Carry That Weight

Plugs
A couple today, first Sunshine 47 now up, entitled God's Tank, you will enjoy this one. Also in an attempt to make purchase of this website merchandise easier, I have started loading the stuff in my store. Another advantage to that is you can now see the rated PG13 and R t-shirts, that Zazzle won't show you unless you register, expect more soon. Also, thanks, this Zazzle store had been very successful.

The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
We are back to the winning ways, squeaking out a win vs. the Rangers. Now, some news. Malach is going to tomorrows game. Malach's unfied Special Olympics Softball Team has been chosen as a representative of MA Special Olympics to attend the game, batting practice, perhaps meet some players, and toss out the first pitch. The Red Sox are sponsoring a Disability Awareness night. Here a bit of Irony. My team is called Rick's Rangers (named after our coach). The Sox are playing the Texas Rangers. We will probably also get on TV sometime, so keep a lookout for Malach (6' about 225lbs, glasses, I will try to sneak in some type of ad for my site). Mood: Tossing out the first pitch.

You are listening too . .
The last 5 minutes of the side 2 melody on Abbey Road. The songs Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, and The End. This is how most of the word is used to hearing it, it is played this way on the radio. They are actually three seperate short songs, that fit extremely well together. We will go over each. This will also be the last songs I play off of that Album.

Golden Slumbers is the beginning progression and runs right into Carry That Weight. In fact both songs were recorded at the same time as a single piece. Golden Slumbers is based up the ballad of the same name by Thomas Dekker, and borrows heavily from the lyrics. McCartney saw the sheet music at his father's home, but being unable to read music, he was fascinated by the lyrics and went about creating his own arrangement. McCartney uses some very strong vocals in the mid part of the arrangement, and the song harkens to some of his solos hits of the 70's. The song fits beautifully in the time and place of this band. Lennon was not present for the recording owning to his auto accident, but did provide some vocal overdubs.

Carry That Weight is the climatic meledy that not only starts the end of the album, but also brings in a number of elements from early parts of the side 2 melody. It quickly segues into The End, with change of pace. The middle bridge of the song reprised You Never Give Me Your Money and also feature some rifts from Here Comes the Sun. This song again is about the break up of the Beatles; part of it is Lennon "carrying the weight" of guilt for his part of ending the band and Yoko coming in the middle, and the other part is McCartney reflecting upon himself taking on the majority of the business management of the band after Brian Epstein death, another contributing factor the bands demise. Many of the band members also echoed the sentiment that anything the every did solo, would never equal the whole, so the would always be "carrying the weight" of the Beatles.

The End is the last song to appear officially on the album (beyond a short 30 second "hidden" track), the last song of the melody, and one of the last songs ever recorded by the band. The song is very symbolic and interesting, all four Beatles have a solo in the song, including Ringo only drum solo he ever recorded. Ringo despises drum solos and had to be convinced to do it. They actually recorded the song with guitar accompaniment, but turned the volume down in mixing to get the effect of a drum solo. Each Beatles also has a guitar solo McCartney's poppy crunch (which has been heavily sampled in the hip hop community), followed by Harrison's techincal romp, followed by Lennon dirty feedback, you can hear each particular style in each solo. The song also ends with the famous line: And, in the end, the love you take; Is equal to the love you make. That line perhaps simply best describes the Beatles music and career.

More Chris Benoit
This is becoming almost and weird as the JFK assassination. The person who posted the death of Nancy Benoit 14 hours before they found her body, left a statement at Wikipedia today. You can read it here. It was also interesting to hear the first comments from Benoit's father, and comments from Chris Jericho and Bret Hart, friends of Benoit. It good actually to see Bret after his 2002 stroke.

YUUUCK
Veggie Booty. Seriously, what the hell kind of name is Veggie Booty? Story time. Malach full time employer has the largest food pantry in Southeastern MA. I work one floor above it. Kind of nice, I can get tons of food for my clients when needed, and if I forget lunch . . . well, the other day, we got this new cup of soup in. It was called Cock Soup, yes it was chicken . . .

My God.
I wounder if I can view this garbage in YouTube? Why did I even ask?

Why fix it?
Just invade that part of Mexico. BEHOLD THE POWER OF MALACH!

Malach's Quote/Video of the Day

I am Malach and I read in Cosmo . . . ew.

Happy Father's Day or Bang! Bang! there goes Malach's Silver Hammer.

Plugs.
As promised The Wraith has been updated with episode 4.6. First, I need to disappoint a number of fans of The Wraith. It is going on hiatus. The main reasons for this are: Lack of time with the web design and commission art I am doing; and I need to focus on my 2 most popular webcomics, JesusMan! and Fat Bug. Now, that does not mean The Wraith is not popular; it is actually the third most popular comic in the Stool Sample Family. It is just right now, JesusMan! and Fat Bug are more popular and make me more money, and something had to give.

Now, I don't know how long it will be on hiatus . . . that depends mainly if this site becomes full time job in the future. This will allow me to update the two other webcomics more efficiently, and hopefully get 6 - 8 episodes a year out for you guys. The next will be Fat Bug.

Happy Father's Day.
To my Dad, and all my friends who are Dads (surprisingly there are not that many). I supposed Maxwell's Silver Hammer is an appropriate Father's Day song, no?

