Da Bears.

I'm creeped out by people in masks...



That's Aimee Echo of TheStart singing/warbling.

The Replacements

Some great stuff from 1981. They don't make bands this good anymore. Nice to see Bob Stinson alive, too, and at least looking healthy. This is mostly in order, although I got tired of doublechecking the track listing, so...

Takin' a Ride

Careless

Somethin' to Du (I love the lead-in imitating Bob Mould's guitar style)

Kids Don't Follow

Customer & Rattlesnake

Goddamn Job & Junior's Got a Gun "Goddamn Job" is my theme song these days.

Maybelline

I Hate Music & Stuck in the Middle

D.E.A.D. & Shut Up & Raised in the City

Johnny's Gonna Die (A bit out of tune, eh? But that's part of their greatness)

Dope Smokin' Moron

Otto

I'm In Trouble

Slow Down

ACG

Alice Cooper Group were great. I always get an extra hankering for them around Halloween, although their music holds up nearly 40 years later…

“I Love the Dead”

“Under My Wheels”

"Elected" (I think of this one every election year)

“Eighteen”

“Black Juju” (the pie in the face, classic!)

“Lay Down and Die Goodbye”

“Is It My Body”

“Public Animal #9”

Lightsabers Rule

Man, these guys do some amazing lightsaber duels. The dork factor is through the roof, but what amazing stuff; my production geek self is amazed at the cinematography on this...

Ryan v. Dorkman 1

Ryan v. Brandon

Ryan v. Dorkman 2

I always wanted a lightsaber. I really want one at my current job.

Harvey Dangerous

This amuses me...

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

Wankmaster's return

In honor of the imminent return of Wankmaster...

I am Boxer

This is me versus Bizarroworld

Remember "Animal Farm" my lovelies? I'm Boxer -- except I don't have blind faith in the leadership (below, from Wikipedia)...

Boxer is a fictional horse from George Orwell's Animal Farm. He is the farm's most hard-working and loyal worker. He serves as an allegory for the Russian working class who helped oust the Czar and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually betrayed by the Stalinist deformation of Marxism.

Boxer is one of the most popular characters. Boxer is the tragic avatar of the working class, or proletariat: loyal, kind, dedicated, and strong. By contrast, he is not very clever and seldom progresses beyond the fourth letter of the alphabet. His major flaw, however, is his blind trust in the leaders, and his inability to see corruption, leading to his manipulation and abuse by the pigs in more or less the same manner as he was by Jones. His two mottos, seen below, sum up the double side of his character.

He fights bravely in the Battle of the Cowshed and the Battle of the Windmill but is upset when he thinks he has killed a stable lad when, in fact, he had only stunned the poor boy. His death serves to show just how far the pigs are willing to go — when he collapses after overstraining himself, the pigs supposedly send him to a veterinarian, when in fact he was sent to the knacker's yard to be slaughtered and boiled out into glue, in exchange for money to buy a case of whiskey for the pigs. A strong and loyal draft horse, Boxer played a huge part in keeping the Farm together prior to his death.

Ironically, during Old Major's speech which inspired the principles of animalism a specific reference is made to how he would be turned into glue under Jones rule, thus implying that it would not happen to him under Animalism. This is possibly a further decline from animalism to Napoleon's government.

Boxer may have been inspired by Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, a miner in the Soviet Union who became a hero in 1935 for his great productivity, or the Soviet Stakhanovite movement named after him, which was aimed at increasing worker productivity. His name was possibly based upon the Boxer Uprising in China.

Ah, Animal Farm....