“AND THEN THAT PUSSY COBAIN CAME ALONG AND RUINED EVERYTHING”
Monday, October 13th, 2008 at 9:52am by Axl RosenbergI saw a pretty fantastic new movie last night called The Wrestler. It was directed by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) and stars Mickey Rourke as an over the hill, down on his luck pro-wrestler looking to make amends with his estranged daughter (Marilyn Manson fucker Evan Rachel Wood) and kindle a romance with an over the hill, down on her luck stripper (Marisa Tomei).
ANWAY, the reason I mention it is this: there’s a great scene where Rourke and Tomei are in a bar, and Ratt’s “Round and Round” comes on the jukebox. This inspires a conversation about the two characters’ mutual love of 80’s hair metal and leads to Rourke uttering the line of dialog which serves as this article’s headline – a line of dialog which I found insanely funny and which, to my pleasant surprise, a few thousand other people did, too.
So with all due respect to “that pussy Cobain,” here Ratt performing “Round and Round” in 1984, when they were at the height of their powers. If this don’t start your week right, nuthin’ will.
The Wrestler will be in theaters in the U.S. on December 19. I highly recommend it.
-AR
wow, this is boy band if i have ever seen it!!
Hey man nice shot.
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie, have heard many good things about it, AND the NECROBUTCHER [Dylan Summers] is in it!
You bastard! I’m dying to see this thing.
Warren is burning that motherfucker!
Dude, I couldn’t agree more. I’ve long held that Nirvana killed metal, at least in the States, for a very long time. Cobain meant to a whole generation that any douchebag could buy a guitar and have a band and make awesome music.
It didn’t work out that way.
And now metal’s on its way back to the limelight.
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Nirvana is awesome
Nirvana saved us from all the femi rock! ;)
Badd ass hook and solo- two thumbs up. Fem dudes running around with their crotches in eachothers’ faces- three thumbs down!
So true. Cobain was just a three chord loser.