It's vacation time! =)

I'm so tired I feel like breaking and falling into pieces, and I need to get away before I go batty. The general plan is to go hiking in a national park, visit places where my ancestors lived some 200 years ago and drop by my sister to tell her that her new baby looks like a toad. (It's a dirty job but someone has to do it.) I'll be back home in a couple of weeks or so if all goes according to plan. Until then I wish you all a great start of the summer. =)

Some happy music to get in the mood... gotta love Slash... =)

Awesome

She Came Like A Bat From Hell - Jerusalem

And now kids... A blast from the past




Jerusalem (British band) should not be confused with Jerusalem (Swedish band). Both bands started in the 70's, but that's just about it. The Jerusalem I speak of is the one that had their record produced by Ian Gillan, and that shared stage with bands such as Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Paul Dean (bass) has a MySpace page and there is a Facebook page, but other than that there is little to find on the band today. The whole album Jerusalem can be found on YouTube, but they don't have a channel of their own and you'll have to look at other people's channels instead. (I'm using dallasdoomguitar's channel.)

Epicaricacy.

I went to school with “Miss Perfect”, as I assume many other do or did. That annoying twat that is the teacher’s pet, picked first in all activities and loves to point out her own greatness. Her family is deeply religious Christians, and she never missed a chance to tell “naughty” kids that they were going to hell. We grew older and the hormones struck. I still kicked they boys’ buts, but the motivation why I did it changed. They all flocked around Miss Perfect, like flies on shit, and I figured I could beat some sense into them.

Let’s stop here for a while. If you have a pretty girl in mind, then scratch that image. Miss Perfect had braces stuck to horse teeth and a mouth that spanned from ear to ear. Her eyes looked as if they were about to pop out, and she was cross-eyed. At the same time, she was nearsighted but refused to wear glasses. The later also turned her into a klutz since she did not see where she put her feet. She was the last girl in our class to grow boobs, and she never grew more than a B-cup. Her personality was no better. She was loud and so annoying that most people knew her as “the seagull”.

There were girls with greater boobs, and they were far more beautiful. I never understood why the boys were crazy about Miss Perfect. It could not be the sex either, since she was Christian and sex before marriage was a sin.

I did not stay in touch with the others from school once I left, but my mom works with her mom, and she has kept me updated. Miss Perfect married Mr. Perfect from the city, a rich guy. They had five kids and Miss Perfect started her own career, even though it meant spending weeks at the time away from the family. It was all sugar sweet.

Then the other day ... I bumped into a guy who happens to know Miss Perfect. A junkie. Not the type of person I would have thought knew her. He started telling me things about her that I just could not believe, but he pulled out his cell phone and showed me photos. Yeah, that’s Miss Perfect and she is a ... crack whore now. It turns out her “career” is an excuse her Perfect husband use to hide the disgrace. Her god will still not send her to hell because she does not cheat on her husband. How does that work? Oral. As long as her pussy is not for rent, her god will not mind at all.

Suddenly, it all makes sense to me.

Now girls, the moral of the story is: You don’t need big boobs, you don’t have to be pretty, and you don’t have to spread your legs to be popular. All you need is to give great blowjobs and keep on giving.

How fast can you guess these words with missing letters?

1. F_ _K
2. PU_S_
3. S_X
4. P_N_S
5. BOO_S
6. _ _NDOM


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Answers:
1. FORK
2. PULSE
3. SIX
4. PANTS
5. BOOKS
6. RANDOM

You got all 6 wrong didn’t you?

Well, Congratulations!
You don’t have Alzheimer’s – but you are a pervert.

You Can Say - Dead Gumbies

Dead Gumbies is a band from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. They list their music as Blues/Psychedelia/Rock.

I've been going through the songs they have on their MySpace as well as their YouTube channel and I can't get a grip on the music. It's not bad, much of it is well worth the listening to and I recommend it, but ... I'm still mixed. The style changes from song to song and I miss a clear and tangible "theme", something that connects it all. Once again, the music isn't bad it's just difficult for me to get a grip on.

The band members, Robin and Ratrod, have played in several different bands before and have merged into Dead Gumbies. That could explain it all. The lack of consistency could stem from their different musical backgrounds. If that's the case then the "theme" will crystallize over time and become clearer.

