Metal Reviews

That's funny you say that about breakdowns I can relate haha...

never happened to me but i can see why it could.

i actually asked a guy from work to come to my place and help me sort out my spider problem. we emptied the closet and shook all the clothes and shoes and i filled that shit with bug spray. no spider or corpse was found. beginning to think it was a cockroach... which on one hand is good because roaches are disgusting but mostly harmless but on the other hand is bad because there is no such thing as 'one roach', there are always a ton more. have to clean up and spray around the house. food trash can't have been the cause... i have no food at home

the guy commented that i had a lot of beer in my fridge but just one pack of milk. i explained that if anything it shows that i drink a lot of milk but don't touch beer. don't think he bought it.

I would be worried more about cockroaches those fuckers are nasty... Nice try on the milk... Beer is better anyways ..

i did 20 push ups last week and felt sore for two days afterwards

i am upper body frail

Haha I hear ya man.. I just do four sets of 25 at a time nothing major... Stretching your arms first helps big Time..

I like stretching. I mostly do stretching and balancing exercises.

So does my 3 year old cousin with Down syndrome.

I lift upper body everyday.

Everyday? You don't give your muscles time to heal?

I don't do every upper body muscle group everyday.

One day I shoulders, one day I do chest, one day I do biceps, one day I do triceps.

I shouldn't say I lift upper body everyday, but I'm lifting about 6 times a week. Once in a while I take a day off.

Ah. I had never subdivided all those regions like that. I kinda would be curious what routine you do each day, assuming you're using free weights.

Yesterday, I presented at the Pop Culture Association here in DC. Saw a panel on Asian hip-hop that a friend presented at, then a world music panel for the same reason, my friend there had an awesome presentation on folk metal. The Q&A was super fun, because this random dude in the back with long white hair asked about Comus as folk influence that Akerfeldt loves to advertise. Then we discussed nationalism in metal pretty extensively, kinda ignoring the other people on the panel who talked about calypso and reggae lol. The next presentation was my own on Panopticon, a guy on the Detroit hardcore scene and people outside of their teens in it in terms of psychological development, a guy doing industrial music like Laibach, and a guy presenting on nationalism in black metal through Darkthrone, Kroda and Drudkh. The Q&A was all about the extremes of black metal (left or right), how ideologies might make metal and hardcore as having a lasting power over their listeners in a way that other teen trend don't have, and about the music's role in the possibility for social change, which was what I wrote about.

So you described it: what do you take away from the event?

Sounds cool. I'd like to listen to/ take part in something like that.

A line on my CV basically. The industrial paper was the most interesting for me in relation to nationalist/racist imagery in the music we love. He was using Zizek's account of ideology to explain someone like myself's past relation to bands like Drudkh; I know they are dudes into nationalism who write racist lyrics, but I listen nonetheless. Charles' argument/shaming led to most explicitly problematic bands to drop out of my playlists, given how many bands there are that probably have comparable sounds.

I also learned that a lot of people doing heavy metal studies are doing very descriptive projects and are digging into the diverse elements in heavy metal (like native American spirituality in bands like Blood of the Black Owl), but no one is doing anything radical and so if I could do that I would have a pretty solid niche in the future.

Oh, and last night I made out with two chicks at the same time. That happened.

So my cable box dies on me today making watching Game of Thrones tonight next to impossible. So I try to log into Xbox live to play some Bioshock to make up for it, and Microsoft is telling me that my password is incorrect and I can't get onto Xbox live. So I decide to turn my laptop on to surf the web, maybe find a stream for GoT and my computer froze and now won't turn on. What is happening?

OPENING DAY! My favorite holiday of the year!

what happens, what is this opening day?

signed up for the gym yesterday, gonna do the mandatory test bullshit today. they have classes for jiu jitsu, muay thay and yoga (an also, er, sertanejo dancing) so i'll definitely take a look.

might as well make the best of the fact that i have literally nothing to do after work on weekdays

Baseball's first regulation game. Oh my god, I'm so proud of my Reds going thirteen innings with the Angels and losing due to their reliever being in a tad too long.

Seriously take up jiu jitsu. It's crazy fun. And muay thai is just painful. Like to get anywhere without full pads at all times requires years of small breaks in your bones and the porousness of your bones being filled in by the healing process, i.e., turning your shins and elbows into baseball bats. People like you and I just don't have the commitment for that.

speak for yourself! hah, no, i understand. my cousin said the same.

because of work i'll only be able to take 1 class of each a week, but i'm really looking forward, especially jiu jitsu since i'm in Brazil and all. the classes are in a 'general' gym so maybe it won't be that hardcore, although since i'm at absolute beginner level it should be fine for me.

I didn't mean to assume, I would love to learn muay thai but I feel like you need to start when you're three years old or you are just fucked and look silly while using it as an exercise.

Yeah, beginning level jiu jitsu ain't no big deal given how so much of it is not dependent on size. Don't be ashamed to be on the mat with the fifteen year old kid in the classroom. Like yeah, you don't want to be doing it with someone twice your size because they'll just try to outmuscle you and that hurts, but for the most part just find someone at your level and learn together. It's so fucking smart.

Edit: I was fucking incoherent.