Iron Man

The appeal of superheroes and superhero movies basically escapes me. I never wanted to fly or leap tall buildings in a single bound. Belch and talk at the same time, sure, at least when I was 11. But I've honestly never given much thought to what the world might be like if I had superpowers. Hence I probably have little interest in watching guys in capes defeat nefarious criminals. In general, guys in capes scare me. I remember Genesis and Yes from the early '70s.

Back in the day (and really, the day was when I was about thirteen or fourteen years old) I paid a lot of attention to Black Sabbath. The two or three BS (and never was an acronym more appropriate) albums I owned perished in the Great Purge of Demonic Records that occurred right after my Christian conversion. I never rebought them, although I did go out and rebuy all the Led Zeppelin records that perished in the same purge. That was shortly after the Great Musical Counter Reformation of 1977, when I figured out that almost all CCM sucked, and that a lot of those so-called demonic records were pretty great.

That said, I really, really like Ozzy Osbourne. I have very little knowledge of the music he's made over the past thirty-five years. But he's such a loveable, befuddled old stoner that I am always delighted when I see him mumbling on camera. If Iron Man was about Ozzy instead of a guy in a robot suit, I would have been first in line at the theaters this past weekend.