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In honor of  the final episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien last night, I thought I’d post one of the greatest comedy clips ever to grace a television screen. Since as long as I can remember, my very favorite Conan moment has been the now-classic 1864 Old Time Baseball segment. From Conan’s awkward interactions with the way-too-into-her-part maiden, Nell, to Conan sporting a truly manly ’stache / chops combo, this clip perfectly sums up exactly what I love about this show.

“Thanks for the cool breeze! It was most cooling on my mustache!” I was excited as hell to see Conan announce this as his personal favorite segment and give it some airtime on his final episode last night. I’m also excited as hell to see what he’ll bring to the Tonight Show starting June 1st. Until then, I’ll have to get my daily dose of vomiting puppets and self-pleasuring bears on the interwebz.

Miika TenkulaAs reported by Blabbermouth.net, 34-year-old Miika Tenkula, former guitarist and main songwriter of Finland’s Sentenced, was found dead in his home yesterday morning (Thursday, February 19th). As of today, the official cause of Miika’s death hasn’t been released, but it’s well known that he had a serious drinking problem that only got worse when Sentenced disbanded in late 2005.

This news really bummed me the hell out. Sentenced’s 2002 album “The Cold White Light” along with their earlier, heavier offerings, have been some of my favorites for a long time now. It’s all very melancholy and dark, but catchy as hell nonetheless. I was always hoping for the off-chance there would be a reunion and/or new album as I’d love to see them live and in person, though the chances of that happening now looks to be just about nil. I suppose the closest I’ll ever get will be the band’s 2006 live album, Buried Alive, which beautifully captures Sentenced’s final farewell performance in all its headbanging glory.

Check out the video after the jump to see Sentenced playing the badass track “May Today Become the Day” at their very last live performance in Oulu, Finland on October 1, 2005…

Written and directed by both Zach Cregger & Trevor Moore of “The Whitest Kids You Know” fame, ‘Miss March‘ looks to be a genuinely hilarious sex-centric comedy. With “The Office”’s Craig Robinson on board as a rapper named Horsedick Dot Mpeg and what will surely be gratuitous amounts of nudity and lesbian sex, the is almost guaranteed to be the Best Picture winner for 2010. That’s right Academy… start polishing up those Oscars! I nominate Trevor as Best Actor for his reaction to the unfortunate tour bus incident.

Goddamn, I can’t wait to see this when it hits the big screen March 13th. Enjoy much swearings, cunnilingual lockpicking and drunk dudes in banana-viking helms in the R-rated redband trailer below:

More Movie Info: IMDB.com

While I’ve grown pretty accustomed to the standard death growl vocal delivery used in bands like Amon Amarth, Arsis, Kataklysm and Hypocrisy, I have never… never… been able to make out the lyrics for tha vast majority of the songs by death metal giants Cannibal Corpse. Fellow blogster Nyck and I have had an ongoing joke about this for a long while, after we read through the band’s page on Dark Lyrics one wasteful afternoon at the office. Hell, most of the song titles are comedy gold in themselves… as long as you have a twisted sense of humor like we do.

I understand these lyrics, like horror movies, are meant to be completely over the top, cringe-worthy entertainment, and I really have no problem with that. Especially when they’re sung by fake Australian lounge singer,  Andrew Hansen, who, in this performance, is cringe-worthy in his own right. Enjoy!

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Now, why have I never heard Richard Cheese do a cover like this? A Heavy Metal Thanks goes out to Travis for giving me the heads-up on this. It looks like it’s been online for ages… I have no clue how I’ve missed it this long.

Music That Doesn’t Suck 9: Muse
February 17th, 2009 8:21 am

Muse - AbsolutionMuse – “Stockholm Syndrome”
From the album: Absolution

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Why this song doesn’t suck:
A lot of people may not attribute the word “metal” while talking about the English rockers Muse, but you have to admit many of their songs have the intricacies and heaviness that can be said for any good heavy metal tune. Much like fellow Brits Porcupine Tree, a great deal of their songs are heavy on crunchy guitar work as well as progressive songwriting techniques. I think an excellent example of their hard rockingness is “Stockholm Syndrome” from their 2003 album Absolution.

Much anger I sense in him…
February 16th, 2009 12:22 am

Darth Killed Lucas (small)Yesterday afternoon, I saw a post on Gizmodo that I felt I just needed to share… as if something inside me was “forcing” me to… (zing!). I think most Star Wars fans have been hoping for something of this sort since a long, long time ago (double-zing!). Aside from bastardizing the original Star Wars saga in more ways than can be counted, we also have the newest Indiana Jones to deal with. Jesus Christ, George. Jesus Christ. Shia Labeouf with swinging monkeys?? I think the only things keeping me from hunting you down personally are “The Last Crusade” and “Willow”. You may be a son of a bitch, but you know the way straight to my heart: Sean Connery and midgets.

I personally can’t wait for the Blu-ray 3D Special Edition / Original Sexilogy Boxset with 350 extra hours of “goddamn-I-love-Star-Wars-so-much-I-just-shot-an-intergallactic-twelve-roper-on-the-TV-screen” bonus features! Though if it doesn’t come in a 1:4 scale fully-functional deathstar collectors case, you can count me out…