[kj] Celtic Frost as Match-Breaker

Alex Smith vassifer at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 14 19:22:52 EDT 2005 

It was all for the best, really. We had zero in common. I'm a music geek, and she didn't even own a radio. She loved sports, I have nothing but abject contempt for all jocks. She didn't like going to movies, because she resented having "one of her senses totally dominated" (or something). She was also hugely religious, although she was very sexually aggressive (quite a paradox.....which is why I was hanging out with her to begin with, and willing to put up with all the other shenanigans). So, at one point, she was trying to get inside my head and learn what it was about this music stuff that I loved so much, and there she was -- flippin' through my LP's (remember those?) Out she pulls TO MEGATHERION and *literally* clasps her hands over her mouth ("speak no evil" stylee). She also drops it like it was radioactive or something ("touch not the unclean thing" I guess). Now, after fourteen years of Catholic education, blasphemy is just about my very favorite thing in the entire world. So, basically, I said, "Sally, if the very thing that I find so hugely amusing totally horrifies you, then clearly we are not meant to be together".  And so it was.

She got hers back, though. About a year later, after I'd been summarily dumped by a woman from my office I'd been foolishly dating (never do this), I was walking around Central Park in the rain, drenched and feeling sorry for myself. I'm limping up Fifth Avenue looking like a waterlogged homeless person (think the cover of `Tull's AQUALUNG), and along comes Sally with a Christmas themed umbrella, carrying a mini-Christmas tree. She practically shouted "HA!" at me. Ah well.

Give me Tom Warrior over a religious sports-fan with a cinema hang-up any day.

Alex iN NYC



-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Perry <neilfperry at btinternet.com>
Sent: Apr 14, 2005 6:52 PM
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Subject: Re: [kj] SCARIEST record... and cover

That's the best laugh I've had all week (and I love
that album, saw Celtic Frost while tripping once,
thoroughly recommend it) - didn't you follow up by
showing her the Dead Kennedys penis landscape?
N

 --- Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> 
> Ah, TO MEGATHERION.....I once broke up with a girl
> over that record! 
> Hahahahaha....
> 
> In the winter of `93, I found myself dating a rather
> irritating woman 
> who had the annoying habit of leaning over and  
> cutting up my food at 
> restaurants (like your mother used to do) and was a
> flagrant 
> church-goer. One day, while perusing through my
> record   collection, 
> she happened upon TO MEGATHERION by Celtic Frost,  
> charmingly adorned 
> with an HR GIGER painting of Satan using the
> crucifix as a slingshot. 
> She was shocked to the point of utter
> speechlessness, and we broke up 
> on the spot (thank...er...god). Amen,  Celtic Frost.
> 
> 
> Alex in NYC
> 
> 
> On Thursday, April 14, 2005, at 01:33 PM, Javier
> Garcia wrote:
> 
> > Diamanda Galas has a lot of scary moments!!
> > I saw here live about 3/4 years ago, it was only
> Diamanda all dressed 
> > in black, a huge black piano and a very soft
> ambient light that went 
> > from yellow to red. Some pretty intense/scary
> moments indeed!!.
> >
> > This topic took me to my young teenage days...
> remember the first time 
> > saw Celtic Frot's "To Megatherion" cover, with
> that great Giger's 
> > illustration of a devil aiming at you with a
> crucifix. Remember i 
> > thought: "oh man!, this guys are really going
> pretty heavy, pretty 
> > 'satanic'!" then listened to 'Danse Macabre' and
> it really was the 
> > scariest thing I've ever listened to. They had
> some scary moments 
> > besides that song(?), and after the shock I turned
> into a Celtic Frost 
> > fan (still enjoy their -by those years- avant
> garde metal, now sounds 
> > almost primitive!).
> > And talking about album covers, another one that
> impresed me and kept 
> > me busy searching for some hidden message was
> "Reign in Blood" by 
> > Slayer. What a great wicked piece of scary art!
> >
> > Mis dos pesos
> >
> > Javier
> > mexico city
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christof hamille"
> <wessidetempest at hotmail.com>
> > To: gathering at misera.net
> > Subject: Re: [kj] SCARIEST record...
> > Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:56:12 -0500
> >
> >>
> >> Hahahaha.  Oh that kills me.  I know one person
> that worships, and
> >> I mean one step from getting a restraining order,
> the ground she
> >> walks on and curses.  Another person that saw her
> live a long time
> >> ago and does not want her name even mentioned.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>> From: Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
> >>> Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke
> (the band!)"
> >>> <gathering at misera.net>
> >>> To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the
> band!)" 
> >>> <gathering at misera.net>
> >>> Subject: Re: [kj] SCARIEST record...
> >>> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:45:40 -0400
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'd say PLAGUE MASS by Diamanda Galas. That
> stuff'll turn your shit 
> >>> WHITE!
> >>>
> >>> Alex in NYC
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Bill
> Meissner wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>     So what IS the scariest record of all
> time???
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>   I would say
.   1.) THE MOON LAY HIDDEN
> BENEATH A CLOUD – “A
> >>>> Soldier Fallows the Path of a New King”
> >>>>
> >>>>                           2.) WHITE NOISE – “An
> Electric Storm”
> >>>> (check this one out!!!)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>                       Billy Goat
> >>>>
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