The cynical, social and political rants of Henry

bellevintage: Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:23:50 -0400

bellevintage:

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

Wayne’s World | 1992

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:18:39 -0400

Wayne’s World | 1992

the-lucky-ones-7: thebestworstidea: resilientkate: softgore: ...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:24:45 -0400

the-lucky-ones-7:

thebestworstidea:

resilientkate:

softgore:

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important

So every single person who told me ‘ignore them they’ll go away’ and ‘you can’t let them know they bothered you’ and ‘They’ll stop if they don’t see you react’ and all that bull shit, my entire school career, I want you to look good and hard at this.

I want you to think about what you said.

What you keep saying.

What you are telling your children.

You are making them powerless.

I love this artist to much.

"Why did you want to kill yourself?"

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:28:30 -0400

"Why did you want to kill yourself?"
"It's a long story."
"I want to help you."
"You can't."
"Well I'm going to try anyway."
"Yeah, I know you are. You'll help for a week or two and then when I start to feel close to you I'll tell you my secrets and you'll find out how bad I really am. Then you'll say how upset you are that I'm so depressed and you'll say you'll get me help. You'll make empty promises, you'll pretend like you care when inside you've given up on me. I'll learn that I can't tell you those things anymore, and you willstop asking about them, even though you know it's still happening. We'll grow distant and I'll hate myself for opening up to you. You won't realise that I'll try to kill myself again. We'll still talk, but there will always be that awkwardness. Because you gave up. Because everyone does in the end. Your closest friends become far away figures and you are left on your own to cope with these fucked up emotions and you have no idea how. Everyone gives up and I mean everyone. And that, more than anything, made me want to die."

Well done. You managed to have another anxiety attack. More so at a beer/music festival which should...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:58:04 -0400

Well done. You managed to have another anxiety attack. More so at a beer/music festival which should be your comfort zone and right infront of someone you actually feel attracted to. Well done Henry, you’ve fucked up in life even more than you thought you could

Reblog this if you are literally suprised when people find you attractive.

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:46:45 -0400

“Don’t forget you’re alive— ‘cause sometimes when you walk...

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:34:13 -0400

“Don’t forget you’re alive— ‘cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you’re in a bad mood, you can think, ‘Hey! Wait a minute. I’m alive!’ We don’t know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing life is. Don’t forget you’re alive— that you’re not dead, for that is the greatest thing.”

-Joe Strummer

aisling-alasargenteus: Marilyn Manson speech on blame. I’m...

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:04:44 -0400

aisling-alasargenteus:

Marilyn Manson speech on blame.

I’m not even a Marilyn Manson fan but

ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:32:21 -0400

ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY REALIZES

I try to avoid talking about this. I know some of you may be aware of it. But my anxiety/depression...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:58 -0400

I try to avoid talking about this. I know some of you may be aware of it. But my anxiety/depression is really getting the best of me again. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. And I know how it’s going to happen. I face the place of event nearly every day. How I’d go about it and how I’d tie all loose ends with people. In a weird kind of way, it gives me comfort knowing how it’s going to happen. I know that I’d wear a suit. That I’d tell my family and friends I love them before hand somehow. I’m not saying it will happen tomorrow or next week. But it will happen. And I know how.

foambornnarwhal: HA.

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:23:57 -0400

foambornnarwhal:

HA.

George: You wanna go to The Bobbin on Saturday?

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:04:07 -0400

George: You wanna go to The Bobbin on Saturday?
Me: Yeah, ofcourse
George: Good. I got the job there by the way

Why do I have a feeling I'm being roped into keeping him company while he works instead of actually going out?

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Wed, 15 May 2013 05:54:05 -0400

aforeveryoungchild: All of them were shot and killed for...

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:41:43 -0400

aforeveryoungchild:

All of them were shot and killed for wanting peace.

I don’t think could have be a post any better than this.

ladlelickedbarnaby: norsegays: astrolope: People being angry...

Wed, 15 May 2013 04:33:08 -0400

ladlelickedbarnaby:

norsegays:

astrolope:

People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.

