Matthew

Wow, an Initial D quiz.

2004-02-17T22:27:17Z

You can drive with your eyes closed. Seriously.

Which Initial D Character Are You?
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cheryllovesme @ 2004-01-07T08:04:00

2004-01-07T12:59:31Z

Brethren and sisters of my circle
I acclaim thee all
When guiding stars are clouded and deranged
Fear not to take my hand

The bonds of trust and unity
As gods received
Till the end. -- Emperor, "The Acclamation of Bonds".

Dearly beloved...

2004-01-05T14:01:30Z

I guess the difference between me and you is that you'll tell anyone who will listen and make sure you divulge every last subjective detail (but only after it's been through the filter of the perspective of one who truly relies on themselves for nothing and doesn't know what it's like to have no one to rely on, despite the melodramatic V.C. Andrews spin you like to put on everything). Whereas I give the barest details to two of maybe ten or eleven people who inquire on a regular basis, and I only give those sparing and cryptic answers to these people because I care about them as much as they care about me.

And I think it's beautiful that only one person right now would know exactly what I'm talking about, but I'll still get verbally bashed for it all later, despite the fact that even you yourself are ignorant of what I'm saying. This is part of what I meant before when I said life's too short to spend it all explaining shit to people.

cheryllovesme @ 2004-01-03T05:10:00

2004-01-03T10:00:55Z

The Talon is back on the road with a new blue fender and black mirror. As long as you don't look closely in the sunlight it looks okay. The camber/toe/alignment settings were so fucked that Brandon had to actually remove the passenger side strut to get the camber angle set right. Impact damaged it, but not so bad that I have to get new ones right away. Oh, wait, I've needed them for months, haven't I?

So let's see here. That was $100 for the parts I collected and had Jamie help me put on (plus the passenger side-marker light is fucked and needs to be replaced because of a simple bracket, and part of the front fascia is cracked and needs to be repaired or replaced). Then there was the $190-something bill for alignment, which I didn't get to pay completely. They let me off because I'm a good customer. Now there's the possible price for repainting the door and fixing the small odds and ends the guy fucked up when he hit me.

The police say the guy gave conflicting stories and seemed unwilling to cooperate, not to be surprised if nothing happened for a long time - if at all. It was apparently a company vehicle and there's no way to tell if the guy who said he was driving that day was really the one driving that particular truck or not, so we have a company buddy-system at work here. And he also claimed that we stopped and talked to each other and, I quote, "everything was fine." Yeah. That's why you slammed my alignment off over 1/16 of an inch, crushed my sideview mirror, fucked my front end and door, too, right? Because "everything was fine"? You cocksucker. And to top it all off someone claimed to have been riding with him and verifies that I said "everything was fine".

Can you believe this? I can. I'm paying for someone else's stupidity and recklessness, someone I don't even know. That makes me feel like a real hero.

cheryllovesme @ 2004-01-01T08:09:00

2004-01-01T13:00:15Z

I will not reverse myself for anyone, even if it totally changes how they feel about me. Does that make me egotistical... or honest? I will willingly and quickly sever ties with someone in my life who feels strongly about me if our relationship is harmful to either one of us. Does this make me cruel... or kind? I believe that loving someone means being able to let them do what makes them happy even if it doesn't make you happy. Does this make me liberal... or mature? I think it's more important to have a healthy life than it is to have a long life. And I also think it's important that a relationship happens at all, with little importance attached to how long it lasts. Do these beliefs make me shallow, or do they make me intuitive?

You be the judge of these things as you always have, readers. I've spent so much time talking into a dead phone now that I don't expect any kind of a sane or reasonable answer from anyone in any walk of life. Yet meeting and speaking with people on here has made for a few positive affirmations of my general suspicion that somewhere out there, there is intelligent life. I like that year after year we approach one another, at times reluctant or hesitant and at other times positive and confident, and that we find empathy in one another on the rare occasions that we do. I think what terrifies me most about the human race in general is the overall indifference we have towards one another. The only life held in high regard is our own, and of course this means me as well as others. We all possess the passed-down genetic memories of struggle and conflict unique to our backgrounds. For Jewish people it's centuries of persecution that seemed to culminate in the holocaust, for Irish people the centuries of slavery and wonderfully decadent years of subsequent alcoholism that made us self-destruct repeatedly on large and small scales, for Asian people it's the twofold gift and curse of self-restraint, of biting the pillow when they should've been screaming their throats bloody. And there are countless others. Self-preservation is vital, self-interest almost the icing on the cake.

The Catholic-esque drive to make others feel guilty for the way they feel is a sick thing, and so it is also when a person consciously uses guilt as a means to make someone assimilate behavioral patterns more suitable to their desires. Who are you to change me? Who are you to defy that in which you hold such a dear, close interest? Dare I say that people don't really experience love until it's experienced as a synergystic force? I think so.

I will never understand love. Experiencing it is another story. You don't have to understand it to know its power. And you don't have to understand electricity to know that it shocks and kills and is fully capable of setting your miserable corpse on fire after you're a piece of human toast.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-30T07:18:00

2003-12-30T12:09:11Z

WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE: JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-29T06:18:00

2003-12-29T11:09:15Z

Wow. Some people are open to the worst kind of influence. I'm almost hurt.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-28T08:07:00

2003-12-28T12:58:13Z

Taken at face value this year was not a bad year. Looking below the surface one could say it was a horrible year. In all it's what you make of it, I suppose, and where you were in relation to me when certain things happened. It's like any other year, and despite this I feel an urge to sum it up with something simple, some consecutive text to make it all concrete. Things I've discovered this year:

Time should not be wasted on people who take everything literally. Life is way too short to spend all your time explaining shit to people.

People learn the most important lessons easiest through tragedy or misfortune.

Whether we know it for ourselves or not, everything we want from life is within our reach. We just have to learn how and when to take it.

Negative people are not to be scorned - they're in search of something (happiness, contentment, accomplishment, whatever) just like everyone else. They just have more frustratingly stupid ways of trying to find it... and often need to teach themselves a lesson through tragedy or misfortune to understand the way. While these people are often not worth time or effort to help - whether they seek advice or not - they can still make wonderful friends that you can learn a lot from.

Common struggles bring people togther, common differences push them apart. This is the way of humankind, and the groundwork for all our desires, needs and wants was laid before we had the capacity to understand it all. This noted, it should be obvious that we'll never find what we're looking for on this side of life. We should be happy that we can make the choice to strive for something in life... whether we do it or not isn't the important part. What's important is that we try.

People choose the easy way out of laziness, not out of stupidity. It's stupidity that makes them choose the easy way even when they know it's the wrong way.

The more I learn about human beings, the more I hate myself for being one.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-25T20:43:00

2003-12-26T01:39:15Z

TERROR ALERT: ORANGE

The United States government's obsession with "terror" terrifies me. It's a Red day! No, Orange! Yellow!

