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[  Mood: Amused ]
[  Currently: Listening to REAL heavy metal ]
Links are SFW. Well, except the South Park ones.

After watching this South Park episode, I think I can say it’s among my favorites. There are many better, more funny episodes, but none which combine three I love to such great effect.

"Major Boobage" contains cats. I love cats. Used to be a dog person, but then responsibility took flight from me (or vice versa) for a number of years, as did living in my own home, so as an apartment dweller I had few pet choices I liked. Snakes were out. Ditto arachnids of any flavor. I don’t do well with fish (though I’ll now eat salmon in addition to the tuna I usually fix when my wife isn’t home to cook). So cats became IT, petwise. I’m not sorry, either. Except when I’m cleaning the litter box. Or listening to the 6am yowls about feeding time. Or hearing the water bowl knocked over for the third time this morning.
Really, I do love my cats.

"Major Boobage" also contains–betcha can’t guess–boobs. If you’ve seen my take on the 1983 classic fantasy "The Sword and the Sorceror," you know how I feel about this topic.

Last, the episode contains several references to the movie "Heavy Metal." I’ve not spoken well of the movie in the forums here because I didn’t enjoy it as a movie when I first saw it. I’m reasonably certain I wouldn’t enjoy as a movie it if I watched it today.

There are a couple reasons for my dislike of the film.
1.: It’s "plot" is strung together worse than an average porn film. The vignettes are so loosely tied together they may as well be separated by neon title cards.
2.: The music sucks. The misconception I had in seeing this film (on video, several years after its theater run had come and gone) was that I might hear some heavy metal to go along with the (anticipated) cool sci-fi visuals (and promised boobage). Maybe some Def Leppard. Or RATT. Or Dokken. Or Motley Crue.

What I was met with was Sammy Hagar at his glaringly mediocre "best." Journey doing "Open Arms." Stevie Nicks and Donald Fagen!?! Is that what Canadians think of when they read Heavy Metal magazine?
Where’s the #%@* was the METALLICA? The QUEENSRYCHE? The mighty IRON MAIDEN? These are shining examples of heavy metal (as I still enjoy it today)!
Those bands were available back then, their albums providing exactly the kind of music that would have complemented a sci-fi/fantasy spectacle.

As a delivery device for good music, "Heavy Metal" doesn’t pass muster. Most folks were probably too busy watching Taarna to be bothered by the music, but to me, there wasn’t enough Taarna in the movie to ignore the bad parts (of the music and the movie) completely. As a delivery device for some animated softcore (perhaps the first I was exposed to in my pubescent years), the movie definitely stands the test of time.

A quick aside to the creators: When does the Druuna (find your own links) movie come out, yo? I’m not bothering with "Heavy Metal: Whatever the hell the abbreviation stands for 2000," even if Julie Strain may be animated nude in it.
The irony may be that I’d like it, seeing how it apparently has more metal than the first movie did, and a starring role by none other than the peroxide god (dancing with) himself, Billy Idol!

Really, though, I think I’d rather listen to my new Iron Maiden albums.

But (SPOILERS!) Stan’s dad Randy has the best line in the episode…

"You never really get to see her totally naked boobs anyway."