Today (April 7th) is Muffti’s birthday. I was reminded of that when I read this recently:
pantera and south park, i’m pretty high-brow. that’s what a philosophy degree gets you; a love of speed metal, cartoons, bud light, and drum machines. bertrand russel would be proud. or ashamed. or indifferent. probably ashamed.
No. That’s not the Muff pontificating on the pleasures of Pantera and cartoons. Though it may as well be. Except for the Bud Light part. This was a quote from Moby. No not the confused anarchist, I’m talking the good Moby. The one with the new album out titled Last Night. Our Muffti is clearly part of a larger Zeitgeist, where people with Philosophy majors, usually relegated to careers as naked house boys, actually do something productive and even fun. That’s our Muff. Productive. Fun. Not a naked house boy. Now I can launch into a whole series of “remember that time when…” or “and that other time when…” but those that know, know, and the rest can’t even begin to imagine. Also, when Muffti blushes he turns really, REALLY red. Look at that pic above taken in the Sinai. Pretty pale eh? So yeah. Happy birthday from Ir Hakodesh. I’m a get drunk in your honor. Or something.
Here’s Pantera doing Cowboys From Hell, cuz it seemed appropriate:
Giyoret
4/6/2008
“The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.” ~Bertrand Russell
Keep up the good work, grandest of GrandMufftis!
Happy Birthday, with a big smooch,
Giyoret
Grand Muffti
4/6/2008
Sweet video! thanks CK! Muffti remembers ALL those times when…but we’ll do that soon enough when we a get drunk together! No thanks for the pic, however…sadly muffti is not especially photogenic.
As for the Moby quote, muffti would leave out the bud-light and the self ascription of high-browness. Muffti’s brows are right around the middle.
Thanks Giyoret.
Lori
4/6/2008
Muffti,
I think you’re pretty dang photogenic. Why else would I agree to be your wife for the entire ride back to Eilat?
Lori
4/6/2008
Oh, and happy birthday, habibi.
Ben-David
4/7/2008
Ad me’ah v’esrim – ad me’ah k’esrim.
Til 120 – and ’til 100 with the vigor of 20.
This is the second Muffti photo I remember on this blog. So why isn’t this cutie married already?
Ben-David
4/7/2008
Not that i’m pressuring or anything – I just want to see you settled and happy before I die.
jc.
4/7/2008
Happy mufti day!
froylein
4/7/2008
Ben-David, are you proposing?
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Muffti!
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(Muffti should be glad ck did his b’day tribute – I’d have chosen an outline map of the Benelux states instead of Pantera.
Grand Muffti
4/7/2008
B-D, we’re all hoping you live a wonderful long life so Muffti feels no particular rush! Muffti isn’t settled, but he is happy.
Thanks JC and Froylein…and good to hear from you ex-temporary-wife Lori. Though he’s pretty sure your agreeing to be your wife was more out of a misplaced sense that Muffti could provide some protection than photogenicity!
Yankel
4/7/2008
Happy birthday Mufti,
Your pal,
Yankel from Cote Saint Luc
(bringing new meaning to imaginary friends….)
xisnotx
4/7/2008
Stormfront is happy Pantera speaks out against “anti-white racism:”
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froylein
4/7/2008
xisnotx, this is a b’day party for the cool kids.
themiddle
4/7/2008
Well, thank god xisnotx chimed in. I just didn’t know when it was appropriate to say it but now that he’s broken the ice, I have to add that Pantera SUCKS.
froylein
4/7/2008
Middle, I take it you didn’t have a piece of body jewellery in the 1990s?
Grand Muffti
4/7/2008
Pantera doesn’t suck; at least they don’t suck at heavy metal…in Muffti’s humble opinion. The lead singer never struck muffti as especially white power-ish to be honest though in the midst of a lot of heroin who knwos what people are prone to say.
themiddle
4/7/2008
Froylein, other than the nipple ring, nothing.
Giyoret
4/7/2008
If that man is not photogenic, I don’t know who is.
Le sigh..
froylein
4/7/2008
Middle, that’s pretty tame but hot. Without a face, your options are limited afterall.
xisnotx
4/7/2008
Here you can see the volks at Stormfront debating Pantera’s racist creds:
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While there are some disagreements, this one fellow seems very sure:
“Omg, no Way, Duuuuuudes, Pantera is Racist, many Skins go to their shows, and they know it, I was reading Ls1.com forum once and someone went to their concert and said they shouted out ’88′ and asked what it meant. But thats not the only time I heard them say 88…..”
Ben-David
4/8/2008
The Guest of Honor said:
Pantera doesn’t suck; at least they don’t suck at heavy metal…in Muffti’s humble opinion.
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Hey, it’s your birthday party, but… this is way to smoothly produced to be good heavy metal, imnsho. Rod Stewart also sings hoarsely… so?
froylein
4/8/2008
Ben-David, who do you prefer? Sepultura, Biohazard or Clawfinger?
xisnotx, I don’t know about Pantera’s political stance, but I’d not necessarily rely on information provided by right-wing fascists. Over here like-minded groups have tried to corner hardrock bands into a far right political position that the band did not hold.
Ben-David
4/8/2008
Sepultura sounds like either a perfume or a Sephardic delicacy…
Clawfinger – is that the latest James Bond movie?
froylein
4/8/2008
Sepultura:
Clawfinger:
Grand Muffti
4/8/2008
Muffti thinks very highly of sepultura – though he has to admit that clawfinger is new to him. Sepultura is pretty raw – especially back in their chaos ad days.
Cowboys from Hell was a little overproduced, BD – Muffti agrees…but he thinks its still pretty high quality metal.
Ben-David
4/9/2008
Sepultra – original take (at least this clip) and yes its raw. Never liked the Satanic aspects of heavy metal, and this kinda hit those old buttons – but still very real and original.
Clawfinger – clever but this clip didn’t go anywhere after the first idea. Based on this clip I’m not sure if I’d call this “heavy metal” as opposed to just “rock”.
xisnotx
4/9/2008
Froylein, that’s a good point.
I saw Pantera in the mid-90′s. The lead singer, Phil Anselmo, gave a rant which reached its apotheosis when he told the crowd it was ok to be proud to be white. The crowd seemed much relieved.
check out this article from a Montreal paper in which Anselmo
had to apologize for saying stuff like “Tell the niggers to stop eyeballing me” and “This is our world, and tonight is a white thing.”
pages.infinit....
froylein
4/9/2008
Unfortunately, most clips by Clawfinger suck so much that the music were better off standing by itself.
grandmuffti
4/9/2008
Muffti just can’t let this go on with out posting some of the original masters of the genre: Slayer! Sorry B-D, you don’t get any more sillily satanic than these guys.