Friday (July 8 ) is the 41st birthday of one Bek David Campbell, the multitasking musician/producer/artist/ amateur Gutenberg better known to the world as Beck. This is somewhat shocking for several reasons, chief among them the fact that he doesn't look a day over 12.

And though his musical output has dwindled some in recent years (aside from, you know, his ongoing "Record Club" series and production work for Thurston Moore and Steven Malkmus ... like we said, dude's a multitasker), we here in the MTV Newsroom remain unabashed Beck fans, and we anxiously await the day he returns with the follow-up to 2008's moody Modern Guilt . Or, better yet, the spiritual sequel to '99's Midnite Vultures .

In fact, the mere mention of those two albums — and the musical disparity between them — pretty much sums up why we love Beck so much. He truly is a man for all seasons (and styles), capable of churning out ethereal fare like "Chemtrails" one minute, ass-flaming party starters like "Sexx Laws" the next (to say nothing of "Debra," the white-boy slow jam to end all white-boy slow jams). Simply put, there isn't a genre out there that he hasn't tried his hand at, or, for that matter, totally made his own.

So in celebration of Beck's birthday, here's a look back at his epochal 1994 appearance on "120 Minutes," where he tears up a finger painting included in a first-pressing copy of his A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight LP (a shame, since it's probably worth big bucks now), destroys a telephone and plays some noise on his trusty portable tape recorder ... and that's just in the first segment. So, enjoy, and make sure to send Beck a happy birthday message. We're sure he'll enjoy reading it ... wherever he is these days.

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