I totally dare you to follow this link. It will no doubt make your weekend.
Do you think that volume is part of his book collection?
And while you're at it, witness some JUSTICE, especially in light of this.
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15 comments:
I took that dare...and I'm so very glad that I did.
Now we know precisely what to show Stanley Fish when he undergoes the Ludovico Technique.
Danzig is otherwise king (even if not of the philosophical variety).
Should I be embarrassed that I'd already seen all of those with the exception of the last one? (thank you, thank you, thank you for that)
With both Danzig (Misfits, Samhain) and Rollins (Black Flag, pre-popular Rollins Band), it's weird how people idolized by the picked on kids morphed into the kind of people who picked on those very kids.
I remember reading a really perceptive review of that horrible album of cover songs that Guns and Roses did. While discussing the bratty way "Axl" screeches through the Misfits' "Attitude" the reviewer said that there are fundamentally two kinds of "F*** you"s in the world. The first kind is from the wimpy "punk" (excluding the glue sniffers from orphanage begging for money with their dogs down the street) yelled out as the police cruiser is safely out of hearing range. The second kind is while the jock is beating the punk kid senseless.
Somehow the former morphs into the latter when fame intrudes.
All this being said, "Earth A.D." "November Coming Fire," and that first solo album that Rick Rubin produced are front and center parts of the Rawk canon.
And I wouldn't mess with that Glenn. He knows kung-fu.
I just looked up his birthday--he's freaking 54 years old (and in temporally indexed irony, 5' 4")!! So much for any correlation of age and wisdom (of course, my own life should have taught me that, you'd think).
Thanks Spiros for images of idiocy that not even steady rounds of Wild Turkey 101 could wash away. . .
"All this being said, "Earth A.D." "November Coming Fire," and that first solo album that Rick Rubin produced are front and center parts of the Rawk canon."
Add to that Static Age, Walk Among Us, Initium, and Danzig II: Lucifuge.
How does this guy not have a Dickpedia entry?
Is there a more awesome moment on Youtube than when he tosses away the book and says "I don't need this?" No, there is not. Replace Chuck Norris with Glenn Danzig, and you still get less than one percent of his awesomeness.
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Glenn Danzig.
Glenn Danzig doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Glenn Danzig has allowed to live.
Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with Glenn Danzig.
Glenn Danzig does not sleep. He waits.
J.P. -- nice!
Thanks Thom. Good luck with your new publishing guide!
I love the bad pronunciation of "impy-ess" rather than the proper impious. Maybe Glenn should have consulted a pronunciation guide. LOL.
I'd place *Walk Among Us* and *Legacy of Brutality* far above anything else Danzig has done. I don't think much of the Danzig (the band) catalog, Samhain is occasionally brilliant, but don't forget "Misery Tomb" (A "bonus" track! WTF?)
[Btw, I saw the very first Danzig (the band) performance-- before the album came out. They played mostly Samhain songs, and sounded great.)
Someone please create a Dickipedia entry for Glenn!
Santa: I caught that! What a d-bag. "I don't need this...."
If we are giving serious props to Danzig the person then some mention needs to be made of "Die, Die my Daring," and the immortal lyric "I'll be seeing you again/I'll be seeing you in hell." That's a chorus Danzig was born to sing.
My undergrad Latin prof would insist we say "IM pee us" instead of "im PIE us". He was a stickler for archaic and/or British forms of things, so I gather "IM pee us" has one of those properties. Everything dictionary.com cites has both pronunciations, in one order or another: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/impious (Actually, scratch that. I can't tell what Webster's pronunciation guide is trying to say.)
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I'm inclined to agree that the last 15 years or so have been regrettable for Danzig (excepting his brilliant ATHF appearance), but I'm not sure why Jon Cogburn lumps Rollins in with him. Rollins beat up a lot of nazis and a lot of thugs who hated him for not being Dez, but I'm not aware of his fighting anybody in the past 20 years or so and I'm not aware of his ever "picking on" anybody, at least not after high school.
Plus it's probably anachronistic to talk about either of them being "idolized" before around '87. Obliterating the boundary between "performer" and "fan" was a big part of the point, yeah? It was because there was no boundary and definitely no security patrolling it that the two of them had to fight so much in the early 80's. I say this as someone who did in fact idolize Black Flag as a youth, well after they'd broken up.
I also remember that GNR review and that same point has also stuck with me for years. But, if I remember correctly, it was made about the cover of Fear's "I Don't Care About You." A book about Lee Ving and philosophy, that I would buy.
You can judge the intellectual and moral heft of an artist by how they react to Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Rollins possible moment in the sun is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_E34CTcY7k .
He botches it in the beginning, acting like someone who thinks it's their job to tell us that the outcomes of professional wrestling matches are predetermined. He also has that kind of high school bully sneer.
My personal experience with Rollins was while talking with him before one of those comedy routines/poetry readings he does. This was about fifteen years ago. He jumped off his stool so angrily when my friend said hello that the it shot across the room. He basically just glowered at us. Then in his comedy routine he made this big deal about how he tried to be friendly with fans.
I want to say Mr. Rollins was having a bad day. But the adolescent tough guy thing of punk rock really does get weird when these people become able to bench press a certain percentage of their body mass.
Note that I rank My War and Loose Nut as only one or two levels below Stooges' Fun House, so this is no slight to the man's artistry.
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