Three-Ring Circus: Triple-Threat Contact!

Quick - look to your right! See those three links there? They're NEW!

I should've done this when I first started the blog, but I've finally added all three of my major online contact points. Now in addition to enjoying my emeralds of wisdom, Lantern's Light is a single contact page for all of my interests. You can now reach me live via Keen.com for professional advice through my one-man shop Action Marketing, browse Action Marketing's latest eBay sales, and check out my latest contacts via MySpace.com.

Hey GL! I thought you were going to talk about The Aquabats, not your own self-promotion!

You're right. I was. Well I've got to keep this quick but there's lot to tell. Let's get started:

Though my friend Karl is responsible for a lot of my recent musical interests, I can thank my friend Steve for cluing me in to The Aquabats. I used to put in a few hours a week at his store More Fun Comics for him from time to time so I was used to having the run of the place. I noticed the jewel box for "The Aquabats! vs. the Floating Eye of Death!". I was intrigued by the kitchy graphics which reminded me more of the 1960's Batman TV series than anything else. Almost as an afterthought I found the disk and swapped it out for whatever was in the player.

The first song didn't grab me much, but I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing in the second song. It sounded for all the world like I was hearing a Devo-influenced pop song about defeating the Floating Eye of Death with a war machine dubbed "Giant Robot Birdhead".

Say wha?

Instantly I was transported back to...oh maybe it was 6th grade. My parents bought me a three-foot Raydeen action figure from the Shogun Warriors collection as a conformation present. The Devo-esque influcences took me back to 8th grade and my first concert - Devo in support of their "Oh No! It's Devo!" album.

Once I learned more about them and their superhero leanings, I instantly had a new favorite band. A group of superheroic action wannabes that play rock n' roll and fight monsters?

Aquabats...where have you BEEN all my life?

(more later...)