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October 10, 2008 — mrcanacorn Just like the mind bender that is, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, many of us have spent more than one sleepless night wondering, “Who made who?” Luckily, in 1986, Stephen King, AC/DC, and Emilio Estevez attempted to answer that question with MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE.

I received an email the other day that can best be described as bittersweet. The author took the time out of a busy day to simply thank me; thank me for a rejection letter/email I had sent one year earlier. Apparently, according to this writer, not all agents are as kind in their rejections, and the author was feeling disheartened and discouraged.

October 9, 2008 — mrcanacorn So before we get to today’s Rocktober video, I thought we should discuss Jon Mikl Thor. Thor’s a strange one. I mean, it’s like he’s three different people or something. I know this post is a bit link heavy (what else is new?), but I suggest you click through to really get a feel for today’s subject… There’s 70s mustache and cape Thor…who seriously rules.

Day before yesterday night, all I wanted to do on getting home was spend some time playing a game of soccer on PS3, and go to sleep. I wanted to free my mind, and let my hair down. While I was warming up to do this however, a program on Discovery channel caught my fancy.

This is a continuation of the previous posting, dealing with the issue of memory - where I introduced the QCEP map of memory association (an idea, by the way, that owes something to meditation techniques). There are two reasons I introduced QCEP.

October 6, 2008 — mrcanacorn So, we’ve looked at some horror/metal pairings in a couple of movies and a teevee show, but sometimes Metal bands try to make stand alone horror videos for their totally awesome songs.

October 5, 2008 — mrcanacorn Be Chrool to Your Scuel Okay, So Billy Joel on piano and Clarence Clemons on saxophone doesn’t really sound too metal and/or horror…but throw in a little Bobcat Goldthwait and Tom Savini and I think we have our bases covered in this Twisted Sister/Alice Cooper collabo! MTV banned this video?

October 4, 2008 — mrcanacorn Knock, knock. Who’s there? Rocktober Day 4! And your sweet surprise is TRICK OR TREAT! The Wife loves this one thanks to Skippy…I, on the other hand, love TRICK OR TREAT thanks to Tony Fields: Oh, and it features a guitar solo that is so fucking awesome that electricity

October 3, 2008 — mrcanacorn METAL! HORROR! MOLOCH! Rocktober Day 3 brings you His Satanic Majesty…MOLOCH! I seriously had NO idea this existed. Much thanks to Bwana for his awesome Rocktober suggestion to include Donny Most’s horrifically metal appearance on CHiPs! There’s so much awesomeness in this clip, it boggles my mind! Here’s a few of my favorite things…feel free to share your own… 1.

Roughly nine & a half glasses of red wine, half a pint of cider, one shot of lighter fluid, two & a half shots of gin, six glasses of sherry, thirteen glasses of whisky & half a pint of ale — [SOURCE: Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I, Handmade Films, UK 1987] —- The virtual life becomes real life: