G O D C L U B

A Re-Cap of our holiday celebrations with videography by me and my mom.




We aren't totally invested in celebrating America's colonial history, but we are DEFINITELY into eating lots and lots of food.

Von Sudenfed's 2007 single, "Fledermaus Can't Get It," featuring talents of the Pet Shop Bears.

Okay, so I've been waiting on publishing this article to confirm the validity of some rather interesting statements, but it seems the most evil man alive has done it for me on his own.

Sorry ladies, but fucking GAAHL IS GAY!

Gaahl (Christened, of all names, Kristian Espedal), current frontman of unarguably the most evil band alive, Gorgoroth, has confirmed his homosexuality with Germany's Rock Hard magazine, via an article in their November 2008 issue.

This isn't news. It's especially not new news (the gossip has been flying since articles/blogs were posted around June). I'm posting this for two reasons. I find it relevant because, A: it's great to see an artist leading a completely radical, media-encrusted/infatuated, anti-established moral/religious lifestyle (there's no way I could say I agree with, well, most of the things this man has said or done, but his individualism, elegance, and creativity are definitely admirable); and, B: It's also completely fucking great to see the diaspora of comments relating to this in the "blogosphere (I can't believe I just typed that word...)."

Hardcore fansites like Blabbermouth and MetalSucks have things like this to say:

Good for him Says:
Good for him! And good for the metal community!

I am confident that the metal community will be the pioneering comunity with concern to leaving all ignorance-based prejudice behind (sic).

alerxtinwonderland Says:
Being openly gay is probably the most black metal you can possibly be. I love how die-hard Gorgoroth fans are so upset by this news. Apparently the[y] believe in Satan and hate Christianity yet they support the Christian concept of the traditional family unit.

Gay marriage does not matter. I have no interest in being accepted or tolerated by heterosexuals. I have no interest in partaking in a tradition that upholds a patriarchal institution that has worked to oppress queer people for as long as it has been in existence. There is nothing subversive about gay marriage, it is a waste of time and energy for the thousands of gay activists fighting for its protection. The U.S. is closer than ever before to having a national health care system that would effect not only those fortunate enough to get hitched and share benefit packages, but all the single sluts, trannies, and genderfucking deviants that have no interest in assimilating into any normative familial framework any time soon.

Please get over Proposition Eight and use the time to construct a new discourse that isn't as fucking exclusionary and ridiculously boring.

Thanks.

I'M SITTING HERE listening to hundreds of car horns, "fireworks (meaning gunshots, well also a couple real ones) ," hoots, hollers, and radios blaring (not to mention my own housecleaning soundtrack of strange analog electronic postpunk craziness (Wierd Records, anyone?). It's exciting. I'm typically apolitical (or a bit more anarchic than political, maybe just a bit more punk in my outlook), but I am excited.

It is quite profoundly more important, exciting, and endearing to set the precedent of somebody in our nation's highest office of another race (mixed even!) than it would have been to have a female exist as rightwing cohort second-in-command fallto diplomatic eyecandy.

Maybe now we can enact some of this change that's been battered into our psyche -- maybe, just maybe, we can take some steps toward a little bit more forward thought and ingenuity.

I think the first step is to completely forget Sarah Palin even happened. The idiocy, the sensationalism, the spending of public funds, donations even, on a designer wardrobe, the out-and-outspoken fear and hatred of things "other" to her (foreigners, deviants, basically everything I love). Who would have been able to stand another Dan Quayle anyway (I know, I know, I am from Indiana, but that man had NO grounds for vice-presidency, right?)?

LET'S ALL JUST have a mental margarita and take a breath, thanking the majority for not being able to stomach another vehemently hermetic and fundamentalist regime-type democracy.

IT'S HAPPENED AGAIN, so here I am, sitting at home watching Seinfeld on a Saturday night, minding my own business and all of sudden, wait, what's that I hear? Oh, I know that song--yeah, I do, I LOVE that song, thats "A Minha Menina" by Os Mutantes, but wait--what is this commercial for?? I see kids playing soccer. What do Os Mutantes and soccer have to do with each other? Then some kid takes a bite out of a hamburger and it all becomes painfully clear as to what this is: it's a fucking Micky Deeze commercial.

I know why this is happening, its because our generation is getting out of school, getting well-paying jobs at advertising agencies and suggesting good music that is generally below the commercial radar and raping it with a commercial for some shit like gross hamburgers (ok, so I do eat there like once a week--if I'm really broke, but I don't enjoy it and I feel dirty when I do).

That sucks though, and I can only anticipate it happening more and more, but it's not just the dork that got that slimy job's fault, it's also the fault of whomever owns the rights to these songs. Have a little fucking integrity for fuck's sake. I'm not saying that it's all bad, like when the Clone Defects were in some car commercial and used all the money they made for fun stuff, I'm ok with that, but not fucking McDonald's-ok, fuck. Seriously.