I’ve always enjoyed that particular song. The album, itself, has some ups and downs. This was perhaps the best of the bunch.

Happy birthday, indeed.

NOTE: Article has some pretty ripe language! Last night my two teenage sons and I were watching South Park. The older one turned to me and said “I can’t believe your laughing at this. You never used to let me watch it.” I had to tell him that six years ago he had the echoic capacity to turn his mouth to a trash can and didn’t have the higher order thinking skills to recognize sarcasm and social commentary. Welcome to the big boy world son.

http://stockwellsassies.tripod.com/articles/excerpts_from_Shakey.html

One more bit of music trivia that might come in handy someday.

I needed to look him up. Dan Elfman (remember Oingo-Boingo?) underpins so much of the California-going-east contemporary alternative (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mars Volta). Where have you heard a Mothersbaugh echo?

When you have nephews and nieces you learn to watch kids programming. Mark has done soundtrack work for Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Rugrats. (This I knew!)

He also wrote a neat song called “Piranhas Are a Very Tricky Species” which is currently on my mp3 player. However looking him up on IMDB, this guy has done a lot more than I knew about.

Some guys remember sports stats, or movie dialogs. I love music, so obscure music esoterica sticks in my brain.

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