Black BARKING MAD Death, etc.

Ziege

2012-01-15T13:27:00.000-06:00

Kollwitz...Death

2011-12-31T11:46:00.000-06:00

dialingforstatic

2011-12-26T12:16:00.002-06:00

"...the Devil looked at me with a soft smile..."

...of Death...what else...?

2011-12-22T19:02:00.000-06:00

This is like an album cover or somethin from a dark electronica band called The Core Death. OK, but not really that dark, from what little I've heard. Google 'em and you can hear samples and download.

Here's the Angel of Death by, obviously, some Renaissance artist I can't name. If you can tell me who it is, I swear to Ol' Scratch hISSELF, I'll send you a $2 bill. Via the email. Both sides where you can print it off...

These guys are GOOD! I've only heard a coupla cover tunes they did, while I's lookin up other folks, but they sound like good old time straight down death metal to me.

Druidry

2011-12-16T07:32:00.000-06:00

w35d6

2011-12-11T08:31:00.000-06:00

"No human thing is of serious importance." -- Plato

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness

2011-12-02T17:57:00.001-06:00

Only when there is stillness in movement can one see what the fuck is really going on.

%)

Aaaaaahhh . . . yeah!

2011-12-01T17:26:00.001-06:00

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

%)

Third Stone from the Sun

2011-11-17T12:04:00.001-06:00

http://youtu.be/EUg7xl4kKUw

2011-10-11T15:05:00.000-05:00

SupeII--

2011-10-03T18:33:00.001-05:00

Strange visitor from another planet has perhaps internalized too much
the ways of his hosts. Our sick, selfish, twisted, glorified-by-double-speak-as-justice,
gene deep sense of vengeance, He has embodied.

Not a good time, criminal...

WAFWHIS

2011-09-12T17:48:00.000-05:00

Sung to the tune of
"What a Friend We Have
in Jesus"

Necromotimancivation

2011-08-20T16:02:00.000-05:00

~!@#$%^&*()_+

2011-08-14T17:56:00.000-05:00

Murk and Gloom: Expressions of Light

2011-06-03T15:52:00.000-05:00

Contemplating the water lilies at sunset, young Cassie fails to notice the emergence of a nymph from the water's edge...limned in crimson rush, 'neath the golden wet even...

Mist arises, sky darkens, night approaches. Boats abandoned as though all are behooven not to be about by now.

Some brave the night, but bring their own light. What vigil is this? The nocturnal fish? Or...safety, from that upon land...

Others, 'tho light fails, presume to encroach ...the forbidden. The long abandoned, or eccentric, the dangerous fool who places sofa upon lawn.

But the light does fail, fading from windows, hiding in nooks, raking high to leave the low in shadow.

'Til dusk thou still approacheth unhallowed, unheeding of creeping shadows.

The watcher, of stone, alerts us naught as gloom and murk increase...

For some the dark brings freedom, but they are of it... glimmers in the corner of the night-dimmed eye...

Others, of the gloom, seeking freedom. And woe to non-initiates...

But peace to those who've entered, Luna's cool embrace, beauty limned pearlescent, in pulchritude and grace.

Not so for those that stay the sun, and wither all about. Perched in stone and slithering, infest dark night with doubt...

Their ugliness is beauty seemed, illusions overcast,

'Til fences fires and torches come, in iron forms to last.

Peer out from roach-ridden hovel, viewing vacancy cold light,

To burn your eyes the sun-demon, brings end to cool dark night.

Artists' names are in the image id, save the last three, which are mine.
Text: Me riffin'

There's iron in my heart

2011-05-23T19:05:00.000-05:00

Tar, etc....

2011-05-23T18:47:00.000-05:00

No. Hell no!

2011-05-15T10:06:00.007-05:00

A. Decker Art

2011-04-30T12:10:00.004-05:00

"Wolfman's Claw"
pencil on 4x6" sketchpad

2011-04-18T15:25:00.001-05:00

dahhh...

2011-04-14T17:49:00.000-05:00

"kEEP yOUR wORLD oPEN; sTAY cONNECTED" . . . %)

2011-03-27T11:34:00.022-05:00

Text from The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography, by John C. Lily. Download no-cost ebook HERE or HERE.

2011-03-05T08:09:00.002-06:00

skin sack
radiation bonehead
monkey
flash in the pan
tube

give me money

Gagahemoth

2011-02-24T17:47:00.002-06:00

Click me. Got the balls?

