Something 4 The Weekend # 46

There's no rhyme or reason, really, to the song choices I make for SOMETHING 4 THE WEEKEND...Usually it's the band I'm listening to that day, or just recently - nothing more deep or meaningful than that...

During the 9 hours spent at work every day, I typically spin a single artist CDr of their catalog...Today I listened to nothing but Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds...Monday, it might be Super Furry Animals...At least once per week I listen to nothing but The Kinks...

And when I get home, I don't listen to so much music...Typically I'll watch an hour or two of TV or DVDs, and read for an hour or two, and play video games for an hour or two, eat some dinner, draw a comic, do some writing...

Which I guess explains a bit why I don't post much to HOT POOP, but is meant to convey the mostly random nature of SOMETHING 4 THE WEEKEND...

This week, for example, is a song called "Kill Ramirez" by a band called Baader Meinhof...

Baader Meinhof: Baader Meinhof: "Kill Ramirez"

I chose this particular song merely because I went into my 100 gig folder of albums (in MP3 format, natch) and the name Baader Meinhof caught my eye...My immediate thought was, "they're just about the whitest funk band I've ever heard", and then, "I like 'em"...

And here we are...

Hotcha! Hank

ROUGH RYDERS: Week Twelve

OCHO-CINCO!!!!!

Chad Johnson EXPLODED for 12 catches, 103 yards, and 3 touchddowns this weekend, something he should have been doing since Week Two, but whatcha gonna do? After his first TD catch of the game, #85 went and manned a TV camera in the back of the endzone, and it really wasn't clever or particularly funny, but what was interesting to me what the palpable disdain the FOX NFL crew has for the guy. Terry, Howie and Jimmy really have nothing good to say about the guy...I don't really either, to be honest, but hey, he scored 40.3 FP for me this weekend, so I'll just keep my mouth shut.

WEEK TWELVE was Thanksgiving Week, and on Thursday six of my fourteen players hit the gridiron...I'm happy to report that my beloved Green Bay Packers defeated the Detroit Lions, and in the process, recent phenom Ryan Grant had a great game, running for 101 yards and a TD, and catching a half-dozen clutch passes. Of course, when one of my guys does this, they're "clutch" catches, but when somebody else's guy does it, I call 'em "Garbage Man". Reggie Bush comes to mind...Anyways, Ryan Grant was the best of my three RBs this weekend...Once again, LaDainian Tomlinson had a solid game, but certainly disappointing by his own standards...Kevin Jones had a pretty good game himself, but I didn't play him out of respect to the Packers' defense.

Elsewhere, and speaking of garbage, Jacksonville's defense shut down Lee Evans, who's disgusting 3.9 FP came in the closing minutes of a lost game...

Tony Gonzalez was kinda lame as well...7.8 FP was certainly a letdown, though I should probably cut Gonzo some slack because he's been dependable all season, and is currently the 4th most productive TE in the NFL...Plus, I didn't need a big game from him this week...

Meanwhile, Bernard Berrian was silent for almost all of the Bears-Broncos game, and then BAM! the dude extends himself out, leaning leaning leaning out, snagging the ball as he falls and drags those toes...TOUCHDOWN!!!! Fantasy redemption in the closing seconds for me, and tying their game that they would eventually win in OT...

As much as I don't like the Chicago Bears, they do provide their fair share of fantasy points for me...Berrian is reliable for double digit FP production every week, which makes him a viable WR3 or Flex play every week, and their defense might not be as dominant as it was the past 2-3 years, but in fairness to them, they've been riddled with injuries to some of their best defensive players, and the Bears half-inept offense has put the defense in bad places all season long...But then, there's Devin Hester, who's already a shoe-in for the NFL Hall-Of-Fame in only his second season...His return abilities are bona-fide...Chicago's Defense contributed 30.07 FP to the Rough Ryders' cause, and Hester's 2 TD returns and the accompanying yardage were responsible for more than half that FP total...But the defense also forced a fumble, and intercepted a pass, and blocked a punt...And had 3 or 4 sacks...Not a bad day, all around...They may not be the elite defense right now, but they're dependable, and exciting, and I've also got Lance Briggs in my lineup, and he's just as dependable...He forced that fumble, and added four tackles...

