How's it going my gumdrops? On Thursday afternoon, I published a blog
asking if you would like for me to publish more Q&A blogs.
While
working on Thursday's blog, I clenched my chest in shock after reading
the headline about Chester Bennington of both Linkin Park and Stone
Temple Pilots.
Supposedly,
Chester hung himself on what would have been Chris Cornell's (Chester's
close friend) 53rd birthday had he also NOT supposedly hung himself, 2
months ago.
You
may be wondering why I keep saying the word, "supposedly." Call me a
crazy "conspiracy theorist," but both of their deaths were extremely sudden.
Chester
Bennington and Chris Cornell's so-called suicides remind me of Michael
Hutchence's death from 20 years ago.
In case you are unfamiliar with
Michael Hutchence, he was the lead singer of the Australian Rock band,
INXS.
In April 1997, the band released their final
10th album with Hutchence, Elegantly Wasted. It was named after their
song of the same name, "Elegantly Wasted."
INXS had plenty of tours scheduled to celebrate
their 20th anniversary that year.
By November 22,
1997 INXS's homecoming tour was canceled after Michael Hutchence was
found dead hanging outside his hotel window in Sydney, Australia.
Reports claim that Michael hung himself.
On January
19, 2016, Soundgarden announced that they were working on their next
studio album.
Apparently, they had been working on their music for the
last several years and were touring.
After
Soundgarden performed on May 17, 2017 at The Fox Theatre, located in Downtown Detroit, MI, Chris Cornell was found dead by his
bodyguard on May 18th around 12:15 am.
According to the reports,
Cornell's body was lying on the bathroom floor of his hotel room at the
MGM Grand Hotel.
***An exercise band was wrapped around Chris Cornell's neck and blood was in his mouth.
By
the Detroit Police reviewing a hotel surveillance video, they ruled out
a homicide.
Supposedly, there was no evidence showing anyone entering
or exiting Cornell's hotel suite, after the frontman's bodyguard left
around 11:35 pm.
By June 2, 2017 the coroner confirmed that Chris Cornell committed suicide.
Chester Bennington was not only a close friend of Chris Cornell's, but also the Godfather of Cornell's son, Christopher.
In
an interview withRadio.com, Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda claimed that
Chester was really aggrieved, as they performed "One More Light."
Radio.com: Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Claims Chester Bennington Was Hit Hard By Chris Cornell’s Suicide (2017)
This interview with Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda was taped on May 19,
2017. This was the day after Soundgarden's Chris Cornell died of
suicide. I'm still not believing this story.
Chris' death sounds very
suspicious; It sounds more like he was murdered.
Considering
that Soundgarden was last seen in Detroit, MI, it would NOT surprise me
if Cornell was murdered.
Detroit is notorious for having a criminal
element. I know this because I have relatives, who unfortunately live
there.
As for Chester Bennington, he grew up
troubled. At 7 years old, he was sexually abused by an older male friend
and was scared to ask for help. He did not want everyone thinking he
was gay or a liar. The abuse did not stop, until he
was 13 years old.
Here's the real kicker, Chester Bennington's father
was a police detective, who worked with sexual abuse cases.
Meanwhile,
Chester's mother was a nurse. By the time he was 11, his parents got
divorced and Chester's father gained custody of him.
During
the time of their divorce, Chester Bennington began using marijuana,
alcohol, opium, cocaine, methamphetamine, and LSD.
After turning 17, he
moved in with his mother. When she discovered that he was using drugs,
she banned him from leaving the house. By 2011, Chester Bennington
supposedly quit using drugs.
In addition to Chester
Bennington's dilemmas, he and his wife were harassed by the
cyberstalker, Devon Townsend. The cyberstalking went on for almost a
year.
Luckily, Townsend was found guilty of
tampering with the couple's e-mails, sending threatening messages, and
was later sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Learning about Bennington's
cyberstalker makes me even more suspicious than before.
What if Chester's cyberstalker, Devon Townsend murdered him on Thursday and made his death appear as a "suicide"?
You
may assume that I am some crazy fan with conspiracy theories. Given the
fact, that people were always attacking Chester, anything is possible.
