Computer Games VS The Church of England.

Recent Sony Games ‘shoot em up’ the, I have been told by computer game nut freak friends brilliant, ‘Resistance: Fall of man’ apparently has one scene set in The Church or England (from now on CoE) controlled Manchester Cathedral, the CoE are obviously shocked appalled and apparently made go loonatic by this as they have recently said that they regard this as a, and I quote, ‘virtual desecration’. Heaven, God, and all his angels forbid the depiction of any act of violence inside a church, I mean of course apart from that dude who’s been nailed to a piece of wood. That of course is the absurdity of this case the CoE want this ‘violent game’ banned or at least suitably re-edited, and yet Christianity is a supremely violent religion in both the way it has acted over the ages and in its imagery, from the crucifixion to the inquisition, to the crusades, to the martyrdom of the saints, to the entire concept of martyrdom , Christianity glories in violence.
I don’t expect that the CoE will get anywhere with this case, not with the absurd demands that they’re making, and after all they only let minority religions dictate things like this, of course I could be wrong and it’s no laughing matter, one shouldn’t allow any religion or for that matter any institution that level of control over what we are allowed to see, and hear any more than one should allow some to gouge out you’re eyes, and poor concrete in you’re ears, of course we’ve already gone down this path, companies will usually cow tow to religious demands because they don’t want to alienate any possible customers. It seems that the demands of the market will enslave us all.

Public image Ltd, First issue, aka public image

It opens with a subtle little bass line that reminds me of ‘Siouxsie And The Banshees’ first album, this soon opens out into a barrage of effects laden riffs later borrowed by Marilyn Manson on the song song ‘misery machine’, this then breaks down, or up depending on you’re point of view into a incomprehensible and seemingly chaotic sound scape matched with an equally incomprehensible plaintive, needy, ‘Siouxsie Sioux’ esque wail, losing all of its Sex Pistols aggression and sneer and is not so much all the better for it, simply different for it, wonderfully or brilliantly hellishly so. This is not representative of the rest of the album which is by and large considerably better than this, though far less interesting to write about, though much nicer to listen to.

I’ll say no more except that religion 1 and religion 2 are lyrically and musically brilliant and incisive and that low life is fantastically uplifting and anthemic without being cliched, John Lydons vocals on this are nothing short of genius. I’ll say no more except that it is nothing short of a miracle, or an act of genius, depending on your point of view that the last track on the album the really quite disturbing ‘Fodderstompf’ is equally anthemic and not in any way annoying, listen to it and you’ll know what I mean.

I’ll say no more.

I'm sick and tired of..........

I’m sick and tired of HD and Blue Ray, people act like it’s the best thing you can possibly get but sooner or later their just going to bring out Super HD and Purple Ray, then they’ll bring out Ultra HD and Violet Ray, then they’ll bring out Super Ultra HD and Silver Ray. There’s no end to this pointless techno ilogical development soon they’ll have such a high pixel count that the human brain won’t even be able process it and if we want to watch anything we’ll all just have to re-evolve. In short this is ridiculous everybody wants such a high quality picture that they actually feel like its happening around them like what their watching is happening right in front of them, and one just starts to wonder why these uncultured dolts don’t just go to the bloody theater!

Perhaps in the search for greater entertainment realism it’ll actually make a comeback, so i suppose it isn't all bad.

"I might just point out that this comes from someone who has never actually been to the theater" the self hating snob in me says.

more boredom drones from a music obsessive (part 2)

On top of the number of albums you have what other important factors are there in judging how much you like a particular band?

1] How many live shows have you seen? No I haven’t seen any of my favourite bands live.

2] Do you buy bootlegs as well as normal albums? Yes I have brought Marilyn Manson bootlegs and plan to by more.

3] Do you have DVD’s? Yes I have 3 Marilyn Manson DVD’s.

4] Do you have live albums? Yes I have 2 Alec Empire live albums

5] Do you hunt down old singles? Yes I do that with Marilyn Manson, and Nine Inch Nails.

6] Do you buy their albums the day they come out? Yes I do that with Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Akercocke.

7] Do you hunt down non album tracks? Yes I do this with Marilyn Manson