I think I'm gonna go revisit some WASP this afternoon. The Last Command was always a personal favorite. The Headless Children had their best overall songs, but TLC was probably their most consistent. The Crimson Idol isn't something I play very often but I like the melancholy of it.

Screw Thergothon, every Funeral Doom fan should listen to Worship.

Screw funeral doom in general.

Does your invitation to fight in the darkness of hell still stand?

I'm greased-up, semi-nude and erect in anticipation, man. LET'S FIGHT!

That's both hilarious and immensely disquieting.

But... I like Funeral Doom.

Is funeral doom played at funerals?

doom/death>funeral doom metal.

No.

At most of the cool funerals, yes. Like mine, hopefully.

Goddammit, Necro, I already mentioned that months ago!!!!

You... you... you... REC STEALER!!!!!!!

So I got a CDR from a trucker labeled "Obama" and was given the impression that it was some anti-Obama music. Wasn't too keen on checking out anti-Obama music from a trucker in Kansas, but when I popped it in the compy, it was actually a DVD documentary from Alex Jones about the NWO.

Obama is a reptilian/socialist/the Antichrist who is in league with the Jews that control the world. He will damn us all.

more like GayBama amirite?

Correction: Obongo isn't the Antichrist.

I Google'd, "Obama reptilian." wtf

Rainbobama.

@Theoldone: That's racist . @FasterDisaster: i know, right? the sheer retardation of some of these theories is intense. He's just a shitty president that's made some unpopular decisions that shit on democracy and human rights but he's not TEH BRINGER OF THE APOCALYPSE.

Grab the bitch and start the fistfuck.

Worship is good, but better than Thergothon? Please. As much as I love both of those I'd rather listen to Colosseum's first album and Abstract Spirit's "Tragedy and Weeds."

Child slavery, religious weirds, funeral doom haters, Shapeshifters for Prez, and yet I still can't get over the phrase "Astounding Luck Wave."

I want to start a psychedelic doom band called that.

Acrobat doesn't like anything.

^ Except Black Sabbath and Sodom.

I passed my kendo grading.

I'd go with Esoteric's Pernicious Enigma or Paragon of Dissonance, or Wormpleghm's album as the best in funeral doom myself, but Tragedy and Weeds is magnificent and needs more love. Only heard the last Colloseum, but I didn't like it. I gave Thergothon another listen to the other day since its been getting so much love, and it is great, but it wouldn't be in my top 30 funeral doom albums.

On the Christian friends thing, I've only had one close Christian friend, the only stupid thing he had was the "if we evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys" thing, and the "a scientist stuck moths to trees to prove evolution, therefore all evolution science is fraudulent". Its weird because the guy was way smarter than me, and far more leftist than I was back then.

It always surprises me too when intelligent people are religious. But I suppose they're just as afraid of death as idiots are.

You aren't implying that the only reason for being religious is fear of death are you?

Does that mean you're on to the next (belt? level?), or was this your master test?

ps- I was amused reading American Gods to see your namesakes represented, though briefly.

It's pretty much one of the only reasons I can figure. That and insanity.

Basically everyone is, to a certain degree. The unsettling, while accurate, name psychology gives all methods of coping is "Terror Management." I'm personally terrible at Terror Management. I really like being alive, and it's infuriating that I'm doomed regardless of what I do. So I pretty much lack sufficient or long-acting coping mechanisms. Eventually the mortal terror creeps in and I compulsively tell everyone I love how much I love them and why, and that it's a nightmare that no matter how much I love them, it won't keep either of us alive. That's a rough time. Eventually I surface and go on with my life, but .. damn. It just fucking blows and I hate it. #existentialdoomspiral/nohope

This reminds of David Icke and his reptile theory. Man is that stuff wacked out. It would be kinda awesome it was real though.

I know what you mean, Grave_Wyrm. Once I start thinking about it, usually late at night, my thoughts go in a loop of existential dismay that it's pretty hard to break free of.

Idiot, everybody knows that Obama is a Muslim atheist who was placed in power by terrorists and will enact Sharia law and slaughter Christians if reelected.

Right .. so we ride the pendulum between resignation and resolve, hopefully with some reflections like this to help us stay something like on track:

"Why grinnest thou at me, thou hollow skull?
Save that thy brain, confused like mine, once sought bright day
And in the sombre twilight dull,
With lust for truth, went wretchedly astray?"

-angL, "Alchemist"

Next dan, yes. There are no coloured belts in kendo, just kyu and dan levels.


Ugh. I hate that book.

I don't know if you saw my review for it, but .. yeah .. I can see why.

Well I've never been afraid of death myself, It's how I die that concerns me. There are some ways of dying I'd rather not experience.

I've never read any Gaiman, but he wrote an intro for one of my Lovecraft anthologies and it was one of the most pretentious and awkwardly written things I've read, so I was never exactly interested.