Either way, take the time to drop by their MySpace and have a listen. John Crow is a clear favourite of mine and I hope they put it up on YouTube some day so that I can share it here. 

How many women have you slept with?

My wife asked me, "How many women have you slept with?"
I proudly replied, "Only you, Darling. With all the others, I was awake."

I hope to be back on my feet again in a few weeks!

Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try.

Well. I obsessed for a while. Then I panicked. And then I thought about all the horrible things that could happen, and panicked some more. Then I finally got around to sending the new material in and now it's all clear, I'm getting published in the local paper, again. The thing is, I like sharing my work (what artist doesn't?) but I can't stand the attention I get. My screen name and my blog name is not a gimmick or a joke. People freak me out, totally.

Why do people ask "How are you doing?". You're looking at me what the hell do you think? I'm not going to tell you anything more than you can see. Or how about; "So... what are you working on?". Do they really think I'll tell them? It's my work, my ideas and you'll see it when I'm done. ... if I bother showing it. *bah*
Even worse is when people ask, "Where do you live nowadays?". Seriously? Are you planning on sending me mailbombs or what? Ever heard of Kurt Westergaard? ... OK, so Google it.

I'm still very pleased to be published again. It's not something that I take lightly. It doesn't matter that the main stories in the paper usually is about stolen bikes and strange looking vegetables. Someone still thought my work is good enough to fit right in there. Even more importantly, now that I've proved that I do something with my time, I can go back to laying on the sofa with my laptop again.

Cheers! =)

Stone Dözer Photos

They have finally posted photos of the whole group on their FaceBook page! =)

Alejandro Gugliotti, "Sherman" "Cobra" Curcio, Silvio Laiz, Juan "Scorpion" Shaw

Silvio Laiz, "Sherman" "Cobra" Curcio, Juan "Scorpion" Shaw, Alejandro Gugliotti

Jump

Fallen Angel by Chris Down

Jump, and you will find out 

how to unfold your wings as you fall. 

Living with a "Time Optimist".

I want to be early to meetings; I like to have that extra time to prepare. My husband on the other hand has no understanding of "time". The result is that I'm lying to him to get anywhere in time. "The meeting? It's at 15.15." Then I hope that he doesn't find out that it's 15.30 because then we will be more than a little late.

Today was one of those 15.15 days. I reminded him a couple of times, starting when he got out of bed. At 15.00 he looked around in panic, where had the time gone? He thought it was 13.00. (That's interesting since he got out of bed at 13.15.) Anyhow ... It's 15.00. It's time to get ready so that we will not be late for the 15.15 meeting. What does he do? He makes himself breakfast because he didn't eat when he got up. No hurry what so ever.

So it's 15.10 and I'm more than moderately irritated, and I manage to get him out of the kitchen. This would mean that we are now on our way out of the house to go to the 15.15 meeting right? Wrong. He has not checked his e-mail. By now, I'm growling loudly at him and he's irritated because I'm stressing him. This is when he realizes that he needs to change his sweater.

15.15 this is the time he knows we should be at the meeting. He has not left the house. I go outside to check the mail and take some deep breaths. I get back in again and he's in the bathroom. Yeah, he's known for days that we have a meeting today at 15.15. I've reminded him several times during the 2 hours he has been awake, but it's still news to him and "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do".

Now I'm shouting through the door, we have to go, it's 15.25. He comes out from the bathroom and I push him out the front door. I know that we have 5 minutes to get there in time. He moves in slow motion, stops to think about something and then he goes through his pockets. I'm thinking that he's looking for the car keys and I'm brutally wrong, he's looking for ... chewing gum.

No, we didn’t get to the meeting in time this time either. Maybe next time?

It's Alive!

Steamnocchio by Fabricio Moraes

I'm a teenage Frankenstein
The local freak with the twisted mind
I'm a teenage Frankenstein
These ain't my hands
And these legs ain't mine
Got a synthetic face
Got some scars and a brace

-=[Alice Cooper]=-

Odd...?

It's Friday the 13th today and Blogger is experiencing problems. People's blog posts have disappeared. Two of mine were still there and all I had to do was to re-post them, but today's post is gone.

Now ... Do I like gremlins or do I dislike them? Hmmm ...