Life is now a tour through a fucking Crayola factory. All we had to do was color-code it.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-25T08:01:00

2003-12-25T12:52:20Z

I can't stop listening to Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. I remember being 15 or 16 years old and sitting in some old car with Jamie, dead of winter, getting stoned. So stoned that we couldn't find the keys to start the car... and then realizing after fifteen minutes that the keys were in the ignition and we'd been listening to this very album the whole time.

How warped. So much Iron Maiden to listen to, so little time.

Jamie's not much on couth, discretion, restraint or judgement. But he always has had good taste in music, other than the occasional purchase of a really bad death metal CD. When you get right down to it he had a hand in me being such a music freak, actually, because he's always listened to underground or offbeat shit. He's the only person I know other than myself that has kept Reign In Blood in the CD changer for months at a time.

For those who are wondering, I guess I'll post my current mp3 list. Most of it is just stuff I've ripped myself from my own collection. I've got about sixty or seventy CDs to rip still, so the list is a little light... :-\

There's still so much Slayer to rip, and a fuckload of NIN and Tori Amos. I'll probably post those lists separate from here if I get it all done any time soon, but I doubt I will. Every time I go to rip a CD I get a new one and get lost in it for a few days instead. And speaking of Tori the new double-disc thing she did is pretty good - I don't care much for the remastered old tracks, but the bonus DVD is well worth the purchase ($14 at Best Buy). There's a frustrating photo gallery with background music (instrumental "Putting The Damage On"), some audio tracks of other stuff with more photos going over top of them, and some live performance shit that absolutely cannot be missed by any serious Tori fan.

The "live" performance stuff was shot at sound check, so she's not only off-guard because there's hardly anyone there to hear it... but she seems a bit more open with how she does the songs. She seemed to really enjoy doing "Pretty Good Year", and she almost tore my heart out with "Northern Lad". Interestingly, "Honey" was very hollow, almost dead-sounding like she didn't believe a word of what she was singing. But that's neither here nor there, it was still nice to see the old girl after all this time. Especially since I missed her not once, but twice in a row in Philly.

The live Misfits stuff is all from one recording - actually, it was the show they played on October 29th, 1983. Glenn says at the beginning "This is our last show." Lots of people groan, moan and say "NOOOOO!". I think what ended up happening was they played one more show after that and then broke up.

These songs were ripped from a Fiend Club cassette tape that Glenn sent out after the smoke cleared and everyone began to accept that the Misfits were going to suck, since Jerry Only had taken over...