Regardless if Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington's deaths were murders
or suicide, the news about both frontmen dying was and still is tragic.
Excluding
the critics, trolls, AND haters, both frontmen are worldwide losses.
Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell greatly touched the lives of many
families, friends, fans, and celebrities. If you don't believe me, here
are 2 videos from these people.
1) Death Of Chester Bennington: Celebrities Reaction [Dwayne Johnson, Mike Shinoda, and Others] (2017)
2) Loudwire: Rock World Reacts To Chester Bennington's Death (2017)
After publishing Thursday's blog about my Q&A, Jesse posted in the comments section:
"The lead singer of Linkin Park has been found dead. What are your thoughts of him and his band?"
Depending
on my chaotic schedule, I plan on answering Jesse's question. Anyway,
here are my favorite Linkin Park music videos for today's Song Saturday.
1) Linkin Park "One Step Closer" Hybrid Theory (2000)
2) Linkin Park "Papercut" Hybrid Theory (2000)
3) Linkin Park "Points Of Authority" Hybrid Theory (2000)
4) Linkin Park "In The End" Hybrid Theory (2000)
5) Linkin Park "Bleed It Out" Minutes To Midnight (2007)
[BONUS]
1) Linkin Park [Chris Cornell Tribute] "One More Light" One More Light (2017)
2) Jonathan Davis [Featuring Chester Bennington] "System" Queen Of The Damned Soundtrack (2002)
How's it going my gumdrops? Similar to an old Xanga 1.0 blog that was published 4 years ago, this is a rant blog about the
ridiculousness of publicly shaming others online. Publicly shaming
people online has become ridiculously rampant, lately.
Years ago, I LOVED being on the
Internet. Now, I find myself hating it more than anything these days.
The Internet has turned into an online playground for cruel, inhumane,
sadistic, vindictive, and malicious men, women, and children.
People
like them have ALWAYS existed, but now there are more platforms for
these narcissistic sociopaths and low-lives to spread their misanthropy
like a fatal disease.
Age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion,
non-religion, social class, political affiliation, sexuality, etc. all factor into
this hatred.
Originally, I was going to say that all
of the above do NOT factor into this hatred. However, they really DO.
People want to hate someone for the sake of hating.
Before
anybody wants to use Donald Trump as a scapegoat, this hatred existed
LONG before he became our president.
This level of HATRED worsened since the year of 2000, which was before President Bill
Clinton left the White House for George W. Bush and before the terrorist attacks had occurred on
September 11, 2001.
By the 21st Century, more people with zero involvement in the
entertainment industry became obsessed with filming and taking pictures of
themselves ad nauseam.
In
addition, more of those from of that same ilk started filming and
taking pictures of other people for exploitation and public humiliation
purposes, as well as praise.
This
may seem like slapstick humor for those depraved low-lives, but it's not
for those who must endure it.
Some, who have suffered from
public shaming online lost their businesses, jobs, families, as
well as their own lives, if they haven't already committed suicide over
their reputations being ruined.
Within
the last 1-3 years of so-called "political activist" groups provoking
the genocide of law enforcement and white people, the hatred keeps
getting worse.
This is also when they are NOT exploiting women,
children, murder, rape, suicide, natural disasters, charities,
tragedies, violating our privacy, bullying, stalking, cyber stalking,
and slandering others for the sake of being mean-spirited and malicious.
These are the same types of
self-righteous low-lives and narcissistic sociopaths, who fail to
understand WHY they have no real friends, girlfriends, boyfriends,
spouses, etc.
Over
the last week to 2 years, I have endured smear campaigns, cyber
stalking, and public shaming NOT by catty women, but by men suffering
from overblown egos and Little Dick Syndrome.
If you didn't already know, Little Dick Syndrome is basically when men in high positions abuse their power.
Some may be scoffing and rolling their eyes at me for publishing this blog,
especially since I am not flaunting statistical data.
Today's blog does NOT require an infographic to demonstrate how incredibly abominable public shaming over
the Internet has become.
Whether you're watching,
reading, or listening to the news or not, publicly shaming other people
online continues to increase. It is the female gender, that endures the
most public shaming.
