Iron Maiden’s mascott, Eddie has had a long and varied career, fighter pilot, future assassin, pyramid, tank driver, killer of Margaret Thatcher… And now he’s a Dark Lord Of The Sith. I’m not quite sure if the above image could be any more dorky. It’s a perfect storm of nerdy passions. Quite brilliant.
Although we try desperately to stay away from actual, relevant news here at ES, there’s no doubting that our general love of pork, death and google apps makes the looming swine flu pandemic completely irresistable, and this latest development absolutely perfect – that’s right, you can now track those poor dying Mexicans in real time, courtesy of the ever-lovin Google Maps.
This latest mashup comes from the misery-guts over at lifehacker, And while the we are generally a portal of doom, ES is taking the view that “Hey-if everyone is dead, we can finally move into the Tower of London!”
Worry yourself stupid here.
Having a vast and universally well know back catalogue has led to Maiden being covered by some of the metal elite. And a man who makes fart noises with his hands. The hero of the above video is Gerry Phillips, and he has been making music with his hands for 38 years.
Impressive.
Did Iron Maiden think when they wrote this song that one day a man in a jumper would play it with handfart noises on the internet? I like to think – Yes.
It’s Iron Maiden week here at ES, and while the guys have many things to recommend them, fashion sense is not one of them, a trait they sadly seem happy to pass on to their fans. A quick look around the net found the items above on open sale! Now I know for a fact there are literally millions of fans out there, and the large percentage of them that are teenage boys from rural communities are probably thinkin “wow-those are awesome!”.
Sorry guys, but fingerless gloves will never be the way to a woman’s heart (let alone her pants), buy these instead.
This has been a public service announcement.
