Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Awesome 2005 documentary directed by metalhead Sam Dunn, an anthropoligist from British Columbia. The film studies many topics relating to Heavy Metal, including:

-Who the very first Heavy Metal band is (widely believed to be Black Sabbath, as suggested in the film) as well as the roots of metal
-The backgrounds of Heavy Metal musicians and their fans
-Gender and sexuality roles in Metal
-Why a lot of bands have faced problems with censorship due to their lyrical content, album art, and live shows
-Satanic and/or anti-christian beliefs followed by a handful of Norweigian Black Metal bands, as well as other views on religion, satanism, and other controversial topics when associated with metal.

People interviewed include (but are NOT limited to) Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Lemmy of Motorhead, James "Munky" Shaffer" of Korn, Ronnie James Dio, Corey Taylor and Joey Jordinson of Slipknot, Kerry King and Tom Araya of Slayer, Gaahl of Gorgoroth, Alex Webster and George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher of Cannibal Corpse, and many other metal musicians and producers, as well as multiple fans, socioligists, and even one minister.

The film is a largely independent film with limited theatrical release, so very few are totally familiar with it. A sequal entitled "Global Metal" was released in 2008, which is probably just as good but even less known.

Brad thinks Nickelback is Metal, so I'm going to show him "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" to teach him what real metal is about.

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Here comes Honey Boo Boo

The only TV show that can make Jersey Shore look good. Basically a reality show on TLC following a rural Georgia family trying to be as white trash and dysfunctional as possible, with most of the focus being on the family's seven year old beauty pageant contestant Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson.

This show represents all that is wrong with American society and why many people from other parts of the world think of us all as a bunch of idiot, redneck hicks.

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo has got to be one of the worst ideas in the history of TV. When that poor girl hits her teens she's gonna realize how stupid her past TV life was and either kill herself or commit to a life of hard drugs and/or prostitution.

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Team Fortress 2

Single handedly the most fun online game ever. Puts two teams (RED and BLU) of nine unique classes (Scout, Soldier, Heavy, Spy, Pyro, Sniper, Engineer, Demoman, and Medic) against each other. A sequel to the Quake mod Team Fortress (released as a standalone game called Team Fortress Classic), TF2 (as it is commonly abbreviated) was originally announced in 1998 for a '99 release. However, as Valve is prone to doing (see Valve Time), development of the game was stopped and started repeatedly for nine years until 2006, when the current version of the game was unveiled at E3 an While the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions are very fun, the PC/Mac version is the best, as it is often updated to include new maps, game modes, weapons, and accessories.

I got an F on my exam because I stayed up all night playing Team Fortress 2. Totally worth it.

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ericdouglace

14-year old kid from Boston (orignally from Scotland) who earned his 15 minutes of fame on Youtube with the video "Declaration of War against Justin Bieber Haters" in which he threatens to hack anyone on the site he sees making fun of Justin Bieber in any way, shape, or form. He appeared in the video with an American gay accent (even though he's a bit of a homophobe). The video caused a huge fallout, in which he posted more videos asserting he was continuing with the "war" until November 20, in which he posted a teary-eyed apology, speaking in his normal Scottish accent, saying that his video basically ruined his life and left him totally traumatized. He still posts videos and still says he's a Justin Bieber fan, though all his videos after the "war" mostly relate to his religion.

That ericdouglace kid has major issues.

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Ashachu

Referencing an episode of the Pokemon TV series when Ash Ketchum's attempt to use magic to communicate with his Pikachu backfires and ends up turning him into a Pikachu.

I dreamed I had an Ashachu like scenario last night

AC/DC

Legendary Classic Rock band, a major staple of Hard Rock, with a small touch of Heavy Metal (you seriously expect me to believe "Thunderstruck" isn't Metal?). Lead by the powerful guitar work of Angus Young with the raw, powerful vocals of Brian Johnson (Bon Scott was the leader of the band until his death in 1980 from alcohol poisoning (or something like it)). Notable songs include "Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap", "Highway to Hell", "Back in Black", "Hells Bells", "Thunderstruck", and most recently "Rock N Roll Train".

Long live AC/DC!!! \m/

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Rick Santorum

A fucking chickenshit facist. Believes the government should interfere with every aspect of every citizen's personal lives in order to shape the Country to relfect his-and only his-personal views, which would basically mean making it mandatory for all U.S. citizens to become practicing Christians. Was also the first major name in the 2012 Presidential Campaign to propose a ban on Porn-which the Supreme Court would've obviously declared unconstitutional (unless he appointed only his fellow Conservative Bible thumpers).

Rick Santorum hates freedom. Plain and simple.

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