Belonging to a toxic forum such as Adult Swim and social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc, etc. are enough to make ANYONE with some human decency want to delete his/her own account(s), if not abandon those sites.
Those
toxic websites enable, pander to, and condone misogynists and misanthropes.
I
believe the administrators shut down Adult Swim's forum without
giving the community any notice, last winter because they saw how
atrocious the community became.
Over these last 3 years, some of my
subscribers already knew just how horrible it was for
some of us to belong to a male-dominated forum for a divisive and male-centric Cable TV network.
I never expected for
everybody to personally like me on Adult Swim's forum. Although, I NEVER
expected for so many posters to personally discriminate against me for being a
newer poster, while personally harboring an irrational hatred for no reason.
I
belong to MANY websites ranging from blogging communities, social media
sites, to Anime forums.
NONE of those communities have ever assumed the
worst about me, as a human being or my good intentions.
They especially do NOT feel threatened or resent me for being a woman of color, who built her
own website for free.
Over 2 years ago, I noticed
that those posting on Adult Swim's forum are CLASSIST and generally begrudge
successful people, especially successful women.
The posters waste MOST their time criticizing someone's diction, font size, font color, show
ratings, politics, religion, favorite shows, etc, etc.
Shortly
after joining Adult Swim's community, my feelings about the network
became worse than they were before joining.
I already knew the assholes in charge of the network loved mocking their own viewers, disguising their insults as jokes, were
patronizing, and were EXTREMELY sexist towards women. Belonging to Adult
Swim's forum was a lot worse than imagined and expected.
Even though there
were other women posting on Adult Swim's forum, the men over there
barely have respect for women in general.
The man-children have this great sense
of entitlement. Not to generalize every Adult Swim poster, but certain
posters within Adult Swim's community REALLY believe that everyone owes them something.
The
man-children from Adult Swim's forum compare themselves to Reddit and
4Chan trolls.
Nearly 2 weeks ago, an Adult Swim friend said that she was trying to
learn Japanese. In her thread, I let her know that I sent her links to
Japanese books I used, throughout my years of studying.
Then,
I listed 5 different styles of writing Japanese, which included
Furigana. There was already an overbearing know-it-all in her thread. He
claimed he was the "Go-To Guy" for studying the language because he
automatically assumed that nobody knew Japanese except him. This was where it became ridiculous.
Because I said
that Furigana was another way of writing Japanese, he derailed my friend's
thread by discrediting me the ENTIRE time. Furigana is mostly used as a
Japanese reading aid for those learning to write the language much like
Romaji.
When I was learning Japanese as a teenager,
that poster was ONLY a toddler. There are actual Japanese books and
worksheets with Furigana and I also had teachers that taught me how to
write Furigana. Here's the kicker, that poster claims to be the "Go-To
Guy" YET he's not fluent in his own native language!
That
poster made such a HUGE stink about what I said. Eventually, I told he
and everyone else that I studied Japanese for YEARS and have a BA in
Asian Studies.
This was along with letting him know
that I was not some pretentious Weeaboo, who studied Japanese only for
the purpose of wanting to understand what characters were saying in Japanese animation.
Mr. Know-It-All became SO offended by my
statement that he implied that I was lying, then THREATENED to make "a
laughingstock out of me on Reddit" simply because I said, that Furigana is
a part of the Japanese writing system.
Were his antics even necessary?
Finally,
I told the "Go-To Guy" that he was acting like a juvenile, pompous,
self-righteous, know-it-all and I let him know, that most people will
NOT tolerate his antics.
Since he refused to stop
derailing my friend's thread, I told him to go get bent and left.
Certain Adult Swim posters have extremely overblown egos.
Typically,
Adult Swim posters must turn EVERYTHING into a serious competition over who is
right and who is wrong, must turn fun and innocent discussions into flame wars, if not intentionally take something that was said out of context to cause division,
must have the last word, psychoanalyze, nitpick, minimize, and discredit
everything and everyone.
In addition, some of the
male posters seriously expect women to be submissive and weak to them
and owe them an explanation for any and every little thing somebody says,
does, likes, etc. This includes male Adult Swim posters being predators like the lowlife, who has been slandering AND purposely MISGENDERING me for the last 2 years.
