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Which is your favourite animal negotiating a field of dominos? If it isn’t armadillo then I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW YOU.

‘Pumping Iron’ is a really good movie

A few episodes back a guest on Popcorn Mafia did a pitch-perfect version of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s now-famous quote that lifting weights ‘gives me ze feeling of coming,’ and I decided the time had come for me to track down a copy of ‘Pumping Iron.’ And boy am I glad I did.

As mentioned elsewhere, I’ve been powerlifting for the past two years. Not particularly seriously, mind, but enough to develop a slight familiarity with the world of bodybuilding (i.e. I’ve learned that people really and truly, in all seriousness, use steroids), but ‘Pumping Iron’ really is more than just a bodybuilding film. It is gloriously of its time, from the soundtrack (the title song makes my heart sing with gladness), to the fashion (see also: Yellow Overalls Man, included in the video above), to the few glimpses of bodybuilding’s carnival sideshow heritage. But, most of all, it reminds us that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a cheerfully self-absorbed diva. He gleefully torments poor, sweet, hard of hearing Lou Ferrigno, coached by his overbearing dad and rather overwhelmed by all that is going around him. I fell in love with baby Schwarzenegger, and you will, too.

Last Welcome to 2010 post, I promise

LISTEN TO THIS SONG NOW. Via Boner Party.

Happy new year, you guys!

Let’s make 2010 TOTALLY METAL!

By the way, if you’re not watching ‘Metalocalypse’ there is something deeply wrong with you. The above is from the most recent season, from an episode where Toki Wartooth (feline) and Toki Wartooth (animated) became one and the same person. Enjoy!