Women shouldn't be afraid to come forward about the trolls and pervs on VF. If someone is harassing you, by all means name names. I'm all for the rights of women, but I and others can't help you if you don't speak up.
Mood: Irritated Music: Born of Long Knives - Smells Like Green...
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*So first off, I want to clarify something here. I have had tattoos and been getting tattoos for a long time, and know lots of tattoo artists and people who own their own tattoo shops, thus I am very familiar with the culture. That being said, I do not want to hear comments like "Don't get a tattoo because someone else likes it! It's your body not theirs!". No shit fuckwad, I'm not an idiot. I'm simply asking opinions in order to generate ideas, if I don't like the idea I'm NOT going to put it on my body, I would only get a tattoo if I liked it a lot and personally wanted it on my body, my tattoos are for my pleasure not yours and I'm well aware of this fact, I just want some help brainstorming. Thanks!
Hey all. So, here's the deal. Some of you know why I was in prison, for those of you who don't, I was arrested for a massive amount of charges ranging from assault with a deadly weapon to grand theft by extortion and some weapons charges. Due to a lack of evidence and a good lawyer I ended up with only one charge: "Recruiting Criminal Gang Members". For those who didn't know, I was in a 1%er Motorcycle Club (if you don't know what that is Google it, I'm tired of explaining it to people...). Anyway, the club I was in ended up being disrespectful bitches who used me and sold me out, so I quit. They used me for money and gain then through me under the bus when the FBI and ATF cracked down. My national president even turned states evidence. That's the short version. Anyway, the point I'm getting at is this: I was a high ranking officer in the club and had the club name "Slayers" tattooed on my stomach. Now that I have quit, I want to cover up the tattoo. I do like the ink work on my stomach though, and love the band Slayer, so I decided I'm simply going to cover the "S" at the end on my left rib cage (see picture below). So, I've been trying to brainstorm ideas for a good cover up on the "S". Lookin for any ideas from you guys! Keep in mind the ink on the "S" is black grey and red. Also, for those of you artistically inclined, if you draw your idea and send it to me, and I actually like it a lot and decide to use the exact image, I will buy you 1 year of premium membership, if I use a variation of the drawing, I'll by months of membership, the amount of months depending on how much me and/or my tattoo artist decide to change it. Thanks! Let me hear your ideas! I value everyone's opinion, don't be bummed if I don't like your idea enough, remember it's a tattoo and I'll have it forever so I have to like it a lot, and everyone has different tastes, so if I don't use your idea don't take it personally.
Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been on in a while. Next week is finals week, and college has been quite overwhelming lately. This semester just flew by, and it seems like professors like to overload you with work for the last month u.u On a happy note, I graduate the 19th (yay!!!), so I should have a lot more time after that :3 I hope everything is going well! Take care! ^_^
THE MASTER OF ELECTRONIC EVIL SPEAKS OUT ON ELECTRO HATE!
April 29, 2013, 07:01:pm
Right now is truly an exciting time for electronic music. Whether you like it or not, stuff like Dubstep has recently gained electronic music a more wide spread acceptance. Being one of the pioneers of electronic music here in Oklahoma (along with a small handful of others) I have watched this state go from a hatred of electronic music to requesting shit like Skrillex on the local rock radio stations, talk about progress. It seems like for a longtime now it has been trendy to hate electronic music, and yet the haters can never really give a good reason for why they hate it so much. It's perfectly fine if a specific genre of music is just not for you, I know I don't like everything I hear, but I wouldn't go so far as to call a genre of music I don't care for personally a fraud. But I hear many musicians an fans alike make baseless claims that it takes less talent to write electronic music, when the fact is it takes just as much musical prowess to write an electronic album as it does to write a metal album or a punk album. Contrary to what a lot of people think there are many many of us electronic musicians who write our music sound by sound, beat by beat, key by key, which takes talent in song writing,understanding of musical technology, and a LOT of time. This crap aside electronic music has become much more widely accepted over the last few years and it is encouraging to see. I don't care what sort of electronic music it is, if the general public likes it then it inevitably invokes a wide spread new found respect, or at least open mindedness, towards all forms of electronic music. I have noticed however that while the general public has started to embrace electronic music more it seems like it is becoming a big trend in the halls of rock and roll fame to loudly decry the genre much more often.
