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28 June 2007

WHO ROCKS IN HELL? (aka the My Friends are Gonna Be There, Too thread)→[More:]

Let's give great latitude when defining "rocks;" not just musicians who make rockin' music, but folks from all walks of life, who simply rock, but you know they're either in, or headed for, hell.

And when I say "hell," I mean whatever you think "hell" means, according to your beliefs, your customs, your whimsy, or your pants size. If you don't believe in hell at all, choose whoever else's hell you're likeliest to go to when you find out how wrong you are.

[Inspired by an intentional misreading of chewatadistance's "THE COMMUTE SUCKS ROCKS IN HELL" in this shouting thread.]

post by: Hugh Janus at: 11:15 | 19 comments

Bon Scott

posted by Hugh Janus 28 June | 11:17

Mark Sandman (Morphine)

posted by getoffmylawn 28 June | 11:28

Gandhi

posted by danostuporstar 28 June | 11:29

Marie Curie, too, eh?

posted by Hugh Janus 28 June | 11:30

Amelia Earhart, Margaret Sanger, Ben Franklin

posted by getoffmylawn 28 June | 11:33

John Belushi. Brother Jim will someday join him in hell, but rock he doesn't.

posted by Joe Invisible 28 June | 11:50

Actually, Jim Belushi will spending eternity with me in hell. At least that's what I fear Hell is.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 28 June | 12:00

Why go to hell when you can get to Punk Rock Heaven?

posted by mygothlaundry 28 June | 12:08

Charles Darwin, the man who killed Faith.

posted by chuckdarwin 28 June | 12:23

Oh I dunno, I allus figgered yhvh killed faith by inventing free will.

Is there any way to avoid offending anyone when I say, therefore, that YHVH ROCKS IN HELL?

posted by Hugh Janus 28 June | 12:32

MGL, if that song is as good as the lyrics, I gotta hear it.

And I'm sure G.G. Allin rocks in hell.

posted by BoringPostcards 28 June | 12:57

DaVinci.

posted by chewatadistance 28 June | 13:37

Me.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 28 June | 13:40

Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker are sitting on the settee in hell, drinking cocktails and making scathing remarks about everybody else and cracking each other's shit up.

posted by taz 28 June | 13:43

Occasionally St. Francis stops by to freshen their drinks (he played favorites with the sparrows).

posted by Hugh Janus 28 June | 13:45

Ain't no drinks in hell.

This thread reminds me of one time when I was an actress in our church's productin of Heaven's Gates, Hell's Flames. I had a monologue segment playing a woman who had split up with her husband and who ultimately pulled out a gun and shot herself. Fun times...anyway, afterwards my character gets dragged to Hell (which in this case was backstage. ) I had to wait back there till the next scene began before I could leave out the back and come around...so as I was waiting (it was terribly hot back there) one of the young guys playing a demon asked me if I'd like some water. Sure, I replied. Moments later?

I was standing in Hell drinking ice water.

posted by bunnyfire 28 June | 16:06

Is Heaven's Gates, Hell's Flames one of those Hell House-type things?

posted by box 28 June | 16:12

It's a play, not a freestanding "house of horror" but the idea is probably similar. Only, in this, about half the characters get to go to Heaven.

I have been in two of these type plays, and in the second one (called, appropriately, Eternity, I got to play an old lady who went to heaven along with her spouse (whose poor driving got them there.) I was the comic relief.

This is also how I got stereotyped playing old ladies-a guy casting for a racial reconciliation play saw me in it and the rest is history.

posted by bunnyfire 28 June | 17:16

p.s. I met GG Allin. He was a pathetic little junkie.

posted by chuckdarwin 30 June | 04:59

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