New Beavis and Butthead episodes start tonight. It’s sad, but at nearly-30-years-of-age my 13-year-old inner-self is clamoring with excitement.
So much so that I organized a pre-new-episodes Beavis and Butthead Nacho Marathon a while back. And I mean a WHILE back. My friend Aaron (who just got married last weekend btw) and his friend Skyler and I had been talking about doing this for a while and finally got together to do it. Beavis and Butthead plus nachos.
[enough chips for an army of beavis fans + a metric button of homemade salsa]
[more chips and a giant vat of processed cheese product (gross)]
[grossssss]
[aaron mans the giant vat o' cheese]
[giant plate o' nachos — i was told there was REAL cheese after I reluctantly dumped processed nacho cheese on my chips. but seriously, it wouldn't have been right without it.]
[it's go time]
I can’t bring you actual nachos, but I can share part of one of my favorite episodes with you. This is from “Garage Band”, the episode in which Beavis and Butthead start a band (aka say “we’re in a band now”) and tell a local venue their band name is Metallica: featuring Beavis and Butthead. A rather raucous crowd shows up expecting Metallica but obviously they never show. Beavis and Butthead break up the “band” due to discrepancies over their name (“no Beavis and Butthead sounds stupid. It should be Butthead and Beavis”). Here’s Beavis shredding on guitar …
I’m really loving this song by The Tallest Man on Earth. He’s a Swedish acoustic singer/songwriter. I found him on Spotify via my friend Steph. Let me know what you think. I love his style.
I’m going to a Children of Bodom concert tomorrow and I am SOOO excited. Wellll … as long as I don’t forget to pick UP the ticket. Whoops.
In case you didn’t know, these guys are one of my favorite metal bands. They have fabulous guitar, driving rhythms and they are apparently HUGE fans of The Big Lebowski. They released a cover album last year about this time that included a bunch of songs from the Lebowski soundtrack.
Anyway … I am sharing with you two songs. One that I enjoy and one that I think most of my audience can at least appreciate.
The first song is “Are You Dead Yet?”. This song is near and dear to me because it got me through some really tough training when I started running after rehabilitating a leg injury. I was upset that I couldn’t run the high mileage that I used to run. Instead of 5 or more miles a day I was stuck at 1-3 and I couldn’t even run two days in a row. This song reminded me that no matter how far or how fast I run, put my all into it because I’m not dead yet. Not to mention, that album reset my slow tempo to a 2-minute per mile faster pace. So, thanks guys.
Aaand I’m sharing with you the cheesetastic Britney Spears cover these guys did. Oops! I did it again … It’s interesting. And funny. Love a band with a sense of humor!
This week for Sweet Tunes Thursday, I’m giving you a recap of the Murderdolls show I went to on Monday the 30th.
I’m sure this sounds totally lame, but that show being scheduled was a dream come true. The fact that they reformed and released an ALBUM is something I’ve fantasized about for the past 8 years. But. They. Did it.
Ok.
So I’m a total spaz, in case you didn’t know this. And I’m realllly pretty sure that the Murderdolls know this now too. CUZ I MET THE FLIPPING BAND. Yeah. I met them.
And you know what? It’s funny because like 5 years ago I spent a TON of time thinking about how cool it would be to hang with Joey Jordison and just how that meeting would go down. Yeah, so didn’t happen like that. I totally freaked and didn’t know what to say and I think it came out like, “OMG OMG OMG 5 years ago you were totally my idol.” But then I realized what I said, and that it wasn’t what I wanted to say, so I was like, “But you’re still freaking awesome!”
Yeah. I don’t think he was too excited about that.
Regardless, I did get to meet the rest of the band too. All of those guys are super nice and I made sure to tell the guitarist that he was really good — he was an unknown and it’s pretty awesome that he stepped in and took over for Tripp Eisen.
AND I talked to Wednesday 13 (I actually said, “DUDE I WANT TO TALK TO YOU” and he’s all “Okay then, let’s talk.”). I told him that I saw him a couple years back at a little bar in Cedar Falls and he remembered it (or maybe not? but he was nice enough to say he did). He was really nice and it was probably the coolest 30 seconds of my life … haha.
Oh oh oh, and here’s the cool part: So I’d randomly put my deconstructed t-shirt quilt in the back of my car a while back because I thought it would look cool in the back window. Well, it was made from mostly Slipknot and Murderdolls shirts. Conveniently, I grabbed it and the band signed it. So now I’ve got a kickass signed quilt. What up?
And it was really cool that Wednesday signed one of the dolls … and Joey did too. Joey drew a little smiley face, so I guess that’s way cool. He thought the whole quilt idea was pretty sweet. (maybe cuz it’s mostly made of shirts from bands that he’s in?).
Anyway — oh wait, there was a show. Right.
So the concert was pretty much amazing. I know I’m sure I sound like a complete douche right now, but shut up. I love these guys. I seriously waited 8 years for anything and about crapped myself when I found out they were releasing anything and this concert was (as I mentioned) a dream come true. I dragged Mark along, but he loves Wednesday’s old band, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 (who I blogged about a couple weeks ago), so he had an awesome time — in the back, drinkin’ PBR.
Me — I was up front. Practically on the stage. Wednesday got in my face a few times and it was pretty sweet.
They played a few of their new songs and a bunch of the songs from their last album. Great show!
For your enjoyment, I’ve included some videos. The first one doesn’t have good sound, but it’s got a great view. And if you look on the left side, I’m in the hot pink zebra shirt!
My friend Aaron (who just got married last weekend btw) and his friend Skyler and I had been talking about doing this for a while and finally got together to do it. Beavis and Butthead plus nachos.
