February 19, 2006

Curling, curling with desire! (Quicktime direct link) The Swedish national women's curling team do what Swedes do best to promote their team: appear in a deathmetal music video with Hammerfall. It's in English! Here's the Windows Media link, too.
posted by patita 18 years ago
  • Hammerfall are the opposite of death metal.
  • life metal?
  • heavy metal, perhaps... glam rock, but death metal? no... not at all... /nitpicking semantics Still, a worthy post. Who woulda thunk... (Though without the foreknowledge that they are an actual curling team, I guess it would've seemed pretty dumb on Hammerfall's part to make such a weird-assed video)
  • <3 "life metal"
  • Hammerfall is typically considered power or epic metal. Did I mention they rule?
  • oh! thank you, patita, thank you and thanks again, for this (the best mashup ever?).
  • Oh dear. Whatever the music is, this is sad.
  • I just know that I was watching it earlier this week and I found it quite delightful that one of the women (I think for Denmark?) was wearing big dangly star-shaped earings while competing. You don't see the downlhill skiers wearing dangly earings.
  • Damn. This made my day. A truly unusual cultural juxtaposition - not easy to do when you can't see the culture you swim in.
  • What I'm swimming in sure doesn't smell like culture.
  • Anyway, if I wanted to look at hot swedish chicks on frozen water I'd go over to mothninja's house and pelt her with ice-cubes but the restraining order is all like "NO WAY DUDE YOU CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE - SIGNED JUDGE".
  • *pelts quidnunc with snowballs*
  • It's not juxtaposition. Curlers are hardcore. In the Olympics industry, we call them Core-lers. That's how hardcore they are.
  • Curling rinks, when I was first introduced to the grand sport, were invariably equipped with ashtrays and drink-holders at either end of the playing surface. Hence my enduring love of the game.
  • The only curling I do is on the bog.
  • Yowza! That Denmark curling chick or whatever is teh hawt! Hey Baby! I got yer . . . um . . curling . .thing right here! Yeeeahhhh! Lets . . lets have sex! Wh0000!! Ow! I really should do something productive now.
  • original link's borked. :(
  • still works when I try it. Maybe you just scared them away, pete?
  • You'll never catch me, coppah!
  • Holy shit, I'd have never laughed so hard due to a rubber chicken! Well... expect for that time... *cough*
  • petebest: how you've changed.