Archive for March 10th, 2008

10
Mar

commanding an audience a la slipknot

Let’s face it - 21st century music in the UK has been more than disappointing. Sky censors the words “nuclear war” and editorial policy departments force Nickelback to bleep out the phrase “drug dealer” from a popular song. How fucking pathetic. Go to a gig and it’s the same - poncy necktie-wearing boys standing there moaning feminine claptrapinto the microphone. The idea of working up and entertaining an audience by performing for them and involving them has taken a holiday.

That is, of course, unless you are a mental 9-piece metal band from the sleepy backwater of Iowa. Now i’m no fan of Slipknot’s more mindless noise, but you have to give them credit. They’re so tight as musicians that it’s unreal, and by god do they know how to dazzle an audience.

Now this is how you milk and rile the people in the crowd. Check it out.

“Spit It Out” (Disasterpieces Live) - one massive build-up that has a few thousand people smashing the place to bits and the singer threatening everyone.

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And my old favourite, “People = Shit”. The first song. Wow. If every band could do this, no-one would go to work.

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10
Mar

may the catholic church burn in hell

Looks like i picked the wrong day to deal with Amitriptyline withdrawal and may just be joining Harry in a disgusted rant of venomous political vitriol. If you want to make me righteously angry, all you need to do is point me in the direction of blasphemous pseudo-Christians pouring righteous damnation on the human race and making the rest of us who walk under the church steeple totally ashamed to share the same God as them.

It would seem that the self-appointed directors’ committee of God, that all-powerful and all-wise herd of hypocritical swine known as the Catholic church, have decided that God has decreed a new set of deadly sins. After drawing up the original list in the 6th Century on their own initiative, it would seem they’ve now decreed that the Almighty is speaking through them once again. How long they will spout this unbiblical nonsense, nobody knows.

The hilarious new list of sins that the Father apparently compartmentalises and files in orders of severity:

  • genetic modification
  • carrying out experiments on humans
  • polluting the environment
  • causing social injustice
  • causing poverty
  • becoming obscenely wealthy
  • taking drugs
  • abortion
  • perjury
  • paedophilia

If it wasn’t for the fact that the organisation most guilty of all of them is the Roman Catholic church itself, you could sympathise. It might as well serve as the index of an operating manual. You could start with their European political empire-building, the Incquisition, absurdly complicated rituals with obscured language, the blasphemous veneration of Mary, their support for the Nazis, the suppression of widespread child abuse by their clergy, their oppression of women, as well as their absurd unbiblical notions about contraception and the presthood. Oh, and the fact their current leader (the Pope) was a member of the Hitler Youth.

If it was up to me, i’d have them banned, denounced and stripped of their financial assets for the revolting blasphemous vultures they are. Christ never declared that there were “degrees” of sin. That kind of hypocrisy makes me sick. And yes, my girlfriend is Catholic, but she is cool.

Original article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3517050.ece
More: http://news.google.com/news?q=deadly+sins

“Woe and misery to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, you sanctimonious swindlers! You block the way to the Kingdom of God; you wont enter yourselves and you won’t let anyone who is trying to enter. You are like tombs that are kept beautifully painted white on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything rotten and corrupt. You appear outwardly to others to be good and righteous, but inside you are full of filth and corruption, hypocrisy and lawlessness.”

Matthew 23:13

“Beware of the scribes. They love to walk around in fancy clothes and be given great honor when people meet them in the street. They want the best seats in the synagogue and the most honorable places at feasts. Yet they defraud widows of their homes and sell them for their own profit and to cover up their crimes the make a pretense of great long prayers on the streets and in the synagogues. They will receive the stricter judgment and greater condemnation.”

Luke 20:46





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