The Sign of the Fucking Horns

The sign of the horns. The corna. The Devil's horns. One among many things of Ronnie James Dio's great legacy. Thrust high in the air wherever heavy metal is played. Something that holds a very special place in every headbanger's heart. The gesture that has come to signify everything fucking metal.

Of late the use of the gesture has become ubiquitous to indicate approval or admiration (of God alone knows what) amongst those very people who tend to vehemently abhor metal and look at the metal loving populace as one of society's many abominations (which admittedly we are). Everywhere on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, "\m/" is used in conversations, by the above mentioned folk, the rationale/motive behind which is unbeknownst to us.

For some quaint reason pop/alt bands (read Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan et al) see the need to use the gesture, at gigs, in videos, interviews and everywhere else. Cheapening and commercializing it. We obviously believe the use of it by any other genre is inappropriate to word things rather mildly.

Very obviously the blatant misuse of something so holy to the average metal fan, the degradation of it gets us rather livid. And you do not want to get a metalhead pissed.

To quote Dio " It was a symbol of darkness... not something to be passed on Britney Spears!"

So if you aren't a metalhead here are a few points we'd like to share with you.

• Essentially the sign is not meant to show how "awesome", "amazing" or any other fricking adjective you were to use to describe whatever it is you wanted to (to all those using the virtual horns).

• It does not fucking mean "Rock On".

• Nor does it mean "Rocking". Nothing about metal is "rocking".

• It does not make your poseur arse look "cool"/"kvlt"/"metal" to have pictures of you showing the horns. Especially if you're doing it wrong. So if you really want to stick that thumb out, stick it up your arse.

So in conclusion, if you're head is neither banging nor thrashing, do not fucking use the horns!

My First Very Demotivational Poster

My first ever Very Demotivational poster!!

Here's the link for those of you who want to go see it on the site! 

A Little Food For Thought

Here's a little excerpt taken from Michael Crichton's Sphere, something I found very intriguing and somewhat inspirational.

" On your planet you have an animal called a bear. It is a large animal, sometimes larger than you, and it is clever and has ingenuity , and it has a brain as large as yours. But the bear differs from you in one important way. It cannot perform the activity you call imagining. It cannot make mental images of how reality might be. It cannot envision what you call the past and what you call the future. This special ability of imagination is what has made your species as great as it is. Nothing else. It is not your ape-nature, not your tool-using nature, not language or violence or caring for your young or social groupings. It is none of these things, which are all found in other animals. Your greatness lies in imagination.
      
         The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining something is what makes it happen.
      
         This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine. "