I have a hard time with Adult Swim sometimes. ...my tolerance level for what we used to call "Japanimation" (and what I think people call "anime" now) being as low as it is. ...but "Metalocalypse" couldn't possibly be about the best thing on television, could it?
...'cause wouldn't that make me a childish whack job? I mean, I outgrew that shit in the late eighties! ...early nineties at most. ...and what I work out to or run to on my ipod, that's got nothin' to do with it! I mean, that's different. ...everybody knows that's different!
I'm a reasonable guy now. People pay me to make strategic decisions involving lots of money! I couldn't possibly be the kind of guy who still cranks up the TV whenever they play "Hatredcopter". ...the kind of guy who plays ghost drums while screaming into a ghost mic a la Kreator. 'cause reasonable people my age just don't do stuff like that!
...but if they did, it might be okay. ...if "Metalocalypse" made 'em laugh, even after seeing an episode for the tenth time, 'cause that would just mean the show was funny. ...not that a guy is necessarily a nut job, right? I mean the show is funny. It laughs at itself, right?
Somebody tell me I'm not a whack job.
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I personally don't see what's wrong with having something you enjoy. I'm a married man with two kids who served in the military and had a decent programming career so I would like to think I'm not a whack job either but I very well may be.
"ps not an lp member so stop beating that drum. the drum is tired and wants to go home now, to the family that loves it. i haven’t even mentioned PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GOLD or ferrets or anything." - dhex
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take it from me, parents just don't understand
No idea what this means coming from me, but...you're most assuredly not a whack job. At least not as a consequence of your entertainment choices, any more than someone who liked The Simpsons or that godawful but still critically beloved Shrek series would be a whack job. This is a generational thing; people past a certain age see animated TV and think "kid stuff" in the same way that people past a certain age in previous decades listened to rock and thought "children's music." It wasn't true then, and it's not true now. If anything, it means you're "cool," and in touch with the "youth culture."
Though I wouldn't brag too much about it, because that would make you not cool anymore. :p
I CAUTION YOU / IN DEFEATING ORCS WE MAY FIND THE ONLY VILLAIN LEFT TO FACE IS OUR OWN PREJUDICE--qwantz.com
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It wasn't the animation I was wondering about.
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I still haven't seen Metalocalypse (sp?). Two of my friends went to see their touring band this summer but I didn't go, because I've never seen the show. I'm probably missing out. I need to make a point of watching some episodes online sometime.
You're not a whack job for liking metal, Ken.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
UNDERPANTS HAWK
DOES NOT DESIRE YOUR TOUCH
I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
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Oh, I thought that you were wondering about it because it's an animated show that manages to be very good at appealing to adults. If it's the metal aspect, then no, you're definitely not a whack job. Lots of otherwise normal people have a deep and abiding love of metal.
I CAUTION YOU / IN DEFEATING ORCS WE MAY FIND THE ONLY VILLAIN LEFT TO FACE IS OUR OWN PREJUDICE--qwantz.com
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I'm not a metal guy--that's the thing. It makes fun of metal even as it celebrates it.
It's like "Akira" meets "Spinal Tap". ...except imagine if Spinal Tap's music really were destined to bring about the apocalypse.
I guess grindcore does some stuff like this. ...but you'd have to ask dhex. I know hardly anything about "grindcore".
We used to call it "thrash".
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i wasn't into metalocalypse until i saw the first dr. rockzo episode. then i was in hardcore.
it's really about five very stupid people who are so rich and powerful and yet so vapid. and funny lyrics. the drumming reminds me of derek roddy (hate eternal, today is the day) and is pretty good, actually.
i'd say it's making fun more of the black metal contingent than anything else (the constant obsession with "brutal"; the facepaint; the whole finland thing) and Scandinavian accents. ("still sounds dildos")
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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I don't know snakes from dildos about metal, but I do think Metalocalypse is hilarious.
Whenever I catch so much as a glimpse of pr0n, I suddenly turn into a sex-crazed barbarian, slashing and clawing my way through whatever and whomever until I find something to put my weiner into. -- Taktix
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Hey! grindcore != thrash. Different vocal styles, sometimes different drum sounds, usually more of a focus on the guitar work in thrash. Get yer metal terminology right!
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Funny lyrics?! What's funny about these lyrics?
NOT SAFE FOR WORK DUE TO A BIT OF THE OL' ULTRAVIOLENCE
I fly a gigantic monster
I am captain evil stomper
I get to wear big black helmet
I pilot the Hatredcopter
I fly the beast made of steel
Thick knives that cut the night
Gas tank is filled with vengeance
Machine guns shooting spite
Can't find the thing that makes this thing take a hard turn right
I follow where it leads me blind bats with wings of might
You will most likely die from the hands of my arm
When I come and fly and take off-a your face
with the front of my Hatredcopter
ooooooooooooooooooogh
I fly a gigantic monster
I am captain evil stomper
I get to wear big black helmet
I pilot the Hatredcopter
I fly the Hatredcopter
I'm going to hunt you down
I'm getting lots of money
for all the bounties found
Can't seem to find the button
that turns the radar on
Can't work the hatredcopter
The hunt for you is on
I am likely to find
for my failure to fly
that I will be fired
for not killing you
cause that is my job
Hatredcopter
You will most likely die from the hands of my arm
When I come and fly and take off-a your face
with the front of my Hatredcopter
Hatredcopter x8
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That reminds me of an insult that one of my grade school best friends and I coined and used liberally: meaniecopter.
I guess we just thought it was hilarious. Back then, I mean. When I was immature.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
UNDERPANTS HAWK
DOES NOT DESIRE YOUR TOUCH
I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
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I think it's funny now.
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I also approve of the term meaniecopter.
Common usage will determine the proper syntax once we get this thing out there where people can start using it. I will notify John McWhorter immediately.