Come On In, Outsider

I am often reduced to the stereotype of an angry teenager. I feel like I'm not apart of that moody, hormonal sensation, but I probably am. I just don't feel like I fit in, not even with the people who don't fit in.
To make you believe such a thing I'll let you in on a few things:
1. I don't drink
2. I don't smoke (any cigarettes or any drugs)
3. I don't like parties or fun
4. I don't do well in big groups
5. I hate small talk
6. I like intimate conversation
7. Hopefully on more important or controversial topics
8. I like music and movies that specifically target a drinking, smoking/drug doing, party, have fun audience

That's a bit more than a few, but you get the point: my interests clash with my life choices (I couldn't find another way to put that). It doesn't help that I don't open up easily either. I am constantly holding my personality back, filtering all of its contents to adjust to who I am with.

Well. At least I'm not this guy..

I'm pulling your leg. Marilyn Manson is the shit.

That's better.

Although Marilyn is probably anything but new I needed to pay tribute to this man. I happen to very much adore him and you may be thinking to yourself right now, "This chick probably wears black nail polish, Tripp pants and weird makeup while she hangs around the mall on Fridays." And you'd be right if I was still fourteen! But since growing out of that phase I have not outgrown the Manson. Unfortunately for me the rest of the world has. Back in the day he was everywhere defending his image, music, and antics. 

Revisiting #6 & 7, I love this type of interview and Marilyn Manson was the perfect figure for it.
But enough about him and more about his music. I think people immediately write him off because of this badass metal musician image. I don't listen to much anything I might head bang to, but I can totally dig his stuff. It's nothing too hardcore and it's pretty catchy.
Listen and learn.

My Friend, The Brain.

My self esteem just got the living life kicked out of its arse-hole and then eaten by grizzly bears. I mean, I had my first set of finals this week.
 In high school I always ignored finals allowing myself to fail because I had done so well throughout the year, however college won't let me continue that process which is truly a shame because that really worked for me. I gave it my best shot. I did. And if my Film & Video Analysis final is any indication on how I've done so far I don't think I want to experience a second set.

On that note, let's talk about a show that's fictional characters majorly fuck up all the time! 

Nip/Tuck

Yes! In comparison the character's in Nip/Tuck will make you feel like a nun, a nun that enjoys watching nasty sex and questionable content. Nip/Tuck is based around two plastic surgeons in Miami. Sean McNamara is the moral, rational character, while Christian Troy is the whore. 

The show has at least one surgery scene that makes my stomach turn and, like stated earlier, most of the content makes you wince. 

And if you're waiting for something good to happen, you'll be waiting for a long time. I won't ruin any of the twists, but I will encourage you to be entertained by this absolutely, ridiculous program.

A scene from the first season. 

If you want to check it out all six seasons are on instant play on Netflix and re-runs play on Logo. 

I'm going to put on a episode for myself right now.

Foreshadowing

I had more dreams.
I was a wizard in one. And I slit my enemy's throats with magic through my wand.
The other one I was an undercover transsexual in a gang of transsexuals including Winona Ryder and Ashton Kutcher.

So for weird, let's get it going about SPARKS!

Sparks, originally part of the 70's Glam Rock movement, have survived into the Millennium. They put Exotic Creatures of the Deep in 2009 which was their twenty first album! The founding members are the Mael brothers (shown above). Who now look like...

Still pretty awesome right?

I'll be completely honest, of all their albums I have three and listen to one. Sometimes they're even weird for me. You either get it or you don't,  but I adore they're bold style and I adore Kimono My House. 

Great band live, he hits all the high notes and the complicated timing. Not to mention the dancing.

Back Then.

And Now.


Few favourites off of Kimono My House:
Here In Heaven
Equator



Also!
I've started to upload playlists to 8tracks so hopefully from now on there will be links to some playlists in my posts that you may or may not enjoy! Something to get excited about!
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Like Evil Care Bears.

I don't understand my dreams. Most people don't, but for some reason I feel mine are a tad more twisted than the average dreamer. I don't even know when to call them nightmares anymore.


I always dream the absolute worst things. Like an alternate universe of how life would be if everything was bad. Yesterday I took a nap and my cat was brutally beaten. (I'll quickly add that my cats are my life. I love them more than any human...)

 She was on the verge of death and I was running around begging my mother and sister for the number of the vet while running back to my cat to see if she was still alive. The image was so awful, every time I looked over at her she cried blood, not to mention her fur was already drenched in blood. No one else cared, my sister and mother shrugged it off as if her death was just inevitable.

Snakes and spiders tend to make it into my dreams often.
I wish someone could tell me why my pessimism has seeped into my subconscious so grimly.

I suppose this is the most appropriate time for The Horrors.

I first saw them in NME, when I could still find NME and pretend I was british. It wasn't their look that caught me, but you cannot deny their look is eye catching. I read something about the music video "Sheena is a Parasite" that was interesting, which I just looked into again to remember since this video premiered back in 2006. The video was the director, Chris Cunningham's first music video in seven years. Apparently obsessed with the song having found it on myspace (remember this was 2006). The video featured Oscar nominee, Samantha Morton who I don't really know by name. Anyhow that information drew me in so I looked it up and liked the tune, liked the tune, got the album.

I love how deep and raw his voice is. There are so many sissy boy voices as of recently (ex. Fall Out Boy, PATD, etc. (I guess that isn't all that recent. Fall Out Boy broke up didn't they? Pete Wentz had to raise his child with Ashlee or something. Maybe. I don't know.)) However all the live videos I viewed weren't very good, so I don't know how talented of a singer he actually is.

"She is the New Thing"
  Strange House



Now compare.
The new improved Horrors, a lot less spastic, a lot more drone (even a bit Joy Division-ish in the video below). They released Primary Colours in 2009, and received pretty good reviews. My favourite track off the album is "I Can't Control Myself".

"Who Can Say"
Primary Colours