"Frankly, I think the urge to sing a cappella comes from a pretty goofy place. It isn't very rock'n'roll. You never hear about a-cappella bands trashing hotel rooms." - Murray Foster

Hey, why not? The existance of jennicam.org pretty much justifies the existance of any other site, except perhaps Ricky Martin's. As further and, perhaps, more substantial justification for this site, though: let it be known that I can get incredibly bored. This is the reason for the existance of most of my webpages, especially the ones with Perl in them. At any rate, I thought it might be cool to take the whole Murray's People thing to the next level. Thus, waytogomurray.com came to be.

Of course, the phrase "Way to go, Murray" has a story of its own, which, when told, will probably make the existance of this site make much more sense. For the past couple of years, fans of Moxy Fruvous have held a get-together in Toronto in February during which the band usually performs at a local club. (Perhaps this is a bit simplistic, but it should suffice as an explanation.)

During the second Frucon in February of 1999, at one of the concerts at Lee's Palace, the band performed the song "You Will Go to the Moon", which is sung primarily by another member of the band, Dave. When they'd finished the song, the crowd cheered, as is customary, but someone yelled out, "All right Murray!" Transcribed below is the resulting chaos which ensued.

Jian:	Did you say, "All right, Murray?"
(Audience cheers)
Jian:	You know what? Dave.. Dave does a step-out, Dave-- pouring-- sweat pouring from his brow, he's doing "You Will Go to the Moon", and this (pauses) fucker, this-- this (pauses), um. This peasant has the audacity to say, "Way to go, Murray," after Dave, a friend of mine... Dave!
(Audience cheers)
Jian:	These-- these are the Daves I know!
Murray:	Give-- give now to the dave Drive and save Dave.
Mike (in a forced English accent): Per-- per-- personally, I can't stand either of them. I like to sing pretending they aren't even there.
Jian:	(unintelligible) if you'll have it.
Dave:	Let's just have a little Murray moment here.
Jian:	And, uh, we've agreed to-- the name of the new album is "Way to Go Murray".
Murray:	I know I can count on your support for my bass and whistle tour kicking off early-- (trails off)
Dave begins to play something on the guitar, and starts repeating, "Way to go, Murray". Jian and Mike follow suit.
Murray:	This is too much.

This is the song the band then proceeded to make up, on the fly, about themselves.

Please don't think I'm nuts. This whole site was designed entirely for the hell of it, not because I've read Misery one too many times or am off my meds. (I'm not even on any meds!) I am not a criminal and I don't have some sort of mental illness. It's amazing how much free time I have, though.

I feel like Jamie Zawinski after all that.

Photo Credit (top): Paul Mischler