1. After Forever - Ephemeral (3:05)
2. Akercocke - A Skin For Dancing In (7:18)
3. Akercocke - Becoming the Adversary (demo) (6:44)
4. Akercocke - Betwixt Iniquitatis and Prostigiators (2:13)
5. Akercocke - Breaking Silence (4:16)
6. Akercocke - Ceremony of Nine Angles (8:52)
7. Akercocke - Fortune My Foe (1:16)
8. Akercocke - He Is Risen (4:48)
9. Akercocke - Horns of Baphomet (7:06)
10. Akercocke - Infernal Rites (4:30)
11. Akercocke - Initiation (1:11)
12. Akercocke - Masks of God (4:52)
13. Akercocke - Of Menstrual Blood and Semen (6:26)
14. Akercocke - Praise the Name of Satan (demo) (5:13)
15. Akercocke - The Serpent (3:47)
16. Algol - Murmurous Screams of Repugnance (Suffocated) (7:07)
17. Amon Amarth - Siegreicher Marsch (7:53)
18. Amon Amarth - Death In Fire (4:54)
19. Amon Amarth - For the Stabwounds in Our Backs (4:56)
20. Amon Amarth - Where Silent Gods Stand Guard (5:46)
21. Amon Amarth - Versus The World (5:21)
22. Amon Amarth - Across the Rainbow Bridge (4:50)
23. Amon Amarth - Down The Slopes Of Death (4:08)
24. Amon Amarth - A Thousand Years of Oppression (5:41)
25. Amon Amarth - Bloodshed (5:13)
26. Amon Amarth - ...And Soon The World Will Cease To Be (6:57)
27. Arch Enemy - Burning Angel (4:14)
28. Arch Enemy - Despicable Heroes (2:12)
29. Arch Enemy - Ravenous (4:03)
30. At the Gates - Blinded By Fear (3:14)
31. At The Gates - Nausea (2:23)
32. Barry MacGuire - Eve Of Destruction (3:38)
33. Bernard Herrmann - Fahrenheit 451- Prelude (1:39)
34. Bernard Herrmann - Psycho Title (1:51)
35. Bernard Hermann - "Psycho" Title Sequence (1:50)
36. Bernard Herrmann - Opening Sequence from "Taxi Driver" (3:38)
37. Bernard Herrmann - Twisted Nerve (1:27)
38. Billy Joel - Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) (3:32)
39. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (6:09)
40. Bob Dylan - The Man in Me (3:05)
41. Brujeria - Cuiden a los Ni?os (3:30)
42. Carcass - Death Certificate (3:39)
43. Carcass - Doctrinal Expletives (3:39)
44. Carcass - This Mortal Coil (3:50)
45. Cream - White Room (5:00)
46. Dark Funeral - Satanic Blood (2:11)
47. Dark Funeral - The Fire Eternal (3:53)
48. Dark Funeral - The Secrets Of The Black Arts (3:42)
49. Darkthrone - The Watchtower (3:40)
50. Death - Overactive Imagination (3:29)
51. Decapitated - Spheres of Madness (5:15)
52. Dimmu Borgir - Metal Heart (4:41)
53. Dimmu Borgir - Nocturnal Fear (3:22)
54. Dimmu Borgir - Perfection or Vanity (3:36)
55. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (5:46)
56. Dismember - Enslaved to Bitterness (2:45)
57. Dying Fetus - Raped On the Altar (3:52)
58. Edwin Starr - War (3:20)
59. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (3:16)
60. Emperor - A Fine Day To Die (8:26)
61. Emperor - Alsvartr (4:17)
62. Emperor - Ye Entrancemperium (5:14)
63. Emperor - Thus Spake the Nightspirit (4:30)
64. Emperor - Ensorcelled by Khaos (6:39)
65. Emperor - The Loss and Curse of Reverence (6:09)
66. Emperor - The Acclamation of Bonds (5:54)
67. Emperor - With Strength I Burn (8:17)
68. Emperor - The Wanderer (2:54)
69. Emperor - In Longing Spirit (5:58)
70. Emperor - Opus A Satana (4:18)
71. Emperor - Cosmic Keys To My Creation & Time (6:21)
72. Emperor - Cromlech (4:14)
73. Emperor - Funeral Fog (5:12)
74. Emperor - Gypsy (2:54)
75. Emperor - I Am The Black Wizards (6:00)
76. Emperor - I Am (5:06)
77. Emperor - In The Wordless Chamber (5:12)
78. Emperor - Inno A Satana (4:50)
79. Emperor - Curse You All Men! (4:40)
80. Emperor - Decrystallizing Reason (6:23)
81. Emperor - An Elegy of Icaros (6:39)
82. Emperor - The Source of Icon E (3:43)
83. Emperor - Sworn (4:29)
84. Emperor - Nonus Aequilibrium (5:48)
85. Emperor - The Warriors of Modern Death (5:00)
86. Emperor - Of Blindness and Subsequent Seers (6:47)
87. Emperor - Untitled (0:28)
88. Emperor - The Ancient Queen (3:41)
89. Emperor - The Majesty Of The Nightsky (4:48)
90. Emperor - The Night Of The Graveless Souls (3:14)
91. Emperor - The Tongue Of Fire (7:11)
92. Emperor - Thus Spake The Nightspirit (Live) (4:19)
93. Emperor - Witches Sabbath (5:56)
94. Emperor - Wrath of the Tyrant (4:13)
95. Emperor - ?rie Descent (5:58)
96. Hate Eternal - Servants of the Gods (2:57)
97. Hate Eternal - The Obscure Terror (3:55)
98. Hecate Enthroned - Altar Of Sacrifice (4:00)
99. Hecate Enthroned - Silenced But For Their Cries (I Am Born pt. II) (3:32)
100. Hecate Enthroned - Promeathea ~ Thy Darkest Mask of Surreality (2:14)
101. Hecate Enthroned - The Crimson Thorns (My Immortal Dreams) (4:26)
102. Hecate Enthroned - A Graven Winter (7:30)
103. Hecate Enthroned - To Feed Upon Thy Dreams (6:44)
104. Hecate Enthroned - An Ode For a Haunted Wood (7:15)
105. Hecate Enthroned - Through Spellbinding Branches (Deepest Witchcraft) (2:08)
106. Impaled Nazarene - Humble Fuck of Death (2:53)
107. Great Big Sea - Kiss My Irish Ass (4:04)
108. Irish Drinking Songs - Whiskey In The Jar (3:01)
109. Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight (6:01)
110. Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness (3:31)
111. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark (live) (7:11)
112. Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams (6:11)
113. Iron Maiden - Powerslave (6:50)
114. Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills (3:56)
115. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (9:52)
116. Iron Maiden - The Clairvoyant (4:27)
117. Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do (4:34)
118. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (4:53)
119. Iron Maiden - The Phantom Of The Opera (7:20)
120. Iron Maiden - The Prophecy (5:05)
121. Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man (4:34)
122. Iron Maiden - Wasted Years (5:07)
123. Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath (4:35)
124. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (3:58)
125. John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band - Imagine (3:02)
126. Lou Reed - Take a Walk on the Wild Side (4:12)
127. Marduk - Sodomize The Dead (2:07)
128. Marduk - Still Fucking Dead (3:17)
129. Miles Davis - Blue In Green (5:36)
130. The Misfits - Ghouls' Night Out (1:57)
131. Morbid Angel - God Of Emptiness (5:25)
132. Morbid Angel - World of Shit (3:20)
133. Morgoth - Cursed (2:05)
134. Morgoth - Body Count (3:36)
135. Morgoth - End To Temptation (6:02)
136. Morgoth - Unreal Imagination (3:30)
137. Morgoth - Isolated (5:25)
138. Morgoth - Sold Baptism (3:40)
139. Morgoth - Suffer Life (4:26)
140. Morgoth - Opportunity Is Gone (7:20)
141. Morgoth - Darkness (3:55)
142. - Movie Quotes - Breakfast Club (0:37)
143. Napalm Death - Dragnet (1:00)
144. Nile - The Blessed Dead (4:53)
145. Nile - Execration Text (2:46)
146. Nile - Sarcophagus (5:09)
147. Nile - Kheftiu Asar Butchiu (3:52)
148. Nile - Unas, Slayer of the Gods (11:43)
149. Nile - Churning the Maelstrom (3:07)
150. Nile - I Whisper In The Ear of the Dead (5:10)
151. Nile - The Wind of Horus (3:47)
152. Nile - Hall of Saurian Entombment (5:09)
153. Nile - Invocation to Seditious Heresy (3:51)
154. Nile - Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of Ra (3:11)
155. Nile - Ruins (6:01)
156. Nile - Smashing The Antiu (2:18)
157. Nile - The Howling Of The Jinn (2:35)
158. Obituary - Immortal Visions (2:25)
159. Paul McCartney - Live and Let Die (3:13)
160. ? & The Mysterians - 96 Tears (2:57)
161. Ravi Shankar - Gaayatri (3:25)
162. Ravi Shankar - Veena Murali (3:35)
163. Rotting Christ - After Dark I Feel (4:02)
164. Rotting Christ - Among Two Storms (4:09)
165. Rotting Christ - Thou Art Blind (2:46)
166. Rotting Christ - If It Ends Tomorrow (4:28)
167. Rotting Christ - My Sacred Path (5:38)
168. Rotting Christ - Aeternatus (3:14)
169. Rotting Christ - Art of Sin (5:18)
170. Rotting Christ - Lucifer Over London (5:15)
171. Rotting Christ - Law of the Serpent (2:08)
172. Rotting Christ - You are I (3:27)
173. Rotting Christ - Khronos (6:37)
174. Rotting Christ - Fateless (4:10)
175. Rotting Christ - Time Stands Still (5:04)
176. Rotting Christ - Glory of Sadness (5:34)
177. Rotting Christ - Thirteen (2:15)
178. Rotting Christ - Non Serviam (5:13)
179. Rotting Christ - Sign Of Evil Existence (2:00)
180. Rotting Christ - King of a Stellar War (6:18)
181. Rotting Christ - A Dynasty From the Ice (4:29)
182. Rotting Christ - Archon (4:11)
183. Rotting Christ - Snowing Still (5:42)
184. Rotting Christ - Shadows Follow (4:35)
185. Rotting Christ - One With the Forest (4:33)
186. Rotting Christ - Diastric Alchemy (4:58)
187. Rotting Christ - The Opposite Bank (5:54)
188. Rotting Christ - The First Field of the Battle (5:37)
189. Rotting Christ - The Word Made End (3:00)
190. Samael - Year Zero (3:38)
191. Samael - Ailleurs (3:54)
192. Samael - Together (4:27)
193. Samael - Ways (3:48)
194. Samael - The Cross (3:21)
195. Samael - Us (4:14)
196. Samael - Supra Karma (4:33)
197. Samael - I (4:12)
198. Samael - Nautilus & Zepplin (4:01)
199. Samael - Infra Galaxia (4:11)
200. Samael - Being (3:12)
201. Samael - Radiant Star (3:46)
202. Satyricon - Fuel For Hatred (3:49)
203. Slayer & Ice T - Disorder (4:57)
204. Slayer - Aggressive Perfector (2:30)
205. Slayer - Altar Of Sacrifice (2:50)
206. Slayer - Angel of Death (4:51)
207. Slayer - Bitter Peace (4:31)
208. Slayer - Born To Be Wild (3:04)
209. Slayer - Captor of Sin (live) (3:32)
210. Slayer - Chemical Warfare (6:04)
211. Slayer - Criminally insane (2:23)
212. Slayer - Death's Head (3:29)
213. Slayer - Epidemic (2:22)
214. Slayer - Hand of Doom (5:15)
215. Slayer - Captor Of Sin (3:31)
216. Slayer - Haunting the Chapel (3:57)
217. Slayer - I Hate You (2:16)
218. Slayer - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (3:19)
219. Slayer - Jesus Saves (2:54)
220. Slayer - Love To Hate (3:05)
221. Slayer - Necrophobic (1:40)
222. Slayer - Peice by Peice (2:02)
223. Slayer - Postmortem (2:44)
224. Slayer - Raining Blood (4:57)
225. Slayer - Reborn (2:11)
226. Slayer - War Ensemble (4:51)
227. Slayer - Blood Red (2:48)
228. Slayer - Spirit In Black (4:07)
229. Slayer - Expendable Youth (4:10)
230. Slayer - Dead Skin Mask (5:19)
231. Slayer - Hallowed Point (3:23)
232. Slayer - Skeletons of Society (4:40)
233. Slayer - Temptation (3:25)
234. Slayer - Born of Fire (3:07)
235. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss (6:34)
236. Slayer - Stain Of Mind (3:25)
237. Slayer - Tormentor (3:45)
238. Solace Denied - Breath Of Torment (4:17)
239. S.O.D - The Crackhead Song (1:47)
240. Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity (4:30)
241. The Beatles - Hey Jude (7:02)
242. The Beatles - Revolution no. 1 (4:15)
243. The Beatles - Yesterday (2:05)
244. The Everdawn - Territory Loss (3:15)
245. The Everdawn - When The Sunset Forever Fades (3:52)
246. The Everdawn - Needle Work (3:34)
247. The Everdawn - Where Pain Never Dies (4:31)
248. The Everdawn - Autumn, Sombre Autumn (3:32)
249. The Everdawn - Burn (6:07)
250. The Everdawn - Poems (4:46)
251. The Everdawn - Opera of the Damned (3:42)
252. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light (7:07)
253. The Misfits - Bullet (live) (1:41)
254. The Misfits - 20 Eyes (live) (2:12)
255. The Misfits - All Hell Breaks Loose (live) (2:03)
256. The Misfits - Astro Zombies (live) (5:31)
257. The Misfits - Astro Zombies (remix) (2:11)
258. The Misfits - Attitude (1:28)
259. The Misfits - Attitude (live) (1:22)
260. The Misfits - Bullet (1:37)
261. The Misfits - Demonomania (live) (1:13)
262. The Misfits - Devil's Whorehouse (live) (2:40)
263. The Misfits - Ghouls' Night Out (live) (2:34)
264. The Misfits - Halloween (live) (1:36)
265. The Misfits - Halloween (1:52)
266. The Misfits - Hatebreeders (live) (3:03)
267. The Misfits - Horror Business (live) (2:00)
268. The Misfits - Horror Business (2:46)
269. The Misfits - Horror Hotel (live) (1:15)
270. The Misfits - Hybrid Moments (1:42)
271. The Misfits - I Turned Into a Martian (live) (2:30)
272. The Misfits - Last Caress (1:57)
273. The Misfits - Last Caress (live) (2:00)
274. The Misfits - Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight? (2:01)
275. The Misfits - Night Of The Living Dead (1:58)
276. The Misfits - Nike a Go Go (live) (3:37)
277. The Misfits - Return Of The Fly (1:35)
278. The Misfits - Skulls (live) (3:13)
279. The Misfits - Teenagers From Mars (live) (3:51)
280. The Misfits - Vampira (live) (1:36)
281. The Misfits - Violent World (live) (2:05)
282. The Misfits - We Are 138 (live) (2:31)
283. The Misfits - We Bite (live) (1:42)
284. The Misfits - Where Eagles Dare (2:08)
285. The Misfits - Where Eagles Dare (live) (1:58)
286. The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb (3:43)
287. The Who - Baba O'Reily / Teenage Wasteland (5:09)
288. The Zombies - She's Not There (2:25)
289. Therion - Birth Of Venus Illegitima (5:12)
290. Ulver - Untitled VIII (1:32)
291. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London (3:31)
292. Watain - My Fists are Him (4:43)
293. Watain - Rabid Death's Curse (5:18)
294. Yngwie Malmsteen - Pachelbel's Canon (4:33)
295. Flamenco Diablo - Yngwie Malmsteen (3:13)
296. Yngwie Malmsteen - Overture 1383 (2:59)
297. Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Magnum Opus Overture 1622 (2:41)
298. Zyklon - Hammer Revelation (6:23)
299. Zyklon - Psyklon Aeon (3:26)
300. Zyklon - Subtle Manipulation (3:17)
301. Zyklon - The Prophetic Method (3:16)