That
narcissistic sociopath expects for women to give him nude selfies,
posts revenge porn, premeditates fights among minority female posters,
loves violating our privacy by publicly posting copies of our e-mail
messages, anonymous reports, posting death threats, sending threatening
messages to women, hacking other posters' accounts and servers, and gossips
about us like some high school gossip queen!
Our
crooked, former head moderator from Adult Swim is mostly to blame for
the never ending smear-campaign, which was launched against me 2 years
ago.
That lowlife, piece of shit sadistically violated my privacy by doxing my
anonymous reports about someone, who only PRETENDED to be my friend to cause social division.
That
"friend" was a manipulative, backstabbing liar, and a slanderer, who set me up to fight
with 1 of his flunkies and got me banned on Memorial Day 2015. That was
why I removed him from my website TWICE.
Seems spiteful to some, BUTwould you want to be "friends" with
someone who sets you up to fight a flunky of theirs on a holiday?
Would
you want to be friends with someone, who guilt trips you?
Would you want
to be friends with someone, who lets their other "friends" attack you,
then be blamed for being attacked and insulted for it?
Every time I reported the attacks on Adult Swim, our former crooked head moderator would purposely ignore my reports with malicious intent.
OTHERWISE, he singled me out by making
indirect call out threads, publicly threatening to ban me THRICE for anonymously reporting assholes, who attacked me and OTHER posters, as well as doxing my anonymous
reports while COLLUDING with them!
I could list a
number of atrocities our former head moderator committed on Adult Swim
within these last 2 years. He panders, enables, condones, and sometimes PARTICIPATES in these atrocities.
For example, a few
divisive Adult Swim posters wanted our sub-forum to play a game called
Turkey Shoot for Thanksgiving 2015.
Turkey Shoot was a divisive game our
sub-forum wanted to play, which consisted of PUBLIC SHAMING.
The
objective was to find the WORST threads they could by other posters.
After finding those threads, posters necrobumped them to the front page
saying that they "bagged a turkey."
***Whoever bagged the worst threads for PUBLICLY SHAMING POSTERS, won prizes!
Some
of us did NOT participate in Turkey Shoot because it was a
divisive and mean-spirited game in disguise to play for Thanksgiving.
All the while,
our former crooked head moderator always loves patronizing us with his self-righteous hypocrisy about not flame baiting, necrobumping threads with
malicious intent, and some other self-righteous lectures.
Originally, he was hesitant to play this game. Then, my former "friend,"
who has been cyber stalking, misgendering, and smearing my reputation for the last 2
years, guilt tripped our moderator into playing that public shaming
game.
Honestly, it would not surprise me, if he
blackmailed our head moderator because he is just that deplorable of a
human being.
I still have his harassing messages that he sent to me on my website. They are still in the Contact form submissions, that I receive from people who want to send a message to me.
Since
that narcissistic sociopath wants to keep cyber stalking, misgendering, slandering doxing, and publicly shaming me online, I have
contemplated reporting to somebody in a much higher power, who CAN make him disappear from the web.
The man's a narcissistic sociopath with mental, behavioral, and substance
abuse problems excluding the fact, he's an unfit
father and had a hand in his friend being murdered, when he was a
teenager.
I only know about this BECAUSE he posted about it on our
former crooked head moderator's PUBLIC forum, earlier this year.
Some
of you may be reading my blogs and assuming, that I am some militant
feminazi who hates men.
For the record, I do NOT hate men. My
audience has ALWAYS been male-dominated because of the music I played
on my radio show, years ago and my interests.
Egomaniacs have
been taking me to task these last 3 years. Obviously, they see me as a threat to
their manhood, when I'm NOT.
Today's blog is longer
than my usual blogs because publicly shaming people online is much worse than a terminal disease and is barely discussed.
In the meantime, here is a
video explaining more in detail about social media shaming.
How's it going my gumdrops? Since so many of you enjoyed those Animated Horror Shorts that I
shared 2 weeks ago from Axeman Cartoons, I have another creepy short to
share with you all.
