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Jacko Fans Killing Themselves?? I Smell Darwin!

Jul 1st, 09 / 0 Comments

smoking-gunAccording to an article on Spike.com some hard-core Michael Jackson fans are committing  suicide in the wake of his unexpected death last week. Are you fucking serious? I don’t have to be politically correct here so here goes…

If for any moment you have thought about committing suicide for any reason please get help! Please call 1-800-SUICIDE or 1-800-273-TALK and let someone more rational than you try and stop you.

However, if after you fail to think that you are not mentally ill or that you aren’t going to call in the first damn place, then please shut the fuck up and pull the god damn trigger. This is Darwin at work. One less crazed stalking fan intent on death is fine by me and probably would have made that fucking sick pedophile you idolized happy too.

“<GASP!!> OMFG!! He did not just write that!! He doesn’t understand!”

Well you’re right, I have a really hard time understanding neurosis as twisted as yours. So am I being heartless and inconsiderate? I don’t think so. I think you are being irrational and delusional, and trying to place garner even more attention for yourselves, stealing away attention form the people that really matter, his family(read: kids).

And just to make this a proper rant, will the media please stop reporting on stupid shit like  this? I realize there is a dark humor factor with this story, otherwise I wouldn’t have read it, but my god people. Let these poor delusional neurotics go out in a blaze of glory with Billie Jean.

Whatever happens these people are either Honorable Mentions or winners of the Darwin Award. He would be proud.

Music, News, Web

Celebrity Deaths

Jun 26th, 09 / 4 Comments

Today, or yesterday now, saw the deaths of two of the most iconic figures from the 1970’s and the 1980’s. Many people have mourned the passing of Farrah Fawcett after a long struggle against cancer, my sympathies go out to her remaining family and children.

Unfortunately her death is now being over shadowed of a sort by the death of iconic pedophile pop-singer, Michael Jackson. I think it safe to assume that like me, many other people have thought of Mr. Jackson as being dead for a 47719541number of years now. So his actual passing is somewhat anti-climatic.

What this teaches us is that the American people as a whole love drama. We thrive on it. We embody it. So instead of remembering these people for who they were in life, we remember them in snapshots of our lives. We don’t remember Michael Jackson the nut-job, pedophile- baby-dangler, no we remember Thriller because it is more convenient.farrah-fawcett

Conversely, we don’t remember Farrah Fawcett the strong cancer battling mother and feminist from the Burning Bed. Instead we remember the poster, and her stunning beauty on Charlie’s Angels. In a sense we are selling these two short, both are likely more than the sum of their televised parts, but did we really ever know them?

Did we ever really know them enough to really mourn them? Can we look back in our lives right now and say, “My life is in shambles now that Michael Jackson is dead?” If you honestly can then you are family, a very close friend, or delusional. The average Tom, Dick, & Harry have no emotional bond to Mr. Jackson the man. The bond is with Mr. Jackson’s music, and I believe that is still around.

So who is it that so many people are mourning today? No one really knows but their family, and to them my heart goes out. Both were parents and the children are the losers here today, they are the ones we should mourn. Not the artist and the bombshell from our memories, because they are still with us.

Music, News, TV

New Star Trek TV Spot: Your Name

May 1st, 09 / 0 Comments

Music, News, SciFi, TV

Gaiman on Colbert & William Gibson’s Birthday!

Mar 17th, 09 / 0 Comments

Neil Gaiman was on the Colbert report last night! Also,  Happy Birthday to William Gibson!


The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Neil Gaiman

Books, Music, RPGs, SciFi, Web

RIAA Suing for Having music in a Shared Folder

Mar 4th, 08 / 0 Comments

EFF-logo I understand that artists should be paid for the works that they create.  I recognize that piracy of movies and music has run rampant.  I do not understand, however, how RIAA can justify suing someone because of having music in a shared directory of Kazaa.  They have not attempted to prove that the music was shared to other but that it was simply in a shared folder. 

Similar tactics have been brought up in the past, notably during the Napster case and the Perfect 10 v. Google case.  Both of these were thrown out due to the fact that the Copyright Act does not consider an attempted violation as a violation.  The EFF is doing its part again and is battling the hate-mongering asses of the RIAA for the greater good.  It all goes down tomorrow at 2pm in Phoenix.

Music, Tech

Mefistofele on NPR

Mar 2nd, 08 / 0 Comments


I am no a huge fan of opera, in fact I almost never listen to it. Something seems to get lost in a radio broadcast of an opera. Either way, I am a huge fan of Faust in all its flavors and Boito’s Mefistofele is not exception. Tonight NPR‘s World of Opera replayed the entire production from the Royal Opera of Wallonie, in Liege, Belgium.

For those of you who do not know the story, Faust is the story of a German scholar that makes a deal with the devil, Mefistofele, for power and riches. He doesn’t, naturally, come to realize the consequences of his actions until the moment of his death.

Either way I truely wish I could see a high end production of this. It would be great fun.

Art, Music

The Bedlam in Goliath by The Mars Volta

Feb 25th, 08 / 0 Comments

bedlam

The prog-rock group Mars Volta has released their latest album, The Bedlam in Goliath, to mixed reviews. I have been a huge Volta fan since before there was a Mars Volta, back when guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala were still involved with At the Drive In. This latest album is more of a return to the powerfully complex rhythms of previous albums without the slower aspects of the later albums, Frances the Mute for example. While this does not detract from the overall product, some silence can be golden, and at times it seems like Bedlam really needs it.

Overall, this is an amazing prog-rock album that fans of the group will enjoy. The story behind the album is one of the strangest I have heard in a while though. Evidently the band was plagued with ghosts and a really bad string of luck that was attributed to a spirit conjured by the group while on tour in 2006-07 from the use of an Israeli ougi board. Making for an interesting read in its own right.

Music

Some cool stuff…

Dec 21st, 06 / 0 Comments

Here is a Cthulhu Mythos calendar…

This is the truth!! Now we know!!

And here are some free Cthulhu Songs!

And last but not least! I am not sure if I have mentioned them in awhile or not but Andrew Lehman and the guys from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) are doing it again with An Even Scarier Solstice!

Cthulhu, Music

Mars Volta lyrics…

Dec 11th, 06 / 0 Comments

OK So I am a big Volta fan and this song off the new album, Amputechture, always made me curious. So today I found the lyrics in English and was blown away! Here they are for everyone to enjoy!

Asilos Magdalena

I arrived sick
And to feel better, I’m always in the streets
Because I showed you my body of mud
Of where the skin was weak
With a hunger that won’t let me sing

In my life
The darkness maintains me
When I saw you
In the rain you promised me your blood
I don’t stay in my life

The darkness maintains me
When I saw you
In the rain you promised me your blood
I don’t stay …

Now that you’ve fallen from this world
Carried the blade, my God, for you
How many times did you bite me?
And how many times did I leave?
I am no longer in love
With your lies
In hell I sleep
Because hell is the only truth
In my life

The darkness maintains me
When I saw you
In the rain you promised me your blood
I don’t stay in my life
The darkness maintains me
When I saw you
In the rain you promised me your blood
I don’t stay …

Morning star
Samael, I follow you
And if I stay with nothing
I will die for you

Music