August 16, 2004
Drums and Shotguns
Posted by nerdling | August 16, 2004 05:30 PM
I just spent the last hour deleting five hundred (500) comment spam messages. I am not in a good mood.
If you are a spammer, I hope you rot in fucking hell for all eternity.
Interview fun with Bill Murray.
Blender, also known as one of the worst music magazines in the world, did a long profile on the Drive-By Truckers, including an interview with Patterson Hood's father. {Via largehearted boy}
Neat little interview with Jake Burns of the Stiff Little Fingers.
Part One of the Prefix interview with pop phenom AC Newman. If you don't own The Slow Wonder, you should.
Time in Malta have lost their lead singer, Todd. I heard the last album wasn't so hot, but it's too bad just the same.
In useful links: How to use BitTorrent in five easy steps. {Via largehearted boy}
What could be better than the last season of "Bands Reunited"? The season where they reunite New Kids on the Block!
I guarantee that there are more ridiculous examples, but this list of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Photos is pretty funny. Be sure to catch the shot of Dani Filth. {Via largehearted boy}
Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz passed away this week. {Via largehearted boy}
Click here if you're interested in his poetry.
perhaps they can actually talk about the music next time, instead of taking easy shots at an easy target.
so many people are eager to laugh at the moronic metalheads that they crashed the server.
i've heard it said more than once that the sillier points of black metal aesthetics are one way of "policing the scene"--advertising one's dedication to the music and lifestyle of black metal through a seemingly absurd dress code, thereby ensuring that major record labels, self-righteous indie rock brats, and the rest of the world at large, stays the fuck away.
laugh all you will, but those dopey black metal kids have managed to create and maintain a thriving subculture that relies on "old-fashioned" DIY principles like independent record labels, tape trading, and self- publishing--ideas and practices that most of the people chuckling at their goofy pictures traded in long ago for expensive haircuts and self-congratulatory irony binges (that is assuming, of course, they ever had a sense of those things to begin w/). you can argue w/ black metal's politics, its inflated intellectualism, its skewed worldview, and its revisionist history--but black metal never sold out. anyone else?
hails,
dan
Posted by: dan at August 17, 2004 10:18 AM
Sometimes things are just funny when you take them for what they are. Pictures of grown men in face paint and domination gear is amusing—whether it is for a black metal album or a porn site or whatever—just like grown men with $100 coiffures and mascara are amusing.
Laughing at the black metal dress code is the same as laughing at the emo dress code, which I've heard you do many times before. I'd put that shot of Dani up against the RS cover of Chris Carraba for comparative ridiculousness any day, but at least I like Cradle of Filth.
Posted by: Marleigh at August 17, 2004 01:58 PM