I may not like the Bears, but I do respect them...That's the thing about the Packers-Bears rivalry...There's really not much animosity there anymore...I think you'd have to go back to Charles Martin's late-hit body-slam on Jim McMahon sometime back in the mid-80's to find the hate between the teams and the fans...But the Bears have always been scrappy underdogs of a sort that Packer fans can relate to...Blue collar...Midwestern men playing a hard game in the freezing cold and wind and snow in the late weeks when the games mean the most...And the Bears history goes back just as far as the Packers' history does, and there's alot of greatness in their story - Papa Bear Halas, Dick Butkus, Gail Sayers, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary, Mike Ditka...I dislike the Bears, and sometimes I even hate 'em, but I do respect 'em...

When the Vikings still played outdoors, we (Packer & Bear fans) already didn't like 'em, but when they moved their circus indoors, they lost all respect...There has never been a Viking on the Rough Ryders roster, and there never will be...This includes Adrian Peterson...

Oh, and the Detroit Lions? Well, they've played in a dome forever as well, so there's really no respect there either...But then, they never win, and I got drunk and had a bitchin' fun night in Las Vegas with a trio of Lions' fans on Super Bowl Sunday in 1997, when the Packers won their 3rd Super Bowl, so I don't hate the Lions...I just feel sorry for 'em, really, and I think that's how most Packer fans feel...

And that's my quick take on the NFC central, as a Packer fan, an insider of sorts...

I guess I'll finish off this week's recap by mentioning that Hines Ward had a fairly solid game in the swamps of Pittsburgh on Monday night...I didn't see the game, but it was delayed by lightning, and Heinz Field had been used extensively in the previous couple of weeks for high school playoff games and then the rains came...They resodded the field the day before, but it was an absolute fucking mess...Such a fucking mess that Jeff Reed kicked a field goal with about 17 seconds left on the clock to lift the Steelers to a 3-0 victory over the absolutely and inexcusably inept Miami Dolphins...I don't think I've ever had a Dolphin on my team either...

Anyways, Hines Ward caught a bunch of short passes, which is 100% Wardish...Hinesian...I would have liked to have seen that game, but I refuse to give Charter Comm any more money than I already do...

After twelve weeks, I am proud and happy to announce that the beloved WINONA ROUGH RYDERS are now 9-3, and sitting comfortably alone in 3rd place in the APFL...

Next week is the final regular season matchup before the APFL playoffs begin, and our beloved ROUGH RYDERS are facing the outmanned and outgunned Team Excelsior...If the APFL situation doesn't change, and I don't believe that it can or will, we will be facing Team Excelsior again in the first round of the playoffs, so looking ahead to the semi-finals, it looks like a 3rd game, a rubbermatch, against Just Another Team, a team that I respect, but do not fear...

And finally, a respectful RIP to Redskins' saftety Sean Taylor, who was shot and killed by a home intruder this past week...

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 11-20-07

Even though the mp3 is 128k, I suppose this golden nugget of ZZ Top is indeed "warm and creamy."

ZZ Top: Fandango!: "Blue Jean Blues"

Delicious!

Hotcha! Hank

ROUGH RYDERS: Week Eleven

There is always hope in fantasy football. There is always the chance that Carson Palmer is going to hook up with Chad Johnson for 3 or 4 touchdowns and a ton of yardage, or that Packer's RB Ryan Grant might explode for 200 rushing yards and a couple of touchdowns. Maybe the Bears' return magician Devin Hester will run back a couple of kicks. Maybe Nick Barnett makes a dozen tackles and forces a fumble or two.

There is always hope, though sometimes hope is all ya really have, because if you get really real about the fantasy football, sometimes you just know defeat is hanging heavy in the air, you look across that matchup page, and you see the doom, the bad matchups, the hot hands.

10-1.

Thee Fractioneer wrote that smack talk days before our Week Eleven matchup.

He divined the numbers. He saw what I saw. He saw Chad Johnson continue to play second fiddle to his own TJ Houshmandzadeh, never mind that Chris Henry is back in the Cincinnati mix, and had a better game than Ocho-Cinco, catching a TD, something Johnson hasn't done since WEEK TWO!!!!!

Week Two! Fuck!

One can hope Palmer and Johnson hook up for 3 or 4 scores, but instead you get a middling game made slightly worse with a fumble. When the doom is lingering, these things tend to happen.

