Black Metal!

he's kinda nuts!

gonna transcribe this bit in this one column. be back with ellison.

answered my fan mail when I was a kid - long hand-typed specific-to-my-question answer. forever solid in my book for that

this is from a "freewheeling" piece on benny goodman:

"One tends to forget, if one is continually exposed to what passes for popular music today, that it is possible for music to make you smile. One need not wish to stuff one's head in the oven or drink Lysol after having spent an hour listening to music. There is a panacea available for the logorrhea of Top-40 babble. It comes as an over-the-counter medication packaged under the trade name Goodman."

i make fun, but i respect his weirdness big time.

actually part of the liner-notes he wrote for a new benny goodman album in 1986. Benny's response to the notes: "This kid can write."

http://books.google.com/books?id=2VvWm6_QZFEC&pg=PR23&lpg=PR23&dq=harlan+ellison+benny+goodman&source=bl&ots=mZ9JymljFD&sig=eApOLCSOUWQHl4CMA5Vyz2HYf-M&hl=en&ei=CZfoTNvGGYT48Aa5xIGpCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

oh no don't get me wrong dude is v. high on his own rhetoric -- all his nonfic writing is basically MY DISPARAGING ADJECTIVES, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM

I spoke to Ellison on the phone once, and met him at one of those I'm-gonna-sit-in-this-bookstore-and-write-in-front-of-you things he used to do. He dated my stepmother in the late 60s when he used to live on the East Coast, and when I mentioned her name he said "______ from Brooklyn?" in this excited I-remember-that-person voice. So that was cool.

I got a hand-typed response when I wrote to Hubert Selby Jr. I wish I still had that letter but it disappeared somewhere/somehow.

dudes, i am listening to some seriously troo norwegian darkness right now. Fartein Valen. wow. string quartet no 2. dude was into some heavy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeJa_TnB0M&feature=related

more kult norwegian stuff now. Ketil Hvoslef! concerto for contrabasso. very cool. why isn't he famous? sounds unbelievable. here's a weird one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivsTNzty-L0

He loved cats, nature and literature, cultivated roses (even developed an award winning hybrid), and after losing them in a devastating freeze took up growing cacti.

YEAH, EXCUSE ME LADIES IF I COULD JUST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HpkbOFRCS8

THERE.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xl8cAa6UWi0/TV1p-BEYBEI/AAAAAAAACjM/qUlBkJr03ak/s1600/Fen2011.jpg

I heard this album today by the English band Fen. It's pretty damn good. Anyone know anything about them?

I know I hate the font.

Yeah that font makes it look like Sigur Ros decided to take a decidedly darker turn.

6. Jef Whitehead Sexually Assaults Girlfriend with Tattoo Gun

^^ this is way worse that murdering in supposed self-defense imo but hey

fuck that guy, for real

wrong thread mr ilxor

i think you were replying to that article posted on the rolling metal thread

though the posters above you think font crimes are far more serious

lol whoops ^___________^

font crimes vs church burning vs murder

vs. pantera

pantera clearly the worst

iirc the churches were burned because of font crimes, the whole religion thing was just a red herring

pantera fans even worse

anybody who won't ride for Dimebag Darrel isn't an actual fan of metal, full stop, sorry to be the bearer of bad news

dimebag darrel awesomeness offset by phil anselmo douchebaggery

if dimebag darrel had played in a band with stalin, pol pot, hitler & the boston strangler, that band would still be awesome

pol pot fucking monster on the drums iirc

ok well admittedly a band that was just stalin, pol pot, hitler & the boston strangler would be kinda awesome just for sheer murder power but the point is that dimebag redeems anything with which he was associated

Never cared for his guitar sound. Sorry I cant be more technical as I'm not a muso but I just don't like what I hear.

besides which motherfuckers rep for burzum all fuckin' day with a little "oh sure he's an outright nazi but the MUSIC" and meanwhile Anselmo is a better musician & makes better records 10 days out of 10 but lacks the exotic-Norwegian-nazi qualifier I guess

Anselmo repped for black metal way back in the day. Maybe he likes white power... oh wait

it's just weird that ppl who're v. v. "it doesn't really affect the music for me" about NSBM garbage are suddenly hyper-political when it comes to Anselmo

I like my racism with exotic nordic flair

What is the case for Anselmo being a racist btw?

it's just weird that ppl who're v. v. "it doesn't really affect the music for me" about NSBM garbage are suddenly hyper-political when it comes to Anselmo

yes but that kind of person could also say the same about you with burzum & anselmo

xp @ Phil, racist outbursts on stage on several occasions

uh

xp

like there is no q that Anselmo's got some v. o_0 opinions. they really bother indie-metal burzum fans because Varg's from Norway but Phil's from Louisiana.

he did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxQk3DC3gL0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxLEb1uBHhw&feature=related

and on another vid he mouthed white power during a song

sorry to get even more aggro than usu. I've just been listening to lots of old metal with awesome musicians and I get all heated up when I hear some of the boring amateur burzum crap that people rep for all day getting lauded for its indie-rock "depth" over actually decent bands. algerian goalkeeper rides for a lot of nazi crap but since he can't translate it from norwegian or french it's no-harm no-foul I guess

wtf

what nazi crap do i ride for?

aren't you a burzum defender? my bad if not, I'm going to a movie though, will be back to slander you later

I am 100% onboard with aerosmith here, I mean it is super super o_O to be okay with Burzum and not Anselmo. But for me Pantera will always and forever be linked in my mind with the racist douchebags that used to beat the shit out of my friends in high school. So, dud.

i dont defend him, i refuse to buy anything he's ever made. 2 years ago I finally downloaded a couple of Burzum albums after what 15 years or something of avoiding him and other norwegian BM because of the whole nazi thing) and found that the music was actually quite good.
Siegbran is the one who will listen to nsbm because of the music but he is in no way a neo nazi or an indie metal defender. I refuse to listen to any of that nsbm stuff. I avoided drudkh for years because of rumours until they made the statement refuting it.

but can we not argue politics in metal again this year unless we have a particular reason like another new Burzum rec.... oh, wait

What is the case for Anselmo being a racist btw?

REally? I think I've read 2 or 3 interviews w/ Anselmo and they all started with the describing the creepy backwoods Lousisiana roads to get to his compound, and only finding by the GIANT confederate flag that fies over it...

..subtle.