You are listening too . .
Another of those strange Beatles songs, Maxwell's Silver Hammer. A mostly McCartney tune, and once again he shows a bit of his silly humor. It is done in a Vaudevillian style and about a medical student Maxwell Edison who basically goes on a killing spree with a hammer. Despite the subject matter, the song in happy and bouncy, and as George Harrison described it a "bit fruity". Many critics saw this as a subconcous allegory by McCartney regarding the Manson Murders. McCartney himself just describes it as an allegory for the downfalls of life:

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is my analogy for when something goes wrong out of the blue, as it so often does, as I was beginning to find out at that time in my life. I wanted something symbolic of that, so to me it was some fictitious character called Maxwell with a silver hammer. I don't know why it was silver, it just sounded better than Maxwell's hammer. It was needed for scanning. We still use that expression now when something unexpected happens."

McCartney did everything he could to make the song a single, but it never was. Also according to Lennon, The Beatles spent the most money of any song on Abbey Road, on this song. Most of the band was not particularly thrilled with the song, and this can be seen in the Let It Be movie.
McCartney can be heard semi-laughing during the song as it seem Lennon mooned him while recording.

As for my blog title, Malach's Silver Hammer, only a few people will get that.

The Mood of Red Sox Nation.
Well, Bonds hit a homer in one of the only parks he has never hit one in. Sox still won. Bye Bye Barry Bonds.

You knew this was gonna happen.
In Homeland Securities zeal to deport people, they might accidently deport you or I.

Never buy a Honda Accord . .
Or a least don't own one in Washington State.

Malach's Quote/Video of the Day

I am Malach and I don't have a crush on Obama, but Christopher does.

We are the gopher girls

A plug or two.
532 of 8 1/2 by Eleven is now up, and ahh, the mystery of the beautiful Leyla! Also, Malach used his Hollywood contacts to post and exclusive trailer to Titanic II: The Surface over at the WoW.

Also, I am not sure if you people are following the continuing sage of Dr. Robert J. Murk, so let me present in some order.

1. Go here
2 The go here
3. Now, go here
4. Then go here

That should somewhat explain it. I think the freemasons got him.

Oh, and you absolutley have to check out Malach's new MySpace song . . Prize if you guess where that one comes from.

Hey, Malach warned you about this a month ago.
Do you have your documents ready?

One night in Paris.
I wonder when the reality special will come out?

The Bee Movie.
OK, this one looks like it could be REALLY funny, or REALLY bad.

This should be interesting.
Y'know the lottery at least in this state makes a TON of money, so I would think they would cover a misprint, and even have some type of insurance for this.

Newgle
New Google coming soon.

The Mood of Red Sox Nation
Double Header won the first one, close right now in the second. If sox win they are 9.5 up in the division. Also nutty Red Sox nation figured out that if the Sox play .500 ball the rest of the season, they will win 97 games, and for the Yankees to catch them, they will have to go 30 games over .500. Mood: Feeling Confident. Also, one of the best color men in the business, Jerry Remy, mad a major flub today, and fell off a table while doing air guitar, when it gets up on YouTube, it will be here first.

9/11
It will be interesting to see what is in these reports.

Speaking of Conspiracies.
When I invent a timemachine, Dealy Plaza, Dallas Texas, November 22, 1963 is one of the very first place I go with a couple of cameras.

Malach's Quote of the Day
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell

I am Malach and life goes on brah!

UGH!

Plugs.
There is a new 8 1/2 by Eleven up, and I must say, there is not enough Theramin comedy in the world . . . most of you might not know what a Theramin is, unless you are a fan of the Beach Boys. Listen for the strange whistling sound.

Also, there a couple on funny posts up at the wow. This one, I am a Marvel . . and I'm a DC is hilarious. Malach also put up some new undercover video of Otis Serungis, and a Top Ten Terms for Defecation list.

UGH!
The Kombucha Mushroom People lost thier first game today. The site is updated mostly. We never play well under the lights, and that is what happened today. And Papelbon just blew his first save . . see it is all interrelated.

Bush Veto.
So Dubya, evidently did not get the message from the last election and vetoed the Iraq Bill. This is going to be a VERY interesting showdown, especially since 70% of the American People want out. If we are going to stay into Iraq, there needs to be some major changes, included the possibility of conscription. Remember how long Japan and Europe were occupied after WWII? What, yeah they still have a US military presence.

Immigration.
There is a huge push to possibly legalize all illegal Americans who have been in this country for 5 years. This is getting closer to reality. Malach works for an organization that does extensive work with illegals and undocumenteds. Here what you need to do to be prepared. Get everything you can find to prove you have been here for 5 years, employment record, land lord letters, etc, and wait. While waiting protest.

The ethics of Deep Space travel . . .
I like the anti-gravity sex part . . that's hot!

Tom Poston.
RIP to Tom Poston, who made bit parts in a number of popular TV shows, cool.

Kent State.
Interesting, you think Lee Harvey Oswald was somehow involved in this too?

"I just wasn't in the right frame of mind that night,"
Wow, lady, that's understatment.

Tom Brady.
Ultimate Team Player.

MMMMMMM
TACOS!

HUGO CHAVEZ!
YOU LIED TO MALACH!

Let me get this straight . . .
Phil Spector's Lawyer is also John Gotti's?

WARNING NUDITY!
You got to love MSNBC headlines . . .. Waterfowl wage genital warfare . . and of course the sub headline . . . . 'Arms race' has resulted in longer phalluses, more elaborate vaginas. Seriously though, is this science, can one go to graduate school and study duck genitalia?

Malach's Quote/Video of the Day
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. - The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

I am Malach and I have found Muad'Dib