If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand (okay, four) times- Friday is List Day.
The Random Ten:
1. Shonen Knife - “Cookie Day”
2. Decemberists - “Apology Song”
3. Alice in Chains - “Down in a Hole”
4. Surf Coasters - “Rampage”
5. Interpol - “Narc”
6. The Used - “The Taste of Ink” (Ugh… why is this in my playlist?)
7. New Order - “True Faith”
8. Walkmen - “Little House of Savages”
9. Rasputina - “Call Me Alice”
10. KMFDM - “Juke Joint Jezebel”
B-List Toys I Went Ape-Shit For in the ’80s.
1. Metlar from the Inhumanoids line. He became Skeletor’s secret weapon against He-Man and the Ninja Turtles in the bizarro world of action-figuredom that was my childhood. It helped that he was big as hell, and had hands the perfect size and shape to hold a He-Man figure and smash them into the ground.
2. Saw Boss Part of the Wheeled Warriors line, you could pull all the various weapons off and rearrange them, and each one came with multiple sets of wheels and lasers so you could keep rebuilding them. Pretty awesome, at the time. He kinda looks like ass now, though, doesn’t he?
3. Mega Force. What wasn’t to love about a line of small metal military vehicles that also included increasingly large and ridiculous military vehicles? You’d get a package of them, and it included two basic and one leader vehicle- like, two tanks, and a leader tank that would have, say, two cannons. Awesome.
4. Any of the (roughly) 3-inch scale toys- M*A*S*K, Dino-Riders, Sky Commandos, StarCom, etc. These were my favorites back then- they were small enough that they came with awesome vehicles like jets and tanks and helicopters and stuff (and were still relatively affordable, compared to the larger scale G.I. Joe stuff), but were big enough to have figures that were somewhat articulated. Plus, most of them had action features that didn’t get in the way of the actual figure- magnetic vehicles or transformations or other cool things like that. Awesome.
