The Amazing Rando

It's a little bit sad that THE NUMBER ONE MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER THREE THOUSAND MARK didn't know what was on the DVDs. For shame. Fo sheez

When you can freak out AoO, you know you've "made it" at TSM. ...or not.

What a moment. What a moment. Love it boys and girls... this is a once-in-a-lifetime moment for the masses. Believe it, cherish it, and of course... Never Forget. 2004.

But what I can do, is make little children dance. It involves a secret mixture of old jazz, new wave techno, and a dash of free spirited foul-mouthed hardcore. You get just the right mixture, and little kids will be shaking around like they just walked into Club MTV and wanted so bad to touch Kennedy (Those freaks). It's especially a great show if you first get them completely whacked out of their skulls on Kool-Aid, Pez, Pixie Stix, and Acid. Man, what a kindergarten class that was.

Yes. This right here is my mission.

Dude, that isn't what he said... he said "Don't always hook a rabid mouse with a fork!" Christ, do family values mean NOTHING anymore.

Don't get near it! Play dead! RUN AWAY!

Ditto. It can't be THAT hard to put the game on PC and have it ready at the same time as the consoles.

What with the recent Ashlee Simpson debacle, I began to really think about the culture that is popular music. It seems to me that, in and of itself, music is becoming less an art and a form of expression and more a way to make money. Sure, the music business has always been about money, but at least there was a decent product placed behind it, especially in the mainstream. From the 50s to even the early-to-mid 80s, singer songwriters dominated (and I don't mean as simple solo acts either). Just a small list of the popular bands/artists of the era shows you quite the range of talent. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, James Taylor, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones...so many others. You could look at them and feel the emotion in what they were playing. I don't see much of that today at all. In the late 70s and into the 80s, "Corporate Rock" started to dominate with bands like Boston and Journey leading the front. Sure, there was still the same sort of emotion there, but with a corporation staring down at you in the age where making money began to really become a focal point, it wasn't about the music so much as it was selling it to the public. This only became a bigger issue once MTV and others came along. Bands like Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, and others still exist today, but rely heavily on the fans of the past to make any kind of CD sales. (Note: I'm talking about the general mainstream audience, not some of the more eclectic music fans that really appreciate the past even though they might not have been around for the original releases). Corporations are now looking for whatever hot new thing they can find and hoping to god they have some sort of sound that they can fuck with in a computer to make it sound decent and then sell it after throwing it all over MTV and VH1 for a few weeks. It's absolutely pathetic. I am nearly convinced that if a band like Journey appeared today that they would have to sell their souls to make any kind of decent move in record sales (see: Creed). For one thing, and the Video Music Era taught us this, is that some of those older bands didn't exactly care about what they looked like. Listening to "Hotel California" and then looking at the video for "Boys of Summer" shows two very different sides of the same man in Don Henley. Sure, BOS was during his solo career, but he wrote or helped write both of them. You can't picture the sunglass-wearing Henley in the video singing "Hotel California". It doesn't seem to fit right. Before music videos, bands didn't need to be beautiful and their fans (for the most part) did not really care. Part of it may have been the drugs, but I actually believe that if the Beatles came around today and tried to release the White Album...they wouldn't have gotten any exposure no matter how much talent they have. By today's standards, they aren't even at the level of the Hanson Brothers in terms of what a record company is looking for. In this era, I believe they would have ended up as "cult favorites", releasing CDs that for the most part go undetected by mainstream culture, but to those that hear it...it's amazing. Actually, scratch that, I'm not sure many people in this day and age would even find them to be amazing had they never existed in the first place. Sad, huh? So basically, I put forth the notion that the ART of songwriting and music is almost dead and buried in the mainstream media and culture, where now the art is less about the music and more about the packaging and the sales figures. It's a big reason why year after year so many people are turning to the more niched genre and the underground...lowering record sales and hopefully showing those in power in the music world that it isn't about the p2p file sharing and it isn't about computers...it's about the music itself. One day they will learn. Or at least, I hope so. ~ Rando.

I'm preparing to suffer through the month as well.

I would assume they were voted together with close to equal amounts of votes, so they just put them together...technically making the list 25 episodes.

I, too, wish Scott Tenorman Must Die was Number One. It was perfectly crafted and the episode felt that it went longer than it did. It was sheer brilliance of "Dude, I'm never going to piss of Cartman again"

I doubt Vince is smart enough to do that on purpose.

No, there wasn't a promo Now what needs to happen next RAW is that Evolution has paid off all the heels, and we have another big battle, but with all the heels and faces. While this is going on, Edge needs to have a chair on the entry ramp watching this, while eating a sandwich. "Dude, Salami ROCKS"

They took him out on the ramp.

If it hadn't been for Cotttoneyed Joe...I'd been married long time ago...where did you come from, where did you go...

i'm glad i taped Raw now.

This is one of those "moments" right here...the crowd is EXPLOSIVE

dude...i just marked out hard.

This is awesome!

Gotta love MAVEN making an appearance in a main event, and actually doing some damage.

it's the ORTONTAKER!

"Wow Dad...that one looks COOL!"

SO? It originally said Batista for some stupid reason.

Bold Prediction: Rodney Mack, Stevie Richards, The Hurricane & Rosey will be in action... and maybe Tyson Tomko BATISTA?!