In case you missed 10 Two Sentence Horror Stories
for Cartoon Sunday, you can check it out right HERE.
Today
we have Christopher Christensen's poem, "The Stone Wall." "The Stone
Wall" was illustrated by YeahManTV, while Let's Read narrated this
creepy piece.
If you have an appreciation for
Textured Art with abstract spirals, Dr. Seuss, and Edgar Allan Poe, "The
Stone Wall" may be right up your alley. I'll admit to being
automatically biased, when it comes to abstract spirals in the
animation.
The spirals remind me of some of the work
I did in high school for Art Class. Also, I did something similar to
this type of Textured Art, when the band, KoRn held their album cover
contest before releasing their 4th album, Issues in 1999.
It sucks that I didn't win the the album cover contest. Then again, Issues wasn't that great of a KoRn album. The first 3 will always be their best albums as well as their 5th album, Untouchables. Well, I digress.
As
I watched "The Stone Wall," it reminded me of Dr. Seuss meets Edgar
Allan Poe's "The Cask Of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." This is
along with a SMIDGE of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."
If you never had the opportunities to read any of these short stories in high school or in college, you should read them now.
Listening
to Christensen's "The Stone Wall" made me notice, that the protagonist
in this creepy poem has a serious drinking problem.
He drank an entire
bottle of wine and is probably using some kind of a hallucinogenic drug.
If
mixing hallucinogenic drugs with wine is NOT the problem, the
protagonist must be drunk from trying to drink away his guilty
conscience about something.
The Goat Man must represent his guilty
conscience, possibly about his alcoholism, which he chooses to deny.
As
far as the stone wall goes, it could POSSIBLY represent the
protagonist's alcoholism which is acting as a barrier between issues he
has and the fact that he chooses not to acknowledge them. Anything is
possible at this rate with this poem.
"The Stone
Wall" is the type of creepy poem, that really makes you think hard. The
animation, illustration, and narraton for this poem, helped to add
character to the protagonist, The Goat Man, and the overall story being
told in the poem.
Some of you might be irritated by my
psychoanalysis of Christopher Christensen's "The Stone Wall." I can't
help paying attention to both the narration and illustrations for this
poem. Both have this ability to make us really think.
Rather
than explaining my perception of this creepy poem, I highly recommend
watching "The Stone Wall" for yourself and judging with your own
conclusions.
Anyway, here is Christopher Christensen's "The Stone Wall"
for today's Cartoon Sunday.
How's it going my gumdrops? Wow! Like many other fans of Grunge Rock, I was in complete shock and disbelief about Chris Cornell's death.
Right now, I am still reeling. Honestly, I did NOT see his death coming.
The death of a talented Grunge Rock vocalist like Chris Cornell was something TOO unexpected and sudden.
Most
Gen Xers, who were familiar with Grunge Rock, during the early to
mid-1990's already knew that Chris Cornell was the frontman of
Soundgarden. Not only was Cornell the lead singer of Soundgarden, but
also the frontman for Temple Of The Dog and Audioslave.
Temple
Of The Dog, which formed in 1990, was a Grunge Rock Supergroup, in
tribute to his dead friend, Andrew Wood. Wood was the frontman of
Mother Love Bone, who died from a heroin overdose.
Meanwhile, Audioslave formed in 2001, which was shortly after Rage
Against The Machine (a politically divisive band I STILL hate over 2 decades later)
disbanded.
Audioslave was a Hard Rock Supergroup comprised of Rage
Against The Machine's Tom Morello, Brad Wilk, Tim Commerford, and
Soundgarden's Chris Cornell.
On Thursday, MTV
Classic aired a tribute block of the late Chris Cornell's music videos.
It's very strange that he is NOW having tributes done for him.
Cornell
was the frontman, who usually performed tributes, after singers ranging
from Pop to Rock died. He did Whitney Houston, Scott Weiland, and
Prince tributes soon after they died.
Now, the
situation is unexpectedly reversed. I may have never been a diehard fan
of Chris Cornell's, however it is shocking as well as heartbreaking
learning, that another talented Rock singer has suddenly died.
Cornell
is another talented lead singer from the Grunge Era, who is now dead.
