Ode to PUNISHMENT from THE SHITS... for worms like me. It's kinda same-same to other stuff I've posted without being *quite* as good (i.m.o.) but repetition of punishment over time is key to either breaking your spirit or inspiring you to rebel. Apparently these guys are from Leeds (UK) but they sound Midwest AF, in a good way. Totally thought the singer was screaming "DRINK YOUR MILK" repeatedly instead of "DRINK YOUR BLOOD" and it was well better when I thought he sang the former. Maybe these guys are a bit too po-faced about their murderous intentions for me. Nah, but it's great anyways--I'm nitpicking. If I didn't like it, it wouldn't be on my blog--duh.
Dunno about you, but the punishment(s) of life can't tame me or break me and that's final, hosers. Rebellion until death. I'm from fucking OHIO. We are born to lose and too crazy to quit. We may or may not have invented the 'game' cornhole to deal with the ennui and despair of our shithole locales state/region wide. I'm not a fan of cornhole cos I'm generally not into butt stuff... mom said it would ruin me... but I'm gaming the fuck out of life, and winning in the ways that count to me. My favourite way to play is to joyfully tread the knife edge between not giving ANY fucks at all, but also giving ALL THE FUCKS ALL THE TIME, and I feel like my fellow earnest but insane Midwest pals have perfected the strategy. <3 you legends.
Here's more of my patriotic tunes to soothe your ears after the beating from Leeds:
Sidebar: I tell people sometimes I like "noise" music, but I think what is more true is that my first and most enduring love is Rock n Roll. Though, maybe I love "noise rock" most in the Rock category. FFS, genres are dumb... I hardly know what anything is supposed to be called. Is my favourite stuff undefinable, or is my difficulty with applying top-down concepts showing? See, my mind is heavy bottom-up and swimming in distinct, specific, individual items or raw sensory data points. Bottom-up thinking is a cool autistic trait people rarely discuss and there are many advantages, but relying on instantiations of ideas rather than leaning on abstractions can present challenges in categorisation and I feel resistant to applying concepts in socially normative ways. This isn't to be contrarian; I often just don't get it. For instance, I don't understand gender as an internal perception I could have since I only experience the 'me-ness' of me and this doesn't link to any gendered concepts in my mind, aside from what society has put on me, from outside.
However, maybe a better example of forest for the trees blindness is how when my doctor asked me if I was "straight or gay or what?" I paused far too long to consider. My issue is that how I'll feel in any individual situation doesn't seem predetermined to me, within reason, and I haven't met everyone ever, have I? Who knows what I am in general (?) if I don't experience a 'general me' who's decided who I am in a top-down way, dictating how I'll feel, think, and act in advance. Every individual scenario will be engaged with on its own merits by how I'm flexibly guided by experience and principles I deem important. Sure, I seem annoyingly straight for someone who'd prefer to be bi/pan-sexual if possible to better my odds, but maybe I can change? [[[all these thoughts ran through my head for 45 seconds or so while the doctor waited...]]] Finally, my hesitation prompted her to chide that she hadn't asked a trick question, and I laughed. I'd been rumbled for not understanding the assignment and overthinking details, so I corrected myself and replied, "mostly straight, I think," as the only honest answer I could give. 93%? Ha. Statistics are bullshit, but I'll get to them another time.
Anyways, I'm updating my automated answers to all of society's irritating questions, stat.
Me (from now on): I love ROCK MUSIC.
...."What kind?"
Gah! If necessary, I continue: Noise Rock. Preemptively now: It's like regular Rock music, but as if the band made a "shred video" to ruin their own song and have it sound as awful as possible on purpose.
Lol. Sorted. But enough about 'noise rock'. I love it all.
I've seen Raven live in Cleveland and he slapped. I'm inspired by older people who maintain their passion for whatever they do. MARSHALL ALLEN also comes to mind as someone I admire greatly. I once had the pleasure of being part of a big improvised orchestra he conducted and it was so much fun. Allen's over 100 now but still out there making music and sharing himself with others generously, and I love to see it.
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