Sam Dunn & Scott McFadyen on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

They made the awesome Metal (2005) & Global Metal (2008) documentaries, as well as Iron Maiden: Flight 666 which I haven’t seen but looks good too. (Then again I just wanna be on a plane flown by Bruce Dickinson.)

Bring on the metal and oversexed females!

The PMRC released the Filthy Fifteen to the public in 1985. These fifteen songs, according to Tipper Gore, fit the mold of the types of songs that the PMRC would like to see banned. In their original proposal, songs would be rated according to several categories:

V for violence
O for references to the occult
D/A for overuse of drugs/alcohol
X for harsh sexual content

Judas Priest — “Eat Me Alive” — Rated X
Motley Crue —“Bastard” — Rated V
Prince — “Darling Nikki” — Rated X
Sheena Easton — “Sugar Walls” — Rated X
W.A.S.P. — “(Animal) F-U-C-K Like a Beast” — Rated X
Mercyful Fate — “Into the Coven” — Rated O
Vanity — “Strap on Robbie Baby” — Rated X
Def Leppard — “High n’ Dry” — Rated D/A
Twisted Sister — “We’re Not Gonna Take It” — Rated V
Madonna — “Dress You Up” — Rated X
Cyndi Lauper — “She Bop” — Rated X
AC/DC — “Let Me Put My Love Into You” — Rated X
Black Sabbath — “Trashed” — Rated D/A
Mary Jane Girls — “In My House” — Rated X
Venom — “Possessed” — Rated O

I wanted to be sure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught
in some moorings. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart. In storms and
at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide
around my fathomless arms, I am unable
to understand the forms of my vanity
or I am hard alee with my Polish rudder
in my hand and the sun sinking. To
you I offer my hull and the tattered cordage
of my will. The terrible channels where
the wind drives me against the brown lips
of the reeds are not all behind me. Yet
I trust the sanity of my vessel; and
if it sinks it may well be in answer
to the reasoning of the eternal voices,
the waves which have kept me from reaching you.

Frank O’Hara

Black Sheep (New Zealand, 2007)

Zombie sheep FTW.

“Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us.”

Treehouse of Horror VII