Meanwhile, Ryan Grant has a solid day running the ball, but he doesn't go off for 200, and he doesn't find the endzone, and hell, he only catches one lousy ball in the Packers' pass-happy offense.

Over on Just Another Team, the Saints' Reggie Bush has what amounts to a worthless game against Houston - a meager 34 rushing yards (2.3 avg), and though he catches a dozen passes for 70 yards, it's mostly garbage yardage in the waning minutes of a lost game. But in a PPR (point per reception) fantasy league, those twelve receptions are HUGE...More than half of his FP total...

When the writing is already on the wall, things tend to play out this way...

Tony Gonzalez gets shut down. Kevin Jones doesn't figure into a game wherein the Lions must pass pass pass to catch up. Chicago's defense can't figure out Matt Hasselbeck, which was a double whammy this week against Just Another Team...And Atari Bigby might have my favorite name in the NFL (sorry Adimchinobi Echemandu), but he was no better and no worse than any of the other half dozen DBs I've played so far this season. I'm just happy he's a Green Bay Packer.

If you take a look at this week's score card (click image to enlarge), you'll see that three of Just Another Team's offensive players have their FP totals in blue...That's because they made tackles after interceptions or fumbles, and together, those three guys had as many tackles as Atari Bigby.

Or Troy Polamalu, who injured his knee this week, so now I've got to drop him and find somebody else for next week's matchup against the Mana Junkies.

I lost to the Mana Junkies by 3 points in Week Three, and so even though our beloved Winona Rough Ryders are currently favored by 33 points, I can only hope. I can only hope Hines Ward bounces back. I can only hope Ryan Grant is able to play, cuz I hope I don't have to use Kevin Jones against my own beloved Green Bay Packers and their stubborn defense.

Marshawn Lynch is still hurt. This creates a bit of dread. Chad Johnson has some sort of skin condition and he ain't getting any love. This is a concern.

My point is, I really don't want to lose a second time to the Mana Junkies, but on any given weekend, anything can happen. Baltimore could very well shut down LaDainian Tomlinson, and Jacksonville could very well quiet Lee Evans, and I might write another recap in which I am sullen, and unable to muster the enthusiasm or pride to mention our beloved Winona Rough Ryders by name more than once (now twice)...

But until next Sunday night, or possibly Monday night in Pittsburgh, I can only hope Patrick Crayton goes off like a motherfucker.

Or possibly Kevin Curtis.

Bernard Berrian? Calvin Johnson?

Who's gonna fill that crucial W/R "flex" position?

The truth is, I tend to leave plenty of points on my bench on any given Sunday. In other words, I don't manage my team as best I can, which means that our beloved Winona Rough Ryders are now 8-3 in spite of my unimpressive 50/50 Genius:Idiot Ratio, which I've mentioned in previous posts.

This week's quote is from the mouth and mind of a coworker of mine, Scheiby, as we smoked out on the deck in the cold, grey, damp November afternoon...

"Man, those old ZZ Top records sound sooo fucking warm and creamy."

Indeed, they do.

And if I may add a quote of my own...

"Chris Cooley can chew my noodle."

Hotcha! Hank

Belated Earth Sideways Maneuver

This is the current incarnation of EARTH, performing the song "A Plague Of Angels", from their Hibernaculum album...Circa last year...Dylan Carlson is the dude on the right playing guitar, the drummer is Adrienne Davies, and that's Don McGreevy on the left, manning the thunder broom...

This incarnation is probably the most stable lineup in the band's history, and this song and performance is indicative of the "Roots Drone" thing they've been doing since Carlson got past his drug and legal problems...As much as I admire Carlson's early music, the heavy Doom/Drone stuff that is hella lot more groundbreaking than most folks know, I gotta say, this thing he's got happening now is just as exciting and groundbreaking in a whole new way...

Of course, I'm suddenly reminded of Japancakes circa 1997, but whatever...

Hotcha! Hank

ROUGH RYDERS: Week Ten

You wanna know why FANTASY FOOTBALL is called FANTASY Football?

In Detroit's game against Arizona, RB Kevin Jones rushed for -4 yards...Negative yardage...He also caught 8 passes for a paltry 36 yards, and he managed at least one rush of positive yards, cuz he scored a rushing touchdown as well...My point is, in a PPR (point-per-reception) league, the fantasy points can add up quickly, and while Kevin Jones was a bust on the actual gridiron this weekend, in the AcidPlanet Fantasy League, his 17.2 FP is respectable. His touchdown aside, Kevin Jones contributed little to the Lions' offense, and his lack of productivity is partially responsible for the Lions' loss.

