Yeah, to a point. I can put all the components of a computer in a box and shake it until the cows come home, but it's extremely unlikely that it could eventually fall together to make a working, running computer. I think there's something happening with time to make that happen.

One of the best lines in Bedazzled:
Dudley Moore: But Adam and Eve were happy in Eden, weren't they?
Peter Cook: Yes, they were, and I'll tell you why. They were pig ignorant!

No way I'm gonna be the tough guy and spend a lot of time in jail so I can prove myself to be a man to a bunch of jack off criminals.

That's not the way time works.

Yeah, but if carbon dating comes up with a date of around 30 A.D. for the Shroud of Turin, suddenly carbon dating is the fucking bomb.

I guess it's just a further example of societal fragmentation caused by too much of everything being available to everybody and everybody only picking what they already believe in or like.

Honestly, if that was my choice, I'd take it, too.

They also have a relatively good point about nobody at this point having figured out just how a puddle of organic chemicals can all of a sudden one day decide to be alive and eat and shit and reproduce. Not that "God" did it (as if they could define God, anyway), but it is a bit of a puzzle.

One good thing is that if the kids are actually smart, they'll figure it out eventually. Oh, the nonsense my parents and teachers and institutional learning facilities foisted off on me as a kid!

Sexy, sexy apes.

Yes, thanks. I remember now. With the alternate lyrics:

I liked Heroes and Villains enough to dig into the SMiLE tracks and even put together a an album of it that I liked (mostly). I even found a way to put Good Vibrations into it — right after Wonderful and before Cabinessence — where it didn't stick out like a sore thumb.

He was actually trying to more to emulate Rubber Soul.

As I watched you walk away in the sand
Yeah, whatever
And they closed up the hamburger stand
Yeah, whatever
I can pretend that I don't care
As you leave me standing there
And the wind blows out the surf and chills the air
Yeah, whatever

Also the theme song to Americathon. Although few movie Beach Boys moments top when "All Summer Long" kicks in at the end of American Graffiti.

Brian himself said that Carl was the lynchpin of the Beach Boys, and when Carl died that pretty much ended the Beach Boys as a group.

We'll, they're extra special.

Didn't Van Dyke Parks write that particular lyric?

I was watching a documentary on them not too long ago and there was a guy singing with them and I thought, "Who is this old dude and why is he singing with them?" And it turned out he was David Marks who has only been with them since 1962. So I was a dope.

We come into your town
We'll help you party down