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Tetragrammaton Council
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Eddie Van Halen Gives Abom a Striped Sneaker Enema!
10 Feb 2012 by Abominable Snowcone / 2 Comments
It’s been fifteen years since Van Halen issued a studio album, and almost twice as long since cutting their last with the charismatic, karate-kicking howler monkey-in-leather-chaps named David Lee Roth. The Diamond One allegedly ditched the California quartet for movie stardom after touring the multiplatinum masterpiece 1984. But when his Hollywood plans fell short, Dave returned to basics, releasing the terrific, if atypical, covers EP (Crazy from the Heat) and two worthwhile full-lengths with acrobatic super-shredders Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan (Eat ‘em and Smile, Skyscraper). Meanwhile, brothers Eddie (guitar) and Alex (drums) Van Halen soldiered on with Sammy Hagar at the wheel of their hit-making motor machine. The slick 80’s “Van Hagar” sound irked some old school fans, but won over just as many new listeners; the history books attest VH achieved even more commercial success than before with the “Red Rocker.”
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Chemical Poisoning, Mass Hysteria or Twitchy Bitches?
08 Feb 2012 by Basement Cheetoh Eater / 2 Comments
- Le Roy High School – Toxic Shock or Tricky Teens?
Perhaps nothing is more interesting right now than the mystery taking place at Le Roy High School in upstate New York. It seems that as many as 14 girls are showing signs of a bizarre ailment very similar to Tourette’s Syndrome. The girls are seemingly agitated, showing nervous tics and supposedly involuntary jerking motions while swearing profusely and/or making odd sounds that they claim to have no control over.
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Aokigahara: Japan’s Very Own Mirkwood Forest
15 Nov 2011 by Basement Cheetoh Eater / 6 Comments
No need to go all the way to Middle Earth.
A dark and foreboding forest. Legends of ghosts and demonic terrors creeping across a windless, dying expanse of diseased trees. People summoned by some invisible force who willingly embrace their mortal end; all-too-often, never to be seen again.
Sound like Peter Jackson potty-spank material? Not at all…it’s actually a forest in Japan near the base of Mt. Fuji (affectionately known as Aokigahara….the “Sea of Trees” in their ugly and incomprehensible tongue). And Aokigahara isn’t just your typical creepy forest…it’s the site of over 500 suicides over the last 30 years (and about 4,000 attempts as well as over 200 missing persons reports).
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