Anyways, I don't even know if I wanna break down this week's matchup...Romo good, Gonzo bad...Ocho Cinco disappointing, Bears' defense stoic...Blah blah blah...

Quote of the week is courtesy of Randy Cross, who was the color commentator for the Bengals-Ravens game this Sunday...After Chad Johnson made an acrobatic catch along the sidelines, "Nice toes...Mmmmm...". Of course, since then I can't get the image of Randy Cross shrimping Chad Johnson outta my head, and thus, I don't really feel like recapping our beloved Rough Ryders supreme victory over The Hairy Nipples in Week Ten...

Speaking of that fucking Bengals-Ravens game...

My second (of three) fantasy football team, The Super Doom Unit, lost this weekend by .80 FP, and the reason? Shayne Graham's 7 fucking field goals...Of course, if my first round draft pick on that team, Rudi Johnson, was actually healthy and still a good running back, I probably would have won by 10 points...Of course, if my second round pick on that team, Marvin Harrison, hasn't missed the past month with a knee injury, I probably would have won by 25 points...Of course, if my #2 RB, The Purple Jesus, hadn't gone down with a knee injury halfway through the Vikings-Packers game, I probably would have won by 40 points...

Shayne Fucking Graham...But that's the Super Doom Unit, and they're 3-7 and wallowing in last place in the Coleco League, so who fucking cares...

The beloved Winona Rough Ryders, on the other hand, are 8-2, and sitting comfortably in 3rd place in the AcidPlanet Fantasy League...Next week we face the formidable Just Another Team, who is currently sitting even more comfortably in first place. While it will be pleasurable to annihilate JAT for the second time this season, even when we do, the Rough Ryders will still be in third place....Such are the cruel ways of fantasy football...Just Another Team will be without the Purple Jesus this weekend, which certainly helps me...

Anyways, here's a fun fact - Tony Romo is currently the fantasy point leader on the beloved Rough Ryders, and he was my 12th round pick...Have I mentioned lately that I'm a genius approximately half of the time?

Next weekend when Marshawn Lynch lights it up for 30 fantasy points against New England, but he's riding my bench, that will represent the other half...

Finally, for the second week in a row, and for the third time this season, the Rough Ryders were the highest scoring team in the APFL...(Sponsored by Viagra!)


The beloved Winona Rough Ryders are 8-2, and clinched a playoff spot with this weekend's victory...In all likelihood, we'll hafta be the VIAGRA High Score Of The Week in Week Eleven, if we are to beat Just Another Team, but no worries, cuz I've already got my Coffee Mug Mojo™ workin', and that means there will be blood in the dust, and on the cleats of the fourteen Rough Ryders, as they ride rough all over one more team on their way to the top...

That crown is heavy, Fractioneer...What you got?

Hotcha! Hank

A Rational Fear Of Physics

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 45

Dylan Carlson and Kurt Cobain were best friends right up to the end, and roommates, once upon a time, in those lean teenage years before the beginning of the end. Somewhere, in some shoe box in the back of some closet in the greater Sea-Tac area, or possibly locked up in a safety deposit box in Los Angeles, are tape recordings of the two of them making heavy abstract music together.

Then Grunge happened, and a few years later Kurt gave Dylan cash to buy a shotgun, cuz Dylan was the one "who likes to shoot his guns", and really, a guy as famous and famously unstable as Cobain just can't go around buying guns - not from licensed dealers or the trunk of a '74 Ford Torino. Not at a gun show or from some dude my cousin Chico knows...

The story kinda sorta ends, as you know, with Cobain and that gun, the slug that killed Grunge...

And it's poetic (or possibly ironic) that Carlson was the one who scored the gun, cuz in my own version of RAWK HISTORY, Carlson was the one who was actually creating and playing actual Grunge music. Soundgarden were cool, but they were more or less a Led Zeppelin tribute band, and Mudhoney were a drunken Garage Rock band, and Pearl Jam still think that they're The Who, and Nirvana, deep down in their sweatered hearts, were a Pop band, or possibly a very sloppy Boston tribute band...

Grunge, if it was anything, was the slow, droning heaviness of Carlson's band, Earth.

