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I just finished Mishima's The Temple of Dawn.  Next up is Celine's Death on the Installment Plan.

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4 hours ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

balor looks interesting and funny from the clips ive seen. thanks 👍will check it out. its bit different but thats a good thing from what ive seen so far

I have been watching it quite a bit recently.  It took a few episodes to get into the humor, but I have not seen a bad episode yet!

Greetings!  What bands are your favorites?

Another good series: Monk.

An obsessive-compulsive detective solves improbably murders in San Francisco.  It is a comedy, but with a good sense of humor.

1 hour ago, navybsn said:

You need to check out some good Finblack. Totally change your opinion on black metal. A few classics to get you started:

Sargeist - Let the Devil In

Baptism - Morbid Wings of Sathanas (their whole discography is fucking excellent)

Saturnian Mist - Chaos Magick

Ordinance - Reliquishment

Impaled Nazarene - Latex Cult

Satanic Warmaster - Strength and Honor

Horna - Black Metal Warfare

Warloghe - Pestilence and Warfare

Behexen - By the Blessing of Satan

Oath - Mustan Liekin Veljeskunta

Don't get me started on Archgoat, but definitely check them out.

And the granddaddy of all Finblack - Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon (mandatory listening)

Or if you like the more melodic stuff, Sweden is your joint:

Dawn - Slaughtersun (if you don't like this album nothing can help you)

Dissection of course

Armagedda - Only True Believers

Avsky - Scorn

Svartsyn - ...His Majesty

Or just go listen to Bathory. The Return is a good place to start. Chase that with Blood Fire Death. Quothorn basically invented black metal as we know it (yeah yeah Venom, I know...)

Plenty of other excellent black metal scenes around the world. Germany and Poland are standouts. Don't overlook the French, South America, Greece, or the US either. There is so much variety in black metal it's astonishing. Really something for everyone. I certainly wouldn't recommend basing opinions on Belphegor.

Don't forget Goatmoon or Ride for Revenge!

4 hours ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

will you tube it. see how i get on. 

Make sure that it is the original series and not one of the spin-offs (SVU, Criminal Intent).  They are entertaining, but not nearly as good - at least to me.

On 4/26/2021 at 3:23 PM, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

are there any favourite episodes youve got for law and order. theres got to be a few in the 400 plus episodes.

There are a ton! haha  I can't think of any particular episodes off the top of my head.  They are all good, though there may be a few that are thematically less interesting to people who are not from the US.  Most episodes are self-contained, so just pick whatever sounds interesting!

Greetings!  What part of the "harder side" do you listen to?  How hard of stuff do you look for?

10 hours ago, Thrashman said:

The last two are both the same story for me - I really like the instrumental tracks, but can't stand it when Varg starts talking/folk singing.

The talking is the worst!  It sounds like his old videos.  But I agree that the music is good.

Law and Order

This is one of my favorite tv shows of all time.  An interesting blend of investigative detective work and legal drama.  There are great actors/characters throughout every season.

7 hours ago, Thrashman said:

Burzum - The Ways Of Yore / Thulean Mysteries

(I just downloaded all of the completely instrumental tracks from Bandcamp and burnt myself a compilation CD)

(Also downloaded all of the tracks I like from Fallen and Umskiptar and burnt a CD of those earlier on : )

Any thoughts on the new album?

On 4/15/2021 at 8:41 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

This is a great line for pretty much any situation

I have been trying to find an appropriate response to this all week.  But I got nothing... haha

2 hours ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

balor i hope reading antigone helps make sense of Heidegger's introduction to metaphysics. did it help? and at least you read a good book/play.  

 

re brother karamazov. thats one i need to read again as its been over a decade since i read it. it left a lasting impression on me though also the grand inquisitor sounds memorable character except for me sieve brain who completly forgot😂 

have you every read dantes divine comedy.was quite interesting as i remember. 

 

It helped as much as anything can really be said to "help" one read Heidegger.  Heidegger translating the play in a very weird way didn't exactly make it any easier either...

I have not read Dante, but I have wanted to for a long time.  I am sort of wary of poetry just because I am not very familiar with it.  Would you say that it is worth reading?  I'm sure that greater Bible literacy would help one understand it better.

