Tragically, today is the official last day of my spring break, and whoa- is that heart breaking. However, I have realized that I have achieved a great many things this spring break, even if the only one of any acedemic significance is making sure and updating my 24 journal for 414, and seriously who am I kidding. I also managed to move my furniture around and that is always one of the most rewarding things that one can do, I like it a lot.
My parents called me today, from London. I'm mildly annoyed by it, "We ate a quite a smart Indian restaurant last night.", "We're staying at St. George's on upper Regeant." , "Colva, I bought one of those smart new motorola phones, the raaayzor." As much as I enjoyed Fairfax for the holidays - I could have been in London. Though in good news, I pitched my idea about going to see the Arctic Monkeys together while my mom is here, she seems kind of excited.
I went to EB Games [which is so awkward, man, do I not belong in world of videogames] and the independent record store with Matt and Brandon yesterday - Brandon really is an extreme CD shopper, take his time, it's awesome. It was a productive trip, I got Elvis Costello - "King of America", Total Chaos - "Patriotic Shock" and, and this is the winner - I found Cradle of Filth - "Cruelty and the Beast", with limited edition extra CD. It's fucking wonderful. I remember when I first started listening to Cradle of Filth [and interestingly it's the only black metal band I listen to, I mean I know about bands like Mayhem and Children of Bodom, but I don't listen to them personally.] Anyway, here is the story of how I came to love CoF [haha] so...
I was 16, and this awkward awkward, though very dedicated goth kid. But I'm in Lusaka, so there are no other darkly oriented kids, so I'm making desicions off my gut and the internet, and reading a lot of vampire novels. [I own more black velvet than you can imagine, full skirts, little Victorian lace up ankle boots - shit's so cool, I wish I had it all in America.] Anyway, it seemed like no one was horrified, and that's really the goal when you take to wearing your hair like Morticia Addams [that reminds me, would anyone think ill of me if I invested in some bleach and bleached a Lily Munster-esque white streak into my hair?] and only wearing black on black. Anyway, no one was upset at all, and I am a fan of shock-tactics. Anyway, so one night I'm watching BBC and there's this gruelling doctumentary "Living with the Enemy" about this kid in England who's into black metal and his parents are doing their nut, and somehow the BBC get Cradle of Filth involved in this action - and from seeing this, I pretty much decided this band was the fucking new black.
I sent my dad to buy one of their CD's when he was in England next, he came back and said "This band have some fantastic shirts, you should get one" [they do, slogans on the back like 'children of a lesser god' and 'jesus is a cunt', can't even buy them in America.] anyway, he got me "Dusk and her Embrace" which had, what became my favourite song, "Red Roses for the Devil's Whore". We then bought "Nymphetamine" when it came out, title track is AMAZING, I was in America at the time and had fallen off my goth-wagon, but cannot resist this band. I then got "Lovecraft and Witchhearts" which sounds like what HIM would title some gay love-metal album, except it's a double album horrorfest extravaganza with song titles like "Lord Abortion". And now I have "Cruelty and the Beast" and it's still good, the more I listen to it, the more I understand the shreiky-shouty lyrics. But I think it's the operatic vampire styling I enjoy the most - it's so cool. It just makes me want pop in my fangs sit back in my chair and revel. Also, they write so many songs about Elizabeth Bathory, who is one of my favourite people in history, maybe my favourite vampire, certainly my favourite vampire killer - she's fucking unbelieveable. If you don't know the deal with the Blood Countess I send you to wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bthory
Awesome.
My parents called me today, from London. I'm mildly annoyed by it, "We ate a quite a smart Indian restaurant last night.", "We're staying at St. George's on upper Regeant." , "Colva, I bought one of those smart new motorola phones, the raaayzor." As much as I enjoyed Fairfax for the holidays - I could have been in London. Though in good news, I pitched my idea about going to see the Arctic Monkeys together while my mom is here, she seems kind of excited.
I went to EB Games [which is so awkward, man, do I not belong in world of videogames] and the independent record store with Matt and Brandon yesterday - Brandon really is an extreme CD shopper, take his time, it's awesome. It was a productive trip, I got Elvis Costello - "King of America", Total Chaos - "Patriotic Shock" and, and this is the winner - I found Cradle of Filth - "Cruelty and the Beast", with limited edition extra CD. It's fucking wonderful. I remember when I first started listening to Cradle of Filth [and interestingly it's the only black metal band I listen to, I mean I know about bands like Mayhem and Children of Bodom, but I don't listen to them personally.] Anyway, here is the story of how I came to love CoF [haha] so...
I was 16, and this awkward awkward, though very dedicated goth kid. But I'm in Lusaka, so there are no other darkly oriented kids, so I'm making desicions off my gut and the internet, and reading a lot of vampire novels. [I own more black velvet than you can imagine, full skirts, little Victorian lace up ankle boots - shit's so cool, I wish I had it all in America.] Anyway, it seemed like no one was horrified, and that's really the goal when you take to wearing your hair like Morticia Addams [that reminds me, would anyone think ill of me if I invested in some bleach and bleached a Lily Munster-esque white streak into my hair?] and only wearing black on black. Anyway, no one was upset at all, and I am a fan of shock-tactics. Anyway, so one night I'm watching BBC and there's this gruelling doctumentary "Living with the Enemy" about this kid in England who's into black metal and his parents are doing their nut, and somehow the BBC get Cradle of Filth involved in this action - and from seeing this, I pretty much decided this band was the fucking new black.
I sent my dad to buy one of their CD's when he was in England next, he came back and said "This band have some fantastic shirts, you should get one" [they do, slogans on the back like 'children of a lesser god' and 'jesus is a cunt', can't even buy them in America.] anyway, he got me "Dusk and her Embrace" which had, what became my favourite song, "Red Roses for the Devil's Whore". We then bought "Nymphetamine" when it came out, title track is AMAZING, I was in America at the time and had fallen off my goth-wagon, but cannot resist this band. I then got "Lovecraft and Witchhearts" which sounds like what HIM would title some gay love-metal album, except it's a double album horrorfest extravaganza with song titles like "Lord Abortion". And now I have "Cruelty and the Beast" and it's still good, the more I listen to it, the more I understand the shreiky-shouty lyrics. But I think it's the operatic vampire styling I enjoy the most - it's so cool. It just makes me want pop in my fangs sit back in my chair and revel. Also, they write so many songs about Elizabeth Bathory, who is one of my favourite people in history, maybe my favourite vampire, certainly my favourite vampire killer - she's fucking unbelieveable. If you don't know the deal with the Blood Countess I send you to wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bthory
Awesome.