I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

DON'T YOU THINK THAT YOU NEED SOMEBODY? DON'T YOU THINK THAT YOU NEED SOMEONE? EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY.

You're not the only one!
You're not the only one!

Damn, I wanted to go out and see a movie or something, but the rain was really pelting down today, so I just stayed home and played Metropolis Street Racer and watched a couple of episodes of Sledge Hammer! on DVD (including the season finale wherein series creator Alan Spencer records a commentary track through an allegedly actual earthquake while Sledge tries to defuse a nuclear warhead on the show).

Then I remembered that it's November, and it's raining outside, so I wanted to link you all to one of the best music videos of all time, Guns N' Roses' epic "November Rain", the one wherein Axl drinks some whisky and dreams about playing the piano and marries Stephanie Seymour and buys a gun for some reason while Slash plays guitar outside the church on the windswept plain and then it rains during the wedding reception and Stephanie Seymour dies somehow and there's the funeral with all the limos and Axl crying over the coffin while the rain washes the colour out of the rose. (Trivia fact: the "November Rain" video is based on a short story by Del James called "Without You".)

Unfortunately, the RIAA being what it is, however, seems to have taken all copies of the "November Rain" video off the Internet (though you can still get it on the Guns N' Roses DVD, Welcome to the Videos Except for "You Could Be Mine" because Geffen was Too Fricking Cheap to Pay for the Rights to Use the Terminator 2 Clips), so, instead, I found an acceptable substitute, some kids talking about November Rain. :)

posted by Steve Brandon @ 6:13 AM