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Videos: MC Lars: “Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make You Slash)”

Contributed by thegimper. Posted by aubin on Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM (EST)

MC Lars debuts the new music video for "Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make You Slash). It's off his latest album "This Gigantic Robot Kills."
MC Lars has posted the new video from his 2009 album, This Gigantic Robot Kills. The song features a guest appearance from Parry Gripp of Nerf Herder (and Hamster on a Piano.)

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LinoleumMagazine (February 26, 2009)

A simple choice - one that isn't too inconvenient but delivers a large ecological bang for the behavior change buck - is to reduce meat consumption. Livestock production is a major contributor to greenhouse gases.

Until now, most of the discourse on climate change has focused on how we heat buildings, power appliances and drive vehicles. These are all important, but the impacts of producing certain types of food are more damaging than most people realize.

According to R. K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, livestock production accounts for 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The animals are fed large amounts of grain, which is energy-intensive to produce, and they emit methane, an especially potent greenhouse gas which stays in the atmosphere far longer than CO2.

If the average American were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent, that would be the equivalent of switching from driving a Camry to a Prius.
Rosamond Naylor, a researcher at Stanford, estimates that U.S. meat production is especially grain intensive, requiring 10 times the grain required to produce an equivalent amount of calories than grain, Livestock production, which now covers 30 percent of the world's non-ice surface area, is also highly damaging to soil and water resources.

Compared to producing vegetables or rice, beef uses 16 times as much energy and produces 25 times the CO2. A study on U.S. consumption from the University of Chicago estimates that if the average American were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent, that would be the equivalent of switching from driving a Camry to a Prius.

Americans currently rank second in world in meat consumption, weighing in at 271 pounds a year, up from 196 pounds 40 years ago. And that doesn't include dairy. We get an estimated 75 grams of protein a day from animals, and 110 grams total; the government recommends only 50 grams a day.

Mr. Pachauri took a lot of heat for advocating vegetarianism, and it's not a change most American environmental organizations have pushed for yet. But it's a key part of a transformation to a healthy, sustainable economy for humans and the planet.

I used to be an avid carnivore, but gave up all meat and fish more than 20 years ago, and went near vegan (I eat eggs) two years ago. Eating meat seems like a hard habit to change, but I've found that making the change was a boon to my health, culinary life, carbon budget and conscience.

The nice thing is, every little bit helps - and you can make change gradually. According to Mr. Pachauri, if I'd become a vegan at age 12, I'd have prevented the discharge of more than 100 tons of CO2 in the atmosphere before I die. Vive les legumes!

blue_drink (February 26, 2009)

I feel like grillin' some steaks tonight.

Scarysmurf (February 26, 2009)

And your point is?

LinoleumMagazine (February 26, 2009)

If you're one of those people that says they care about the environment and climate change, you should be a vegetarian or else you're a hypocrite.

Or you could cut down your meat consumption and at least try to make a little bit of a difference.

Scarysmurf (February 26, 2009)

The point of being a human is to be a hypocrite.
Dont give me the "I am holier than thou" speech.

LinoleumMagazine (February 26, 2009)

Then don't ask obvious questions that you already know the answer to.

Of course I'm a hypcrite as well. I'm not vegan, but morally I should be.

Also I did mention the compromise of just cuttting down on meat consumption a little bit.
Is that really such a hard thing to do?

dlangl4 (February 26, 2009)

Everything I wrote below applies just as much to the "cutting down just a little bit" version of your argument, as it does to the "cutting meat out of your diet completely" version. Just fyi, in case you read it.

dlangl4 (February 26, 2009)

I'm not sure I buy into the assumption that a person should be a vegetarian or else be a hypocrite when it comes to the environment. Here are a few reasons why...

First, there is no basis for the assumption that being a hypocrite is enough of a reason for someone to make a major change in their life, such as going from non vegetarian to vegetarian. Humans are so hypocritical in both their daily lives and in their worldly beliefs. People do hypocritical things every day, such as smoking while acknowledging that smoking kills while simultaneously not wanting to die, and also having hypocritical beliefs, such as beliving that abortion is murder but believing that a woman's right to choose preempts that fact. We are highly hypocritical beings. Being a hypocrit in the environment/vegetarian issue really isn't any more signifcant than in any other situation where someone is a hypocrit.