Origin of the Feces

2003-12-24T04:49:40Z

Some time late last year or early this year, someone posted a question on the internet at either some UBB or on here. It was what I think about the Judaeo-Christian figure of "Satan". I don't know what this person was expecting, but he ended up with a 14-page rant (in 8 pt. text) on what I thought of the whole thing.

I can't find the file anywhere no matter where I look despite the fact that I only have two geocities.com accounts and the goddam thing had my name in it. Of course searching for simultanaeous use of "Satan" and "Matthew Kelly" in Google yields countless results - which is a sure sign that I'm evil. But I'd recently re-thought a few things that were said in the original document and wanted to add in a few things based on the new information.

Said new information will be recorded here until I can either find the document or rewrite it.

To recap, the document I wrote originally in response to "You don't believe in the Biblical story of Satan, so what do you think it was really like?" was... terribly long but rather well thought out.

The premise of the essay was that in order to accept any of it past the first few lines you had to realize that I do not believe in the Bible. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in Satan. I believe in the ideals that many religious figures represent, but I do not follow any single belief system because they all limit the scope of the worshipper.

Basically put, religion is in its own interest, save for Satanism. And I'm sorry, I just cannot keep a straight face talking about "magickal ceremony" shit (unless it's in an Akercocke song). Basic Americanized "Satanism" is not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about honest Satanism where the Christian Satan is hardly a factor.

Anyway, my idea is that the mythological figure of Satan was created over time to represent what happens when you stray from the flock. Satan was supposed to be a scary figure that encouraged people to do only what they were told to do by the government, by the standards of a religious society, or by whatever other status quo symbol you can conjure up (think of stacks upon stacks of newspapers being rewritten so that the authority's predictions in the past more accurately reflect the current situation, á la 1984, and you'll get my point), be it Big Brother or the inevitably unseeable but constantly-felt Ingsoc's sphere of influence in Antic Hay.

The point of Satan, in my eyes, is to command: OBEY. You obey. You listen. You do what you're told, you feel how you're told you should feel, you think the way and things you're told to think, and at the end of the day you have no idea of the great sex you're missing out on. That's what it comes down to, for me, because the supposed punishment for transgressions is damnation to Hell, where you get to live with Satan for all eternity. That actually sounds pretty cool to me, but I don't believe in damnation or salvation in that sense, so I'm not buying tickets any time soon.

