Tacky 80's Hair Metal Videos

Since I'm in a weird mood right now and watching tacky 80's Hair Metal Videos on youtube, I figured I would post some of my favorites here. With no further introduction here they are.

Winger - Miles Away


The Vinnie Vincent Invasion (ft Mark Slaughter) - Love Kills


Warrant - Heaven


What's a list of tacky 80's Metal videos with out...

Skid Row - I Remember You


Skid Row - 18 and Life


And finally my favorite Skid Row song ever...

Skid Row - Wasted Time



So trashy, tacky, and cheesy. I love it. So good. I know.

Baseball Season is fast approaching

Since today is March 1 there are less than 30 days until opening day of the 2008 MLB season. This should be a good season, the Yankees have a good young pitching staff and a very good lineup. I, however, do not think that they will win the AL East. In a year or two I think the pitching staff will come into its own and the Yankees will assume their rightful place - a top the AL East and all of MLB. I think that the Red Sox will be in the WS at least (as much as it pains me to admit that).

My choices for AL and NL Cy Young are:

AL: Josh Becket (he should have won last year)

NL: Johan Santana.

My picks for the the winners of the four playoff spots in each league are:

AL East Red Sox; AL Central Detroit; AL West Angels; AL Wild Card Yankees

NL East Mets; NL Central Milwaukee; NL West Arizona; NL Wild Card Philadelphia.

Here's another selection from Old Norse

This is a selection of four stanzas from Hávamal (Sayings of the High One) that I think is full of very good advise:

23. Ósnotr maðr vakir um allar mætr
oc hyggr at hvívetna;
þá er móðr, er at morni kømr,
alr er vil, sem var.

24. Ósnotr maðr hyggr sér alla vera
viðhlæiendr vini;
hitki hann fiðr þótt þeir um hann fár lesi,
ef hann með snotrom stir.

25. Ósnotr máðr hyggr sér alla vera
viðhlæiendr vini
þá þat finnr, er at þingi kømr,
at hann á formælendr fá.

77. Deyr fé, deyia frændr,
deyr siálfr it sama;
ec veit einn, at aldri deyr:
dómr um dauðan hvern.

Here's what it means in idiomatic english:

23. The foolish man wakes all night
and thinks at everything;
then is weary, when it comes to morning,
all trouble is, as it was.

24. The foolish man thinks all are friends to him
who laugh with him;
that he does not notice, even if they speak hostile words about him,
when he sits among the wise

25. The foolish man thinks all are friends to him
who laugh with him
then he finds that, when he comes to the assembly
that he has few advocates.

77. Cattle die, kinsmen die,
the self must also die:
I know one (thing) that never dies:
the reputation of each dead man.