I was just watching television and this incredibly disturbing commercial for Axe Dark Temptation came on. I present this foreign version for your perusal as it is extended with even more creepiness.
So I was right, wasn’t I? Creepy!
Hall Of Fame Birth Control
Last night as the wife and I was sitting and watching Dirty Harry movies on AMC a strange commercial popped up on the screen. It was for a birth control medication called Yaz.
First of all, I hate these type of commercials. It isn’t just the ones for birth control, tampons or douches (although, these are mondo uncomfortable) but for Cialis and Viagra as well. Yikes these are disturbing. The big issue I have with this Yaz medicine is that they named it after one of my sports heroes, baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski!
Yaz must be rolling around in his grave…that is he would be if he were dead. Sheesh! It was probably created by a Yankees fan! By the way, I had read that he was ill lately. I hope you get to feeling better #8.
Hidden Gem: Turnstiles
This morning as the wife was busy making breakfast I thought a little musical entertainment should be in order. I rifled through my record collection and came out with this interesting selection by Billy Joel.
Joel’s fourth album, from 1976, runs through different listening aspects for me. We have the very good and peppy in “Say Goodbye To Hollywood“. I love the drum beat in this track, very infectious. We then have the ‘hey-it’s-a-nice-song’ feel of “Summer, Highland Falls“. It is a good track to sit and listen to but I’ll never need to hear it.
Ol’ Billy had a huge miss on the not-so-good of the raggae tinged “All You Wanna Do Is Dance“. There wasn’t much that I enjoyed in this song. It made me think, “All I wanna do is skip to the next track!” Although, the steel drums throughout do make me think of those Girls Gone WIld commercials on late night television.
These are all followed by a masterpiece of AM Gold. “New York State Of Mind” is one of those rare pieces of perfection in music. I have noticed over the years that the huge talent of Billy Joel has had more than his fair share of perfect songs. Anyway, all of these different musical turns all happen before flipping over the vinyl.
Side two is pretty much along the lines of nice tracks to sit and listen to but nothing huge or amazing seems to pop up. All in all, it is a nice record to spin early in the morning when you don’t want to get the blood flowing too quickly.
Here is a video if the amazing track “New York State Of Mind“:
This is a track that does not appear on the record but is one of my favorites from Mr. Joel called “Captain Jack“:
By the way, how awesome that you can hear the hisses and crackles and pops of the vinyl in the video above? Also, hilarious how someone drew Ace Frehley make up on the cover photo.
Excused From Saving Universes
Have you noticed the names of some people’s blogs and thought to yourself, “Hey, that’s clever” or “Man, I wish I would have thought of that one” or “Uhh, I don’t get that but whatever“?
Twenty-three months ago as I created my original blog I had lots of brilliant ideas. I would write about my everyday happenings because funny crap happened to me. I would write about past stories because I really got into some pickles. I would write about my opinion on myriad of important topics because people care what I have to say. Well, as we know I really don’t too much of that but I thank the few of you that visit on a regular basis (and those of you who stumble upon me). Where was I going with this…? Oh, right!
Anyway, when I was creating my oasis of creativity that I call a blog I had a heck of a time coming up with names. There were things like LeBlanc’s Place and cliche one’s such as Random Ruminations or something with the word ‘cornucopia’ in the title. I really wanted something exciting and clever and easy to remember. I wanted to think of something that was so outstandingly awesome people just HAD to return and read my garbage. Well, I came up with the above title, A Natural Deficiency Of Moral Fiber. I am not so sure that it is clever but I think it states its purpose as far as I am concerned. It helped out a lot as far as traffic is concerned if nothing else. When most places/other bloggers are nice enough to list me in their blog roll I get to be first or darned close to the top. Most people with short attention spans, like me, are interested in finding new blogs but they won’t travel too far down the list.
Well, the name isn’t one that I came up with on my own. I searched and searched and thought and thought and mulled and mulled and then it hit me. I just knew that one of my favorite authors would have written something profound that I could straight-up pilfer. My first choice was the great British sch-fi/comedic writer (and Doctor Who/Pink Floyd/Monty Python fan), Douglas Adams. I wish that he was still alive as I know we could have been best of friends, I mean we like all the same things. Sad. Well, moving on. I browsed (on the internet) just about all of his books and finally found the perfect gem from the book Life, The Universe And Everything. Here is the exact quote:
“My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber,” he muttered to himself, “and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.”
Perfect, right? If you are interested in other spectacular quotes from this amazing writer you can click here but you really should read the books…all of them.
Basically, now that I have spouted off all of this tripe, what I really wanted to get to is asking a question to all of you, my fellow bloggers. How did you come up with the name of your place? Do you like it or have you considered changing it? Are there any other cool names you have thought of for use in your current blog or in a new one? I thought that Nashville With A Tan was an interesting sounding one. It’s from that song from that guy, none of which I can really remember…I really should go get my coffee now.