How did this idea come about? Over centuries, of course. But the thing that planted the seed was my examination of how worship varied over the course of history, from the worship of strange idols to the personal "Gods in my head" syndrome, all the way up to the current hysterias of "God is speaking to me through this bald fuck on TV" and the Born Again Christian thing.

As humans developed their intelligence and understanding of the world around them, the voices in their heads faded more and more. Eventually people came to see hearing voices in the head as what it is: insanity. But even then there were ways to make the Gods "speak": people could be trained to channel the energy and words of the Gods and let them be known still, such as the Oracle at Delphi (which hasn't given a single prediction since the 10th century, from what I recollect, and this is probably due to the fact that, oh, wait, there's no one there to "channel" the voice anymore!). But I've digressed. Let it be known, in any case, that I really covered all the possible bases where this was concerned, having torn apart centuries of strange religious mania all over the world.

I ended up coming to the conclusion that Satan represents a total independant state of mind, the total and complete consciousness of our actions and the consequences of our actions, of facing the repercussions of our actions. The ability to think in the abstract goes hand in hand with a responsibility, and not just to develop it... but also to use it all responsibly. In this we have been negligent, but I'm not going to go into that any further.

To top it all off, God is there whispering in everyone's ear still, tapping on their shoulders, and telling them to do his bidding, that there's eternal happiness and blah blah blah in his kingdom, all you have to do is either A). pray to him or B). send a few dollars to Jerry Falwell. So basically God is either starved for attention or Jerry Falwell's accountant. You be the judge.

My recent discovery of an ancient Egyptian sect who worshipped a god called Set-Ahn got me thinking, though, because this sect was crushed by a Judaeo-Christian army... and there was no term "Satan" before said sect was crushed! Oh, sure, there might've been the myriad other names for him (Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, Baal, Belial, whatever else), but they can all be traced to Celtic, Druidic, Nordic, and so on legends. It is my conviction that the name Satan came from the name Set-Ahn. The phonetics are nearly identical.

"Satan" was given the physical characteristics of the gods of countless other religions, such as Pan's goat-like appearance (how Dionysiac) or Leviathan's serpentine forked tongue. I do wonder where the whole lake of fire thing came from... maybe that's linked to ancient Egypt, too, because apparently the Egyptian version of Hell, "Duat", was a lake of fire. But there was no Satan there. Osiris sent you there, but he wasn't a "bad guy".

As a footnote, this Set-Ahn was a god of "Free Will", nothing more. That's why they worshipped him: because they thought he gave them free will and the ability to have a choice of how to lead their lives. This is why the sect was crushed. Because they wanted to be free to think and feel what they wanted.

Sounds a lot like the way Christianity attacks people and organizations in this day and age, doesn't it?

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-19T05:43:00

2003-12-19T11:00:19Z

I think what someone needs to stand up and say is that there is no dramatic stage, there is no grandiose universal platform upon which each and every one of us lives our lives, connected and unconnected, so that our lower faculties may entertain themselves whilst our true consciousness rests beneath the veneer of comfortable, albeit burgeois and "democratic" American living. This is simply not an existing plane upon which we may project the impetus and thrall of our desires, one and all, though it be known as "reality" and "life" to so many people in this strange, dark era.

No, these things aren't "real". The things you "believe" in, the things you take for granted and the things you harbor "passions" for are not "real". So many quote en-quotes for such a small paragraph, and yet this is how reality lets us bend it to our own will and need. Such is the weakness of the human condition, I suppose, and even it has become a cynical parody of itself 'twixt our own endless obssession with vanity and everyone else's conviction that they are the center of this imaginary stage or grandiose platform. Even cynicism is cynical now.

Take yourself down from this platform of illusions and put yourself on another level for one moment -- allow yourself to realize how fake the things we say and do are, how empty and meaningless it all is. The functions of our daily lives can be satisfied by the lowest level of psychological and physiological reactionary systems. It's pathetic, really, how many of us catch ourselves doing something fake and brush it off as "life", as working for a "cause" or a "goal". What do you really believe in?

You're brought cold and naked into this world, alone and shaking... and that's how you're going to go out of it. What comes in between can be sweet or agonizing, we can satisfy the true human drive to learn and progress or we can just stay dumb animals; I really believe it's up to each and every one of us to make it whatever we want for ourselves. We can't wait around for others to bend like the willows the way reality can if we want it to. We can't do this because life is too short, and while we're fucking our own lives up we're fucking someone else up too.

Remember that the next time you make a decision: how many people are going to suffer for it. And don't put them on some imaginary stage, acting and reacting in a suitably uniform and human way. Let them react as dumb beasts, watch them foam at the mouth and shudder and piss in the dirt the way we all do from time to time when we forget our humanity and become what lies at the center of our wonderful existence: energy that cannot be expended at even half the rate that it generates and regenerates itself.

I think all I'm trying to say with this is that I'm not writing for myself here. I'm writing for anyone who has the eyes to read and the brain to understand what I'm getting at. Christ knows there's at least two of you out there. And you probably know just who you both are.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-19T00:17:00

2003-12-19T05:11:12Z

Holy fucking shit. The Mitsubishi Graveyard in New York has offered me a door for $45 and a fender for $25. The only down-side is I'd have to pick the door up myself because they don't ship. I can't imagine what shipping would be for the fender anyway, so I think I'm going to New York before the end of the year.

Man, it would really kick ass if I could get this stuff in the right color. Or even something close to the right color. Black or green. There's only one 1G DSM green color, so... fuck... oh, man... this is too much.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-18T10:08:00

2003-12-18T15:34:14Z

Well, the police have done nothing and contacted me not once since the last two times I called and harrassed the officer who was supposed to be finding out something, anything about the asshole that fucked my car up. Officially, I have given them until Saturday to do something, and after that I'm just going to give up and start saving money to get a new fender, new door and whatever suspension parts are going to be needed to get the car back on the road.

Unofficially, however, I've already given up and assume that nothing is going to be done for this situation unless I just go and pay for the parts it needs and do it myself. Paint can come later if it's needed, I'm just concerned about getting the car to move in a straight line and for the headlight assembly to stop falling out (the fender's mangled so bad the headlights won't even stay in - how do you like that?). So once again Matthew bends over and takes it up the ass because someone else is a dickhead.

I don't like money, anyway. I'll be glad to give up hundreds of dollars in the next few weeks. Who cares that it's money I should be using for something else, it's just the act and state of not having money that matters most at this point.

Emperor: Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

On the surface, this is just another weighty concept album about... well, whatever one chooses to think it's about. The epic struggle of good against evil, the civil rights movement, the betrayal of any number of saints and martyrs. Jesus and Judas. The destruction of so many deities, thanks to Christianity. It's all relative.

I see it at base as a story of betrayal and subsequent exile. The album doens't paint a pretty picture, but it uses beautiful melodies as a vehicle for songs of surprising clarity and focus. This album is perhaps Emperor's best; the peak of Ihsahn's creativity where lyrics are concerned is probably the heart of this album's story.

This is the most depressing black metal album I've ever listened to, and listen to it I have. Repeatedly. The album's opening track, "Alsvartr" (I assume this is Norwegian for 'oath'), is a good indication of what's in store for the listener.

