Everyone's a hero in their own way...

It's August 29 and here in the Philippines, it's National Heroes Day.

Well, no disrespect to Bonifacio, Rizal, and company... but whenever this time of year comes around, I always end up watching this video.

It's a snippet from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog which was created by one of the people I use the "I'm not worthy" bow move to - Joss Whedon. If you haven't watched the whole series, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DO IT RIGHT NOW! I swear, you won't regret it. It's classic.

Back to the video... it's performed by Nathan Fillion who you usually see in the awesome TV show Castle nowadays. His character's a pretty smarmy guy, but once you get past the insulting words, you'll find there's an honest to goodness message in the song. It's freaking fun. I think I'm going to watch it again now.

Check out the lyrics below and feel free to sing-along.

Everyone's A Hero

It may not feel too classy

Begging just to eat

But you know who does that? Lassie

And she always gets a treat

So you wonder what your part is

Because you’re homeless and depressed

But home is where the heart is

So your real home’s in your chest

Everyone’s a hero in their own way

Everyone’s got villains they must face

They’re not as cool as mine

But folks you know it’s fine to know your place

Everyone’s a hero in their own way

In their own not-that-heroic way

So I thank my girlfriend Penny

Yeah, we totally had sex

She showed me there’s so many

Different muscles I can flex

There’s the deltoids of compassion

There’s the abs of being kind

It’s not enough to bash in heads

You’ve got to bash in minds

Everyone’s a hero in their own way

Everyone’s got something they can do

Get up go out and fly

Especially that guy he smells like poo

Everyone’s a hero in their own way

you and you and mostly me and you

I’m poverty’s new sherrif

And I’m bashing in the slums

A hero doesn’t care if you’re a bunch of scary

alcoholic bums

(everybody!)

Everyone’s a hero in their own way

Everyone can blaze a hero’s trail

Don’t worry if it’s hard,

if you’re not a friggin ‘tard you will prevail

Everyone’s a hero in their own way

Everyone a hero in their –