It was also, possibly, The Melvins, but for the sake of this post, Grunge was Earth, not Alice In Chains, another Zeppelin tribute band...

So anyways, I could have streamed one of those slow heavy drones that Carlson excelled at, but instead, I'm drinking coffee that's been "Irished up" cuz I'm greasing myself for a late night recording session, and those slow, heavy drones are half an hour long, and if you want that sort of thing, go check out this month's EVERYTHINGATHON!

Instead, here's a lean 5'29" slice of kinder, gentler Earth...Something from their 1996 album, Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons, which mostly explored conventional heavy music of the Pop/Rock variety. After this, Carlson's life became a distracting blur of drug and legal problems that he didn't emerge from until 2003...Nowadays Earth's music incorporates Blues, Country and other traditional styles, while still maintaining the slow, droning qualities that makes Carlson's music much more unique than most people realize or give him credit for...

And again, in my own version of RAWK HISTORY, Carlson has been as influential as Cobain...Without Carlson and his music, we might not have bands such as Mogwai, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Sunno))), Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Ros, and Nirvana...

Earth: Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons: "Crooked Axis For String Quartet"

Hotcha! Hank

ROUGH RYDERS: Week Nine

After two straight weeks of lackluster opponents and little drama in my fantasy football world, I'm pleased to say that our beloved WINONA ROUGH RYDERS faced a worthy adversary in the NEST OF DEATH (managed by Keith), who are the defending APFL Champions, and weathered the brutal BYE section of the season, emerging with a deceptive 5-3 record going into this weekend's matchup...

And I am pleased to report that NEST OF DEATH is now 5-4, after the ROUGH RYDERS squeezed out a narrow victory, 199 to 191.57...It took the highest team score of the week in our league to do it, but dammit if my guys didn't get it done...In other words, our beloved ROUGH RYDERS won!

TONY ROMO, fresh off a new $67 million contract, earned a decent chunk of it right away, throwing for 325 yards and 3 touchdowns, good for 25.8 fantasy points...A very hearty "OLE'!!!" for The Matador! I also caught rumor that Romo might be hooking up again with ex-girlfriend Carrie Underwood, but I think that's all about the SONY MUSIC marketing department, and nothing about who's navel Romo is currently sucking premium tequilas out of...Anyways, congrats to my fellow Wisconsinite for living large...

On the other side of the fantasy line-up, I should report that NEST OF DEATH spot-started QB Jay Cutler this week, the very same Jay Cutler who had a solid, productive fantasy game for me last week...Unfortunately for NEST OF DEATH, and Jay Cutler, he went down with a leg injury very early in the Denver-Detroit game, and only managed .67 fantasy points this week...

Such are the ways of professional AND fantasy football...It can all go to shit in a heartbeat...

CHAD JOHNSON lay face-down and motionless on the turf in Buffalo Sunday afternoon, and it's hard to know with Ocho-Cinco if his life was flashing before his eyes, or if he was just milking the moment for all the drama he could get out of it. You never know with # 85, and I gotta admit, I'm kinda getting sick of the dude...I love flamboyant players, as long as they don't start believing that they're bigger than the game itself...The problem with Chad Johnson right now is that he isn't simply having fun, and being fun, but instead he is bitching and whining to the press, to Bengals' management, and probably his teammates, and there's nothing fun about that...A year after signing a $35 million contract extension, Johnson is rumbling about being traded...I'm just glad his MRI was clean and he's only got a stiff, sore neck...He ought to be glad for the same, and get back to playing great football and having fun, even if the Bengals are doomed this year with perhaps the worst defense in the NFL...

HINES WARD was mostly a non-factor in Pittsburgh's destruction of Baltimore on Monday night...Ben Roethlisberger threw 5 TDs, but Ward didn't snag a single one of 'em...You have no idea how sickening that is when the ROUGH RYDERS are only leading by about 5 fantasy points, and NEST OF DEATH's still got Derrick Mason catching junk balls as the Ravens try desperately to get back into a lopsided game...

Likewise, KEVIN CURTIS didn't do much in his Eagles' ugly loss to the Cowboys.

You might remember my comment from a week or two ago about the depth of my receiver corps, and right now, I'm admitting I might be wrong about that...Johnson, Ward and Curtis combined had less fantasy points than Terrell Owens.

