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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

El Centro de Douchebag

I'm really at a loss today. I'm laughing so hard I can't see straight enough to choose which one of these magically delicious photographs to use for this blog. Screw it, like the dude on the left says "Two"...


Hey Rick Astley, what's goin' down? That crimp in your hair is puttin' a serious cramp in my side... and your windblown Nugent pose is tearing me apart.

Whoever owns and operates this Rock and Roll Confidential website is literally on my christmas card list this year. Special thanks to Beth for bringing it to my attention. Kudos.

Douchebag Central

Equally hilarious is a video called "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" which is basically "dudes" and their "chicks" hanging out in the parking lot of a Judas Priest/Dokken show in the 80's totally wasted drinking smoking and acting like complete morons. (The all-knowing) Wikipedia has this to say.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot
is a video documentary produced by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn in 1986. It documents heavy metal music fans partying in the parking lot outside the Capital Centre (later renamed US Airways Arena, since demolished) in Largo, Maryland on May 31, 1986 before a Judas Priest concert (with opening act Dokken).

By the early 1990s, Heavy Metal Parking Lot had become an underground cult-classic, usually traded on bootleg VHS videotapes. HMPL was reportedly a favorite on the Nirvana (band) tour bus. It is available on DVD in a 20th-anniversary edition.

American Hi-Fi parodied Heavy Metal Parking Lot in their music video for their debut hit single Flavor of the Weak. The Backstreet Boys also lampooned it in their music video for Just Want You To Know. Film distributor Cowboy Pictures gave it a limited theatrical release in 2003, paired with Chris Smith's documentary Home Movie.

In 2004, Trio (TV network) aired the series Parking Lot, which expanded on the 1986 documentary. Created & co-produced by the original filmmakers, John Heyn & Jeff Krulik (in association with Radical Media), eight episodes were broadcast before Trio TV went off the air in 2006. Parking Lot webisodes are available on Trio's website.

I think there are even several spin offs of this underground classic "Top Model Parking Lot" "Day After Thanksgiving Day Sale Parking Lot" "Sport Fishing Parking Lot"... the list goes on... but not for me.

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