Saw "Watchmen" a couple of days ago. As a fan of the book I was skeptical about how faithful the movie could be. There's just so much in it. Well, I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by how good the movie is. While I wish they had done some things differently, (the pornographic attention to gore being my biggest objection) overall I think it's an excellent adaptation and I plan on seeing it again today. If you haven't read the book you should. I'm not really that into comics, but "Watchmen" is amazing. I've never read anything else like it.
As for music, lately I've been on a black metal kick. If anyone's not familiar this scene, you should know that it's completely deranged. The bands all think they're making some kind of serious artistic statement about how awful Christianity is blah blah blah. The whole scene began back in the early 90s in Norway with bands like Mayhem, Emperor, Satyricon, Immortal and a handful of others. They gained worldwide notoriety when some folks in the scene burned a number of churches as part of their war on the Christian religion. More recently, Gaahl, the frontman for the band Gorgoroth, served nine months in a Norwegian jail for holding a man prisoner and torturing him. The court accused Gaahl of collecting the man's blood in a glass with intention of drinking it or forcing the victim to drink it. Gaahl claims he just wanted to stop his carpet from getting stained. The ideology of the scene involves crackpot Nietzcheanism mixed with Satanism and/or Nordic paganism. It's all about how elite Satanists or pagans will conquer the weak Christian sheep.
Musically, songs tend to be played at hyper-fast speed accompanied by shrieking vocals. Often there are no guitar solos and the bass guitar is barely audible. The musicians perform wearing corpse paint and lots of metal-spiked armbands. Here's a picture of the aforementioned Gaahl, who Terrorizer magazine has called the most evil man on earth.


Bloodthirsty vampire or meticulous carpet cleaner?

Anyone deranged enough to be interested in this sort of thing should go to youtube and search for "black metal documentary" to watch a creepy interview with this guy. Most of these bands just seem ridiculous, but I find Gaahl to be genuinely disturbing.

Here's a pic from a particularly blasphemous show in Krakow, Poland. Oh, and by the way, the sheep heads are real.

Just wondering if anyone else has seen the Tenacious D movie. I saw it the day it came out and while I laughed at some parts there were other parts that just seemed to drag. The songs are funny but not as funny as the shit on their last album. Even so the movie is worth seeing and the soundtrack is definitely worth owning. It's got all the songs from the movie plus two others: "The Government Totally Sucks" and "The Metal."
But my favorite lyrics are probably from the song "Kickapoo" where Jack Black sings: "The dragon's balls were blazing as I stepped into his cave/and I sliced his fucking cockles with a long and shiny blade/twas I who fucked the dragon/fuck-a-lie/sing fuck-a-loo/and if you try to fuck with me then I shall fuck you too."
What are people doing these days? I'm about to move into a new house here in Stamford. My housemates will be three middle-aged men my dad knows through the church he's the interim rector. I'll be the youngest person living there by far but I like all three of them so it should work out alright.
Aside from that everything is pretty boring in my life at the moment. Just working at Borders and killing my spare time.


P. fucking S.


Are any deweyites thinking of getting together for the holidays? Tis the fucking season, motherfuckers.

Due to Jackie's urging I have decided to open my own livejournal account and participate in the splendid on-line community known as House of Dew. I have requested to join and I fully expect that as the only deweyite listed as an "interest" on the House of Dew page my membership will be guaranteed.
I am currently living in my hometown of Stamford, CT and working at Borders Books. Not in school at the moment and don't know when I'll go back.
Areia, I read your comments on the house of dew page about the enneagram. My father is convinced that I am a five and not a one. He read something to me out of some enneagram book he has and the description of the five they gave fit me much better than the description of the one. But if I remember right, the description of the one in the books you had fit me just as well as the five in the five in my dad's book. Please sort this out for me if you can.
That's all I'm going to write for now because I've got other shit to do, but I do plan on staying in touch with all of you.


Eric

Current Location: Stamford, CT.