was his weapon of choice, a warhammer. In one of his most powerful incarnations was in MERP. In that he was some ungodly level, developed spells whose effect included liquefying an groups of enemies skeletons, and had a ultra power warhammer of disintegration and returing.
You are Listening too . . .
Octopus's Garden from Abbey Road. The song was mostly written by Ringo, with a small amount of assitance from Harrison. It was only the second song Starr had ever written, and the second to appear on a Beatles album, and perhaps his best know song.
Starr's inspiration was a boat trip in Sardinia, he was offered Octopus for lunch, which he turned down. The Captain began to relate a story to him how Octopi spend their day on the bottom of the ocean collecting shiny things for their nests. The song is thought to be part of the small collection of Children's songs The Beatles wrote (the other being Yellow Submarine, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, All Together Now). The song has been performed by the Muppets, The Wiggles, and Raffi, which futher propogates the notion. The song and many of the other mentioned can also easily be associated with psychoative drugs.
There are a couple of interesting sounds, included McCartney and Lennon's vocals compressed to create a gurgling sound, and Starr adding the sound of bubbles being blow into a glass. The charm of the song lies in it's simplicity and limted over production. It is about a retreat from the hectic life, and one into beauty, happiness, and safety.
The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Look, they are on a roll, and then a 48 minute rain delay. They are back on though, and Beckett's pitching a gem. Hopefully Schill just has a tired arm, he will go on the 15 day DL, and we bring Lester up. Mood: Let's close it out Beckett.
This is weird.
Of course I think we know where this will all end up.
Yeah, this ain't shocking.
Bloomberg was about as Republican as I am.
Hillary Soprano.
What makes in funny is how bad the acting is. Make sure you watch the video. Perhaps, just perhaps Malach will make an I Got a Crush On Hilary video.
HMMMM.
Will the next Tiennamen Square be the Internet. Oh man, I just got banned by the Great Firewall of China.
Need Help Hiding Your Pot?
Just ask this nice officer for help.
John Travolta dissapproves of Anti-Depressants.
But he very much approves of secret homosexuals romps with random runaways . . that the way Scientology.
Malach's Quote of the Day
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor. - Voltaire
I am Malach and Paul is Dead?
Octopus's Garden
HELTER SKELTER!
No Plugs.
One of those on the 7th day thingies.
You are Listening too . .
Perhaps the most infamous song of the Beatles catalogue, Helter Skelter. This song was the anthem for Charles Manson's supposed prophecy messages from The White Album regarding race war and upcoming apocalypse.
This was was very different than anything the Beatles had done before, proto hard rock, punk, and metal, this song was created mostly by McCartney and was a deliberate effort to create a sound as loud and dirty as possible.
McCartney's inspiration was a interview with The Who's main songwriter Pete Townsend in which he describes their latest single I Can See For Miles as the loudest, rawest, and dirtiest song The Who ever created. McCartney immediatly got inspired to write the most raucous vocals, nastiest drums, wailing guitar he could. He was inspired by a old amusement park ride the Helter Skelter. Using that symbolism of that ride, he went on to sing about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. McCartney also made the song as a response to a number of critics who contended he could only write ballads.
The Beatles recorded the song a number of times over a number of months including a slow hypnotic 27 minute version. The last attempt at recording after 18 previous takes, Ringo Tossed his drumstick across the room, screaming the now famous "I've got blisters on me fingers!" line. The song fades out, the comes crashing back in with Ringo's line ending the piece.
People who were present at the multiple recordings recall strange incidents while recording, such as Harrion lighting a ashtray on fire and running around the studio with it on his head. Ringo has the best quote: "'Helter Skelter' was a track we did in total madness and hysterics in the studio. Sometimes you just had to shake out the jams."
According to Manson, Helter Skelter, along with several other tracks on The White Album, contained coded prophecy of an apocalyptic war in which racist and non-racist whites would be maneuvered into virtually exterminating each other over treatment of blacks. Upon the war's conclusion, after Black Muslims would kill off the few whites they would know to have survived, Manson and his companions, having ridden out the conflict in an underground city, would emerge from hiding and, as the actual remaining whites, rule blacks, who, as the vision went, would be incapable of running things. Manson employed Helter Skelter as the term for this epic sequence of events. In addition, a misspelling of "Healter Skelter" was found scrawled on the fridge in blood at the LaBianca Murder scene. Yeah pretty coo-coo.
Helter Skelter was a huge influence on a lot of bands ranging from Zeppelin and the Sex Pistols in the 70's, Sonic Youth and U2 in the 80's, The Pixies and Nirvana in the 90's and so on. Personally in a fave of mine.
The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Once again won a game in any way they could, tonight they are in the 4th, 1-0 badguys. Mood: Baseball's version of the Bellichick era Patriots.
His Name is Castro . .
He don't look too scary now do he?
Vladimir Putin.
Now that's more like it. First you poison a spy, now your acting like the good old USSR. Hopefully you can put the kissing little boys stomach thing behind you, you know Catholic Church did.
Man.
Someone needs to put Carl Everett, Torii Hunter, and Gary Sheffield on a debate team. On second thought, if Gary's right, he just gave David Stern the way to clean the NBA.
Funny Pictures
Malach's Quote/Video of the Day
Dinosaurs didn't exist. God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, and then made Adam and Eve. The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex. - Carl Everett
I am Malach and yes, the were coo-coo's aplenty in today's blog, oh and uh, Mr. Everett "don't believe in bein' gay".
