More reasons to sit quietly in your chair

Have you seen the movie Air Guitar Nation??? It's a documentary about the US's first National Air Guitar Championships and features our first emissary (this guy C.Diddy (ne David Jung)) to the World Championships in Finland.
He looks ridiculous (obvi) but you should really see him shred, it's kind of amazing. The movie has a kind of King of Kong feel, if you've seen it. Note to self: they'd make a great double feature.

Anyway, since the doc came out the US National Air Guitar Championships have become a big deal, or at least well attended and competitive.
This is no cake walk people! Skills are needed, stops must be pulled out, plates must be stepped up too, and everything must be left on the stage.

So TO THE EXTREME this past weekend at the Brooklyn Regionals Bettie B. Goode (ne Taryn Kapronica) rocked out so hard she bent her toe off.
Yes off.
It had to be amputated. She says:
"By the time I hit the ground and looked down, my toe was pretty much gone and just hanging from a thread." Blood dripping across the stage, she continued to play finish her air cover of Scorpion's "Rock You Like a Hurricane," saying "I just kept on air guitaring".

'Rock you like a Hurricane' RULES!!! Good choice Bettie!

This is not Bettie's first Air injury. No, no. Back in June in Philadelphia (yo!) she jumped on the judges table, knocked over their drinks, slipped in the spilled booze, fell off the table and cracked her tailbone. Whoops! It did get her advanced to the next round though. She also handles getting mad groped when she stage dives, which women performers rarely do (you know because of the groping) because she's that devoted to her craft.
Think about reading the whole article from the link, she's pretty hardcore, plus you can learn about air guitars elusive soul, 'airness'.

Now I'm pissed that I missed the SF Championships last month at the Independent, sounds like a real party.
What a fool, sigh.