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All Hail The Child Butchers

  • September 7, 2010 3:36 am
My summer ended not with a whimper, but a bang.  The bang of a twenty four inch bass drum, the crash of a high hat, and a smoking hot cover of Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher.”   I had just seen “The Child Butchers” perform their first concert ever, a loud, aggressive, kick-ass show which left my head buzzing, my heart pounding, and my mouth smiling.

I probably should mention here that my son Rafael plays drums and guitar for The Child Butchers.  Not at the same time, of course – although, as a ridiculously biased father, I wouldn’t put it past him.

Not the actual "Child Butchers" (who attack parental paparrazi with a vicousness that would make Sean Penn blush) - but you get the idea.  Read more...

The Little League World Series Condones “Killing The Yellow Man?”

  • September 3, 2010 12:44 am

Fans of the Little League World Series know that this year Japan beat Hawaii to end the U.S.’ five-year winning streak. But any way you look at it, with the teams from Japan and Hawaii (and Taiwan who played Japan before the Hawaii game) in contention, that’s a lot of Asian faces. So maybe it was inevitable that a mini-controversy would erupt when Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” prominently blared from the speakers between innings during the championship game.

So why is this such a big deal? Well, if you actually listen carefully to the Boss’ lyrics, this is what you’ll hear:

Born down in a dead man’s town,
the first kick I took was when I hit the ground,
you end up like a dog that’s been beat too much,
till you spend half your life just covering up.
I got in a little hometown jam,
so they put a rifle in my hands,
sent me off to a foreign land,
to go and kill the yellow man.  Read more...

Tasteless (?) Album Covers

  • May 4, 2010 9:04 am

In an ongoing effort not to let anyone forget the passing of the art form known as the album cover, let me take a moment to force down your throat some of those artistic endeavors thought too controversial or tasteless or just too off for mass consumption.

The granddaddy of all tasteless album covers is, of course, the Beatles’ “Butcher Cover,” depicting the fab four in butcher smocks surrounded by hacked up dolls. The album was in stores for one day before Capitol pulled it.

If you happen to see one at a thrift store, grab it. For the one day it was on sale at Sears, it cost $2.99. Today a sealed Butcher Cover goes for $40,000. It was replaced with:  Read more...

Super Hot Album Covers…YOMYOMF Flavah Edition

  • March 29, 2010 2:47 am

Offender Alfredo recently blogged about his choices for Super Hot Album Covers and that made me think about my favorite album covers and how they might relate to some of the key people who have helped define YOMYOMF. So with the help of fellow Offender and photoshop guru/master/bad ass mofo David, here’s a reimagining of these album covers injected with a little bit of YOMYOMF flavah to kick off an otherwise gloomy Monday. Have a great week and keep offending, my friends!

BEATLES “Meet The Beatles”
Featuring Justin, Sung, Roger and Dustin Nguyen

Although this was technically the Beatles’ second U.S. album, it was the one that introduced most Americans to the Fab Four. So I thought it would be fitting to kick things off by mashing-up that album cover with the men from Offender Justin’s film Finishing The Game. For our readers who don’t know, youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com was the original Finishing The Game website. Instead of shutting down the site after the film was released, Justin had the idea of turning it into a blog and the rest is history mildly interesting trivia. So “meet” the faces of the men who inadvertently gave birth to YOMYOMF.  Read more...

Remembering John Lennon

  • December 8, 2009 12:21 am
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Countless words have been written about John Lennon over the years so I don’t really think there’s anything new or profound I can add.  I was just a kid in elementary school when he died exactly 29 years ago so I was too young to really understand his impact and why his death hit people so hard.  I grew up listening to the Beatles so the music was a part of my life from my earliest memory and of course it was great.  But it wasn’t until I was much older before I understood that the Beatles and John Lennon, in particular, was about more than just awesome music.  Read more...