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Daily Archives Thursday, January 2008

about [murmur]

In each of these locations we install a [murmur] sign with a telephone number on it that anyone can call with a mobile phone to listen to that story while standing in that exact spot, and engaging in the physical experience of being right where the story takes place…. We know about the skyscrapers, sports stadiums and landmarks, but [murmur] looks for the intimate, neighbourhood-level voices that tell the day-to-day stories that make up a city.

Posted 17 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside § Multimedia § Reading ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Inner Peace Through METAL (an early draft)

(as posted to mefi and the ultimate-metal.com forums ) Image and Posturing : As fan of Metal, I’d like to think that it can be (re)defined in terms that isolate it from the [at-worst bigoted , at best hetero-male-centric ] behaviors and ideas currently associated with it…. To give some impression of the stuff that’s out in the cultural void, but not yet represented by traditional (or even non-traditional) media, we look at the bowels of the internet and what it has spit out over the years.

Posted 17 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Work in Progress ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Metal-Rules.com Quotage

This “look” is obviously a highly masculine one due to the fact that the human body is basically being draped in dead animal skin (and I suppose this might provide us male members of the species with a glimpse back at our primitive selves)…. Marlon Brando’s use of it in the 1950′s biker film, The Wild One catapulted him into superstar status and Elvis’ cool-as-hell, black leather ensemble played a huge part in making his famous ’69 comeback so successful!!!

Posted 17 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Refining the Question

And there were a couple of responses that succeeded in getting me thinking about more than just why I was asking the question in the first place, which I don’t find so interesting.

…My professor distilled my question in an interesting way, she said I was basically trying to figure out, “How a nice guy like you listens to such violent, angry music.”

Posted 17 January 2008 † Yuletide § Music ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

A National Socialist Rejection of Black Metal

We would not go to this concert, we would only meet our comrade and go our way.My brethen and I arrived early at the concert and from our car we were able to observe the national socialist black metal crowd moving towards the concert hall.

…The vocalist/guitarist of the band Bathory admitted later on that he just wrote about Satan because he, being so young, didn’t have the experience all these other older bands had, enabling them to sing about being drunk, driving motorcycles and having sex with dozens of drunk sluts.

Posted 17 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , ,

Metal Quotage

Their plastic noise is anything but music to me…. Switch off your brain and make sounds that dehumanize.

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