Ted Nugent - Full Bluntal Nugity

1. "KLSTRPHK" [instrumental] (3:59)
2. "Paralyzed" (4:28)
3. "Snakeskin Cowboys" (5:58)
4. "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" (6:44)
5. "Free For All" (4:10)
6. "Yank Me Crank Me" (2:44)
7. "Hey Baby" (4:13)
8. "Fred Bear" [acoustic] (8:12)
9. "Cat Scratch Fever" (5:27)
10. "Stranglehold" (9:48)
11. "Great White Buffalo" (5:20)
12. "Motorcity Madhouse" (6:59)

Full Bluntal Nugity is an excellent live offering from the Motor City Madman himself, Ted Nugent. From a pretty young age I have dabbled in the Nuge's music, becoming a huge fan of some of hits such a Stranglehold, The Great White Buffalo, and of course Cat Scratch Fever. Despite some silly lyrics, the man is phenomenal guitar player and his music is really raw and heavy in a live setting. There is plenty of guitar shredding, and crazy antics from uncle ted on this album. Makes me really want to check out some of his studio stuff one of these days. If you are fan of 70s rock this album is for you

4/5

(500) Days of Summer

Romantic comedies are a genre of film that I have neglected to take seriously for a long time. I find a lot of these films rely on trite sentimentality or raunchy sex jokes. (500) Days of Summer sets itself apart from the pack with a interesting story telling and strong characters. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Tom Hansen, an idealistic greeting card writer who believes there is such a thing as true love. He ends of falling for the free spirited summer (Zoey Deschanel) who is not interested in a relationship and eventually ends up dumping him for another guy.

The film jumps around to different points in his relationship with summer, from his first introduction, to first date, to after the break up. This narrative technique allows for an often times humorous contrast of the main characters feelings at different points of the relationship The film makes clear in its opening narrative that it is a story of boy meet girl, but definitely not a love story. This is certainly true, and the movie is not really a story of love between two people but an exploration of this guy's attempt to get over this girl.

While not laugh out loud funny, the movie has its share of amusing moments. The dialog is great, and parts of this film really ring true. The movie subverts many of the expectations of the romantic comedy genre, with an actually realistic but inspirational ending. If you have a friend who has recently been dumped, I think this is the movie for them. All in all this was a surprisingly entertaining and worthwhile film, and I really think it puts novice director Marc Webb on the map. I look forward to seeing what he does with the recently announced Spider-man reboot

Score: 5/5

Better Late Than Never

Hey haven't written in my blog for quite some time. Wanted to make sure that all my loyal readers know that I haven't been neglecting them. Also want to test out this new countdown timer for Left 4 Dead 2! huzzah. Peace out.

Quick Review: Epoch

Saw this pretty bad movie the other day called Epoch. I'll just warn you to stay away from it. It has pretty good box art and you might think it was a movie that got limited release in theaters or you just happened to miss, but you will be wrong. It's a sci-fi original movie and not a really great one at that. If I'm going to watch a sci-fi original movie I want to see one with chupacabras, or British SAS soldiers fighting werewolves in the highlands of scotland, or raptors killing big breasted porn stars in suburbia. I don't want a half-hearted attempt at the alien contact movie. This movie wasn't that great.

.5/5 stars for this one

Quick Review: Gremlins 2: The New Batch

It's difficult to put down my thoughts on this movie. This is partly because its been a few days since I've seen it and partly because this movie is simply a blur of crazy vignettes of the Gremlins wrecking havoc for about 45 minutes. Over the course of this movie you will see flying Gremlins, talking Gremlins, spider Gremlins, Gremlins that like to dress up as women (do Gremlins have a sex??) and more wackiness. The movie has so much going on and is so schizophrenic that the viewer can quickly become numb to the Gremlin's shenanigans. However the movie is a lot of fun and doesn't take itself seriously at all, and can you really hate a movie that comes to a grinding halt half way through and features a cameo from Hulk Hogan as he directly addresses the audience?

Score: 3.5/5

Quick Review: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Tracklist:

1. Black Sabbath
2. The Wizard
3. Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Bassically/N.I.B.
4. Wicked World
5. A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning


Okay this is a disc that doesn't really need much introduction. This is the first full length Black Sabbath album, and it's pretty good. Some claim this is the first Heavy Metal disc but I would disagree with this. I would classify this as more proto-metal that helped establish and influence the genre along with bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Thin Lizzy. In fact most of this album is mostly just pure rock in my opinion. It's hard to believe that this was considered shockingly heavy back in 1970.

Today it feels like easy listening to me. While I'm not a huge fan of Ozzy in general I would have to say his voice works great on the atmospheric title track. Most of the tracks on this album are actually long jams of several different songs strung together. This gives the album a very raw improvisational feel, that makes for good listening. All in all this is a decent place to start with sabbath, although their next album is more well known.

Rating 3/5

Highlights: Black Sabbath, NIB,

Check out my new post

My new post is finished and has been published below kzuu playlist. Its my first lyrical analysis and I hope to do more in the future.


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