Linking Horn for 10 Jan 2010

It’s been another great weekend. I’ve got tons of writing done, and some more work on my Steff Metal shop. I’m very excited about some of the things I’m working on.

One of our friends had her 22 birthday drinks at a local Irish Pub, so we went down there to hang out. CDH had worked the night before and was super tired, so we were only going to stay for an hour or so, but ended up staying for several, because it was so much fun. Luckily, our friend had warned the bar beforehand that a bunch of metalheads were turning up, because we basically took over the place. And then one of the guys found a padlock out in the garden bar and used it to padlock another dude’s jeans, and the poor barwench had to find a key to get it off. She was a good sport, though.

Some of our mates have just got back from Screamfest in Sydney, which I am insanely jealous about missing, but we will be attending the next one if it has a good lineup.

Right, on to the Linking Horn! First of all, I’ve guest-posted on two wicked blogs. NO CLEAN SINGING has been discussing some of the papers at the Hideous Gnosis black metal symposium, and I’ve contributed some of my thoughts in Black Metal Navel-Gazing 3.

And, the Secret Society of List Addicts featured my list Heavy Metal Bands even Super-Intelligent Non-Metalheads will Enjoy.

Santa’s Little Goths. Lol.

Goodnight Keith Moon. If you think you can tell from the title what this is, you are correct.

From the Coilhouse Blog, the Death Metal Rooster. All hail DOOMCOCK! \m/

Further to the abandoned hotel pictures from last weeks Linking Horn, I found these amazing pictures by photographer Noah Sheldon of the abandoned Biosphere 2, the bio-architectural experiment which saw the world’s largest sealed environment build for human habitation in the 1990s. Now abandoned and semi-derelict, the photographer’s pictures really capture the irony of a biosphere being taken over by that which it had seeks to emulate.

a coke-powered cellphone, designed by Chinese crazy-man, Daizi Zhang, for Nokia. The soft-drink-powered battery lasts four times longer than a standard lithium battery, and the handset is completly biodegradable. It boggles the mind the things we can come up with these days.

Darian Darling shouts out to the fabulous Lita Ford.

An american man (and a huge Simpsons fan) has grown a real-life tomacco plant!

Don’t become a victim of Deaf Metal, E. Bleak gives you all the tips you need to find the best pair of concert-going earplugs.

You lucky bastards attending the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, in March, will get a chance to see Lemmy, the documentary about Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmster.

Some awesome gamers had a party where they iced 100 cupcakes with video / console / arcade / roleplaying game graphic. Go to the 100 cupcakes website and see how many you can guess!

A bit of Camelot-inspired fashion goodness for you, Maid Marian, courtesy of Rakk and Ruin.

What’s been going on in your corner of the internet?

Steff