Then again, that sad trio had less points than LEE EVANS, playing admirably for our beloved ROUGH RYDERS in the "flex position" this week...It would appear my patience has paid off, as Evans has been consistently great for the past month...A whopping 32.5 FP this week, and I still can't believe Buggylicious dropped him after the first three games of the season...

Speaking of Buffalo's offense - it would appear they're starting to gel a bit these past two weeks...Of course, this week, they were facing that horrendous Bengals defense, and not only did Lee Evans go off for big numbers, but so did RB MARSHAWN LYNCH, who not only ran for 153 yards and a TD, but also threw for another TD, ala LaDainian...Of course, this was the first week of the season that I sat Lynch on the bench, so once again, I won another fantasy matchup in spite of my blundering ways...

Speaking of LT, I gotta say, after 9 weeks, that LaDAINIAN TOMLINSON is perhaps the single most disappointing player on the ROUGH RYDERS...He didn't put up horrible fantasy numbers this week, but he's only exceeded predictions once this entire season...On the actual field, 77 combined yards and a TD aren't gonna help win many games...

Meanwhile, "Purple Jesus" ADRIAN PETERSON crushed San Diego's defense for 296 rushing yards and 3 TDs...Those 296 yards are a new NFL single-game rushing record, babycakes, so while Purple Jesus' monster game had no bearing on this week's ROUGH RYDER matchup with NEST OF DEATH, it still needs to be mentioned...This kid is already legendary...Unreal...

LT...Where you at?

26.9 FP is where TONY GONZALEZ is at...Another great outing against my beloved Green Bay Packers, but that's okay, cuz at the end of the day, the Packers were victorious...They're currently sitting atop the NFC Central with a record of 7-1, and who the hell in this great state of WISCONSIN ever thought that would happen this season? I don't even think coach McCarthy was willing to think so boldly...I am man enough to admit, I predicted The Pack would go 6-10 this year, so I'm already a moran...

Elsewhere in that Packers-Chiefs game, the Packers' kicker, MASON CROSBY continues to have a fantastic rookie season, racking up an impressive 18 FP, one of which was a tackle, which is helping me forget "The Rack" himself, who kicked for our beloved ROUGH RYDERS through the first half of the season...I'm planning on riding Crosby's foot straight to the APFL crown...

Ayup...

Defensively, the BEARS were on BYE this week, so I spot-started the REDSKINS team defense, and they were about as good as the BEARS have been over the past month, so no real loss there...It could have been alot worse than the 11.7 FP they contributed...

IKE TAYLOR once again underperformed, and I've had just about enough of his bullshit...Don't expect him to be in my line-up next week...TROY POLAMALU, on the other hand, forced a fumble and made 7 tackles, and my serious man-crush aside, he will remain in my line-up indefinitely...

Meanwhile, NICK BARNETT was off his game this week, but he's a PACKER, so all is forgiven...It was his first underperformance of the year, and the ROUGH RYDERS won, so...

MICHAEL BOLEY spot-started for LANCE BRIGGS, who was on BYE this week, and had a brilliant game - 9 tackles, a couple of pass defenses, and a forced fumble, good for 13 FP...I've got a tough decision next week - which 2 of these 3 DL do I start?

It's an embarrassment of riches, I tells ya, and one I don't have to worry about right now, as I bask in the afterglow of sweet, hard-won victory over the NEST OF DEATH...

Watch me bask and glow as I tell you that our beloved WINONA ROUGH RYDERS are currently 7-2...

Hotcha! Hank

EVERYTHINGATHON!: November 2007

This month's EVERYTHINGATHON! podcast is now available for streaming and download at the EVERYTHINGATHON! website...

It's entitled XMAS OF DOOM! , and is essentially a tape recording I made on December 23rd, 2008, after the aliens began their "harvest".

Yes, that's right - the future...And aliens...

All in all, it's a rather brutal hour of doom and static, shock and futility. Enjoy!

Hotcha!

Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 44

Polysics are a Synth Punk band outta Tokyo, and they cite DEVO as their biggest influence, and that's really all one needs to know, I think.

Polysics: Polysics Or Die!: "My Sharona"

Yes, this is their manic cover of that classic old Knack chestnut, "My Sharona". I wish they would have covered "Good Girls Don't", but I'm not in the band, so I didn't get a vote.

Hotcha! Hank