Happy Birthday, Mr. Trey

[matthew]

I actually kinda liked Ratt. Didn't buy their albums or anything, but I thought their guitar player was more interesting than most glam metal guitarists.

remember i'm the guy who actually went and paid to see ratt and poison last year. so i feel ya.  never bought any ratt or poison records either, but it was a good time.  and i ain't lookin for nothin else.

This is me passing the torch in the "Lamest Band A Person Admits to Liking" event.

I am confident I can get it back within the week, though.

Odd, I was recently considering a particular revelation that I had always avoided because of its very toxically uncool nature, and admission that I believed would trump even my "I got into music via Weird Al" dork-o credentials. The absolute truth is that I was once a Barenaked Ladies fan.

See, I never enjoyed any of the crotch metal cock rock 80s guitar hair hard rock metal etc. stuff that was going on in popular culture while I was in elementary school (as I have pointed out on many occasions, I gravitated in the direction of house/dance/rap/electronic beat-based stuff - for whatever reason - I really do not know why, I just liked it) and so I really kept away from rock in general, finding the "angry youth" patches-on-jean-jacket thing utterly removed from my corner of the universe, where I just wanted to be a silly little boy forever. The Barenaked Ladies was the first band I encountered that was goofy/zany and not straight up satire and the appeal was probably sharpened by the fact that I had spent so much time listening to that first Beach Boys cassette I owned that I was entirely inured to the idea of male harmonies on virtually every song.

Anyway, that was actually the first band I ever went to see...though I tend to count Pink Floyd as the first "real" concert I went to see (a month or two later) because I was so put off by the fruitiness of the BNL live show. Not that I knew cool from my ass - I even bought some boxer shorts at the concert. 

(seizes Torch of the Lame permanently, mounts on wall)

I can't see this being outdone, because there will always be a kitsch value attached to "unhip" metal bands like Ratt et al. that keeps them circulating as a "guilty pleasure" as people age. That I see people reminiscing about all the time in popular culture...Pepsi ads do it...indie geek comedies do it... The way I look at it, this has been entirely validated by time...as people have no problem admitting it whatsoever.

I cannot imagine anyone ever getting nostalgic for a time when a legions of squares and Toronto yuppies in kakhis went to see people throw boxes of Kraft Dinner at a bunch of dumpy Canadian men with soul patches rapping a whimsical refrain in "If I had a $1,000,000".

[matthew]

I did not remain a fan for long as Weird Al's Smells Like Nirvana parody soon pointed me in the direction of the grunge.

[Just Some Girl]

see NAFTA is all about product. and supply and demand.  if you can pass yourself off as a product, that is in relative high demand it the states,  it just might work.

Damn. I'm sunk then.

Unless I "meet" the "right" immigration official.

[Just Some Girl]

lucky i couldnt drunk post last night, who knows what tthe fuck i would have said, i can barely remember making a comment on dragoons page, drunkness didnt make it to jsg's

Ah, so you didn't do such a good imitation of me, then.

I'm sorry it didn't work out, though, and you feel like cack today. You gotta remember, I'm a vodka vet, so...  Having said that, I was hungover today, too. Ugh.

[matthew]

[ebaumsworld]http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/833338/[/ebaumsworld].

[Doctor Rock]

Matt: PM.

[matthew]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/25_gjUbvqNg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/25_gjUbvqNg</a>

,

[matthew]

[ebaumsworld]http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/432113/[/ebaumsworld].

[full blown possession]

lucky i couldnt drunk post last night, who knows what tthe fuck i would have said, i can barely remember making a comment on dragoons page, drunkness didnt make it to jsg's

Ah, so you didn't do such a good imitation of me, then.

I'm sorry it didn't work out, though, and you feel like cack today. You gotta remember, I'm a vodka vet, so...  Having said that, I was hungover today, too. Ugh.

ive decided it's not possible for me to have one drink and not kill my stomach or stop especially when im trying to forget all the reality that is life....i drink a lot that is all....and with all that is going on with my ex dickhead, court, and my job ...i think it's better i go back to the green train....and my stomach cant take it