What in the fuck is a Marblebog???

Every time I think I'm starting to grow up a bit I take an outsider's view of the music I listen to. Since I've arrived in Korea it's been predominantly black metal and then punk. A bit of hip hop also snuck it's way into my radar such as the new albums by Hi-Tek, AZ, all of the Papoose mix tapes (this guy is fuckin tough).

But let's get to the metal. I gave in and tried out some American Black Metal (ABM) and I found some great shit. The most impressive was a band called Judas Iscariot. They are essentially a Darkthrone ripoff but I may even like them a little better. Then there's Leviathan. They cross many borders of metal but the over the top evil vocals keep them kinda black metalish I suppose.

A few days ago I found this band Marblebog (can't remember where they are from but I'm thinking Poland or Hungary for some reason) and I've been listening to their two albums for about three days straight. Shitty production, vocals that come very close to being annoying but they never quite do. His voice actually makes me smile sometimes because it is so ridiculous. I listen to a lot of stupid metal but this may just take the grand prize. His scream is fucked. It's impossible for me to describe it, and if you heard it you'd most likely bust out laughing and say "Man, how can you listen to that crap."

And I would have no rebuttal at all...

The guitar riffs are really repetitive but they are truly original (well, as original as one can get in metal) but they are played a little too long sometimes but I guess that's the point.

I don't have anywhere to go with this post. Time to go.

Mainly, I'm wondering if anyone knows what a Marblebog is?

If only love came so easy in the rest of the world...

I can't claim that I discovered this on my own. A friend of mine (well, I don't even know the guy but some of my friends know the guy, and we traded some music and films online back in the day, so I can rightly say he's a friend I suppose... Make sense?) had this posted on his blog and I gotta post it here. Here's a link to his blog, titled The City Limits. Dude, that's cheesy as fuck, but anyway, this story is so messed up that I feel obligated to share it with the four or five people that read this thing.

Follow this link to pbs.org and watch this short documentary. It's about Kyrgyzstan and how it's a normal custom to kidnap a woman and make her marry you. Something like 1/3 of all rural women are kidnapped and married.

The reason this is relavant is because of the new Borat movie and the fact that the plot supposedly has him trying to kidnap Pamela Anderson as his wife. Borat is from Kazakhstan which is one of the 'Stans that became a sovereign nation with the collapse of the Soviet Union, along with neighbouring Kyrgyzstan. If the practice exists in one nation, it likely exists in the other.

Now don't get me wrong and start thinking I'm one for women's rights because I ain't. If women didn't "fight the power" and gain the "equality" that allowed them to climb up those ladders things would be a lot better. Men would have higher paying jobs because there would be less people in the work force, and women could stay home and properly raise their children. Then we wouldn't have a bunch of punk-ass good for nothing kids running around this Earth with no values. We also wouldn't have an over-educated population who wanna be white collar even though there are only so many white collar jobs. If women had none of those white collar jobs more men would have them and then only the non-educated people would have to go work on the oil fields in Alberta. The rest of us could make good money sitting around an office talking about cars and football while the people with the low IQs do all the hard work.

...only in a perfect world I suppose.

But nah, I'm just playing. I love women and the fact that they're sooooo smart. It's easy to tell men run the Earth isn't it.

Go watch the video at PBS.

I'll see you in Kyrgyzstan...

San Francisco values...

I have this great program for my computer here called TVUplayer. I get a bunch of channel such as ESPN, CNN (sometimes), NHL and NBA Channel, NASA TV, and all the CBS NBC type channels.

But the channel I end up watching the most is FOX News. Usually, I get home from work and watch Bill O'Reilly's show and I can't really decide if I hate the guy or not.

Go to Youtube and watch his appearance on Letterman and you'll see what I mean. Both men seems like idiots during the interview with Dave taking the "Americans are dying in Iraq" stance O'Reilly saying "But we can't leave or we lose" stance.

I don't even know where I'm going with this. I just wanted to say that I watch B.O. and his show is very enjoyable. Whether you live him or hate him, it's a good watch.

I wouldn't really call it news though. It's more like a Dennis Miller rant but the comedy is not intentional, and the jokes aren't jokes.

One thing that pisses me off is that he spends half of each show referencing his bestselling book "Culture Warrior." I think the title of the book is my favorite thing about it.

He's making it seem like he's the guy out there fighting for America. "I'm the guy who's really gonna win this war against those Islamic pricks."

I was gonna read the book but I decided against it. I don't have time to read such junk. Why would I read this book when I can get the audio book version with Mr. O'Reilly himself reading it to me.

I downloaded it last night and I can't wait to waste six hours of my life listening to his insight.

Oh, time for me to go. It's time for me to enter the "No Spin Zone."

There is one thing that pisses me off about the guy and that's the way he spells his last name. Dude, it's "i" before "e" except after "c."

What a fucking asshole.