It was 250 years ago today..W.A. Mozart taught the band to play

Happy Birthday to Wolfie! Today is a special day, not because of Mozart's birthday, no, no, nay nay. Today is special because without the birth of the wunderkind, our ears would have never heard the greatest pop/rock song of all time! That's right, "Rock Me Amadeus" by the indomitable Austrian pop star, Falco (God rest his soul).

Why is this song so genius you ask? Let me tell you.

First of all, the song gives you a complete chronology of Mozart's life encapsulated in a 3 min song, in two languages no less!German and English. Observe, first in my mother tongue (sidebar: the English version is called "The Solieri Version", oh, touche!).

"1756, Salzburg, January 27, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born
1761, at the age of five Amadeus begins composing
1773, he writes his first piano concerto
1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constance Weber
1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a free mason
1791, Mozart composes "The Magic Flute"
On December 5th of that same year, Mozart dies
1985, Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock Me Amadeus!"

Ok, so did you know Wolfie was a free mason? Nor did I! Thanks Falco! Think that is all? In the 2nd to the last line, you can have oodles of fun with that..how you say?

On December 5th of that same year, Mozart dies-now replace 'dies' with any cliche for death you can think of...like so

On December 5th of that same year, Mozart kicks the bucket
Mozart throws the baby out with the bathwater
Mozart pushes up daisies
Mozart takes a dirt nap, and so on and so forth. Makes a good party game, albeit after about 2 hours of playing quarters.

Right, so we have the basics down, but let's get to the nitty gritty or as the Austrians would say, UND NITT UND GRITT.

Let's take the same verse and see how it pans out in German.

Es war um 1780
Und es war in Wien
No plastic money anymore
Die Banken gegen ihn
Woher die Schulden kamen
War wohl jedermann bekannt
Er war ein Mann der Frauen
Frauen liebten seinen Punk

See the difference? I know what you are thinking. "No plastic money anymore", why that's not German! No, it sure isn't and furthermore it makes no sense what so ever, but WHO CARES? It's funny as all hell isn't it. Try reading it, best as you can out loud, you'll see and I am sure you will agree. COMIC GENIUS!

Here's the thing, pretty much anything in German is funny. They spell comedy with a 'K'! In case you were not aware, the first rule of comedy is: EVERYTHING IS FUNNIER WITH A K! That, is about 60% of the German language right there, you see where I am going with this. Still don't buy it? Consider this, exit in German is AUSFHART, which I know..doesn't start with a "k" so it sort of dillutes my point, but then is it...wait, what? Right, got that, moving on.

Back to the matter at hand. Another fantastic detail about Rock Me Amadeus is, Falco was a marketing genius! I mean, did he know that in 2006 Austria and much of Western Europe would celebrate Mozart's birthday for an entire year? You could spend a year dissecting this song alone (and I just may do that). I mean hell, even here in Los Angeles, there are banners for 250th anniversary hootenanny's with the Philharmonic! How many times do you suppose that Rock Me Amadeus was played on the radio, internet, satellite today? I would guess a whole lot. A friend of mine put it in simple terms for me today, "It was a commercial marketing coup from beyond the grave"! She's right you know! Madison Avenue needs to take a lesson.

Alas, Falco has been long gone from our world and unfortunately, died pretty much the same way Mozart did, eerie parallel, no?

So....Happy Birthday Mozart and R.I.P Falco

My Only Question Is? Just who benefits from the royalties of such a classic masterpiece?

Have I mentioned that when "Entourage" is on the telly.....

I begin to feel like I am about to have a psychotic episode? Not like a run of the mill episode either, I am talkin a full on Charles Manson psychotic breakdown. But, what does that mean exactly? What would constitute a "Charlie M. Episode"? I mean like say, would I carve a pseudo-Nazi symbol on my forehead? Would I write incredibly lame songs and poetry and try to pass them off as art to my admirer Axl Rose? Would I begin to do strange erratic dances and refer to everyone as WOMAN? Not sure. What I am sure of is I think I know way too many Charlie quirks don't you?

I digress. This show Entourage drives me mad, it is so insipid! The thing is I cannot even articulate exactly what sends me over the edge about this, maybe it's the 10,000000 times I have t o hear "Did James Cameron call"? Why is it that every single time this damn thing is on I hear this? Now see, I don't watch this show (well that's obvious I suppose) but my husband does, I will get into that at some other time. See, I have heard this line blaring from the t.v. and you know, each time I hear it I think, oh it must be the same damn episode, but noooooo, they say it all the time, in LA, in Aspen, in NY and Krishna knows where else.

The whole damn thing is just so..well absurd, ok well I don't know the whole plot line but let me tell you that right now, the agent is driving up the coast with the top down and the soundtrack is...drum roll please..."Sympathy for the Devil", all I can think of is the diminutive Tom Cruise driving in San Fran after he disposes of Christian Slater at the end of Interview with a Vampire, it was cheesy then, and it's cheesy now..

So, my only question is? Who watches this drivel?

Is this mic on?

So, I have done this blogging bit before and maybe, just maybe I can actually do this one for more than say..oh, 3 weeks. I tend to get distracted.

In any case, there should be a lot of questions to be posed as my betrothed is gearing up for his first real big art show in 2 weeks, it will be, humm..chaotic, yes that is the word.

I will have much to report and retort upon soon, till then I leave you with

"That'll do pig" ~Babe