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Why I don't care:
It's fun to hate:
When Shadowtwin reigns supreme:
Music lost to history:
Alice Cooper is basically what Marilyn Manson has become. He sang about really taboo subjects at a time
when taboo actually was taboo. This particular tune is one that I began listening to after being dumped by the girl that I was supposed to marry
back in the early nineties. It is actually one of three songs that play back to back on most albums. Those three songs are, if memory serves,
"chop, chop, chop", "Gail" and "Roses on White Lace". I never really appreciated the other two quite as much as this one, but then I have
never hacked anyone to death, so check back later...
This song stands alone as being pretty cool just because it states the anger that I was having at the time (back in the '90s). At the same
time, it illustrates that Marilyn Manson is following the course of another very successful rocker. While Cooper's songs were not earth-shaking, they were provocative. That single fact
is what has led to Manson's success. I have never heard or read Marilyn Manson say that Alice Cooper was an actual influence on his
music, but here is an example of it from twenty years ago.
Obligatory Linkage: BlackChampagne.com- Without his site, my site would never have existed.
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So yesterday brought about another late day at work, thus nothing new posted here. As usual I was not aware that
it was going to be a late day until halfway through my shift. Since that is normally the case I guess it would be a bit senseless to bitch about
it. After all, I have been working there for damn near ten years, if I were that annoyed by it I would surely have found a different
job by now, right?
As for the day at work today, it sucked and I hated it, thanks for asking. Not that it really sucked, or that I really hated it, but
that I spent the extra hours at work last night using a scraper to remove excess was and dirt build-up from the edges of some of the tiles
on the aisles that get a lot of traffic. I was pretty impressed with how good they looked, so was the boss, as she suggested that I spend a bit more time
today working on it. Problem there is that I have a huge blister on me knee from having spent a good couple of hours kneeling on it
during the process yesterday (as well as sliding on it, as it was quicker than actually standing up and taking a step to get to the next tile) so I was in
pretty serious pain while I continued the process today. I understand that work is meant to be work, and that it is often uncomfortable, but man that hurt. I tried to be smart
and use the other knee while I was doing it today, this lead to the denim on the blistered knee getting stretched really tight over it, which hurt more than actually
kneeling on it, but that is all over now. On to the animal porn!
• I don't know why, but I have taken to playing that silly little Deadly Rooms of Death game again
of late. The reason that I stopped playing it originally was that when I got the new computer I didn't bother to swap my player
file from the old machine. I thought it may be fun to play through the first few levels again, see how easy they were in comparison to the
level that I was at now. That was all true and such, but I got stuck on exactly the same damn boards for exactly the same reason.
The drod forums were down at the time so I couldn't even get a hint as to what I was doing wrong, that mixture of frustration and
anger is not what one is looking for when they try to play a game then, is it?
Since having recently started playing again I have managed to defeat all of the boards that I had been having
problems with on the old machine, but still can't seem to make it all the way through the 8th level. I know that I can do it, so I guess maybe a more accurate
statement is that I don't have the patience to do it. All of the monsters in the game act in very predictable ways, so you know what every action will result
in, yet, in haste, it is easy to overlook some of the consequences to a certain action. When tar is involved it is easy to overlook
a lot of the consequences. The way the tar, in particular, acts makes you need to take at least a few seconds to think about your next move, else you could
block your escape, box yourself in, or end up with a tar baby in a position to kill you.
The problems that I am having with the tar are easily overcome if I just think for a few seconds before I slash, but where is the fun in
that? I guess the fun may be in actually conquering the boards, I wouldn't know. Honestly, I know that I could beat each of the boards if I were to take my time
and think through each move, yet that seems really tedious at times. If I wanted to spend that kind of time on a game I would just find my copy of
Pandora's Box
and give it another go.
I suppose I really shouldn't bitch about freeware though. I didn't pay for the opportunity to play it, and I enjoyed it, at times.
Not to mention there seem to be legions of followers of the DROD game. I suppose that means that there are legions of people with a hell
of a lot more patience than me. Hmmm, who knew.
• The last couple of days have been littered with all sorts of news. The problem with the so-called
news is that it has all been about the 9/11 commision's ruling that Saddam Hussein, and therefore Iraq, were not in any way involved with
the attacks on 9/11. This is SO not news. That is exactly what everyone in the free world, with the exception of the current U.S. administration, has
been saying since long before Bush was able to start a war with Iraq; A war based totally on the absolute lies that he and his administration fed to the American
public.
I do not like to talk about politics, I do not feel that I am informed enough to do so. There are, however, some things that are just
so obviously lies or 'mis-truths' that it doesn't even take a three-year-old's intellect to discern the truth. As is the case here.
Much like the following quote, which I gleaned from Reuters (I think) where Bush tries to clear this all up: "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al-Qaida," Bush said. "We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. For example, Iraqi intelligence officers met with (Osama) bin Laden, the head of al-Qaida, in the Sudan. There's numerous contacts between the two."Now isn't that kind of the polar opposite of what he was saying to get us all drummed up to go into a war with Iraq?
To use the logic in Bush's statement, wouldn't it be true that the U.S. was also pretty directly involved in the 9/11 attacks? We did supply arms to Bin Laden in the eighties.
Certainly giving them weapons would be worse than a hand-shake somewhere in the middle of Sudan, right?
To follow that same train of logic, everyone that has ever spoken to Bush must also be 100% behind the invasion of
Iraq. If that is not the case then even his (Bush's) latest cop-out isn't going to hold any water. How ignorant can one be and actually make it into the
oval office? Ask Dubya.
That is why I do not like to write about politics. I am too inclined to NOT believe what I see on tv. I am not very good at being
an American since I like to form my own opinions as opposed to having them spoon-fed to me...Or, at the very least, put into the
'mad cow burger' that I am eating, while the government turns a blind eye.
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