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For the love of metal

I was watching FoxNews just now with Jim, and a news snippet came on with Laura Ingle sharing the story of a heavy metal band from Baghdad, called Acrassicauda. The band members lived through missile attacks and death threats in order to try to play their music in their homeland. There’s a documentary, Heavy Metal In Baghdad, which chronicles their struggles and their journey to America as refugees.

The FoxNews snippet was quick but highlighted the band’s journey as well as well as featured my personal childhood heavy metal heroes, Metallica. It seems James Hetfield gave them the guitar off his back after their latest show in New Jersey.

While this is a great story, Acrassicauda is not the only band struggling for the freedom to pursue heavy metal dreams. Remember a while back when I highlighted a story about Brutal Impact, a heavy metal band from Iraq going through similar struggles? These are the two we’ve heard of so far … so how many more are out there?

Here’s a vid of Hetfield presenting the guitar:

OK, Metallica … you’ve done some really assholish things over the past few years, but that was just freakin’ sweet! Just for that, I created a new category for any ‘good’ posts that I write about you — “Ok, maybe they’re not so bad” LOL!

Seriously though, rock on, guys. Rock on!

In keeping with the spirit of yesterday’s anti-piracy ad post…

Here’s one that I ran across while catching up on my funnies …

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Metallica songs worth 99 cents?

My better half has re-organized his site and has begun posting tech news again.

Isn’t he talented?

Anyways, he posted a news item this morning that I found mildly humorous:

Metallica Joining iTunes

Beginning on Tuesday, the band put up four of its records — “Kill ‘Em All,” “Ride The Lightning,” “Master of Puppets” and “…And Justice For All” — for sale on U.S. and Canadian versions of the popular online music retailer.

Fans may buy tracks a la carte for 99 cents or purchase the albums, starting at $9.90.

In a posting on the group’s Web site, the band acknowledged that fans have been increasingly buying music online and said it added some previously unreleased live tracks recorded in Seattle in 1989 to each of the albums to entice those who already own copies.

So, let me get this straight … Napster bad, iTunes good?

They come in 3′s

I smurfed this off of someone’s DA blog:

Name 3 schools you went to:
1. Hueytown Elementary
2. Corner Elementary & High School
3. University of South Alabama

Name 3 things in your purse/wallet:
1. keys
2. lipstick
3. usb flash drive

Name 3 things you always wear:
1. my ring
2. my eye of horus pendant
3. socks

Name 3 things you do when you are really stressed:
1. cuss
2. get clumsier than usual
3. cuss more

Name 3 favorite songs right now:
1. dq blizzard by mc chris
2. spiel met mir by rammstein
3. engel by rammstein

Name 3 favorite places to shop:
1. New Orleans, LA
2. San Francisco, CA
3. Tampa, FL

Name 3 places you go to on a daily basis:
1. work
2. home
3. -

Name 3 things you like to do:
1. read
2. sing
3. muck up my coding

Name 3 most valuable possessions:
1. Jim
2. Jessie
3. my car

Name 3 favorite fruits:
1. apple
2. grapes
3. bananas

Name 3 things you are addicted to:
1. macadamia nuts
2. oreos
3. m&m’s

Name 3 favorite hobbies:
1. reading
2. singing
3. mucking up my coding

Name 3 career choices:
1. Web Designer
2. Chef
3. Opera Singer

Name 3 goals in 2006:
1. get in better shape
2. fix my credit
3. get a better job

Name 3 plans for next week:
1. doctor’s visit
2. see a local musical production of Pinocchio
3. port a PHP-nuke theme to WordPress for Jim

Three Names You Go By:
1. Nicki
2. Boo (Jim’s pet name for me)
3. Small Fry (reserved only for best friend)

(call me Nicole or Shannon and I promise you will die a slow horrible death)

Three Parts of Your Heritage:
1. Irish
2. English
3. Scottish

Although I feel obliged to add a fourth: White trash

Three Things That Scare You:
1. Water
2. Radical Islamists taking over the US
3. Martha Stewart

Three of Your Everyday Essentials:
1. socks
2. my USB flash drive
3. lipstick

Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. makeup
2. robe
3. hair product

Three of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists:
1. Metallica (circa the Black Album)
2. Billie Holliday
3. Led Zeppelin

Three Things You Want in a Relationship (OTHER THAN LOVE):
1. Trust
2. Compassion/Forgiveness
3. Communication

Two Truths and a Lie (in no particular order):
1. I love my fiance more than I have ever loved anyone
2. I like my job
3. I don’t like people touching my feet

Three PHYSICAL Things about the Opposite Sex that Appeal to You:
1. Eyes
2. Smile
3. Arms (particularly forearms and bi/tri-ceps)

Three Places You Want to go on Vacation:
1. Japan
2. Oregon
3. New Orleans

Nostalgia

“So let it be written, so let it be done. I’m sent here by the chosen one … “

*sigh*

Back when my namesake didn’t suck:

*frown* I think I’ll stop here and call it a night.