First of all, full disclosure: I think that Slipknot's album The Volume 3, The Subliminal Verses is a darn good metal album. Really, one of the best metal albums of the last ten years. I'm not proud of the fact that I really enjoy a Slipknot album, but there it is.

There's just something embarrassing about admitting that you like anything connected to a band that wears those painfully inane masks.

I also like Marilyn Manson a whole lot. The lyrics to "This Is The New $#!T", a seething indictment of pop culture, might be my favorite rock song lyrics of all time.

I'm just glad to get this out in the open. Ya know? So while I'm purging, I'll also admit that I once bought a Drivin' And Cryin' album on cassette. But I didn't like it and I don't know where it is now. So Fly Me. Courageous.

Whew. That really wasn't so bad. And you do feel better once you get it out in the open.

Anyway, below you'll find a video clip of a guy who who seems to be Waldo personified interviewing a couple of the members of Slipknot. The interviewer seems to be doing a character, kind of an idiot man-child thing. And the members of Slipknot seem to be responding earnestly, and yet the members of Slipknot actually come off stupider than the man-boy Waldo character. Maybe it's impossible to not come off like idiots while wearing those masks.

I got several laughs out of this four minute clip. And just to be clear, I was laughing AT Slipknot, a band which did an album that I like a lot, although it pains me to admit that I enjoy one of their albums.

My favorite part is "You hear all that metal? It's ON!"

Honestly, it's pretty bad when Flava Flav seems smarter and more savvy than you are. The Waldo guy interviews a number of celebrities at his YouTube page. Apparently he did (does?) his interviews for Much Music, which was like Canadian MTV back in the '80's and '90's. I don't think it's around anymore. Anyway, there are interview subjects going back twenty-odd years, including James Brown, Pierre Trudeau and Henry Rollins. The Waldo dude really does his research and manages to ask questions about some deeply obscure stuff, making some of these celebs viscerally uncomfortable.

(Now please click the comments link and read the obligatory "YOU SUXX!!! SLIPKNOT ARE BESST BAND IN METAL!!!!!!! YOU ARE ASSFACE STUPID MORRON!!!!" comments that this post will undoubtedly gather over time.)

Labels: Humor, Music, You Tube