Editorial

This little exercise is a monthly feature as you, the loyal Heavy Metal Comedy reader, can take a glimpse into my iPod and see what I got on there, metal and otherwise. Some have been great, others have been, well, I've been called some bad names. And with the Contact page, you can share your own playlist if you dare. Grab your iPod, hit 'Shuffle Songs' and discuss the first ten that come up. Now with video. You to the Tube. Here is Defending the Playlist: January 2012, Another Year of this Shit.

1. 'I Can't' by Radiohead. This is off 'Pablo Honey' and when you listen to this album compared to modern Radiohead you can hardly tell it is the same band. I have always been a 'The Bends' kinda gal. 

2. 'Cheap Vodka' by Acid Bath. I cannot tell from the lyrics if this about Popov Vodka which I believe, and this is a just a guess, but costs $4.99 for a case. By no means am I a vodka aficionado, I prefer my booze brown, but that seems cheap.

3. '13 Steps to Nowhere' by Pantera. Sobriety plus one? Bull and shit. I am game for four, maybe five steps tops. Daddy needs his Jesus Juice.

4. 'Golden Years' by Marilyn Manson. I made a ha-ha about Tilda Swinton and David Bowie being the same person on Twitter this week and then it ends up in 'Entertainment Weekly'. A few weeks back I made a joke about Black Sabbath telling the Download Festival to get off their lawn and that ended up in 'Entertainment Weekly'. Either they are stealing my jokes or I am writing lame jokes. I choose to listen to my ego rather than my id.

5. 'As the Palaces Burn' by Lamb of God. Literally as I am writing this I am downloading the new Lamb of God from iTunes because I am the one shithead still paying for music. And by literally, I mean literally. One of Doug's pet peeves is when people say literally when they mean figuratively. Makes me want to give people a noogie when they do that.

6. 'Rusty Cage' by Soundgarden. I once had someone tell me this video is great while smoking pot. As one who does not partake in such activity I took his word for it. I can confirm that it is awesome both sober and smashed on cheap beer and Jameson.

7. 'The Art of Balance' by Shadows Fall. It has nothing to do with the song but for years (a decade-plus) I have suffered from bad head rushes. I have fainted once and recently dropped my laptop and broke the screen while in the midst of fuzzy brain la-la land. I should probably go to a doctor, right? What if it turns out I have a brain tumor? Who will write the site? 

8. 'Take This Bottle' by Faith No More. A recent news article out here had a list of San Francisco area people that should sing the National Anthem before the 49ers-Giants game and one suggestion was Mike Patton. I could get behind that. Though he'd probably get all weird and make an artsy, noise metal version that would either be legendary or get him thrown into Gitmo.

9. 'All Those Yesterdays' by Pearl Jam. A friend of mine (Hi Tim) loves this song and the first time we saw Pearl Jam together (we have attended twenty shows together) they played this song. They haven't played it since. Assholes. Now I am glad Max Cavalera puked on Eddie Vedder.

10. 'Thin Line Between Love and Hate' by Annie Lennox. Is it odd that I would like to both sex Annie Lennox and have her be my mom (seeing is how she old enough)? Is it Oedipal if it isn't your mother?