There are NOT very many of those frontmen left, when it comes to
Grunge.
Candlebox'sKevin Martin and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder are most
likely the final 2 vocalists, that are still alive from Seattle, WA's
Grunge era.
Most Millennials 30 years old and younger never
had the chance to experience growing up, saving an allowance to buy
their favorite singers or groups' songs on vinyl, tape, and CD's. That's not including having to rush to hear their favorite songs being played on the
radio.
Younger Millennials and Generation Z
especially don't have the experience of watching music centric channels that genuinely care
about airing music videos 24/7.
Generally speaking, if you do NOT have a
cable or satellite provider, you are definitely unable to watch music
videos 24/7 on MTV Classic.
Like the way I grew up
watching MTV during the 1980's and '90s, I am spending MORE time
offline watching MTV Classic as an escape from the Internet, Reality TV
Shows, and politics.
Sometimes retreating to my old
ways of enjoying music television makes me feel a little depressed.
Because I am older now, I am watching blocks of old music videos with a
hefty portion of dead celebrities within those music blocks.
MTV
Classic will do a block of music videos of dead Pop and R&B
singers, Rappers, Rock Stars, etc. I cannot speak for others watching,
although it does make me say:
"There goes another talented singer, who is dead or has a dead member from the group."
This
Song Saturday, some of you will be in for a grim treat. I am sharing a few music videos featuring Chris Cornell in Soundgarden and Temple Of
The Dog.
Some of you should really enjoy a more recent Soundgarden music
video ("Black Rain").
In addition, the animated Death Metal
band, Dethklok was featured in this Soundgarden music video.
Watching
some of these Soundgarden music videos feels nostalgic. This can
especially be said about "Black Hole Sun." Listening to the song
instantly makes me think about an old high school crush/secret admirer.
Anyway, let's
all set aside a moment to remember another talented Grunge Rock lead
singer for today's Song Saturday.
1) Soundgarden "Loud Love" Louder Than Love (1989)
How's it going my gumdrops? Like yesterday's Song Saturday, this is
an early Cartoon Sunday blog.
Considering that next Sunday is Mother's
Day, I will probably do next weekend's blogs early, too.
Don't
forget to watch Tokyo Ghoul at midnight on Adult Swim's Toonami block.
That's if you are a Tokyo Ghoul fan, as well as a Horror Anime fan.
Today I am taking a break from Supernatural and Horror Anime for today's
Cartoon Sunday blog. Things have to be shaken up a little bit.
In
fact, it has been a while since I last shared any Horror Shorts for
Cartoon Sunday. Today's short is brought to you by Axeman Cartoons.
Yes,
I know. I could not pass up the opportunity of sounding like an
announcer, since I used to read PSA's on the air at WIPZ, years ago.
As
I was saying, today's short is quite freaky. Axeman Cartoons has a
series of Horror Animated Shorts.
Let's Read, Axeman Cartoons, and Eden
collaborated together for the short, 10 Two Sentence Horror Stories.
10
Two Sentence Horror Stories is a compilation of 10 Short Horror
Stories, which are supposedly 2 sentences long with creepy narration. The
animation for these 10 short stories is scarier than the narration to
them.
Eden featuring Let's Read narrated the final
short, "I Heard It, Too."
Maternal Wraith and Sarah and Elizabeth
Mahoney voiced Sarah, her mother, and that creepy-looking, shapeshifting
monster.
"I Heard It, Too" is without a doubt, the
best short out of this compilation of Horror Animated Short Stories by
Axeman Cartoons.
I may go as far as saying this short is probably 1 of
the best shorts I have seen, since Stalker From The Cornfield.
"I
Heard It, Too" actually feels like you are watching a Horror movie
except it is an animated short. In this Horror Animated Short, Sarah
hears her mother calling her from downstairs.
As
Sarah leaves her bedroom to go see what her mother wants, Sarah's mother
pulls Sarah into her room, saying, "I heard it, too."
They are soon
attacked by this creepy-looking, shapeshifting monster. I have no exact
idea what the monster is, however it looks like some type of an insect,
that resembles Sarah's mother.