It starts off with a whisper rather than a scream, with melodic clean guitar, scary noise overdubs and whispering... and then some very symphonic keyboard programming. The buildup is rather slow, and I prefer the usual 'introduction' track to be short and to the point if it's instrumental. Emperor bucked the trend by alternating between a sort of opera for guitars and keyboards and an actual string movement.

The programmed string section actually gets ludicrous after the intial first coda, exploding into the sort of movement one might expect of Howard Shore. I mean it is replete with tympani, harp, trumpets in full regal blast. It's so ridiculous that the only band I could ever accept it from is Emperor, really, and that's only because themes of paranoid grandeur run through some of their songs quietly, like a stagnant, smelly river just beneath the virgin soil of some ethereal forest. The singing at the end is very flawless, though, and Ihsahn shows that he's not afraid to be operatic.

Of course, then "Ye Entrancemperium" kicks in and you forget about opera, symphonies and atmospheric music altogether. You're being pounded in the face by four guys who just don't care if your speakers explode, and they sound damn good.

"Ensorcelled by Khaos" has some disappointing mixing because the vocals aren't loud enough, but other than that the album is wonderfully mixed. One gets the impression, listening to this album, that the band is inside the speakers or something. It all surrounds you when you're hearing it, making for a very complete wall of sounds. Whether it's loud, soft, pleasantly floating strings or grinding guitar, it's all here. The dynamics are impressive.

Probably what was intended to be the peak of the album's story comes during "The Loss and Curse of Reverence" (which I've quoted some of in my profile). Musically it is an apex as well, with many interesting shifts in key, tempo, rhythm and overall vibe. I can't describe its emotional aim quite accurately enough - the whole album, and especially this song, has a very big emotional impact on me. I can relate to the feelings of betrayal and the sentiment of disappointment in humanity that the lyrics reflect.

Many bands have mixed heavy guitar music with symphonies, string sections and all the keyboards and bells and whistles, but Emperor managed to make it something more than a strange juxtaposition, especially on this album. On IX Equilibrium it seems to supplement the guitar music just for sonic texture. Quieter parts and seemingly stark melodies play a huge part in the presentation of Ihsahn's story with this one, though, whatever the story's about to him. Thematically speaking he's captured the essence of the passions of living a life most others would not choose, perhaps; also that of life-altering confrontations and silent betrayals that speak more to the subconscious than to the ego.

What remains to be said? If I had gotten this album when I came out I definitely would've been pissed after hearing the band broke up. I'm disappointed as it is, even though I haven't been a huge fan until recently. Somehow, over the years, I managed to miss the release of the best two Emperor albums, and then the band broke up. I wish I had known about it as it all happened.

But I didn't. And that's because... no one here listens to this kind of music. What a pisser. People don't know what they're missing, but in a way I'm kinda glad. I'd hate for this kind of music to end up exploited. It's too creative, it's too intense, and it's too much of a major contribution to art in general. This album is untouchable.

Rate my ass. You can't rate stuff like this.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-17T08:25:00

2003-12-17T13:17:22Z

I had to do some things I didn't want to do last night. It makes me feel like shit to have treated someone I grew up with the way I did, but nothing short of that or putting him in the hospital would've worked. Doesn't life really fuck you up sometimes when it seems like someone else should be the one who's really hurt?

The insanity goes on.

2003-12-13T01:02:51Z

Well, some asshole in a big fucking truck almost ran me off the road today after I dropped Cheryl off at work. The fucker just kept going after nearly killing me and totaling the passenger side of my car (my guess is he wanted to merge into the lane in front of me because he was going too fast and would've ran straight into the car in front of him).

I got his license plate number though, and the State Police have it now too. And my insurance agent knows what happened. The fact that this motherfucker never even stopped to exchange insurance information looks like it could be in my favor, and it will be really good if I can go back and find a point of impact that clearly shows I was in the lane minding my own business when it happened. I doubt this will be possible, considering all the traffic that goes through that particular intersection. But I can always hope for that and a witness.

The car's totally not fucked for good, it's just been knocked out of alignment and the fender, door and mirror are fucked.

As soon as I get over this mess (or at least find out something more definitive than "We'll see what we can find on this guy," as officer Tagliaferri said)... I guess I'll be posting my review of Emperor's Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. That and lamenting my poor car yet again.

Review

2003-12-12T06:59:14Z

Emperor: IX Equilibrium

There are a few ways to sum up this album, one of the last we got from this band before they self-destructed and reformed to make Zyklon without Ihsahn. Okay, Ihsahn was like... Ihsahn was Emperor in the same way that Glenn Danzig was the Misfits: he wrote all the lyrics and most of the music. I think this album is the first Emperor album where you can hear that things were growing beyond what they felt the idea of "Emperor" represented, whatever that means - they're Norwegian, so you can't really pretend to understand them.

Much like a lot of their lyrics. When you read them to yourself out loud you must realize that this is a Norwegian guy who is probably an incredible writer. He just doesn't know how to translate it all to English! And even in the rare instances that what he translated it all to be doesn't sound right, the rhythm and cadence of his singing is still dead-on and work perfectly with the rest of the music. I've found this to be the case with 99% of Emperor's work, which is part of what makes me attracted to them anyway. English is not their native language and yet they wrote so many great songs that we can read the lyrics to.

The lyrics might confuse us sometimes, but we can still read them.

The Norwegian Ramble:

It's been to my experience that all Norwegians are cybersex and porn freaks, by the way. You know how most guys that have a movie collection will have this huge row of movies like Back To The Future, Rambo, Full Metal Jacket and so on... and then way down on the end, underneath three years' worth of electric bills or something, there's one or two porn tapes? Well, Norwegians are generally the other way around. Their collection is like, 20 porn tapes... then one or two normal flicks. Usually Crush Groove and Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season. I don't mean to stereotype Norwegians, now... well, yeah, I do. That's how all the Norwegians I ever met were.

Anyway. If you like your drum sound huge and cavernous, this album will make you harder than Chinese algebra. Trym, or whatever his name is, is definitely one of the best drummers out there right now, obviously a disciple of the Dave Lombardo school of drumming which states that it's boring to be predictable but just as boring to be pointlessly sporadic. There's a precision at work here that you don't find in many drummers. Say, the guy Andy from Immolation, Dave Lombardo from Slayer, and maybe Ray Herrera who was in Fear Factory are all in the same sort of vibe as Trym, and the fact that he uses tons of processing on his kit just adds to the allure of his sound.

Sadly bass guitar is almost nonexistent on this recording. Ihsahn shines as a guitar player and as a vocalist, but as far as his bass playing and his keyboard skills go, it's really just cut and dry. Nothing fancy, nothing special. It goes behind the scenes and gets the job done, nothing more. This kind of method for these instruments makes the skeletons of these songs, which seem so complex and morbidly melodic, actually very simple in contrast to the keyboard and bass work of someone like Trent Reznor or Jack Dangers, but then again this is a whole different world from electronically-wired punk rock or drugged-out dance music.