Second, the obviously main reason to be vegetarian is to avoid contributing to the terrible ways that animals are treated. If that isn't enough to convince someone, or if someone doesn't care about how animals are treated, then I don't think climate change/helping the environment by itself is enough of a reason to be vegetarian. If climate change/the environment is the main issue here, then attack it directly by coming up with a solution for that problem directly...rather than a side attack of trying to help out a little by take the step of becoming a vegetarian.

If after finding a workable solution to the environment/climate change issue, and if in that solution it is absolutely necessary for people to be vegetarians, then I can see how it might be necessary. Absent that, I'm betting there are other and better solutions that don't require everyone to be a vegetarian.

There are other reasons but this post is already to long.

LinoleumMagazine (February 26, 2009)

I agree that being a hypocrite is not nearly enough to make people change behavior (again I care a lot about animal rights, but am not a vegan). But eating less meat just seems to be such an easy step that people could take to make a big difference for the environment.

I find it frusterating that there are simple solutions that many people (ahem, Al Gore) don't realize or don't want to talk about because it would present them with the dilemma of having to make a moral choice that they might not like.

dlangl4 (February 26, 2009)

Yeah I hear you. I still opt for a better solution concerning climate change, but like I said, if reducing meat is genuinely a necessary step then it is. That being said, I think there will be other solutions opening up in the next 10 or 20 years, or at least I hope.

StuckInBielers (February 26, 2009)

Not to mention meat production is stupidly labour intensive, from a guardian article:

"The amount of grains fed to US livestock would be enough to feed 840 million people on a plant-based diet. The number of food-insecure people in the world in 2006 was, incidentally, 854 million. Of course, this isn't simply an American phenomenon - in aggregate, rich countries feed about 60 per cent of their grain to livestock....Water resources are also stretched to breaking point - it takes 100 times more water to produce a kilo of animal than vegetable."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jun/2 2/foodanddrink.food

That's why i chose the Vedge Edge

StuckInBielers (February 26, 2009)

I of course meant resource intensive

badbrain (February 26, 2009)

Now I'm hungry for meat

LinoleumMagazine (February 26, 2009)

Could you think of a more generic response?

I've been veg for a long time and if I had a dime for everytime I heard that response or something similar, I'd probably have about $10.

badbrain (February 26, 2009)

I wasn't attempting to be witty, I was just stating what I felt upon reading that article. I just got back from a delicious lunch.

LinoleumMagazine (February 26, 2009)

I agree that meat tastes awesome. I really miss it sometimes.

One day we will be able to make meat (that looks, tastes and smells like meat, because it will be meat) in a lab and I'll be super stoked.

Or they'll invent the Star Trek food replicator... "Computer. I want a double cheesburger and a pint of Newcastle asap!". Too bad we have to wait for the 24th century to roll around.

ConsumedByMusic (February 26, 2009)

Instead of bitching about people to not eat meat (which is a losing battle), we should focus on making the cost of meat the full cost to the environment. That way if you want your burger you'd just pay a environmental fee. The real answer to these predicaments is a world wide body or standards. However, different governments are going to object to real change in accounting for the full costs of economic activity (externalities) and that is a problem yet to be solved.

I advocate this in nearly every environment predicament. we should charge the full environmental cost of gas, electricity ect.

crackpotdemagogue (February 26, 2009)

LinoleumMagazine, I like you

LinoleumMagazine (February 26, 2009)

Hey, you're not so bad yourself. If you ever visit Austin TX you should lemme know. I'd happily drink some beer with you and show you some great vegetarian restaurants.

crackpotdemagogue (February 26, 2009)

I'd like to one day... although America does scare me a bit! My sister worked at a school in Austin, Texas a few years ago when she does this exchange thing with an American teacher. She said the schooling system was scarily conservative... they wouldn't let her teach sex education because they were so religious and reactionary! But i'm sure it's not all like that... And she did visit a Buddy Holly museum where she bought me this awesome patch!

bongsmcj (February 26, 2009)

if i became a vegan at age 12, i'd be pretty fucking bummed that i didnt just eat that delicious cheeseburger..

deadXlast (February 26, 2009)

And even if you don't give a shit about this kind of stuff; meat gives you cancer.

badbrain (February 26, 2009)

It is safe to assume that everything on this planet gives you cancer.

dlangl4 (February 26, 2009)

I was eating cancer the other day when I realized how happy I was that I wasn't eating a burger which gives you cancer.

