Kick Off Your Week With A Performance You'd Never See Coming!

This blog is low key just an excuse for me to share a video a buddy sent me yesterday that blew me away with how unexpected and random it is (isn't that basically saying the same thing twice?). That's the beauty of paying to run a passion project blog for eight calendar years. To further peal back the onions of my mind, I'm writing this blog at 1 in the morning to get a head start on the week.

Remember the cop shrink from The Departed that shows a little ass cheek swag when she's fuckin Leo to "Comfortably Numb?" You might also recognize her from Bates Motel. She was in Up in the Air, too (not George Clooney). Of course, I'm talking about Vera Farmiga.

Without the aid of Wikipedia, I don't know much about this lady other than those three performances, but based on the version of her I have in my head from a few roles in the middle-to-late the 2000s and commercials advertising roles I haven't seen, one of the last things I'd ever expect to see her doing is singing Slipknot at a music school. It's not every day you see an Oscar Nominated actress belting out IMO Slipknot's best song at a music academy. What's next---Amy Adams singing "Chop Suey" at a high school talent show?

...On second thought, maybe Slipknot is perfectly on brand with Vera's usually scary roles? Either way, I feel like a grandma sharing a week-old video on the blog, but this is just so fucking cool that I had to.....PUUUUUUSH MY FIIIINGGEEEERS INTTOOOO MYYYYYYYYY EYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

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While it's up to the listener to determine whether or not that actually sounded good; one things for sure and that's that music education is important. There are countless studies supporting the benefits. I wish I stuck with instruments, but when you can't keep time, your drumming dream is gonna die quicker than Danson and Highsmith in The Other Guys. Because of my hair and Kevin Parker playing guitar sticker on the 'scape, ubah passengers assume I'm a musician all the time (maybe in another life?)

I love seeing people supporting the arts, especially those who've gotten so much out of them. During these crazy times in this country where there's wars on intelligence and expression, we need art more than ever. Thank you Vera Farmiga for giving the world this kinda sexy performance (keep shaking that hair, mama) and bringing awareness to the benefits of music education/expressing yourself through song.

P.S.

"Kick Off Your Week With...." is some lame filler-blog bull shit, but they do that at Barstool all the time. I'll play the game. I can pump out filler to pump the clicks. I think this week may be the week I actually send out some samples. I need to stop being afraid to live my fucking life!!!!! I deserve so much more and so do you!!!