"Spacing Out" with GWAR

Intro

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• whacked out on goof balls
• waste of space
• spaceship
• irony

• sci-fi
• comic
• shredding
• shock rock

• parody
• space out

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Fans of heavy metal music also often like horror and sci-fi movies and comics. GWAR is a band that brings it all together. They’ve been shredding for 25 years while wearing monster costumes and spraying the audience in fake blood and vomit.

GWAR is from outer space, but they’ve been stranded on Earth for a long time. Recently, the shock rockers stole a spaceship and finally escaped, but they discovered that since they’ve been gone, space got really uncool. In fact, Earth is the only cool place left! So they came back to rock some more, and give an English lesson on slang that uses “space.” Watch this video with Oderus, the singer of GWAR.

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Jason

Oderus

Jason:  Welcome to English, baby! I’m Jason, here with Oderus from GWAR.

Oderus:  Hello English, baby!

Jason:  Your most recent album is called Lust in Space...

Oderus:  Lust in Space.

Jason:  ...and there’s lots of slang that has “space” in it.

Oderus:  Sure.

Jason:  So, like, what does spaced out mean, for instance?

Oderus:  Spaced out means when you’re, like, whacked out on goof balls or maybe, like, you slept too much or the way you feel after a big Thanksgiving dinner.

Jason:  Nice. And what’s a waste of space?

Oderus:  Waste of space, well, that’s pretty self-explanatory. When someone is so worthless that they are not worth the space that they occupy.

Jason:  Lust in Space, it’s about…You guys have captured a spaceship, right?

Oderus:  Yes. We captured a spaceship and we go back to outer space and when we get there, we find out all our favorite bars are closed, Cardinal Sin has taken over everything and, indeed, the only place worth fighting for, the only place he hasn’t conquered yet in the entire universe, is Earth itself. So here we are, the great irony of it, we have to go back to the very place that we escaped all these years.

Jason:  Well, thanks for talking with us, Oderus. Can I get you to give me a high-five and say…

Oderus:  High-five!

Jason:  ...”English, baby!”?

Oderus:  High-five English, baby!

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