Mark your calendars!
by chesty
This might be the most fascinating thing I’ve seen on the internet in years. I had to watch the whole thing last night. Some thoughts…
- Seminars? I can’t find a list of session topics, but I did find this. Sessions will be presented by the likes Blaze, Boondox and Twiztid. So you get where they’re going with this – 401k advice and stock portfolio strategies.
- Sugar Slam… Erin Andrews best not slip up. She’s ready for the big-time.
- Comedians include Tom Green and Gallagher. Which sounds about right.
And just when I started to get bored with the video, there’s that ICP movie at the end. Wow. It’s a western with people in clown faces. Who are these people? Who are their fans? And how can I get a copy of that film?
I have to say, though, that I would find all this much more enjoyable to mock if I didn’t have a son who will inevitably reject my tastes in music and entertainment some day. And this would be the perfect nerve from him to stomp on. I’m going to have nightmares about him coming home from grade school in clown makeup.
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Weird, I just read an article that referenced that festival (or whatever it is called). I guess it is some kind of HorrorCore thing. I had never heard of HorrorCore, but I guess its a type of music. The article was in last months Maxim and it was about this guy who is in the business (I guess) and he killed 3 or 4 people. But, because of the article, I actually recognized some of the bands, label, and people that are referenced in the video. I just finished this article this weekend, really weird that you posted something 2 days later.
I’m wondering where you have to be – in your life, as a consumer, as a music-appreciator, as a follower of your version of pop culture – to say, “yeah, it seems that hard rock (or rap, or whatever) isn’t really doing it for me. I think I need to find some artists whose lyrics speak more to me – more about horrific tortures and murder.” Or, even in the case of ICP – “I’m gonna need some more misogyny and pointless, drunken bravado.”
Especially when you’re a kid from the suburbs without a single worry in your life.
It’s amazing. I’m guessing that it proves less that there’s any starving demand out there for this kind of thing, and more that – with the right strings pulled – ANYTHING can be marketed and sold.
A concept which also explains Glen Beck. So maybe not that amazing.