Highest Love - IRIS Corporation

IRIS Corporation is a French indie band and they describe their music as somewhere between Brit rock and Oriental. The oriental influences can be heard clearly in this video. In "The Greedman" (you can find it on their MySpace) they have a sound that reminds me of Soundgarden, and the same sound can be found in "Invisible Rain" too. That I like. A lot. Unfortunately, they don't have those two songs at their YouTube Channel.

Fan Art for "Long Live the Kïng" (Stone Dözer)

I've been shooting mails to Silvio Laiz for days now. (And he has still not gotten a restraining order on me.) I had this idea or "vision" about what I think "Long live the Kïng" looks like and I've been fishing for information. The "ö" in stone Dözer is inspired by the "ö" in Mjölnir, Thor's hammer. I like that, and I could see the hammer at the centre of the king's crown. The king is long lived and that made me think of a skull or a very old looking "mummy" like guy. I haven't told Silvio about my art project but I told him about the "vision" and he liked the idea of a skull so I went with that...

(Click to Enlarge the Pictures.)

The sides seemed empty and barren. I tried putting the text there but it didn't work. I tried a couple of different things but it all looked wonky. Then I remembered the nicknames "Scorpion" and "Cobra". That might work but ... that's only two out of four band members. I shot Silvio a mail and asked about other nicknames, symbols connected to the band and such but he had nothing to offer.

Back to the drawing board again. By then I had found photos of Alejandro Gugliotti and I decided to take the art in another direction adding the band members instead of symbols.

And that's it. I don't have time to poke around with it anymore. I would have loved to make the kïng a throne and so on, but that project is too time consuming as it is.

Motivation "key to high IQ score"

Intelligence tests are as much a measure of motivation as they are of mental ability, says research from the US.

 I belong to the crowd that insists that the most intelligent person in this world is probably illiterate and living in the slums somewhere. The culture you live in together with the possibilities you have in life, such a s schooling, creates unfair differences when you take an IQ test. Any one who has taken the test (not online) know there are  factors of the test that expect that you have basic knowledge about certain things. If you don't have that knowledge you will struggle with figuring out what the hell it's all about. It's almost as taking a historic person from 200 years ago, telling them to send a text message and handing them a turned off cellphone. Chances are that no matter how intelligent they are, they will not understand what a text message is or how to use that "thing" they got to create it. You will have to give them clues.

 Motivation is just another aspect of it all. If you will learn how to do something or not, is determined by how motivated you are. It is true that you won't go far if you give up before you take the first step.

Through hell and back...

I’ve never been dedicated enough to anything or anyone to picture myself going to hell and back. Why bother? Well... now I’ve done it. Hell in this world spells F-a-c-e-B-o-o-k and I’ve gone there so that I can stay updated on Stone Dözer.

There I was, knocking on the gates of hell. They slowly opened, the silence was total and then a dark demon hiding in the murk asked for my name.

“Paranoid Sun,” I replied with great bravery.

“The automatic system does not approve of the name,” the demon growled.

“Damn you! Fucking goatpoker!” I grunted and picked a name at random.

The gates opened and I was free to walk into hell.

Now stop and think about it for a moment. Giving the name that all my friends online know me by, is not allowed, but lying is perfectly OK since the machine approves of that. This, my friends is the difference between heaven and hell. If you try to lie your way into heaven your ass will be kicked out. 

Well inside the gates of hell, a demon roars its ugly head, “Security Check!”

I try to read the damn sign, maybe that’s a “q” or is it a “o” or... I make a wild guess.

“You took too much time to complete the security challenge.” The demon kicks my ass and I have to start all over again.

“Goddamn knickers sniffer,” I grumble while I struggle to get those fucking letters right.

Fuck Yeah! I’m in, now I can find Stone Dözer and ... what the fuck!!! Another demon pokes me and wants me to give him the names of my friends. Never! I’ve sold my sold but I won’t sell the souls of innocent people. My education or lack thereof is not something I’d tell the demon either. Employment? Oh for fucks sake! Get out of my hair already!

And there I am, in my own personal corner of hell. Empty, if you don’t count the cobweb in the corner. This place is mine and my first concern is the fucking name I blurted out to get in. What’s the point of having a corner in hell if no one you know can find you there? I find the edit button and ... what the hell does all those things mean? What is what and what does it do? I poke around and I find a perky demon who tells me that people in hell have to use their real names so that their friends can find them.

“How fucking daft can you be?” I roar at the stupid thing. “I can’t use the fucking name that people know me by. How the hell will my friends find me then you fucking turd?”

