Is there anything better than taking a day to yourself from work?

Yes. If it’s missing work (and being paid) because of your heavy metal addiction.

Man gets sick benefits for heavy metal addiction

Have you ever searched “guitar” on Myspace Videos? I’ll save you the effort by summarizing 99% of the captions.

Me playing guitar

In searching for new additions to my guitar video collection, I tried the forementioned search. Twenty five pages later I realized how much anyone with a guitar likes to record themselves playing. Unfortunately, the good videos are not worth finding due to the incredibly crappy ones inbetween. Why do I need to see you playing Green Day on your untuned acoustic guitar in your bedroom on your webcam? Does the world really need to hear you rehash Guns ‘N Roses riffs using the world-famous guitar rig…15 watt Crate practice amp into your built-in uncompressed camera mic? I will admit I was impressed by various clips of teens playing Van Halen’s “Eruption”, but I still snicker at the metalheads who are so “core” that they have to use Myspace to show what they do in their free time.

Where is Zakk Wylde when I need a good poser burn?!

But I did stumble across this old gem :)