Monday, January 24, 2005
Happy Happy Time...
Neil Diamond is 64 today, and he's still fucking cool. For example:
- He's the "Jewish Elvis"
- Went to NYU on a fencing scholarship. Fencing!
- Was in The Last Waltz, looking coked up out of his mind
- Wrote "I'm a Believer," the only good song the Monkees ever had
- Had the chutzpah to cut a christmas album (which my mother forced me to listen to every December), which is akin to, say, Johnny Cash releasing a "Greatest hits of Judaism" record
- When he got divorced in 1995, had to pay $150,000,000 in the settlement. That isn't a typo.
- Saving Silverman
