Tag: video

I’ve always thought I wanted to sell shoes

Competition for the title “Cheesiest Heavy Metal Video Ever” is intense. For one thing, it includes some 1980s material that can only be described as seminal in every way.

Via the Exploding Aardvark and Blabbermouth, I present to you:

Hammerfall – Hearts on Fire (Quicktime)

I will give you only one hint before you click: it’s winter sports-related.

Edit: For those who can’t see video, a small gallery of images is presented for your enjoyment below the cut here

Rasputin is a truck.

truck

There is one achievement of the last century that will stand without a doubt, and that is the 1980s era Toyota minitruck. In this Google video you see this greatness made manifest, as Jeremy Clarkson and crew do their best to destroy a 100,000 mile+ former farm truck with impact, seawater, fire, and other things.

Every broke person I hung out with in the 80s and early 90s drove one of these things. I’d buy one today. pbd had one that later the_silent_one had too. That was a 1980, wasn’t it? Greg’s was an ’88 and he put 100,000 miles of L.A. messenger/courier work on it before he sold it. The Chadian army blew up Libyan tanks with them. They. Will. Not. Die.

Is the Tacoma still that good, I wonder?

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir? (Costa Mesa mix)

There’s this Del Taco in Costa Mesa, California at Newport Boulevard and 17th Street. It’s open 24 hours a day. It’s near a couple of record stores, some bars, and CafĂ© Ruba, which is the coffee joint for unhappy teenagers.

So a lot of kids and young adults hang around this Del Taco and raise heck. It used to be a big straightedge hangout. For some reason it’s where fights happen in this town.

The drunk bro dudes at shorescrew.com have documented one pretty good Del Taco brawl for us: Del Taco Fight (page with embedded Quicktime video).

It’s almost identical to a fight I saw in fourth grade except everyone’s in their 20s and a vintage car is vandalized. Special attention to the really cool ape noises the guy in grey makes near the end of the barely visible second half of the battle.