What I like about this one is that, judging from the Christmas tree, and how blindingly shiny the headstock of that Epiphone is, we are witnessing the ol’ “first song played on the new Christmas guitar” ritual, like she tore off the wrapping paper and was like, “Oh hell yeah, the electric guitar I asked for! Mom and Dad you’re the best — now set up the video camera I’m about to SET IT OFF like a one-woman Shaggs guitar-tone cover band except I’m gonna sing that Taylor Swift song everyone likes!”

LOL, for what is Taylor Swift, if not an upper-middle-class one-woman Shaggs, y’know?

“Taylor, I’m a let you finish, but ‘My Pal Foot Foot’ is one of the best videos of all time!”

ALSO: From the user’s video description: Christmas 2009 – on to the next level

F*R*I*D*A*Y F*A*C*E*O*F*F*S

I like this more than I should.

SPOILER: It’s two guys, right?

The diagram of the screen would be:

1 – 1 – 2
2 – 2 – 1

Where 1 = “Belushi Jr.”
And 2 = “Johnny Cheekbones”

Friday Face-Offs! EXPLORING THE FLUID NATURE OF ONLINE IDENTITY SINCE 2042.

The only thing badder-asseder than wearing an old grungy gas mask while you play your drum kit … is wearing a shiny, spotless, I’m-not-trying-to-buy-army-surplus, brand-new gas mask while you play your electronic drum kit. Almost makes me wonder if the mask and the drums are sold as a set … maybe in the “Chemical Ali Memorial Corner” at Guitar Center?

The drums sound so killer at the beginning of the song! “Gas mask keepin’ it in the pocket.”

Also, dig the honorary 3rd member of this band, a creature drawn to 5-string basses like a moth to flame (0:49).

FRIDAY FACE OFFS! “WHAT YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR HAS BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME”

Time for another Friday Face-Offs! HOLD ON TO YOUR FACE OR IT MIGHT FALL OFF

This week’s Friday Face-Off is “You Belong With Me” by Cannibal Corpse Taylor Swift. Watch the original here:

Decent song. I picked it over Myley Csirus’s (sp) “Party in the USA,” which I find banal (save for that “zweet zwoot” sound in the chorus).

YEAH, I SAID IT: I FIND “PARTY IN THE USA” BANAL. She writes a whole song about that one time she was in a car and heard Jay-Z on the radio??? Like she’s Proust and “99 Problems” is a madeleine? C’mon, I hear Jay-Z all the time — you don’t hear me writing a song about it. (Can’t even tell if this rant makes sense, but screw it; I’m really down on “Party in the USA.”)

Besides, Taylor Swift and Milee Crysysz both get crushed by my girl Kelly Clarkson. Goddamn, why haven’t I done a “Since U Been Gone” FFO? That would be a scorched-earth internet phenom.

ANYHOO … let’s get this started! Friday Face-Offs! First contestant is up next!