Archive for the Jibber Jabber Category
No matter how absurd your thoughts might be, someone has already done it. I quipped in a little meme about Anne Rice and Rob Zombie collaborating on a Jesus movie (I made it up, they really have not). So Frank commented that it was real, or something like it. I was about to respond with a “ha-ha”. Then I did a Google search and found this:
What Would Five Biblical Studies Types Write?
Der Zwingli Fetishizer actually tagged people with something which is a shock. Although he probably tagged me mainly for all of my gay love. To that I say - fierce and fabulous 
The Rule
This meme is very simple. You choose five Biblical studies types and invent a post that they might have written over the last couple of months. Those parodied are entitled, yea, obligated to tag five other bibliobloggers in similar fashion. Don’t forget to link to this original post.
- Nick Norelli - These Books are off the Chizang!: Confessing My Book Addiction and How Rap Music Has Saved Me, Fashizzle
- Ken Brown - Richard Dawkins is a Big, Fat Poopy-Head
- Chris Brady - Talmudic Reflections on Widgets, Mashups, and iBooks
- Nathan Stitt - Why All I See is Greek - Everywhere
- Bryan L - Rob Zombie Collaborates with Anne Rice to Produce Movie About the Life of Jesus
I sometimes will walk around the house singing this line:
“And he kicks and he punches with his hands and his feet; with his hands and his feet he kicks and punches.”
My wife still does not get it. Then again, there is nothing really to “get”. But the fusion of cheesy 70’s themes with Chuck Norris, kung-fu, and late 1980’s hair metal is a bountiful fusion of fromage and strangeness that I find totally hilarious. Enjoy the legend, the myth, the Young Chuck Norris…
“They walked into the little clearing, the boy clutching his hand. They’d taken everything with them except whatever black thing was skewered over the coals. He was standing there checking the perimeter when the boy turned and buried his face against him. He looked quickly to see what had happened. What is it? he said. What is it? the boy shook his head. Oh Papa, he said. He turned and looked again. What the boy had seen was a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit. He bent and picked the boy up and started for the road with him, holding him close. I’m sorry, he whispered, I’m sorry.”
McCarthy, M. (2007). The road. New York: Vintage. p. 198.
Yes, it goes to 11.
Most of this goes back in time to the guys who basically invented the kind of playing we associate with rock music - with a few more recent players lumped in for good measure. This is kind of a chronological order. No one here is a “metal” drummer par excellance and no, neither Joey Joridson nor Lars Ulrich would make that list either.
- Hugh Grundy (The Zombies)
- Danny Seraphine (Chicago)
- Mitch Mitchell (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
- John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
- Keith Moon (The Who)
- Carl Palmer (ELP)
- Terry Bozzio (with Frank Zappa)
- Stewart Copeland (The Police)
- Neil Peart (Rush)
- Philip “Fish” Fisher (Fishbone; Wicked Wisdom)
- Tim “Herb” Alexander (Primus)
* Of other note, Ginger Baker (Cream - probably the most contentious one not in the above list, but who would you pull out?), Jimmy Chamberlain (Smashing Pumpkins), Matt Cameron (Soundgarden; Pearl Jam), Danny Carey (Tool - although he is so robotic and “stiff” sounding he tends to bore me), Steve Smith (Journey), Jeff Porcaro (Toto), Phil Collins (Genesis - seriously listen to his early work with the band), Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, Tracy Bonham, NIN, and many others), Will Calhoun (Living Colour), Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree). Mike Portnoy was too busy stroking his ego at the time this list was produced.
Green bombs? Yep. Maybe we can add solar powered tanks and have the generals drink only trade-free coffees while they order the slaughters from afar.
Nick and Bryan have posted a list and so shall I. Only in the order I thought of ‘em.
Chris Cornell - No one can blend falsetto and head voice this way and still sound like a man.
Tom Johnston - More soul than Michael MacDonald and a better song-writer at that.
Ann Wilson - Apparently estrogen has no place in the other lists. I watched Fergie try to pull off “Barricuda”. Not bad, but not a Wilson sister either, which means not all that great. Then there’s what Ann does in a song like “Crazy on You”.
Robert Plant - Even with Alison Krauss he is fantastic.
Cheryl Crow - Ask any woman with American Idol chops to pull of “If It Makes You Happy”. You won’t find too many of ‘em I tell ya.
Roger Daltrey - Not “Daughtry” not even close.
Scott Weiland - Yes he’s a coke head and his movements on stage just copy Steve Tyler and Mick Jagger. But his tone on the song “Atlanta” is fantastic and he shows off his melodic range.
Doug Pinnick - Haven’t heard of him have you? From King’s X and Poundhound. One phrase. Soul that hurts.
Geoff Tate - Queensryche was always on the edge of cheesy, but this boy had serious chops that any hairband dude could not really approach.
Corey Glover - Living Colour needed to make at least two more albums after Stain. That is still a bummer of a band break up for music fans.
* Extra props go to Freddie Mercury (I still don’t like Queen all that much), Bruce Dickinson (One reason many cover bands can’t cover Maiden songs), Pat Benetar (Does she have good pipes), Janis Joplin (For changing the role of the woman in music), Dennis DeYoung (see Queen), Ronnie James Dio (Messed with Black Sabbath, but also created a lot of pretenders probably in a bad way), Steve Perry (Those solo albums were a mistake dude, but I still love you on Escape), Steven Tyler (”Dream On” is still amazing and reveals the effects of a hard rock ‘n roll lifestyle on the voice).
