dood, that isn't anal retentive, it's frightening ... and awesome ... it's an eleven in the post world ... there aren't many threads i bookmark but this is one ... amazing label list ... and you can't go wrong whenever you use the word 'smegma' ... if you just want to elicit ANYTHING from an audience (a groan, a laugh, a spit-take, disgust, etc) it is absolutely the 'go-to' word ...
and mrannah, i always assumed that was an 'on-purpose' line ... perhaps not but being a long-time guitarist, both electric and acoustic, and having been a huge fan of the 'austin city limits' pbs live music show (which granted doesn't only feature folk/country/acoustic but does have a decided lean toward that way over the years) i laughed out loud the first time in the theatre at that line since i was thinking it like you it would be one of the easiest places to find madolin strings pretty much any hour of the day lol ... perhaps nashville (TN not Indiana tho you'd have a good shot there too) or memphis ... tho still, somehow i think austin would be a sure bet ... even walking into an open bar with a live band and asking around might get you your set of madolin strings as fast as any other way lol
Save_A_Lemming -- yep, the artie fufkin gag was great ... and then the little 'label' in case we missed it is just the cherry on top ... and paul schaffer doing artie was perfect ... just a perfect over-the-top sincerity and excitement that just makes you believe he loves that band ;) and the amount of time it takes for him to even NOTICE a film crew on the opposite side of the bed from where he's standing shaking everyone's hand ... a cameraman (the camera itself back in those days would would have been VERY noticeable ... one gag that unfortunately these days isn't inherently available) and a bank of blazing bright lights and as he's shaken everyone's hand he then finally turns to the camera crew and looks surprised and his eyes get big and his smile even bigger and cheesier and intro's himself again and then the big ol' ID stamp on the screen ... really a great scene little scene start to finish ...
also i'm guessing that some of the group gathered here in this thread has seen Sam Dunn's documentary work on the heavy metal genre (serious rockumentaries), 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey', and it's funny that he can't avoid parts of his films reflecting Tap no matter what ... not just that of course we all think of Tap now watching such films but that well, metal isn't always known for being filled with high SAT scores so to speak ... but he has fun with it, admits and isn't ashamed to admit the 'dumbness' of it at times, but just goes right on rockin and lovin it ... i mean when a filmmaker admits as a teenager to once doing air guitar to 'Number of the Beast' some two dozen times in one day whilst doing leaps off his parents front porch, you have to know he's taking it in the right spirit ...
i highly recommend his work if you haven't scene it ... 'headbanger's journey' is a history of metal as he's and his little film crew go all over interviewing some of the biggest names (alice, ozzy, iommi, dio, lemmy, etc) and the most infamous, Death, who was in the first wave of norwegian black metal and whose lead singer blew his own head off with a shotgun ... other members of the group broke into the singer's apartment before the cops got there, collected bits skull fragments, and made necklaces out of them to wear as an homage to their fallen comrade ... one of the most incoherent, off-the-wall, and just-plain-nuts interviews ever put on film (to which dunn clearly confesses) ...
he did a short follow-up to this film with a piece on the burning of lutheran churches in norway by black metal fans as it was only lightly covered in the first documentary (he does mention you couldn't have a six hour documentary to include every bit he wanted to) ... this is interesting and has an audience of locals etc ...
'Iron Maiden: Flight 666' covers iron Maiden's history and their 2008 tour on their own jet, custom painted (very cool), and flown, in part, by the lead singer Bruce Dickinson who believe it or not is a licensed commercial jet pilot ... this is Dunn's all time favorite band and he is pretty worshipful in the making of this film but still very well done and lots of fun
'Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage' is his 2010 film on the history of Rush (and is probably what finally got this band rightly into the rock and roll hall of fame) ... again, Dunn is a bit of a fanboy (he's canadian and being a rush fan is a requirement for keeping your citizenship) but like Dunn, the band is fun and open and has lots of fun doing the project ...
he's got a tv series out which i haven't seen but it is i am told focused specifically on the bands he outlines in the very cool chart of 'evolution' he uses in the first movie show you how metal bands evolved and branched off into other areas (glam, death, black, etc) ... i'm sure it'll be worth it
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