I have been reading and watching more and more interviews with big rock and roll stars where they talk down about electronic music. Many of these now famous bands at one time or another in their career implemented electronic music into their rock albums. It seems like now that so many of these bands became super huge they are now turning around and saying things like, electronics in music aren't needed, or electronic music is half hearted. Here are just two reasons why these fools are point blank wrong. First off the music industry today for the up and coming musician is both full of opportunity and full of bullshit. Everyone can make a pro sounding album for next to nothing, build an awesome website, and distribute their own music world wide, which used to take a ton of money and a big record deal to do. This makes for an awesome playground for the aspiring musician to enter, a very crowded playground at that, but it quickly becomes feeling lonely in a crowd. There is just so much going on, most new bands are around for 2 months at best before splintering and going their separate ways then forming new even shorter lived bands. The ease of access to the music industry now brings in a LOT of aspiring musicians who decide after a year or so that they don't want to be musicians after all. In short the online musical revolution has created a LOT of static to wade through. Even though I said that it often feels very lonely in a large crowd, the online musical revolution of the last decade or so HAS made it much easier to meet other musicians, but unfortunately the vast majority aren’t really interested in working hard with a band for the long haul. I think this is one of the reasons why you are seeing so many electronic music projects spring up every year, as a lot of serious musicians get tired of waiting for a solid line up of hard worker sand turn to the world of electronic music to finally get started on their musical aspirations, completely self sustaining. However that’s just one aspect of electronic music that these rock star assholes ignore when they try and down play the genre. The other more important reason is that some of us musicians generally love electronic music and are genuinely interested in making electronic albums. I myself come from a back ground in metal music. I played live with a metal band for a few years before venturing into the mysterious world of electronic music. I've been on both sides of the fence I guess from a full band of guitars, amps, drum sets, and egos,to a solo project full of machines. I could go on and on about whatsit actually takes to write an electronic album from scratch, from the ground up. Yes there are a lot of electronic acts out there who don’t write their music from scratch which has given the genre somewhat ofa bad rep here and there but let me assure you there are just as many honest electronic musicians writing and constructing completely original albums from the very first measure to the last. I initially started experimenting with electronic music out of passing curiosity,which later turned to an obsession. Eventually years had gone by since I had last even thought about picking up a guitar. I found myself enthralled with the sheer freedom of electronic music, a gen rein which I can literally make anything I have in my head musically happen on my own, and I know many electronic musicians who are the same way I am about it. So when some big famous rock band stands upland talks about the electronic genre like its a nuisance to music,they are basically calling us electro heads second class artists. When it comes down to it music is music, and it all takes talent to compose. People need to understand one thing, there are a ton of great guitarists out there, a ton of great drummers out there, a ton of great keyboardists out there, a ton of great singers out there,but that doesn't make all those people song writers. An awesome guitarist doesn't magically make one band's music more valid than the next, same goes with any other instrument one chooses to play, and the same goes for whatever genre of music one chooses to compose. Iris all music! Most of us electronic musicians make the music we make because we love the genre, electronic music is what answered our call to create, just like metal music may have been a different musician’s answer, or rap, or punk. If I had a dime for every time over the last decade that people have offered to play guitar for Pittersplatter I would be financially bigger than a lot of these famous jokers talking about electronic music right now. If I wanted to guitar, I would have done it already. If I wanted to be some sort of metal electrodynamic I would have done it, if I wanted to be a rapper I would have done it, if I wanted to be in a metal band I would have gone back to that, but just like the heaviest of metal heads and the most hardcore indie rockers out there, the music I am creating is the genuinely music I want to make, the music I love. How is it any more or less valid?
