Posts tagged as Metal
Members of Congress Who Have Totally Metal Names, In Order
20. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
19. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL)
18. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
17. Rep. Diane Black (R-TN)
16. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
15. Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
14. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC)
13. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)
12. Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-MA)
11. Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL)
10. Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI)
9. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
8. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
7. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
6. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
5. Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN)
4. Del. Gregorio Sablan (D-North Mariana Islands)
3. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV)
2. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
1. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
A Look Back At The Bloody History Of Slayer T-Shirts
How many of these T-shirts merchandised by the legendary metal band Slayer make cameo appearances in your high school yearbooks? (I count four. At least!) [Via]
Lita Ford "Always Gets the Shaft"
When will Lita Ford, the Stevie Nicks of hair metal, get the respect she deserves? Not, apparently, in The Runaways. BOO. "We see Cheri Currie and Joan Jett do drugs and make out a few times, but the movie does nothing to explore whatever complications that brought-if any-to their onstage and offstage relationship and only hints ever so briefly at what it did to the band dynamic. And speaking of the band, what about the other three members? Each gets a handful of dialogue (oh, Lita Ford, you always get the shaft!) but don't even make it into the here's-what-happened notes at movie's end."
Bruce Dickinson Proved Prescient By Dubai Financial Crisis
It's not like we couldn't have seen it coming. But I guess the hubris of building fake islands in the shape of the the earth's continents didn't give enough people enough pause. (Or indoor ski slopes in the desert. Or the reports of slave labor. Or the frequent lightning strikes on the Burj Dubai.) But one man, one very wise man was calling out a warning long before most. Now, now, as the hot Arabian sun turns all our wings to ashes, we must pause during our long plummet and say: You were right, Bruce. We should have listened. We all should have listened far more closely to Iron Maiden lyrics.
Important Political Video: The Scorpions, "No One Like You"
There is a Scorpions song that should probably be posted today to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's called "Wind of Change." It's basically about the fall of the Berlin Wall. (The Scorpions are from Germany, you know.) The video has lots of news-style footage of very important geopolitical events of the era. Unfortunately, that song kind of sucks. So here's the video for "No One Like You," which takes place on Alcatraz, and has great white sharks and a mental patient with his head wrapped in bandages and forks stuck in his eyes and a sexy blonde in S&M gear throwing the switch to the electric chair and setting the whole place on fire. It might just be greatest video of all time. So watch that instead. But think about commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Young Whippersnapper Disses Rock Legend Gene Simmons
Oh Trent Reznor, it is okay that you are never going to tour your Nine Inch Nails again, but do you have to go out like this? "I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work." HARSH, DUDE.
