Here's the Mail, it never fails . . .

Monday, November 27, 2006

It makes me want to wag my tail . .
Hello. Malach here. And I can hear you. You are asking, Malach, that guy from Blue's Clues, Steven Burns, what ever happened to him? I mean he left that show, left it with that ambigously airheaded giant (well giant compared to Steve) Joe. I miss Steve, Steve was fun, and almost subversive . . . Joe, Joe kinda sucks.

Well, Malach has heard your call, and done a bit of research. Steve Burns (contrary to internet rumor) is alive and well, and possibly bathing in right now Blue's Clues dough. Steve has become a musician, director, actor and kind of strange little psuedo alternative darling.

His Wiki page is an interesting indictment on what is wrong with Wikipedia. There is plenty of wrong and false information there, including the porn actor stuff (really imagine how much money someone could make if they had a copy of Steve in all his pornographic glory). Well evidently after leaving the pleasant company of Blue, Mailbox, and Mr. Salt, he started making music, hanging out with the Flaming Lips, and putting out a album called Songs for Dustmites.

So Malach, intrigued, moseyed over to Steve Burns website. (Yeah another celebrity with a pretty crappy website, Steve, contact me, I'll hook you up). Semi entertaining. Rarely updated. You can also listen to some of his songs off the Dustmites album. You can also get a nice pic or two of Steve. My favorite being the one at left. Methinks that Side Table Drawer would be none too happy with this haunted look. But she's a bit of a whiny bitch anyway.

Further intrigued Malach journeyed over to Steve's Myspace, or as Steve puts is "Ourspace" (he has this past, present, future Steve thing going, hey what ever works). Malach of course immediatley becomes his friend, even though Malach has more MySpace friends than him (Hey gotta help a brother out).

So, the music, it's not bad. If you are a Lips fan, you will like Steve's stuff, which has some obvious influence from. It is interesting, albeit, missing a few elements that might make it very good. Of course I am not a muscian, but I think I would like to hear Steve unleash his voice a bit more. I really liked the last song on the page Mighty Little Man which features a bit more voice.

So give Steve some love, he has given you and your kids tons of it.

More Kids Shows.
So Malach order a Pancake Mountain DVD. And I must say, the kids loved, I liked it, and would love to see more kids show like it. While it shares some things with The Electric Company, Banana Splits, Dance Party USA, and it is so much different. You need to check out some of the videos from their site to get a good feel for it. You can also go back to a earlier WoW article for a little of Ian MacKaye's Vowel Movement.

I am Malach and and I just figured out Blue's Clues, cause I'm really smart.