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Flashback Friday (on Saturday)

Yup, The Flashback is a little late, Dear Reader. It's been one of those weeks, you know?
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This weeks flashyness comes from Anthrax. I so desperately wanted to put "Got the Time" here, but Universal Music Group saw fit to disable embedding on every single bloody upload of the clip on You-tube. How rude. But it still an awesome song, so go watch it anyway. Instead we will make do with another Anthrax classic, with the added bonus of Public Enemy. Anthrax was one of those bands that one likes in their youth from the periphery - I had one album, and I always head banged with abandon when one of my friends played their Anthrax collections, but I didn't obsess and buy all of their stuff, or seek them out in mags like Hot Metal, or Kerrang! Listening to their stuff now, many many moons later, I can appreciate it more. I think. Or I could just be waffling. Or it could be the dementia, you know, things from your youth seem sweeter. Sigh. Actually, there is a tub of old Hot Metal, Hit Parader and Kerrang magazines out in the garage, I should take photos, it would all be so hilarious, darlings. I'll get right on that. For now, get your groove on.

Flashback Friday...

Happy Friday 13th!!!
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Today for Flashbach Friday, Dear Reader, the amazing Alice in Chains. A band with a sound like no other, thanks mostly of course to the rock god that was Layne Staley. I would listen to their albums over and over, but now when I hear them I am just saddened to know Layne won't be making any more music, not in this space and time anyway. I think two clips are in order, then, don't you? The first is "Man in a Box", the very first thing I had heard of AIC, and the film clip and sound both disturbed and delighted me, the second, "Would" is one of my absolute favourite songs. Ever.

Loveliness...

Posted today by the splendiferous Little Brown Sparrow, it made me laugh out loud...in a lovely, timeless, fluffy and moist kind of way...

 

Flashback Friday...

Today, Dear Reader; White Zombie, fronted by The Man himself, Mr Rob Zombie. I love White Zombie, and I love Rob's solo music stuff - I'll be honest, I find the man very attractive. More so now he has dispensed with the crazy dreddys, though they were very cool at the time too - he was quite the breath of fresh air, for me at least. I am just not so sure about Rob's movies. Have you seen House of 1000 Corpses? Dear Goddess what was that? All kinds of bizarre. I guess it was supposed to be high-art-horror? I know parts of it made me dizzy. And I don't think I will ever get the fat-arse clown-like guy out of my head *shudder*. All this and I like a good horror film. Oh well. I am yet to see his re-do of cult classic Halloween - a movie I first saw on a birthday sleep over with my friends when I was a 'tween'. Maybe we should do that again, get a bunch of gals together for a night of sleeping bags on the lounge room floor, horror movies, stupid games that entail things like cutting up bars of chocolate with knives and forks, and the requisite announcement from Dad that it is very, very late and time to go to sleep (read: oh dear god stop with the girly squeals and giggles). How did I stray so far from th topic of Mr Zombie? Well, here it is, the first song of White Zombies' I had ever heard, and the one that started this whole love affair: More Human than Human.

Hilarious Hedgehog

I'm sure you have all seen this fifteen times now, but let me tell you, the enjoyment doesn't dissipate after the sixteenth. Or seventeenth. Sure it's anthropomorphizing, but hasn't he got a gorgeous smile? Who knew it was possible for a hedgehog to make you more clucky?

Quito to LaPaz or Bust!

Booked the flights today - check. Insurance - check. Passport and tour - check, check. Guess what Dear Reader, I am going to South America in 196 days! Woo Bloody Hoo!