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Roast Beef's workout tape Wednesday, July 12, 2006 • read strip Viewing 60 comments:

This is the strip that made me decide that I loved achewood.

Even funnier if viewed while listening to said track.

My God, you're right. Why hadn't I thought of this before?

Is it fourteen times better if listened to fourteen times, as indicated by the track listing? I wager that it is merely six times better in that situation.

that is complicated bookmaking you're onto, there.

I can't conceive of any possible way you could make a reading of this strip last that long, though. Would you just sit there and stare at the comic as the song played fourteen times? Hell of boring, yo.

Someone isn't a hardcore fan.

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no you listen to it once while reading the strip and thirteen more times while on a treadmill

If you listen to it twice it makes it four times better. Hell of nonlinear.

This.

Chubbied for 'hell of nonlinear'.

If I don't use that sometime in my Calculus class my life will have been for naught.

I am a HUGE fan of your icon and the flying dog portrayed in it.

I totally listened to this song at the gym the other day. All snickering to myself, all getting funny looks by the musclebound mullet man in bicycle tights.

once upon a time at a gym i was a bench away from a very built man who was all goin' nuts to Cheeseburger In Paradise. he started just mouthing the words, then bobbing his head and then just full upper torso contortions. it was hilarious and i'm laughing about it even more as i write this. i wish i had a picture to show you all how silly awesome this was.

yeeeeah.

I tried working out to this after this strip. There was no way. I'm glad I don't have OCD. Now "Closing Time", there's some Cohen I can treadmill to.

that's part of what's so damn funny about this one: to myself, this seems like and Impossible song to work out to.

A poor song for fucking to, though.

Leonard Cohen is like anti-fucking.

I think the film adaptation of Watchmen proved this conclusively.

"First We Take Manhattan."

Put that on a treadmill and it's like a jazzier version of the ROCKY IV Ivan Drago training montage.

That song is my kryptonite. The only, only song that makes me tear up. I ain't ashamed to admit it. You try listening to it.

i'm listening to the song for the first time and i've teared up. *sniffle*

Wow, I work out to the very same songs! How weird!

I just love that Beef A) records the song on the tape that many times and B) writes it down over and over

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

[x14]

He spent all afternoon, too. All having to rewind to exactly the same spot every time on his tape deck that doesn't heven have double speed.
I remember doing this with Leper Messiah back in the day. I loved that song to shreds. Still do, actually.

To shreds, I say!

Alt Text: It's a thing with him that he still uses a Walkman with orange foam headphones.

He's wearing them as he working out. Nothing in the Walkman at all.

Wow, no one noticed how Molly is so lovely she's hella wearing The One Ring

Beef's preeeecio *bricked*

Oh, man, a thumb ring?

...eh, I guess that's in keeping with her character.

Hey, she is!And that Elvish looks accurate!

I really disagree with this assessment. I mean, I think it's supposed to look like the One Ring, but that Elvish looks pretty much like stone cold Arabic to this obnoxious nerd.

I was going to reply all angry because I can read and write Arabic, but then I went back and looked at the comic, and it does actually look like Arabic. Well played, sir.

Shouldn't you be working for the CIA or something?

Who says he's not?

Uncle Sam's got eyes everywhere .

I'd have gone with Famous Blue Raincoat, myself.

Who By Fire.

i've always been a fan of 'avalanche'
i think it would be a great song over and over again on a moderately-paced treadmill or elliptical machine that varied heights/resistances as sort of an epic adventure
i'd test out this theory myself if the damned cd player in the basement worked

I like the little claws on her fingertips that you only see close-up. This goes for all the cats' claws.

I just accidentally stumbled upon the fact that that song makes reference to the river I live on. Freaky.

Other rivers are called "the river", you know...

I strongly suspicion that Beef works out to this song because of the reference to perfect bodies in the chorus.

creep is top traxXx for working out on the pro-anorexia message boards for that very reason, maybe ill suggest suzanne next time i'm eating cocktail onions and crying

i just realized upon rereading this comes off as kinda vicious being an anorexia joke and all. . . please dont start a tea-and-oranges diet craze based on my terrible, Mean suggestion

I woke up to Creep on the radio this morning!

...

I just thought you should know that.

Whats a mix tape?

(kidding, really)

I learned about mix tapes in history class.

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tell me what you think trolling means

I love cassette tapes. We need more in our society.

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I would pay up to nineteen dollars for orange foam headphones.

Someone's been pricing out their novelty headphones!

Tape all maxed out, 24 seconds away from having an additional track on each side.

I, too, love cassette tapes.

That is an excellent song.

Damn that's a sad song.
*big Cohen fan