In all respects this album is a black metal album. It's Emperor, it's dark Norwegian music that you can either turn on and go comatose listening to or crank up and tear down the walls to. It suits either purpose just fine, which is definitely an integral part of "black metal" if you ask me. The lyrics are just decipherable enough to make you wonder, to keep you guessing what's next. But really what makes the album kick so hard is the togetherness of its sound. Despite what many early Emperor fans have said about IX Equilibrium, I sense a cohesion of sound and playing that's just as strong as anything from Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk or any other earlier Emperor release. It's just that they were all growing in directions that didn't quite fit with what they thought Emperor should be about, I guess?

Ihsahn is a hell of a guitar player - he goes from full-on shred to the sort of double-stopping funkiness that makes Dave Gilmour such a magical player. The high points of this album in a sense of great songs are probably "Curse You All Men!", "An Elegy of Icaros", definitely "Sworn" (I can actually listen to that song twice in a row, something I NEVER do), "Nonus Aequilibrium" and "Of Blindness and Subsequent Seers". The last two seem to go together in some way. I'll have to look into that sometime and see what, if any, connection there is.

The lyrics to "The Source of Icon E" were the lyrics that made me take a step back and puzzle over exactly what Ihsahn was trying to say. Parts of it make perfect sense and go beyond words, venturing into the realm of ideas and concepts rather than anything concrete. But some of it reminds me of Engrish - you know those puzzling little instruction manuals you get with stuff from Japan?

This album deserves a ranking befitting of any Emperor release, and as a result gets no rating of stars at all. This is beyond rating. This is Emperor. And like it or not, this band was one of the best at making thought-provoking and incredible music. Buy it if you've got the guts.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-11T01:38:00

2003-12-11T06:30:16Z

I've taken it upon myself to make a compilation disc of songs from the 60's and 70's. These aren't just popular songs from that period or unpopular songs from that period that later became cult classics - these are songs that I think of when I think of that period of the 1900s. They are definitive 60's and 70's songs, but not just because they were popular. They're definitive because they captured the essence of music, culture and what have you at that period of time.

I mean, I wasn't alive in the 60's or 70's, but Jesus Christ, anyone can hear a record and think that it stands as a monument for everything they've heard about the period during which it was recorded, right? Anyway... the following is the tracklist so far:

1. The Who, "Teenage Wasteland"
2. Billy Joel, "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)"
3. Elton John, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
4. Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"
5. Lou Reed, "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"
6. John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, "Imagine"
7. Jimi Hendrix, "All Along the Watchtower"
8. The Rolling Stones, "Under My Thumb"
9. The Beatles, "Hey Jude"
10. Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London"

I'm currently downloading the Manfred Mann's Earth Band version of Springsteen's "Blinded By the Light", and I want to find Barry Maguire's version of "The Eve of Destruction" for this compilation as well, but that's proven damn near impossible so far.

What would you add into this disc if you were making it? Most of my readers are under the age of 30, let alone 40 or 50, I suppose, but I'm interested in hearing what music you guys think defines the most peculiar part of the 20th century. For me it's always going to be summed up in the feedback and overdrive roar of Jimi Hendrix and the creepy echo of The Doors' earlier work... and the above songs, of course. I was thinking of putting some Sly and the Family Stone in there (maybe "(you caught me) smilin'" or "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey")... and it goes without saying that most of what made me really want to do it was hearing The Doors do "Strange Days". That's always been one of my favorite albums ever.

I won't be shocked if no one replies to this at all, but I just wanted to pick some brains this fine day.

-- EDIT -- Okay, now it has 16 songs. The updated tracklist is

1. The Who - Baba O'Reily
2. Cream - White Room
3. The Zombies - She's Not There
4. Billy Joel - Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
5. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
6. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
7. ? & The Mysterians - 96 Tears
8. Lou Reed - Take a Walk on the Wild Side
9. John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band - Imagine
10. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
11. Barry MacGuire - Eve Of Destruction
12. The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
13. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light
14. The Beatles - Hey Jude
15. Bob Dylan - The Man in Me
16. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

I still need to decide on what Doors song should go here, because the Doors are mandatory.

Wow.

2003-12-10T12:37:59Z

This is amazing.

Klearly I'm konstantly distrakted by the insignifikant things in life.

2003-12-09T05:33:45Z

What is it with all of these shitty 80's-new wave-rehash pop/techno radio-friendly wannbe-industrial bands that use a K in place of the C every chance they get? What the fuck is this - did I die, and is this hell? Where everyone mocks Germanic spelling? It's guys like you that make WinMX a veritable La Brea tar pit of wasted time and overblown egos.

Get a life, fags. You have successfully saved me the trouble of giving your band a listen before I decide I hate you, a priori: I didn't even have to download your predictable, wanky bleep-zap-boom boom techno whinefest to know it's going to suck because your song titles are fucking queer!

Where is the real electronic music these days? Genesis P. Orridge is off designing $5,000 rings and $600 makeup kits. Where is he with his trusty hypodermic needle and vacuum cleaner when you need him? That's real experimentation - using a fucking household cleaning product in your song and making it sound good. Well, not good, but very interesting nonetheless. And where's Paul Barker and Al Jourgensen? Beating each other off and emulating Rob Zombie. Pfff. And people wonder why I've been listening to black metal lately. It's because there's nothing out there. Trent's probably slaving over a tube of Pringles as we speak, tweaking the fader on the reverb for some bass drum that appears once in a two-minute instrumental that everyone's going to hate anyway, pushing it up to -2.23 dB, then back down to -2.37 dB, and asking Danny repeatedly: is this it, or...?

Trent, you are wonderful. I love you to death. But your progress or lack thereof is a pockmark on the face of your reinvention of music history.These epidermal infections are killer.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-06T04:28:00

2003-12-06T09:29:02Z

4:28 AM and still snowing.

Self-addressed mailbomb: stamped and ready to send.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-05T06:53:00

2003-12-05T11:45:33Z

At the height of absolute boredom... I did this. *Shows the westside gang sign in tribute to someone who really made him laugh today*.

SLAYER QUIZ

FILL IN THE BLANKS!

Fill in the proper missing word to complete the lyrics.

1. Prepare for ______, the bodies will burn, in this ___, there's no return.

2. I'll have you ____ on your knees, playing this ______ game, I'll satisfy your every ____, you'll never be the same.

3. Infernal ______ of manipulation, captive of my ____.

4. Running and _______ and slashing and crushing and searching and ______ and stabbing and shooting, _________ and smashing and burning, destroying and _______ and bleeding and pleading, then _____.

5. __________, you claim God speaks through you, your ________ mouth full of ____ gains popularity.

6. Quench the fire that ______ my soul, soothing me as death takes hold, ______ godsend enveloping me, spiritual _______ sets me free.

7. Have you ever ______ with the devil, has __________ ever summoned you?

8. Our government is ______, sure to bring us down.

9. In fire ________, all pain _____ through my soul; you'll never feel a greater ______, master of my enemy, let the purest stain of mind wash the ______ from your eyes.