Ravnos (February 26, 2009)

Man, everything gives you cancer. I read that even having one alcoholic drink a day raises your cancer risk, even though having one or two glasses of beer/wine are supposed to provide other health benefits. If I were to pay any mind to all the supposedly cancerous things out there, I'd probably just curl up into a ball and starve to death in a dark room.

bongsmcj (February 26, 2009)

yeah, but if im gonna get all fat and cancerous then im taking this whole sorry planet down with me...

alpod4 (February 26, 2009)

you forgot to mention that if the average American were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent, that would be the equivalent of switching from driving a Camry to a Prius

acris (February 26, 2009)

this. this. this.

RondoMondo (February 26, 2009)

Yeah, the enviroment is fucked anyway. All these energy cutbacks our governments put up are just smoke screens, they'll find new ways to rape the resources.

Also, I just hate when people bitch about eating meat. I don't eat red meat, but I don't fucking hassle everyone who does. I eat mostly fish, veggies, and chicken, but I even cut back on my chicken consumption. Vegetarians and vegans get such a bad image because you have the ones, not like yourself you're just trying to make a point, but you have people like PETA doing stupid shit to persuade people to become vegans.

Regardless, I'd rather people do what they want to do in life, even if it kills them. It's better than living a life where everyone does the same shit and you still have the pretentious self-righteous types who "live their lives better" than everyone else.

acris (February 26, 2009)

this is just one of the many benefits of not eating meat. good post.

WorryRock (February 26, 2009)

remember how mc lars declared that we are the i-generation

and we were all like yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Bakla (February 26, 2009)

I agree!

Mammoth (February 26, 2009)

I've never checked this dude out. Yah or nah?

red_eye_inc (February 26, 2009)

nay, his voice is annoying

Dordon (February 26, 2009)

some of it is alright some of it is pretty shitty... he's hit or miss.

check out the song "Signing Emo"

its pretty good.

mikexdude (February 26, 2009)

Word.

Dordon (February 26, 2009)

more like

M.C. LAME

... amirite!?

badbrain (February 26, 2009)

http://propagandhi.com/sc/

DO WHAT YOU
FEEL YOU MUIST

badbrain (February 26, 2009)

I can't wait for the edit button

MattRamone (February 26, 2009)

Is this our invitation to the Sabbat?

baldsteve (February 26, 2009)

Kari Byron from Mythbusters is preggers.

mikexdude (February 26, 2009)

Who fucking cares? She's an ugly hoe.

baldsteve (February 26, 2009)

you need to grow up. She is absolutely beautiful.

mikexdude (February 26, 2009)

I don't want to grow up. White chicks are not that attractive.

baldsteve (February 26, 2009)

White Chicks is a terrible movie, and those were black dudes.

You are confused.

mikexdude (February 26, 2009)

I didn't view it. I have just as selective taste in movies as I do women.

punk_sk (February 26, 2009)

you know... it came on cable... i wasn't searching it out...

badbrain (February 26, 2009)

I was forced to view that as the in-bus movie the last time I took Bolt Bus to new york. It was fucking awful. Although I will admit that Terry Crews was funny in it and made me laugh once or twice

MattRamone (February 26, 2009)

Isn't your girlfriend white? Please don't tell me you have the Token Asian Girlfriend.

ThisKidsAlright (February 26, 2009)

Dude, she did an FHM spread a few years ago. Check it out. Sexy stuff. Rachel Ray did one too. But she can burn in hell.

deadelectromix (February 26, 2009)

I'm waiting to pass judgement on her considering she's having The Hold Steady play her SXSW party.

badbrain (February 26, 2009)

Rachel Ray was never hot. The attempt to turn her into any sort of sex symbol always annoyed me. Plus she's also unbearable as a human being.

Dordon (February 26, 2009)

it'll be funny to see her 8 months along trying to blow shit up with grant and torrey

Dante3000 (rich) (February 26, 2009)

Damn...Welp, she's ruined for life.
-Dante

blue_drink (February 26, 2009)

I'd still do 'er.

MattRamone (February 26, 2009)

Looks like it's suicide again for me.

RondoMondo (February 26, 2009)

This day has just taken a downward spiral...

damnitsderek (February 26, 2009)

Day ruined.