Be prepared to be disturbed, if not creeped the fuck out for this Cartoon Sunday, 1 day in advance.
Axeman Cartoons' 10 Two Sentence Horror Stories (2016)
How's it going my gumdrops? Did you enjoy yesterday's Song Saturday
blog about The Cure and the Goth Sub-culture in general?
Yesterday,
you may recall, that I explained about Goths and the sub-culture on
here and on Anime League. For today's Cartoon Sunday, let's revisit the
topic of being Goth.
Allow me to acknowledge some
Goth female characters in animation. There appears to be more Goth
female characters in animation than we have realized. So, with that being
said, it's only fair to acknowledge a few of them.
In
the illustration above, we have Yuuko Ichihara. The characters in the
Seinen Supernatural Horror Comedy Anime, xxxHolic have freaky
illustrations.
The characters normally have long, spaghetti legs like Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Like
I explained last year, Yuuko Ichihara is a powerful witch, who owns a
shop and grants people their wishes. I believe Yuuko is more like a
cunning and opportunistic genie.
Most of her jobs
consist of dealing with supernatural beings. In case you haven't
already, I suggest clicking on the link above Yuuko's picture.
Some of you may remember Angus Oblong's shortly lived cartoon, The
Oblongs from The WB. Creepy Susie is supposedly a 10-year-old character
from the series.
Most people don't know that The
Oblongs was based on Creepy Susie And 13 Other Tragic Tales For Troubled
Children. This was a 1999 collection of illustrated short stories
written by Angus Oblong.
This young, creepy, Goth
Valley Girl is obsessed with death, was born on Halloween, and can tell
an animal's gender by the taste of its blood.
If you have been subscribed to It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns
for the last 3 1/2 years, you KNOW how much I enjoy watching Goth
webisodes featuring the slutty Goth-Punk protagonist, Germaine and her
pet, squirrel Foamy.
Who doesn't love Foamy?! That pet squirrel speaks
THE TRUTH!
As for Germaine, she has been
restyled a plethora of times throughout the decade. This character has
been illustrated as fat, skinny, busty, flat-chested, constantly changes
hair styles, etc.
The protagonist is a struggling
poet/author desperately seeking to be published and works unstable jobs.
At the same time, she has an identity crisis and Foamy The Squirrel
helps to keep her grounded.
Meanwhile, here are some
other Goth female characters, which have been shown in other Anime
besides xxxHolic. There is my long-time favorite, Sunako Nakahara.
Despite the fact this homely recluse fears "beautiful people" (mostly
attracive men), I love Sunako Nakahara. Sunako is a creepy Goth protagonist that resonates with me on MANY levels. She loves sitting in her
bedroom and watching Horror movies ALONE. Sunako's also self-sufficient
around the house.
I wanted to at least share a gif of The
"Goth-Loli Sisters" from The Wallflower, but had no such luck. However, The Goth-Loli Sisters from this
Shojo Horror Comedy are NOT the only Gothic Lolita Anime characters in
existence.
In substitution of The Goth-Loli Sisters
from The Wallflower, there is Hildegarde from the Shonen Supernatural
Action Comedy Anime, Beelzebub.
Hildegarde is the main female protagonist in Beelzebub. She is a
Demon Maid, who acts as the "adoptive" mother and nurse of Beelzebub IV.
"Baby Beel" is the son of Beelzebub III and Iris and was sent to the
Human World.
It has been a few years, since I last streamed this series. Too bad there wasn't another season of Beelzebub. Maybe someday it will get a decent English dub.
Last, but SURELY not the least of an acknowledgement is Saki Hanajima.
I have always loved this Fruits Basket character. I can't decide
which character is creepier, Saki or her younger brother, Megumi. Both characters have psychic abilities.
When Saki Hanajima is
not wearing her high school uniform, she normally wears a black cloak or
a veil with her black dresses. I will NEVER forget that scene of her
gothing up The Sohmas urinal for New Year's Eve.
Staring
at the appalled expression on Shigure Sohma's face was hilarious.
Anyway, if you would like to learn more about Goth chicks in animation,
check out WatchMojo's choices for Top 10 Animated Goth Girls below.
