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‘I Told You I Was Freaky’ Liner Notes

flight-conchords-told-you-freakyYou know what’s really cool about the new album from Flight of the Conchords? The liner notes have guitar chords for each song! Neat-o! I was quite impressed and it makes me want to put those liner notes in my wallet at all times so I can whip it out when someone says “I wish someone could play Hurt Feelings RIGHT NOW!”

I haven’t had a chance to listen to the album, but it collects everything from Season 2.

Speaking about Season 2 and Season 3 of the show, turns out that Jemaine has mentioned that they don’t know if they will bother with a third season as it’s a lot of work to not only produce the show, but to write the songs in such a short period of time. He didn’t rule it out, but he thought there may be ‘specials’ in the future.

I can’t say I don’t agree with this plan. While there are some great, great tracks from Season 2, all in all, I found most of them to be forced…in Season 1 they had a collection of awesome folk songs that they put into a show and the episode was adapted around the songs they had. It was the reverse scenario in Season 2 where they would come up with an idea for a show and then write songs for them.

So in the end, no awesome songs about robots happen that way. 🙁

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Reviews of Ottawa’s Metallica Show : Ridiculous!

The reviews of the Metallica show in Ottawa are ridiculous.

First off, in the Ottawa Sun, they call him Rick Hammett (it’s Kirk! You know…guitar player extraordinaire?) AND they say they played Die, Die Die My Darling last night (not true!).

So then I have higher hopes for the Ottawa Citizen. While it isn’t a bad review, this piece made me cringe:

“That made me feel good!” exclaimed Hetfield after a rousing rendition of the hyper-kinetic Battery, a song all the young dudes want to air-guitar slay. Enter Sandman, full of post-grunge bravado, sent the Bank into a frenzy of equal parts nostalgia and fist pumping. The pyro during closer Motorbreath warmed the cheeks and compelled the six-foot Trujillo to wildly swing his axe with abandon as Hetfield & Co. riffed out into the sunset.

POST-GRUNGE BRAVADO? WHAT THE HECK IS THAT ALL ABOUT? Do these writers not realize that this is metal at it’s finest…what the heck is post-grunge anyhow? Everything that came out after the grunge scene died? If anything, the year was 1991 and Enter Sandman came out DURING the grunge period and secondly, it shouldn’t even be related to grunge in any way! Argh…I will admit that it’s hard to find adjectives for a show…but come on!  Shawn Jam Hill from the Ottawa Citizen…come on.  I admit the rest of the article is a well written piece and this was a mere slip-up…but come on.

But at least it wasn’t as bad as Denis Armstrong calling Kirk Hammett -> Rick.

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Jaroo

Wow, this is quite the find.

Jaroo.com has old animated shows up for viewing. Off the top of my head, some surprising ones (aka ones I haven’t seen in YEARS)…Captain N! Paddington Bear! Super Mario Bros! Legend of Zelda! The Littles!

I definitely remember the Littles (well, I remember all of them from some point). I wonder if they will get more videos? Hopefully they will finally find The Toothbrush Gang which I have never been able to find proof of on the Internet!