Metalocalypse - The Gambler (PG)
Somebody once asked Charles Ofdensen if he was a gambler. 'Never with money,' he had replied, and the stranger had shrugged and gone to look for someone else willing to risk a few bucks on a game.
It was true – his money was too hard earned. It was difficult, after all, to run a business as large as Dethklok and everything it entailed. Hours were spent making decisions on which parts of the planet would be missed the least if destroyed through a gig, which animals were near enough to extinction that accidentally wiping them out would be natural inevitability and so no fault of the band, or how many fan suicides would be enough to be brutal, but not so much as to damage album sales.
No, he never gambled with money. Money was replaceable, and gambling with the irreplaceable was where the fun was.
It was true – his money was too hard earned. It was difficult, after all, to run a business as large as Dethklok and everything it entailed. Hours were spent making decisions on which parts of the planet would be missed the least if destroyed through a gig, which animals were near enough to extinction that accidentally wiping them out would be natural inevitability and so no fault of the band, or how many fan suicides would be enough to be brutal, but not so much as to damage album sales.
No, he never gambled with money. Money was replaceable, and gambling with the irreplaceable was where the fun was.
Inspired by Ace Of Spades by Motorhead:
If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man
You win some, lose some, it's all the same to me
The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say
I don't share your greed, the only card I need is the ace of spades
The ace of spades
If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man
You win some, lose some, it's all the same to me
The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say
I don't share your greed, the only card I need is the ace of spades
The ace of spades