10. Death is ______, nothing can save you, a morbid ________: hearing you lie there screaming; Taking ____ from you is all I wanna do, desire so ________, this is what _____ inside me.

11. You love to ____ me, but you won't ____ me.

12. Strangulation, __________, cancer of the brain, limb __________, amputation from a mind ________.

MATCH UP!

Match the song title on the left with the album titles on the right.

13. Bloodline         South of Heaven
14. Live Undead         Divine Intervention
15. Spirit in Black         Haunting the Chapel
16. SS-III         Hell Awaits
17. Death's Head         South of Heaven
18. Hardening of the Arteries         God Hates Us All
19. Captor of Sin         Seasons in the Abyss
20. Postmortem         Show no Mercy
21. The Final Command         Reign in Blood

MISC.

22. What is the only album on which Jeff Hanneman is on the RIGHT side of the stereo field and Kerry King is on the LEFT?

23. What was the first album Slayer recorded without Dave Lombardo?

24. What album was the song "Gemini" originally supposed to be on?

25. What other notable band was Paul Bostaph a member of prior to joining Slayer?

26. What was the name of the tour on which Slayer appeared with Anthrax, Megadeth and Alice in Chains?

27. Who wrote the song "Dissident Aggressor"?

28. What 70's classic did Slayer cover for the soundtrack to the movie "Less Than Zero"?

29. For two bonus points, what does the title of that 70's song mean?

30. What's the name of the most recent previously unreleased Slayer track (hint: it's a live version from the mid-80's).

Bonus Question: (Either you've seen them live or you've bought a live disc to be able to answer this one) -

Fill in the blanks... accordingly!

"This next one's a song about a man named... __. Who used to _____ and _____ with the... ____. DEAD...! ____...! ____!"

Just email me or post here to submit your answers, but if you submit here just put the number, then your answers. Don't keep the original parts in there too, that'd take up too much space. I realize that the answers to alot of these questions can be found at google.com or whatever, but I know there's some of you who will attempt to just do it off the cuff.

If this is enjoyed by enough people (read: one or more, hahaha), I'll probably make other quizzes based on other bands. I'm half a mind to do a Misfits one and a Pink Floyd one already.

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-04T07:53:00

2003-12-04T12:45:22Z

George Bush wants 820 billion dollars? To "roll back" rules requiring people to be paid for overtime. What exactly does "roll back" mean, aside from 'break'?

Eight hundred and TWENTY BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS? And I can't even get a "valued customer card" at Firestone to get $400 worth of tires at discount because I have no credit. This guy really wants the poor to stay poor and the rich to get richer, doesn't he? It doesn't matter to him who gets trampled underfoot.

Review

2003-12-03T03:02:21Z

Akercocke: The Goat of Mendes

Akercocke is a project born from the desire of a group of individuals to create music as homage to Satan, if you believe what their website says (the biography was penned by David Gray, who I'm supposing is the vocalist). Having said that, it's safe for me to continue onward mentioning song titles and imagery without offending all my strict Republican and Christian readers.

The first thing that strikes one about this album before one even gets a chance to open it and listen to it - or even pay for it - is the fact that Akercocke have basically damned themselves to the "EXPLICIT" section from square one by putting the naked female form in all its glory on the cover. Okay, so we have tits, we have hard nipples, and we have bondage (her arms appear to be bound over her head) - all that before you even pay for the CD. That's a damn good start. The photography throughout the inlay is either vague and muddy, mockingly hilarious and sexy at the same time (if you dig mockery of Christianity in the form of a nun in a very suggestive position and with a lustful look on her face, that is), or classically strange.

If you get past the imagery you probably won't have any issues with the lyrics. There's not a single song on the disc that they did not write with a strong connection to religion in one way or another, and almost every single one is in tribute to that ever-present and dark influence, Satan. As a side note I'll add that this is not typical black metal, if that's what you're thinking.

The album starts off and kicks you straight in the face with "Of Menstrual Blood and Semen", which is a pretty heavy track that goes through several thematic changes. You can hear them driving a single point home with the music no matter how many changes it takes, which is a wonderful thing because so much music in this day and age has no point and drives that fact home within seconds. Akercocke won't relentlessly bash your brains out with blazing fast songs all the way through like, say, Cannibal Corpse or Dying Fetus. And they won't bore you to death with 'operatics' and 'epic interludes', which I think are becoming quite the tiresome trend in heavy music.

No, they know when enough is enough, and they tend to rely heavily on their honed instinct for sensing this, such as on the track "Betwixt Iniquitatis and Prostigiators". The song seems to be comprised of a brass band playing an eerie melody, but then they made it go backwards. It's a nauseating effect, and to get an idea of what it's like you should try running three steps and then walking two steps, running three more, then walking two more. But they don't drag the song out into some ritualistic listener torture and then make an excuse like "we were being experimental". They know when enough is enough, and the chanting female voices and strange, evil melodies fade in due time for "Horns of Baphomet", one of my favorites from the album so far.

Beautifully sung lyrics, wonderfully screeched passages, and and overall Geezer Butler-like presence on bass guitar mix with the agony of what sounds like 20+ overdriven guitars make this a track that makes you feel like burning something.

At other times the music is driving and merciless, such as "The Serpent" (which has guest vocals by Dean Seddon from Hecate Enthroned!) - this song is a sort of Satanic narrative of the seduction and subsequent violation of a nun and is replete with "the cardinal points of Hell" and Latin passages (In nomine dei nostri satanus luciferi excelsi).

"Infernal Rites" is also featured as a music video you can play on your comp, in case you wonder what pale tits covered with fake blood look like. The video is clean, sophisticatedly shot and directed, but the overall effect is a bit campy. It goes from dude mouthing the words to another dude driving a BMW, then to dude lip synching again, then to a naked chick, then to the band walking over a bridge, then the naked chick apparently masturbating as part of a Satanic ritual. They should've just had the whole video be tits, blood, ritual, masturbation, and maybe have some stuff in between with fire. You can never go wrong with fire. But they need to get off the BMW thing.

I've written the word "Satan" and derivatives thereof more times in this review than I have ever written in one sitting before. Ever. Wow.

If it's not enough that they're great musicians, the lyrics are not only very personal despite their religious content but also very good. Sometimes they use simplicity (like in the narrative section of "Masks of God", the simple lines I am inside you, angel; look at me - it's a chilling effect). Other times they use what seems to be a unique knack for finding just the right combination of words to set the scene. One of my favorites, lyrically, is "Breaking Silence":

Break this oath of silence
Stifled desires
Resurrect dead senses
with tongues that taste and tease the cunt

God compels the chosen
through centuries of silence

Not subtle. Not loud. Not overly obnoxious or obscene. It's just right, and that's pretty much the best way to describe the whole disc.

Four and 9/10 stars out of five.

Could've used more tits and blood. ;-)

cheryllovesme @ 2003-12-02T16:49:00

2003-12-02T21:51:28Z

I don't know who you're talking about. But whoever "she" is, I wouldn't lie to her if she existed. The truth is enough to justify my actions.