So when it comes to these big wigs talking down about electronic music lately there is a few things Would like to point out to them. First off, music is growing and changing constantly, keep up. Secondly not everyone is rich enough to hire new session musicians every time a fight breaks out, many musicians today have to make do with what they have, or simply not write music at all. Third, to call somebody’s musical effort “half ass” simply because you don't care for the genre or the method sin effect placing yourself upon a grand pedestal of judgment where you decide what is “real music” and what isn't. I have heard Romany of these assholes use the term “real music” or “real metal” or “real this or that” and they don't even realize that when it comes to music there is no such thing as “fake” music. There are either sound waves being produced, or not, its that simple!ALL MUSIC IS REAL! Maybe famous electronic artists should get up and say something like “All these metal bands are just half embarrassing and relying too much on guitars, which makes our job harder and is the reason why we don't make as much money as we used too”.Saying something like that would be just as fucking stupid as what a lot of these electronics hating rock gods are spewing lately.
So I guess my final thought on this is more of a manifesto of sorts. I am Worm Splatter, creator and sole song writer of Pittersplatter. I make electronic albums from the ground up. The music I make is just as valid and involved as the music the garage band down the street is making. Think of how much better of a time upcoming artists would have if musicians would band together and respect each others work, regardless of genre preference. I think that is definitely something we could all learn to do one day, but I will say that having music legends spewing musically divisive crap is only adding to the bickering and disrespect in music, they definitely aren't setting good examples in music professionalism.
Pittersplatter will be included in the upcoming Mutant-E Records (AE)quilibrium v4.0 compilation. The compilation will feature the track Mummies and Music Boxes. More details soon!
A new song from Pittersplatter, and a comic book?????
April 29, 2013, 02:53:pm
Very close to having a new song done. This song is something I have had in my head for years but could never finish until now. I bounced the idea for this song around for a year or so and then from this song idea came the notion to start a comic series loosely based off the song. Now that the song is almost complete I have made the first steps to make the comic a reality. This comic is something I will be doing on the side when not busy with band material and it is something I will likely just give away for free. There isn't much posted yet but check it out at the link below.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Kiss this and hang
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Kiss this and hang
A beautiful sight. We lay down inside. My head it never believed the tide.
tiiiiiiiiiide
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (chorus)
A beautiful sight. We lay down inside. Our head it never will leave the tide.
You understating, understand your undeceiving, and it's sad the breach comes with the peace it makes you like you want. Hear this.. Kiss!
and Bang... 1....2.....3....4....5....6......7
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (chorus)
I know your watching, so why you could wear that Leather(?). Our friends talk talk about the weather. I know your waiting, why you waiting to exist(?) Scar, Scar, and now you take chances(?). Since your a suicide my bro.. trash trash my gash, oh it's the gas.
Suited Monkey Productions has created a really cool snake oil inspired alternate cover for our latest album Frozen. You can download the cover art and paste it into your media player of choice. To download this art simply visit www.facebook.com/pittersplatterofficial and look for it in our photos.
Anyone who claims that electronic music isn't "real music" is a fucking idiot. Fact of the matter is music is music, regardless of method. When someone makes music, regardless of how it is made, they produce sound waves which hit your ear drum and are interpreted. So saying that electronic music is not real music, or someone telling you that your music is fake just because of the tools you use to create it is in essence asserting that the sound waves produced by said music are somehow fabricated and false, which is impossible. Either there is sound, or there is not. Just because a guitar makes noise doesn't mean that the noise it makes is some how more valid than the noise a keyboard makes. To say otherwise is to assert that the sound waves produced by a guitar are real, and the sound waves produced by a synthesizer are an unreal fantasy. To assert that it takes more talent to write a metal song than it does to write an electronic song is equally stupid. Song writing is song writing, regardless of the style or method. There are a lot of rock bands in which every member steps in to write their part of a song and then come together, there are a lot of electronic musicians who write full albums completely solo. I have heard morons claim that it takes less talent to write electronic music, yet if I were to sit them down in my studio and tell them to write me a song they wouldn't know their ass from a hole in the ground. So to you electronic music haters, grow up and get a clue as to what you are talking about before opening your mouth.
This rant was brought to you by the letter F and Worm Splatter.
