Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
Published January 27th, 2008 in .No Plugs Today
Sorry, Sunday is busy, but I have a number of them coming next week.
You are listening too . . .
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?, from The Beach Boys, first song off of Pet Sounds. Beautiful song of young hope, beautifully layered harmonizing, and a beautiful sections of music featuring accordion work, distorted guitar, mandolin, upright bass, some wind instruments, and of course organ. What is most amazing about this song, is just about everyone can relate to the lyrics, being a young man or woman, thinking about how nice it would be to be older, married, etc. There is amazing version of this with no instrumentation, you can hear it here on YouTube, it brings chills to my spine. It just really shows how amazing their harmonizing was. Dad, you will be interested in hearing this. There is also a few other, including God Only Knows, Sloop John B; actually there’s a whole bunch of them.
Quirky old me
Another meme that has been floating around my blogging buddies. Basically I supposed to list 6 non-important/quirky things about myself. Ok, so here it goes.
- I hate most foods that are mixed with other foods and I hate most condiments. Now obviously their are some exceptions like soup and salad and the like. Now, I love food, there are very few kinds of food, I won’t eat, and will try anything once, don’t get wrong here, but stuff like Shepard’s Pie? I like everything in Shepard’s Pie just not is all lumped together. Chicken Pot Pie, same thing. Stuff like gravy, steak sauce, BBQ sauce, and such, I cannot stand; though I can stand condiments on burgers, hot dogs, and fries. I also hate salt. Honestly, I don’t even like different foods intermingling on the same plate, at say like Thanksgiving, though I am not OCD enough to get worked up if they touch each other.
- I am a pretty frugal guy but there are certain things I will spend money on. Sneakers and shoes, I will not buy cheap sneakers or shoes. Sunglasses also. I would rather go without Sunglasses than buy a cheap pair.
- I have never been to a strip club. I am not sure why. I have never had the desire to go (and not for an moral reason) and have even not attended bachelor parties that were going to strip clubs.
- I have a very large comic book collection. I collected comics from about age 12 to age 18. I have about 4000 individual issues. They are all in boxes and in plastic sleeves. The oldest one I have dates to about 1963 (Fantastic Four 30something). I have pretty much a straight run of XMen from issue 105 to 250. I last got them appraised about 5 years ago.
- I don’t drink coffee. Have drank a cup in the past, but haven’t for about 15 years. I don’t like the taste and it give me a headache. I will partake in an occasional coffee based drink though, and I have one cup of tea per day generally, having one right now.
- I haven’t picked up a paintbrush in about 3 months, and I couldn’t tell you why. I have been getting the urge recently though.
Suprise!
So, here’s a good example of typical New England weather. We were supposed to get a inch of snow, that would end midday. Well, it has been snow all day now, and there is a good 5″ now and they are now report up to 12″. Perhaps a SNOW DAY tomorrow!
So.
Can you actually believe that some Pats fans think the Brady inury was all a ruse by Bellichick?
Loss at the Buzzer
But I got to look at it this way. Orlando’s a pretty good team. They won it with a awesome shot at the buzzer, and the shooter was well defended. Garnett was out with and abdominal strain.
HGH
Yeah, this isn’t a shock, neither would steroid use be one. I can see it now . . . BUT SLY, WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!
Malach’s Video of the Day
I am Malach and I am lying bed, just like Brian Wilson did. There is a video floating around of Brian Wilson doing a cover of this song, but I am having a hard time finding it.
18 Responses to “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?”
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Re: your meme:
#1. Food is just an excuse to eat salt. My last blood pressure check proves that beyond any shadow of a doubt.
#2. I take all of my sons hand me down running shoes. He buys 150.00 running shoes that last him for about 5 weeks. I get them after that and there is nothing wrong with them.
#3 I have made up for your absence from the strip club for a few lifetimes.
#4 I have never collected anything in my life.
#5 I make up for your not drinking coffee too. Don’t worry about it, I got you covered.
#6 I painted the garage once. Does that count?
Nice Tune!
Interesting about the food. My sister has OCD and she has a rule that “Foods do not touch” and she eats them counter clock wise. In other words, she will not move on to the next food on her plate until she has finished the first one. She also has a rule of “No pork products.” Where that came from I have no idea…we ate pork all the time growing up.
My husband is sorta like that, just not as bad. Foods can touch, but he eats counter clockwise on his plate.
I’m not a huge fan of condiments except mustard, but it can’t be that really yellow kind, French’s.
How much were the comics worth 5 years ago & should I rob you?
No, it would not be nice.
I think you can pretty much sum up your desire to not go to strip clubs (#3) with your #4 quirk.
Me neither, besides… men dancing turns me off is so feminine.
I am OCD enough to get worked up when my foods touch, but I usually eat them anyway.
Knew a guy who’d never gone to a strip club. When he was in his 30s and had suffered a royal shitting-on by a girlfriend, a mutual friend took him to a strip club to cheer him up. Didn’t work though. He spent the night trying to talk to the strippers about why they chose to become strippers every time one would get near him. LOL
Mike: You are like Bizarro Malach
MI: I don’t eat in a particular order, but I do have to eat one this first. Example. Steak with mash potatos and green beans. I would have to eat the steak first the the mash or greens
Rag: Mustard I will do, but only on certain things. Last check about $20K
Angry: Do you feel bloated?
Moog: Possibly, seen enough scantily clad huge breasted women in comic books
Toyi: Oh the video I need to make for you
Billy: I would probably do that too . . . I need to check out your blog.
I saw Brian Wilson performing at a concert a few years ago (a televised concert) and was shocked by (a) how eccentric he seemed, but also (b) how amazing his voice was even now - and he had those harmonised backing singers too. I think lots of people (like me) wondered beforehand why he was booked - afterwards though, there was no question. He had charisma. He had talent.
I have a friend who eats all the food on her plate in turn - can’t bear to have two different types of food in her mouth at once.
Yes I will break into your house. Let’s see if your cat can stop me.
I love condiments! I have to have lots of them on the foods that I eat.I hate dull food!
Kitty: Brian Wilson rocks.
Rag: Don’t forget while you are there, to take my Picasso, I have also, that right, I own a Picasson Print from 1971.
PrePon: I need to make this a bit more clear. Example, I love crap all over stuff like Hot Dogs, Nachos, Burritos, etc. I don’t like sat kecthup on my eggs, or steak sauce on steak (that is a travesty to me). I hate alot of cassaroles too.
I have this friend,perhaps you know him, he has all of his comics in plastic sleeves with the same size piece of scotch tape along the middle of the back of the sleeve. He would never let me touch them or take them out of the sleeve. He also had several little model playing pieces that he would paint, show me and not let me touch them. Do you kow anyone like that?
Eve: That wouldn’t be the Angry Piper would it? I would let you touch my comics . . .
I wasn’t allowed to buy comics when I was a kid, except when we’d go on vacation, and then I could have one. Only one. But I saved all the ones I had and the ones my siblings had and read them over and over and over again. I still have them. They’re too trashed to be worth anything, but I still like having them.
Oh thats sweet of you Malach. You know the Piper he does not share well.