MisFit4Me (February 26, 2009)

I actually found this clever and laughed. I don't think I hate this guy.

crackpotdemagogue (February 26, 2009)

Dr Lars Fredricksen > MC Lars > Lars Ulrich > Lars Fredricksen (Rancid)

deadXlast (February 26, 2009)

Wrong wrong wrong, all wrong.

21stcenturydigitalboy (February 26, 2009)

multiply that inequality by negative 1 and take the absolute value or some shit like that.

UNTJosh (February 26, 2009)

i think you meant to hit the less than "

manincognito (February 26, 2009)

great song, cool video... the whole album is awesome. also, very cool to see parry gripp doing something musical again. now all we need is a new nerf herder album.

TwoLeftFeet (February 27, 2009)

nerf herder put out a new album called "IV" less than a year ago. It's pretty okay

Dante3000 (rich) (February 26, 2009)

Hot Topic is not punk rock, beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make you Slash....

What other everyday bullshit can this guy turn into a song, so he can tell me things I already know. Next up, "Sitting in a bathtub doesn't make you Christopher Columbus". White kids who have no real problems and can't relate to actual hip hop are stoked.
-Dante

crackpotdemagogue (February 26, 2009)

so what's the solution, Dante? that everyone writes lyrics pre-approved by you?

How about this: "Sittling in a bathtub doesn't make you Christopher Columbus (But scalping Indians does)" ?

Dante3000 (rich) (February 26, 2009)

This is on solution.
-Dante

Dante3000 (rich) (February 26, 2009)

One...even.

MattRamone (February 26, 2009)

One is not an even number you silly goose!

MattRamone (February 26, 2009)

Being Dante3000 Doesn't Make You Cool

Dordon (February 26, 2009)

"Eating Subway (Doesn't Make You Jared)"

Sliced-T (February 26, 2009)

Sucking dick doesn't make you gay.

ConsumedByMusic (February 26, 2009)

you got it wrong, getting your dick sucked by a guy doesn't make you gay, but sucking another dude's dick does.

crackpotdemagogue (February 26, 2009)

what's wrong with being gay?

deadXlast (February 26, 2009)

You go to hell, duh.

ConsumedByMusic (February 26, 2009)

hey! since when did going to hell make things so wrong?

damnitsderek (February 26, 2009)

When hell started playing MC Lars on a permanent loop.

acris (February 26, 2009)

agreed. his song topics are pretty recycled.

Tom1022 (February 26, 2009)

does anyone actually think that playing guitar hero means you play guitar? it seems pretty different to me.

Dordon (February 26, 2009)

The Many Faces of Dennis Quaid While Constipated

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/jorna/2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/jorna/3.jpg

http:// img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/jorna/4.jpg

http://img.photobu cket.com/albums/v609/jorna/5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/al bums/v609/jorna/7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/j orna/8.jpg

Seeing the mess he just let loose

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/jorna/11.jpg

bongsmcj (February 26, 2009)

this shit was funny when it was on south park...

ConsumedByMusic (February 26, 2009)

it's hard to out 'first!' south park on any topic. The animation takes a week and those guys can write an episode in no time.

CharlieDay (February 26, 2009)

needs greenman

baldsteve (February 26, 2009)

Nightman and Dayman also welcome.

Ravnos (February 26, 2009)

But they have to pay the troll toll.

MattRamone (February 26, 2009)

No, Julio!

CharlieDay (February 26, 2009)

only if you want the boys hole

UNTJosh (February 27, 2009)

you have to pay the troll toll if you want that though

damnitsderek (February 26, 2009)

"Oh my God...I think you're in Charlie's special place. Get the hell out of there, Frank!"

ddb43 (February 26, 2009)

OK song, horrible vid.

martinNZ09 (February 26, 2009)

This was actually pretty good

My favourtie MC Lars track = Time Machine (shame it is so short)

alpod4 (February 26, 2009)

did i really just watch the whole thing?

Thadco (February 26, 2009)

I want a Wu Tang hoodie

damnitsderek (February 26, 2009)

I made it to 1:44.

That was seriously painful to watch/listen to, and it really depresses me to think that people enjoy garbage like this.

thegimper (February 26, 2009)

My first posted scoop. Mark that off my bucket list!

vocalyouth (February 26, 2009)

this guy takes on all of the tough issues.

slimpunk (February 27, 2009)

Say what you will about the video, but I think the song's a lot of fun and actually features a pretty sweet guitar solo by Paul Gilbert.

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