Playlist Dump

2011-02-23T17:41:00.004-06:00

bioc

2011-02-13T11:59:00.002-06:00

Uh-uh, baby. You ain't doin' that to me!

2011-02-03T15:29:00.014-06:00

"The way I keep in touch with the world is very gingerly,
because the world touches too hard." ~ Don Van Vliet, January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010

2011-01-10T15:03:00.002-06:00

Hexagram#58.Tui / The Joyous, Lake

2010-11-27T14:35:00.004-06:00

THE JUDGEMENT

The Joyous. Success.

Perseverance is favorable.

THE IMAGE

Lakes resting one on the other:

The image of The Joyous.

Thus the superior man joins with his friends

For discussion and practice.

2010-11-07T09:49:00.000-06:00

Biz

2010-10-23T13:52:00.006-05:00

All images this post ©Simon Bisley

2010-09-24T15:53:00.001-05:00

finite CANNEEBAAL CAWPSE!!!

2010-08-31T11:39:00.003-05:00

=-___-=- - -=

2010-07-16T17:57:00.005-05:00

For ABCOLAB #2

(YOUR Art needed. Come help!)

Lizard Brain

2010-06-19T13:44:00.003-05:00

In Our Messy, Reptilian Brains, by Sharon Begley, MSNBC - April 9, 2007 http://www.newsweek.com/id/35728

"Let others rhapsodize about the elegant design and astounding complexity of the human brain‹the most complicated, most sophisticated entity in the known universe, as they say. David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, doesn't see it that way. To him, the brain is a "cobbled-together mess." Impressive in function, sure. But in its design the brain is "quirky, inefficient and bizarre ... a weird agglomeration of ad hoc solutions that have accumulated throughout millions of years of evolutionary history," he argues in his new book, "The Accidental Mind," from Harvard University Press. More than another salvo in the battle over whether biological structures are the products of supernatural design or biological evolution (though Linden has no doubt it's the latter), research on our brain's primitive foundation is cracking such puzzles as why we cannot tickle ourselves, why we are driven to spin narratives even in our dreams and why reptilian traits persist in our gray matter. Just as the mouse brain is a lizard brain "with some extra stuff thrown on top," Linden writes, the human brain is essentially a mouse brain with extra toppings. That's how we wound up with two vision systems. In amphibians, signals from the eye are processed in a region called the midbrain, which, for instance, guides a frog's tongue to insects in midair and enables us to duck as an errant fastball bears down on us. Our kludgy brain retains this primitive visual structure even though most signals from the eye are processed in the visual cortex, a newer addition. If the latter is damaged, patients typically say they cannot see a thing. Yet if asked to reach for an object, many of them can grab it on the first try. And if asked to judge the emotional expression on a face, they get it right more often than chance would predict‹especially if that expression is anger. They're not lying about being unable to see. In such "blindsight," people who have lost what most of us think of as vision are seeing with the amphibian visual system. But because the midbrain is not connected to higher cognitive regions, they have no conscious awareness of an object's location or a face's expression. Consciously, the world looks inky black. But unconsciously, signals from the midbrain are merrily zipping along to the amygdala (which assesses emotion) and the motor cortex (which makes the arm reach out). Primitive brains control movement with the cerebellum. Tucked in the back of the brain, this structure also predicts what a movement will feel like, and sends inhibitory signals to the somatosensory cortex, which processes the sense of touch, telling it not to pay attention to expected sensations (such as the feeling of clothes against your skin or the earth beneath your soles). This is why you can't tickle yourself: the reptilian cerebellum has kept the sensation from registering in the feeling part of the brain. Failing to register feelings caused by your own movements claims another victim: your sense of how hard you are hitting someone. Hence, "but Mom, he hit me harder!" Neurons have hardly changed from those of prehistoric jellyfish. "Slow, leaky, unreliable," as Linden calls them, they tend to drop the ball: at connections between neurons, signals have a 70 percent chance of sputtering out. To make sure enough signals do get through, the brain needs to be massively interconnected, its 100 billion neurons forming an estimated 500 trillion synapses. This interconnectedness is far too great for our paltry 23,000 or so genes to specify. The developing brain therefore finishes its wiring out in the world (if they didn't, a baby's head wouldn't fit through the birth canal). Sensory feedback and experiences choreograph the dance of neurons during our long childhood, which is just another name for the period when the brain matures. With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player. One reptilian legacy is that as our eyes sweep across the field of view, they make tiny jumps. At the points between where the eyes alight, what reaches the brain is blurry, so the visual cortex sees the neural equivalent of jump cuts. The brain nevertheless creates a coherent perception out of them, filling in the gaps of the jerky feed. What you see is continuous, smooth. But as often happens with kludges, the old components make their presence felt in newer systems, in this case taking a system that worked well in vision and enlisting it higher-order cognition. Determined to construct a seamless story from jumpy input, for instance, patients with amnesia will, when asked what they did yesterday, construct a story out of memory scraps. It isn't only amnesiacs whose brains confabulate. There is no good reason why dreams, which consolidate memories, should take a narrative form. If they're filing away memories, we should just experience memory fragments as each is processed. The cortex's narrative drive, however, doesn't turn off during sleep. Like an iPod turning on that cassette player, the fill-in-the-gaps that works so well for jumpy eye movements takes the raw material of memory and weaves it into a coherent, if bizarre, story. The reptilian brain lives on."

