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A very strange Beatles song, that many people find surprising that was on The White Album. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da . . . is it a fun and popular Beatles song, yet has also been voted worst song of all time (though I can think of thousands of others that fit that bill). Many of the young'uns might remember this being the theme of the TV show Life Goes On.
As for the song, I don't think a lot of people get it. First it is the only reggae song the Beatles ever did or really attempted, and is more in the vein of ska. Of course The Beatles added a bunch of stuff to it (a honky tonk piano rythmn being one), but the killer McCartney bassline is definitely reggae. The song was written mainly by McCartney as a concious nod to the emerging reggae movement. The song employed a number of schemes The Beatles had never used before in a song, and continued to showcase the highly experimental nature of The White Album.
While McCartney mainly wrote the song, Lennon made a major contribution. The song was originally conceived much slower than it's current pace, and Lennon was not pleased with the song. While experimenting with acid, Lennon sped the song up, and the rest of The Beatles were amazed at how good it sounded. It was re-recorded at the higher speed.
The song is rather simple in it's subject matter, and the lyrics are also pretty simple. But listening reveals a whole sub level of sounds, voices, and laughter. In addition, in the second time through the verses, McCartney switches some the wordings as a slip of the tongue, but they never changed it.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is supposedly a greeting in the Yoruba tribe meaning "Life goes on". The Beatles were actually sued over the saying; a Nigerian Singer clamed he taught the saying to McCartney. It was settled out of court.
The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
BORED! I hate rainouts. And yet the Yankees still fell another half game behind.
Speaking of the Weather.
Huge rain, thunder storms and rare tornado warning all over New England . . . but we got squat here is SouthEastern MA.
Internal Decapitation.
Wow. Pretty amazing.
Half a Million Dollars.
For some interesting reading?
Let's see.
He 10 months old, named Bubba, and got a gun permit, and a gun for his birthday. I would think this was in Texas.
Phil Spector.
Yeah you killed someone with that haircut.
The positive side to having Herpes.
See, every cloud has a silver lining.
You know what I find interesting.
They like to put our founding fathers on our money. But what about guys like these, who came before Washington? Or especially a guy like John Hanson?
Bo Diddley.
Suffered a stroke today would be a shame to lose him.
Malach's Quote/Video of the Day
I am Malach and The Grey Album is very interesting.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Life Goes On, Brah!
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye
No Plugs today.
You will get some tomorrow though!
Heroes.
Why anyone in the world would continue watching that crappy show 24, and not watch Heroes is beyond me. Idiots, watch it. And Sylar is one of my new favorite villians.
The Murk and Malach Show
Murk apologizes, he has gotten really busy this past month and not been able to update our podcast. Especially since our archive of past podcast in going crazy right now with people listening to it, our feed also has close to 80 subscribers. He is going to try to finish it up this week.
Another reason not to live in Kansas.
Tornados. Seriously, have you seen pictures or video of this destruction? It is absolutely amazing only 10 people were killed.
Now imagine.
You are the marketing department for a new energy drink, and you need to come up with a name. So the brain trust decides "Cocaine" would be a great name . . .
King Herod.
Perhaps the most famous person in the New Testament beyond Christ, St. Peter, Judas, and Mary. After all these years, they find his burial tomb. It will be very interesting to see what they pull out of it.
So you got this earache.
And you head to the Doctor's only to find 2 spiders, the size of pencil erasers in you ear. I got to give the kid credit he is taking it well. Although he did state he was kind of dissapointed the spiders did not turn him into Spiderman, cause if they did, he could make fortune.
Americans Love the Queen.
Epecially those of use like Malach who wonder how long she's got left to live, I really want to see Prince Charles as King. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Bye Bye Photobucket.
What's next for MySpace?
Phil Spector.
Demonic? NO WAY!
Malach's Quote/Video of the Day
What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job. - Carl Sagan.
I am Malach and I let my knickers down
OWCH!
Plugs.
Sunshine number 21 was loaded, and Hex basically did a portrait of Dr. Murk with this one. Hex also got me another 20 or so cartoons.
Also, Friday Night RPG Cartoons number 1.9 is also loaded.
My finger.
At the request of several fans, including one who claims to be a doctor, here is a pretty good picture of the gash on my index finger.
Now, it hurts much less, than it did, and I can somewhat type today. What you don't see is the gash continues around the finger (right side) to the finger nail. I sealed up pretty nicely if I do say so myslef. I also stabbed the middle finger next to it, but that ones looking good today and no where near as devestating. I have full feeling in the finger tip (as I can attest while I type), which is a bonus. It probably needed several stitches, but I wasn't about to wait around the St. Luke's emergency room for 4 - 6 hours for 4 - 6 stiches.
So, what happened? I was cleaning our very expensive razor sharp Cuisinart knives. Those of you that own Cuisinart know how strong and sharp they are. I was scrubbing some crud off a blade (they are not dishwasher compatible) and my fingers got in the way . . . whoops. I am lucky it was only a steak knife and not the the Santoku Knife (yeah that would have been a bit of a mess. I was also pretty lucky I did not do this with my Multi-Tool which has a knife designed to cut bone. Kudos to Cuisinart by the way for making such high quality knives.
So, that leave us with perhaps a smaller blog for the next few days, as typing is not nessecarily painful, it just takes three times as long to type this stuff.
As for a Beatles update, we will see tomorrow. I am starting Sgt. Pepper with the next update, and want to do it right.
The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Add Lester to this pitching staff, and they are going to be frightening. Mood: Happy.
Rain Rain.
Go away. No Sox game today, and they have messed around with the schedule for the Boston Marathon tomorrow.
Hey, doofuses.
They don't call 'em Sea Lions for nuthin'.
A little shout out.
To Mr. Jackie Robertson.
RIP Do Ho.
RIP my Big Kahuna.
Malach Quote of the Day
I am Malach and thanks to C.Rag for the vid heads up.
