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The Muffin Man

I tend not to dwell on the past too often. But few memories bring me as much joy as the time my old band Blame it on Eve performed a genre-bending cover of "The Muffin Man" at the Hammonton High School "Battle of the Bands" to a packed auditorium.

It starts out simply enough: Steve accompanies the lines "Do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man? Do you know the muffin man...." with a minimal slow strum on the guitar. Then for the next lines, "...who lives on Drury Lane," he cranks up the distortion and plays a crescendoing chugga-chugga riff. Then the song explodes, drum, bass, and guitar, into what can best be described as a pop-punk interpretation of the song. At this point I gathered that most of the audience was fairly incredulous. But it gets better.

After the pop-punk fiasco, Rob, the drummer, transitions into a breakbeat. This is followed by the following priceless exchange between myself and the audience:

- When I say muffin, you say man - muffin!

- (silence)

- Muffin!

- (silence)

This is repeated once or twice, then followed by something like "Muffin man! Say it as loud as you can! Yeah, muffin man. Alright."

It was pretty much a flop, but high school students aren't really known for either their subtlety or their sense of humor. I'm still bitter that we lost to that Nu metal band. Maybe if I too had taken off my shirt during the performance, I wouldn't be griping. But I had to think about all the poor girls that probably would have fainted if I tried to pull off such a stunt.

A New Kind of Science

"Three centuries ago science was transformed by the dramatic new idea that rules based on mathematical equations could be used to describe the natural world. My purpose in this book is to initiate another such transformation, and to introduce a new kind of science that is based on the much more general types of rules that can be embodied in simple computer programs."

Thus begins Stephen Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science, which you can read online. I just got back from the lecture and I have to say: wow. I have never been wowed by a lecture up until now. The stuff that he covered is truly mind-blowing in the complete stoner sense of the word.

Best Albums of 2004

Oh, aught-four. Is it already that time again? Indeed it is. I've mulled over this list for quite some time, and I've listened to more crappy music than you can shake a stick at - from the numerous indie pop bands which thoroughly disappointed me to the bizarre Ralph Wiggum-on-a-harp that is Joanna Newsom. But let's not belabour the point. I'm Frankie Dintino, and I approve this list.

My final project in my art class at Salisbury

The medium is charcoal on paper.

Best Albums of 2003

Well, actually, this list is simply my favorite albums of 2003, but that's the same thing as 'the best' right? 2003 was a decent year for music, though I don't think it was quite as good as 2002. Anyway, here's what I've come up with:

The Bad Sex Awards

"Joanne hung with her head flung back over the side of the bed, her hair splayed out across the floor, which required Christian to cling on to her waist so they both didn't fall off, and then after a modicum of congenial thrusting, she came with the exhilarating whoops and pant-hoots of a troop of Rhesus monkeys, which was flattering, if alarming." The Bad Sex Awards are back.

NES Speed Videos

A video of someone beating Super Mario 3 in 11 minutes (18MB Windows Media, mirror 1 | 2 | 3 | 4). More NES Speed Videos, including Contra in 13 minutes, as well as a Megaman 2 Walkthrough. Very impressive.

And another speed video: Quake in twelve-and-a-half minutes. I'll post more as I find them on this post

Crispy New Freestyle

I am love in with this little retard from Crispy New Freestyle. Don't miss this, it is well worth it.

"Meet me, meet me, meet me, meet me,

Meet me, don't beat me. Just meet me at the waffle house

I'm a mouse, from Ecuador, You're a duck and you're a ducky whore..."

Album Cover Finder

I came across this amazingly useful album finder. Apparently it searches amazon and comes up with the images - you can even leave the album field blank and get all the album covers for a band.

Album Covers in Lego

Someone with more time on their hands than I have and some initiative has decided to make a small gallery of album covers replicated with legos - my only complaint is the selection could be a bit better, but oh well.

End of the World

I thought this was funny. Fucking kangaroos.