What'd I do?

2010-05-20T07:02:00.004-05:00

They shoulda checked my sidebar. I'm only 25% evil, fer chrissakes. Nevertheless, this was copied exactly as I found it in my Sitemeter stats, except I bolded all the "unknowns."

May 12 2010 6:56:08 am

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I can't decide. Is this funny . . . ?

Rise of the Vampires

2010-05-12T00:48:00.004-05:00

The first vampires, which emerged less than 26 million years ago according to genetic evidence, are closely related to insect-eating bats that may have gorged on the parasites of prehistoric beasts. "Once you're pulling insects off of a mammal, it's a very small step to going after the blood," he says.
Unlike other bats, vampire bats boast knife-sharp incisors that erupt out of their mouths. "You can actually cut yourself handling a bat skull in a museum, they're that sharp," Patterson says. Their tongues contain a specialized groove that allows a blood-meal to flow via capillary action, not sucking or slurping.
"They're absolutely amazing animals," he says.
One challenge to determining when and how these features evolved is the lack of genetic data on vampire bats, Liberles says. One sequencing centre is already at work on the genome of the little brown bat.
"A vampire bat genome project would be great," Liberles says.
Although he knows of no such project in the works, the breakneck pace of advances in gene sequencing technology means that it's a matter of time before scientists crack the instruction book to becoming a vampire bat.
That leaves human gene targeting - a key step in genetic engineering - as the final hurdle to creating your very own Nosferatu.

Full article here at New Scientist.

37mimy

2010-04-23T18:12:00.005-05:00

In the desert

I saw a creature, naked, bestial,

who, squatting upon the ground,

Held his heart in his hands,

And ate of it.

I said, "Is it good, friend?"

"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered;

"But I like it

Because it is bitter,

And because it is my heart."

From Stephen Crane's The Black Riders

The Angel of Death was his BFF

2010-04-22T16:22:00.004-05:00

I knew I'd seen that 'do before.

black snow

2010-04-17T18:03:00.002-05:00

"A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

p18+, p19

2010-04-17T17:39:00.003-05:00

The Gates of Paradise

A soldier came to Hakuin and asked, "Is there really a paradise and a hell?" "Who are you?" inquired Hakuin. "I am a samurai," the warrior replied. "You, a samurai!" exclaimed Hakuin. "What kind of ruler would have you as his guard? Your face looks like that of a beggar!" The soldier became so angry that he began to draw his sword, but Hakuin continued. "So you have a sword! Your weapon is probably as dull as your head!" As the soldier drew his sword Hakuin remarked, "Here open the gates of hell!" At these words, the samurai, perceiving the discipline of the master, sheathed his sword and bowed. "Here open the gates of paradise," said Hakuin. From Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

;-p

2010-04-14T16:01:00.000-05:00

...waiting...

2010-03-26T11:19:00.005-05:00

...just waiting,

Lord Carrion

surveys

the living.

All will soon

be his...

...waiting,

just waiting...

NW Highway & Jupiter

2010-03-26T00:28:00.004-05:00

3/22/10

recent additions to playlist:
Dragonlord,
Abigail Williams,
Wolves in the Throne Room,
Xasthur.

. . .

2010-03-24T01:02:00.001-05:00

HornedCast

2010-03-23T17:34:00.006-05:00

Primer podcast de True Fuck**g Metal en espanol. Click logo to check it out.

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas....