The demon just stands there, silent, and I realize what hell is all about... stupidity beyond belief.

More demons appear, asking more stupid questions.

I shoot them down by telling them, “That’s none of your fucking business!”

“Creating content with this name is not allowed!” the demons shout.

“This is my fucking corner of hell! I own this shit! I make the goddamn rules you nincompoops!”

The demons go, “Neener-neener!”

I’m at wits end and I’m about to nuke the whole damn thing, including my laptop, to oblivion. Then suddenly, Stone Dözer appears on my screen as a reminder of why I’m working my way through hell. The goal is close, so close I can taste it and I stumble over the finish line and hit the “Add as Friend” button.
Triumphantly I stagger out of hell. I did it. I went through hell and back.

I'm no longer Paranoid though, I'm Para Noid because that's the closest thing the fucking demons let me post. Anyways... This is the link to my FaceBook. Feel free to visit me in hell and hook up. It's hot, it's steaming and it's void of information that makes any sense at all.

Inteview with Silvio Laiz from Stone Dözer

So, I'm curious and I just had to scratch that itch. The information I could find on Stone Dözer online just wasn't enough and I dropped Silvio Laiz a mail asking for an interview, and I got it. Then I panicked for a while since I haven't done an interview since the 80's. Well, I got over it and here's the interview:

The band line up:
Silvio Laiz - Guitar
Juan "Scorpion" Shaw - Vocals
"Sherman" "Cobra" Curcio - Bass
Alejandro Gugliotti - Drums

Silvio Laiz

(1) What does the metal scene in Argentina look like?

Small bars. Expensive beer (not necessarily meaning good beer). Really bad bands and just a few metalheads headbanging. That`s pretty much it.

(2) What are the biggest obstacles for Metal bands in Argentina?

Money. Instruments are almost imposible to buy, amps are the same, we have to pay A LOT of money just to play in a common bar and if you don`t have the support from a label (which is almost impossible) you probably won`t be able to pay the thousands of dollars that recording and editing an album cost.

(3) How old were you when you decided to make music your profession?

I have interest in music since I can remember but, I guess at the age of 13 or 14 I decided to try to make it my profession.

(4) Who are your musical influences?

There are many. In popular music clearly Pantera and Zakk Wylde but, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Wagner gave me many cool ideas haha

(5) What was the first album you bought?

Black Album - Metallica

(6) Have you ever been fed up with music and thought about working 9 to 5 instead?

Tired of music? NO. NEVER. I`d rather cut my dick off


(7) What guitars do you use and do you have a favourite guitar?

I use SX Les Paul. I only have one guitar. They are too expensive here to buy more than one in most people cases. My favourites are Gibson Les Paul, Gibson Flying V and Gibson Explorer.

Juan "Scorpion" Shaw

(8) How did you and Juan Shaw come to form the band?

I had a singer who didn`t commit himself to the project and besides I wanted a lead singer with balls. I kicked him out of the band and called Scorpion on the phone. At the time we were only class mates in high school. I remembered he had a really low voice and I thought it might work on my riffs.

(9) Have your lyrics always been in English or has that changed over time?

Yes, always in English. In fact, the night I called Scorpion Shaw on the phone and told him about joining the project, he showed interest and told me he had a fat book with lyrics he wrote for himself. They were all in English. I always wanted English lyrics because I love English language. I remember telling the previous singer to write in English and he didn`t like the idea so much. He only wrote a few REALLY BAD lyrics. When Scorpion read me his lyrics I was like "whoooahhh duuuude!! You`re so hired"

(10) When and why did you change the band name from Hellswrath to Stone Dözer? (With the röck döts.)

Well that was like two years ago. The band was called "Hellswrath" but we always thought that it wasn`t the coolest name on earth. Besides people here in Argentina found it impossible to pronounce, to write and to remember. I came up with "Stone Dözer" mixing other band names that I really liked: "Stone Henge" and "Bulldozer". This Ö thing comes from Mjölnir. Thor`s Hammer.

(11) Does the band have any crazed fan stories to tell?

