Mad Meyers

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Quote

You wouldn't expect me me to be using a quote from EVH. But you wouldn't expect EVH to be talking about Beethoven either!

Lots of people think songs without singing is not a song. Tell Beethoven that and he'll kick your @ss.
  —Eddie Van Halen

Thursday, June 21, 2007

What They've Said...

Well, maybe it is a little hyperbolic.

This Music reflects something every bit as disturbing in our collective psyche as communism or fascism at their genocidal worst.
  —Composer Peter Maxwell Davies gets a touch hyperbolic about loud pop music
  BBC Music Magazine, Vol 15 Num 10, June 2007, p10

"Tag"line

Stumbling upon a bear den can be grizzly.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Quote

Blindingly obvious—and probably said by many others—but still fun.

Let's say I don't want any of it in my tip jar. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's money.
  &emdash;Michael Swaine
  "Swaine's Flames", Dr. Dobb's Journal, Num 398, July 2007, p72

What They've Said...

Gee, you think he didn't like the list?

An unimaginative list drawn up by cloth-eared ignoramuses.
  —The Daily Telegraph's Rupert Christiansen rues not being invited to rub shoulders with the experts on our April "Top 20 Sopranos" panel of critics
  BBC Music Magazine, Vol 15 Num 9, May 2007, p9

Sunday, June 10, 2007

"Tag"line

Some people are Zircons in the rough.

Seen in the Wild

My own take is "when I was young and stupid".

Back in olden days, when I was an impressionable (that means stupid) young person...

Friday, June 08, 2007

Quote

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
  —Sinclair Lewis

"Tag"line

Many a flare-up between man and wife is touched off by an old flame.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Quote

Yes, I'm a tech geek. But you might find this one amusing too.

Imagine Steve Ballmer as a Bond villain, wearing a monocle and stroking a white cat. (“Do you expect me to balk?“ “No, Mr. Torvalds, I expect you to comply!”)
  —Robert X. Cringely® from InfoWorld

Extracted from here.

Commercial Spoof (video)

Ken always was a wimp.

"Tag"line

Dark clouds are things of the pass; the blue heavens abide always.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Quote

Yes, he's not exactly my kind of guy. But the quote fits.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
  —Henry Ward Beecher from " The American Flag"