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[grindmonkeh]

I decided to stay home and relax tonight. I uploaded a fair amount of pictures from the Star Wars events to a webpage for showcased geekdom, though it only shows a glimpse of everything there was to see or do. Also, for every decent picture my camera turns out there are two blurry ones. I think I'll go see what my sister is doing or go grab a beer now.

"Give me a bottle of anything. ..and a glazed donut. ...to go." If you recognize that...you're old.
Here's a great Idea... Get five guys who neither like heavier music nor know anything about it, and half-ass a show by playing the worst videos of the genre. MTV still sucks. I was flipping through the channels, saw Diamond Dave, and stopped to look. Maybe they should take a look at their regular programming in the same light. ...or play some decent videos spotlighting heavy music. Nah.

For fuck's sake, Jimmy Kimmel (or however you spell that) just said that Van Halen with Gary Cherone was a lot better than that Hagar guy or David Lee Roth. I'm pretty sure he was serious. I rest my case.

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talkin' bout a Yankee Rose

[rissa333.livejournal.com]

Heh, I watched this same show. Two of the guys were Tenacious D, who very much care about this heavier music. I think when they would try to get some words in edgewise, Jimmy and Adam would start running their mouth. It was pretty much their show, it should have been edited better.

Yes, MTV still sucks.

Re: talkin' bout a Yankee Rose

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Tenacious D were at least knowledgeable. I could care less about most of the bands they were making fun of, but why waste the time and money showing the "worst of" the metal/hard-rock genre? I'll never watch mtv regardless of almost any changes they could make to their programming, but that show made me stop and wonder how they could come up with an idea that bad.

[suicideking4766.livejournal.com]

Jimmy Kimmel sucks ass...usually. Gary Cherone? Extreme? Pornograffiti? What was that song again? "Wholehearted"? Ack. Hell, I ain't even heard a VH song featuring the fucker. wHATEver.

Basically, DD was the shit. A veritable showman. They were all about groupies and ass, which was cool is a very 80's way. Once Sammy came along and tried to inject "feelings" and "social consciousness" into the band (or maybe Eds and Alex just got older - I think Mike just felt lucky to be there)...well, it kinda ran aground, thinks me. It ended with that double disk live album.

Yeah, I recognized that quote. Does that really make me old?

Here's what I rilly think makes me feel old. Getting excited about going to the Los Angeles Tower Records on Sunset (the only one they had at the time) with my parents so I could get my own copy of "Planet Earth" by Duran Duran, so I could finally listen to "Is There Something I Should Know?" without waiting for it to pop up on MTV.

Or remember Randy and the Redwoods.

If you remember "if the shoes don't fit your brain, don't wear'em" then you watched too much MTV as a kid.

Fuck, that was a ramble. I apologize in...er...retrospect.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

No apologies required. Ramble on.

Jimmy Kimmel looked clueless.

Extreme jumped on the party rock band with a guitar virtuoso bandwagon right before it was pushed over a cliff. Gary Cherone singing with Van Halen manages to sound a LOT like Sammy Hagar if someone had lopped off his cajones. It rates a rather high level of suck on the suck-o-meter. Roth ruled. Hagar ruled.

Duran Duran's Seven and the Ragged Tiger (I think that's the name of it.) album was one of the first cassette's I ever owned. Mostly prior to MTV I listened to Kenny Rogers' The Gambler and Star Wars records a lot. Don't tell anyboda.

I remember Randy and the Redwoods, but not, "if the shoes fit your brain..." What was that from?

[gloomchen.livejournal.com]

I was happy alone with the Headbangers' Ball retrospective; I didn't stick around to watch what the Man Show guys had to say. They don't exactly come off like metal gods to me or anything.

I have 17 videotapes of Headbangers' Ball in my attic. I'm more than just old, I have proof.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I caught the final few minutes of the Headbanger's Ball retrospective. I remembered almost every clip they showed...except for the ones with Mark McGrath when he was a poser. (I thought that was funny...I can't stand him.)

Every Saturday night I recorded the Headbanger's Ball over the last week's episode, and then I'd watch that episode all week until the next one. I never really thought about it going off the air, so I don't have any of the old eps.

[rissa333.livejournal.com]

Ha, I thought I was the only one! =)