2010-02-22T17:26:00.003-06:00

...by Emil Schildt

Vampyres

2010-02-07T19:15:00.027-06:00

"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires...
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires?
What is it about the vampire myth that explains our interest?
Is it the overtones of sexual lust, power, control...
Or is it a fascination with the immortality of the undead?
And what dark and hidden parts of our psyche are aroused and captivated
By the legends of the undead (x's 3)
The mysteries of the undead will continue to fascinate the living.
The mysteries of the undead will continue to;
Will continue to fascinate the living...(legends)....
Vampires (distorted)
dead (echoed)
*Guitar solo*
Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires.
What explains our enduring fascination with vampires.
And what dark and hidden parts of our psyche are aroused and captivated-
By the legends of the undead (x's 3)"

~Vampires, Godsmack, 2000

1-19-10

2010-01-19T19:08:00.000-06:00

Dark Art & Metal Music

2010-01-16T14:54:00.005-06:00

the sound

of this sound

is now perpetual

wouldst thou end it

and make choices of thine own

thou must descendeth

unto the pit

and wrestle with

thine own

demons there . . . alone

No . . .

2010-01-13T16:55:00.038-06:00

I lost the impetus for posting segments of MY Metal History, coming up with stuff to go with it. Nobody listens to other peoples' playlists anyway, right? Well, if you disagree with that, here's the whole thing, about 199 songs, and that's the end of that.

I'll be back later with a different idea for this space.

Background music control is at the bottom of this page . . .

Vanitasmas

2009-12-13T16:57:00.008-06:00

Jaques De Gheyn the Elder

Vanitas

AXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! !!!!!!!!!! !!

2009-10-29T13:32:00.030-05:00

"I!" >< "I!"

i aM "!Mastodon!" Your blood dries on my tusks . . .

Hie! faggy T-rex!

prick

stage-diver

hhhhhhhh . . . !!

uhhh . . .

Muuwaahhaahaaa . . . !

shshshshshshshhhhhhhhhhsssshhhhhhh!!!!!

. .

. bLOODY cORPSE

$$$

2009-10-19T18:54:00.017-05:00

"Wages are a form of Slavery" ~graffiti on the bathroom wall of the GreenWarehouse, a former coffin factory, Fayetteville, AR, 1977.
". . . slavery becomes wage labor . . ." ~ Richard Heinberg, 1995

"The slave, together with his labour-power, was sold to his owner once for all...
The [wage] labourer, on the other hand,
sells his very self, and that by fractions...
He [belongs] to the capitalist class;
and it is for him... to find a buyer
in this capitalist class." ~ Karl Marx

A case of . . .

2009-06-22T14:06:00.007-05:00

"a case of real pocession"

~Antonio Diaz

38x50" Mixed media

(oil, acrylic, oil pastel, ink, etc.)

on Archival paper

"Antonio Trecel Diaz is a New York based artist whose drawings depict images of death, violence and dismemberment. Diaz creates symbolic systems that screen the traumatic, renderings of figures slipping beyond recognition. In Diaz’s economy the body is always a body in distress, torn apart by malfunctioning tools, impossible longings, charts and representations."
~exerpt of a review at PAPER MONSTER
To read the full article, and see more of Diaz's art, click the artist's name above.

Art found at Moon River

(My)Metal History; A Chronicle, pt.1

2009-05-30T19:24:00.002-05:00

Don't confuse this with something journalistic or pertinent. It's just me looking back at how (I think) the Metal got in my head. Hence you'll keep seeing "(My)" associated with it.
(Auto-start Player at bottom of page. You can shut it off.)

YouTube by myelvisworld

The 'Get-By'

2009-05-25T02:11:00.007-05:00

That's what I call my 'day job.' It's not my work; it's not my 'calling;' I don't consider checking cell phones to make sure they work my vocation, or even my occupation. It's just what I currently do to make ends meet--to get by.

"The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world."
- Eric Hoffer

YouTube by BigFatSandwich

Heavy Metal Forever!

2009-03-15T19:10:00.001-05:00

I'm 57, and if you think that's old

to be into this kind of stuff, check THIS out.

war

2009-03-14T17:22:00.004-05:00

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

~Albert Einstein

youtube by jfbeam

Rotting Christ

2009-03-13T09:26:00.012-05:00

Consummatum est Jerusalem

"Take, eat; this is My body." "This is My blood..."

"Visions of a Blind Order" ~ track 52

Perseus & Andromeda

T.S.o.t.S

Crucifix envy

Bacchante

"St. Anthony tempted by the devil in the form of a woman," after Sassetta

Icarus mourned by nymphs

Dead Poet

after Frazetta

Apparition

Oedipus/Sphinx

Phaethon

Heracles & The Hydra

Prometheus

"Hnnnnn!....Hnnnnn!....Hnnnnn!....Hnnnnn!....Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...!

after Alex Nino

"All art..."

