Fanboys

His two best by far?  You don't say!  I wonder why...

Is this good or bad?

I can't tell, halp!


You'd think I'd like this kinda crap intrinsically.  I hate that 4 cello Metallica crap though, and most of these Vitamin quartet songs are not that good.  But this...is good?  I don't know.  wat u think??

More custom swag?

Not only do I want a hipster Type O Negative scarf, I want a pair of Type O Negative jogging/basketball shorts.  Something like this:

Can you believe these don't exist in real life?  WTF Bluegrape?

I would just have a pair custom printed but I don't trust them to be aligned properly.  Heck the alignment is a little off on this mockup!

podcast hallucinations: conspiracies

Right now Mr. Booze is jacked up on benedryl and things are maybe not as clear as they should be.  But it sounds like the guy with those weird psychonaut podcasts on aliens and stuff also is the voice of the podcast on schizmatic pre-Vatican II Catholicism.





Yeah, what u think?  Aren't allergies terrible?  Would it help if I moved to LA?

Latin grammar with Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel's newest album is titled Illud Divinum Insanus.  In English it can means That Divine Insane One.  Let us step a little closer to the original Latin title for a moment, if you will.

Illud is the singular neuter of ille in either the nominative or accusative tense.  In this case it is nominative because, as best as I can tell, the divine insane one is not the direct object of a verb.  It means "that".

Divinum is the singular neuter of divinus, an adjective meaning "divine" or "heavenly".

Insanus is the singular masculine adjective meaning insane.  The neuter is insanum.

Together it is rendered literally as that divine insane, however I would assume that the lack of articles in Classical Latin it is implied that in this context the divine is being used like divinity as the subject, in that case it would be that insane divinity.  Or maybe Morbid Angel looked at this site and decided that was how they would translate it instead of taking the time to study Latin and buy a dictionary and use the substantive divinitas, which is actually a noun and would make That Insane Divinity or That Insane Divine One more grammatically correct.

In Latin grammatical tenses match gender as well as try to agree on inflections in order to create meaning.  So for example if you were to say that crazy divine in Latin and you were referring to a crazy divine man you would inflect as follows:  ille divinus insanus.  Or if it was of no gender or indeterminate you would say:  illud divinum insanum.

Basically if this were grammatically correct it would be Illud Divinum Insanum.  Or Ille Divinus Insanus.  Or even better Ille Divinitas Insanus.

So maybe Morbid Angel incorrectly translated this phrase into Latin because they wanted to illustrate "insanity".  Right?

Also also, All Music gave it 4 out of 5 stars and Metal Hammer gave it 9 out of 10!  So you also know that Phil Freeman and Dom Lawson picked up on the "crazy" theme, right?  I mean what other explanation could there be for giving it an A-, one mark short of perfection?

Winter's end wishlist

I wish that there was a black and green striped rugby style scarf for sale.  Like this:



Except black and green.  Sorta like this:



Except not such narrow stripes.  And a better shade of green.

Basically I want a hipster looking Type O Negative rugby scarf.  Which means I am going to hell.  But I don't care.  I also want a hat that just has the logo on it, nothing else.  But since Pete died the merch has dried up.  Are you listening Bluegrape???

The end of Japan

Did you know that Japan's birth rate is below replacement levels and the population is shrinking?  Do you know why?  Well I will show you why.


Yup, a clear case of guitarsterbation.  Such wankery will sour you with fertile women.  I'm sorry, it's true.