On 4/18/2021 at 2:13 AM, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

balor its a very interesting read that er antigone by Sophocles i assume i got that right. i read a quick summary. alot happens. how are you getting on with this book. are you still reading it? would you recommend it so far. 

brothers Karamazov is really good. its very long. think thats whats put me off reading it again. read synopsis again. its definitely one i should read again. alyosha and his naughty brother Dmitry left a strong impression when i first read it especially a bit near the end where they both have a dialogue. which is your best bit? its hard without giving plot away. 😂

Antigone was great, though I mainly read it as some context for a section of Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics.  It was actually pretty short, and it only took me about two hours or so to read.  I would definitely recommend it!

It has been a long time since I read The Brothers Karamazov, but I always remember liking the scene with the Grand Inquisitor.  I need to read it again too.

Goatpenis might be exactly what you are looking for.

Good topic.  My pick would have to be Varg Vikernes.  He is the master of the minimal black metal riff!

I got a few new tapes and zines recently - mostly related to noise, though:

• Vile Vulgar - Private Art tape
• Swarm Survival - Moss Conditions tape
• IOPS Journal #3 zine
• Troubled Sleep #4 zine

Greetings!  (I'm not from Brazil, though.)  What bands and genres do you listen to the most?

12 hours ago, Depraved said:

I've been bored out of my mind thanks to the pandemic. I have a very morbid fascination so naturally a few weeks ago I started binge watching documentaries about serial killers and spending all day reading about them. No surprise the night before last I woke up in a cold sweat after dreaming that one of them was after me. 🤣

I just scrolled up and saw this. Apparently nightmares about serial killers isn't all that uncommon.

Incidentally, I have been watching a lot of these documentaries recently as well (there have been some really good ones released recently), but thus far I have been lucky enough to avoid nightmares about them!

16 hours ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

 

apart from the greek stuff balor. have you ever read crime and punishment by Dostoevsky. a classic book imo

Speaking of Greek stuff, I actually just started reading Antigone last night!  I have wanted to read Crime and Punishment for a while, but have never gotten to it.  However, I did read The Brothers Karamazov, and I enjoyed it greatly.

On 3/29/2021 at 8:28 AM, Depraved said:

Yes! It's a very shocking and eye-opening read, especially for me (since I'm an American...) and many of the things the government tried to lead us to believe post 9/11 were exaggerated or fabricated or half-truths, trying to justify their involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and "the war on terror". I actually got to interview the author for my thesis via Twitter and Skype, which was awesome. At the time I remember him talking about a new book he was working on called Portable Happiness but to my knowledge it hasn't been published yet. I know that there have to be a lot of legal proceedings and such so that his work can be published. Guantanamo Diary was only allowed to be published if a lot of information about the US government and certain conditions at the prison were omitted because it's evidence of the US violating international human rights law (which for some reason they're allowed to do, just shows you how corrupt this country is and how money and power can let them side step the law when other, smaller or poorer countries would be punished), so you end up flipping through pages upon pages of redactions with footnotes from the guy who helped him publish it explaining what information was likely redacted since he'd done a ton of research about Guantanamo and the justice system.

It always amuses me that I'm pretty much completely alone, I've never really had any friends and average people always accuse me of being "boring", yet I've gotten to meet and/or have conversations with several famous people and public figures over the years lol.

I wish I remembered more about the background of this book that I read when I was working on it, but from what I remember it was pretty harrowing what he had to go through in order to publish it. 

I have always been amazed too by how willing some people are to speak about their work if you actually end up reaching out to them.  I have only ever spoken with a few of the musicians that I like, but it's all relative I guess!

1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

 

@Balor, you might like Roberto Calasso's "The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony". It's chock full of great insights into the Greek myths.

Thanks, I will check it out!

6 hours ago, Depraved said:

The last book I read all the way through for the first time was Guantanamo Diary  for a university seminar back in 2017 (which is excellent, by the way).

That was the one about the Guantanamo Bay prisoner from his perspective, right?  I had helped a professor of mine with a book chapter dealing with it a while ago, and thought that it looked really interesting.

16 hours ago, noelletennant said:

there’s not really a thesis, i’m just writing about the website as a whole, basically a research paper. 

Interesting.  So what are you particularly looking to learn about?