Hahaha yes. With Scorpion Shaw you always have a few.
Once, I called Scorpion on the phone and told him to go to the park and enjoy the day, play guitar, watch some chicks... have a few beers...
It all ended up with Scorpion and I completely drunk throwing beer bottles at the Wal-Mart next to the park. Police came and I was so drunk that I thought it was "Wal-Mart Security". They made us sweep the glasses off the floor and it all ended up with Scorpion and I having a nice drunk chat with the police officers. In fact, the policewoman invited us to play a gig at her wedding. I swear it`s true hahahaha (we didn`t go) hahaha

(12) What kind of experience will fans get at a Stone Dözer live concert?

Well, we don`t want to play every song just like it sounds on the album. We`ve been always interested in the kind of shows that Led Zeppelin or Jimmy Hendrix did. We want the audience to ignore what will happen next. We even play slow blues live.

(13) Who writes the songs? What’s the main inspiration?

I`m the composer and Scorpion writes all the lyrics but, sometimes we step into each other’s territory and make a few suggestions. It always goes around him and me. The biggest inspiration for the album was our ex girlfriends. We had a fucking rough time with splitting up with them at the same time and our music and lyrics constantly speaks about that. "No way, no way, no way... you won`t step on my way bitch", "Revenge is mine, I`m gonna take what you took from me"...
The guitar solo for "In The Lair Of The Queen" speaks about me really missing her you know? I remember I was alone at home one night, and I was drinking Jack Daniel`s and just missing her. I was really depressed and I came up with the idea to make a guitar solo that when someone hears it, he or she would know exactly how bad I felt. The best thing someone told me about that solo was "I was listening to it and I had to pause it, because it was too painful." hahah "Mission Accomplished" I thought.

(14) Do you have a favourite song? Why?

I think Reborn and The Path Of Mourning. Don`t know why... I guess I just love play them.

Sherman "Cobra" Curcio

(15) I’ve found the lyrics for “Home Sweet Hell” and “Reborn”. Will you be posting more lyrics in the future? (“In the Lair of the Queen” is on my wish list.)

((Laiz sent me all lyrics and I'll post them in other posts later on to save space.))


(16) You’re an underground band that’s spreading your music through YouTube. In that case the internet is a helpful tool, but what do you think about people who download music (illegally)?

We just don`t give a fuck. I mean, of course we should sell the album because by doing that we would be getting paid for our hard work. But if someone sometime don`t have the money and really wants to listen to our music, go for it man... It is a great honour to us when someone shows us respect and interest for our music and that it`s more important to us than the money we would get by selling the album. We want to make a living out of this and in the future we will be charging for everything as every band on the world does. But if someone doesn't buy our album and downloads it for free, no problem. Enjoy dude.
For the album we would get what.... 20 dollars? 30 dollars?. What we get when someone tells us "Dude, I can`t stop listening to your music." it`s priceless. I think getting that response and ALSO the 20 or 30 dollars would be best.... hahahahahah

(17) In your mail you tell me how overwhelmed you are because of the great response you are getting on YouTube. I know I’m not the only one who is eagerly waiting for more. What are the plans for the future?

Well, we are thinking of making a home video so people can at least see our faces and see us play. We`re also thinking about creating a website and upload band info, lots of photos, videos and band stuff. Lots of people are asking for that and that’s what we want to give them.

(18) Where will you post information about where we can buy your music? (I’m anti-FaceBook but I’ll get an account if you announce it there.)

Well for the moment there is Facebook page but, as I said before, there will be a website. We don`t have much on the internet because we never cared about that.

But it`s clearly important because nowadays it`s the best way to promote your music. As Niccolò Machiavelli said in "The Prince", "the wise prince is the one who knows how to take advantage of the tools of his time"


Thank you for the interview. I know the last years had has had “ups and downs” for the band and I wish you all “ups” from now on.

Thank you so much for this interview.
Silvio Laiz

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Silvio told me in another mail that the album can't be bought yet, but they are looking into the possibility to put it up at iTunes. I hope that it happens soon and I suggest that you keep an eye on the band's updates on FaceBook and YouTube.

Biased

I've been listening to my sons new band when they play live. My son is best. There is no doubt in my mind that the new guitar player and the base player are pulling the whole band down. The shitty thing is that base players are hard to find and they might be stuck with this guy for quite some time. The other guitar player is not a big problem, as long as he stays away from the solos. But, he has an ego the size of Jupiter and it might be hard to do.

My son has talent and skills. I wish he could find band members that push forwards instead of backwards for a change. 

I'm probably biased, but still ....