Hand gesture

Ayyy!!! Double hand gesture!

"Shroud of Fear" inspired by the 'Calvin Pees' copyright infringement phenomenon.

Take your pick. These are uncopyrighted.

Art, from the top:

1., William Trost Richards

2., 8., Jean-Leon Gerome

3., 23., loljesusdotcom

4., 9., 12., 19., 20., 22., 24., 25., 26., 27., A. Decker

5., 6., Lord Frederic Leighton

7., Body Lingerie

10., Herbert James Draper

11., 13., 14., 15., 16., 17., Gustave Moreau

21., Met Art

Napalm Death: The Silence is Deafening: WhereAreTheWMDs?

2009-03-12T18:22:00.006-05:00

{*}

Silence Is Deafening
[Embury, Greenway]

Rant long and loud

Repeat 'til you're blue in the face

Ever get the feeling you're always on a losing streak?

Their silence is deafening

From the havens of thieves and kings
Empower those who serve to deflect suspicious minds

Action and answers as likely as a reversal of time

Their silence is deafening

From the retreats of tamed apologists

Their disdain is crippling

For those whose crises they have fixed
I am your "untermensch" - a trace of filth to be scraped off

A trace of filth to be scraped off

Yet when it's you who's in their debt

The strong-arm brings you to your knees

So much for "progressive authority"

A trace of filth to be scraped off

Power for the powerless - well, where?

Screaming at the wall to make more sense...
... I melt back into indifference

The silence is deafening

Misfits

2009-03-11T19:01:00.008-05:00

Walk Among Us + Peloquin

onethirtyeight.com

tee on fedora on bomber on bedpost

bad dream . . . great album

I want your skull . . .

Los Bros. Hernandez

PicklePuffs26

wolfnotdead

thealltimemusicman

blessedwithdeath

Satan's Blood y Possessed Hellchild, bringer of Death Metal, the reason You Suffer...

2009-03-10T12:39:00.002-05:00

The Sun Has Turned To Black

2009-03-09T18:08:00.008-05:00

"Dark Invocation" by Ravenor, used with permission

"Graveyard Guardian" by Ravenor, used with permission

Haaaaaa!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Haaaaaaaa!!!!!

2009-01-20T12:16:00.000-06:00

Widowmaker

2009-01-18T15:46:00.008-06:00

. . .

Frank Frazetta R.I.P.

Paintings courtesy of the Unofficial Frank Frazetta Fantasy Art Gallery. Sketches by bARKING mAD

February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010

TRA: A Desultory Graphic "Story" . . .

2008-01-19T15:54:00.000-06:00

Black BARKING MAD Death, etc.

Ziege

Kollwitz...Death

dialingforstatic

...of Death...what else...?

Druidry

w35d6

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness

Aaaaaahhh . . . yeah!

Third Stone from the Sun

SupeII--

WAFWHIS

Necromotimancivation

~!@#$%^&*()_+

Murk and Gloom: Expressions of Light

There's iron in my heart

Tar, etc....

No. Hell no!

A. Decker Art

dahhh...

"kEEP yOUR wORLD oPEN; sTAY cONNECTED" . . . %)

Gagahemoth

Playlist Dump

bioc

Uh-uh, baby. You ain't doin' that to me!

Hexagram#58.Tui / The Joyous, Lake

Biz

finite CANNEEBAAL CAWPSE!!!

=-_______-=- - ____-=

Lizard Brain

What'd I do?

Rise of the Vampires

37mimy

The Angel of Death was his BFF

black snow

p18+, p19

;-p

...waiting...

NW Highway & Jupiter

. . .

HornedCast

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas....

Vampyres

1-19-10

Dark Art & Metal Music

No . . .

Vanitasmas

AXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! !!!!!!!!!! !!

$$$

A case of . . .

(My)Metal History; A Chronicle, pt.1

The 'Get-By'

Heavy Metal Forever!

war

Rotting Christ

Napalm Death: The Silence is Deafening: WhereAreTheWMDs?

Misfits

Satan's Blood y Possessed Hellchild, bringer of Death Metal, the reason You Suffer...

The Sun Has Turned To Black

Haaaaaa!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Haaaaaaaa!!!!!

Widowmaker

TRA: A Desultory Graphic "Story" . . .

=-___-=- - -=