How's it going my gumdrops? Sorry for my lack of presence. These last
3 weeks have been brutal. As you already know, I have been recovering
from a minor head injury. In addition to my head injury, my right hand
is swollen.
Let's all hope and pray that I don't
spend this entire year enduring injuries. I'm already hating
this new year. Hopefully, 2017 will be better than 2016.
Aside
from my injuries, I joined another forum earlier this month.
Tomorrow I will explain more about this forum for Cartoon
Sunday. However, I will say that this particular forum has sub-forums
for general topics outside of Anime.
Someone posted
a thread on that exact message board about being Goth. Apparently, some
of the posters have very little knowledge about what it is like being a
Goth. For people, who knew and still know very little about me, I have
always been Goth.
There is more to being Goth than
wearing all black clothes and liking certain bands. If you are somebody
with a dark, morbid, and creepy personality and interests, you may be
Goth. Although, you're NOT required to only like something with the
"Goth" label attached to it.
Something everyone
should understand is that being Goth is NOT easy. Since the time of the
Columbine High School Massacre on April 20, 1999, the mainstream media
has been demonizing and condemning Goths and the Goth Sub-culture.
Everyone
should take most the negative stereotypes and depictions of being Goth
in the media worth a grain of salt. Not all Goths are depressed,
suicidal, and homicidal maniacs worshiping Satan, sacrificing anything
and everyone, while ONLY dressed in black attire.
Yes,
even though some Goths are Satanists, they do NOT purposely go
out their way to hurt innocent humans and animals like sociopaths. The
same most definitely applies for Wiccans, who are Goths.
Yes,
there are some of us Goths who generally have serious baggage. We are
not any different from the average person with baggage. Also, Goths are
NOT required to be Pagans.
We can be Atheist, Agnostic, Christian,
Muslim, Pagan (Wiccan or Satanist), etc.
Because we
may look and act differently and don't always share the same interests
and views as most "normal people" do, we're automatically ostracized
and condemned for not conforming to everything in society.
As
I was saying earlier, we can like whatever we like whenever we like
without having the "Goth" label. Goths are normally the most
well-rounded, open-minded, accepting, and nicest people you will ever
encounter in public. This cannot always be said about "normal" people.
If
you would like to learn more about the Goth Sub-culture and its
community, you may want to visit the website, What Is Goth? This will
give you a better explanation about what it's like to be Goth.
Last
year, I published a blog about me being morbid, since childhood. If you
would like to learn more about my "dark and morbid history," you can
read it right HERE.
Speaking of being Goth on the
latest forum I joined, I introduced that same group of posters to the
pioneers of Goth Rock.
It's amazing. Over the last 3 years, I already
published Song Saturday blogs about bands such as Bauhaus, Siouxsie And The Banshees, and other Goth Rock bands.
All the
while, I have never published a Song Saturday blog about The Cure. All
this time and not a single Song Saturday blog about this Classic Goth
Rock band!
For The Cure fans, today is your lucky
day. This band has been around for nearly 4 decades and their sound has
changed a lot over the years. Between 1980-82, they were more of a Goth
Rock band in the sense that their music sounded darker and more ominous.
The
Cure's albums, Seventeen Seconds and Pornography sounded much better
than Faith, in regards to the the band's darker sound. Faith wasn't that
enjoyable. I feel the best song on that album is "Carnage Visors."
To warn you in advance, "Carnage Visors" is literally close to a
30-minute song. It sounds like a really long Horror film score. If you'd like to listen to "Carnage Visors," go for it!
After 1982, The Cure evolved and crossed over as being Alternative and
Pop-Rock. Most people don't hear the band's older and more obscure
songs from the late '70s and early '80s.
Therefore,
I am sharing some of The Cure's older and more obscure songs with you
for today's Song Saturday, including their song, which was
originally featured on The Crow Soundtrack in 1994.
1) The Cure "The Final Sound" Seventeen Seconds (1980)
2) The Cure "A Forest" Seventeen Seconds (1980)
3) The Cure "Carnage Visors" Faith (1981)
4) The Cure "One Hundred Years" Pornography (1982)