I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.

A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?

It is a big deal because i’m a transman.

It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.

Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.

At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.

At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.

TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.

saith.

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Sat, 11 May 2013 15:23:24 -0400

"Still can’t believe that Jeff Hanneman from Slayer is dead, things like that just don’t happen...."

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:57:33 -0400

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Still can’t believe that Jeff Hanneman from Slayer is dead, things like that just don’t happen. Thrashers don’t die??!! WTF!!??

I’m not going to sit here and say how him and I were best buds or something, we definitely weren’t, I’d barely call us acquaintances, I did 8 tours and over 120 shows with the dude and honestly, I never really got to “know him”. I was always closer with Kerry. Jeff was super quiet, really kept to himself, would get rowdy when he was drunk, but was a bit aloof, and seemed annoyed at the people partying around him despite the fact that he himself would be getting hammered.

I can remember some good hangs with him though. The first was in Basel, Switzerland back in November, 1994 when Machine Head was main support to Slayer on the Divine Intervention tour. It was one of those shows were something so random happens it just never leaves you, in this case, the show was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes and every kid entering the show got 2 free packs of smokes. I’ve never seen so much smoke in a venue in my life. I remember walking onstage and yelling at our roadie / everything-guy Mike Scum, “DUDE, turn off the fuckin’ smoke machine”, he said “YOOOOO, it’s not the smoke machine bro, it’s the cigarettes!” It was damn near impossible to breath onstage. After the show we were hanging backstage and Jeff walked back, we started bitching about the crazy cigarette show, and he invited me back to the dressing room to grab a beer, we sat down and chatted for a while, and then I went all Slayer-nerd on him and started grilling him on what songs he wrote.

Me: “Who wrote Angel Of Death?”
Jeff: “I did”
Me: “Lyrics too?”
Jeff: “Yep”
Me: “Reign In Blood?”
Jeff: “Me”
Me: “Dead Skin Mask?”
Jeff: “Yep”
Me: “South Of Heaven?”
Jeff: “Me”
Me: “Black Magic?”
Jeff: “You know it”
Me: “Hell Awaits?”
Jeff: “Yep”

On and on it went, that man wrote both the music and lyrics to a large goddamn portion of my favorite Slayer songs. He was a huge influence on my songwriting growing up in particular with arrangements and the bold use of key changes. The one thing Slayer band always had over so many other bands is they were all over the guitar neck when it came to key changes. Leads would be in some of the most random keys ever, but somehow it made it all that much more frantic, and when the chorus kicked back in, BOOM! CRUSHING! Set up perfectly. He was one of the few metal heads I met who never really got into Pantera, he told me he “liked some stuff”, but thought they we’re “too bluesy at times”, and that he “liked more evil notes or sad riffs”

Another good memory was sharing a tour bus on the August 2001 Korean / Japan / Australia tour, it was all fly-dates and hotels, we were sharing crew, tour manager and manager, so we all rode on the bus together to and from the airport to the hotel every day. Sometimes the rides were an hour or two, so you’d just all BS and hang. One time a kid in Australia bum-rushed the bus while we were all sitting in it, hammered after partying one night. He was desperate for autographs and came on the bus screaming (what else?) “SLAAAAAAAAAYYYYYEEEEERRRR!!!” He then saw me and went all, “Oh shit, Robb Flynn, mate I fuckin’ LOVE Machine Head, but it’s fuckin’ SLAAAAAAAYYYYYYYEEEERRRRR”, I looked the fucker right in the eye and slurred, “Oh just FUCK RIGHT OFF!!” Hanneman fell out dying, he laughed for 10 minutes straight, cracked him up, that slightly feminine high pitched giggle that he always did.

Dude backed me when Kerry King and I were beefin’ all that time long ago, he would come up to me at festivals and would talk, just be normal. He even backed me in Decibel magazine when they asked him about the beef, saying “Robb is a good dude”, and that “Kerry was like the girlfriend of the band, always beefin’ with someone”. I got a good laugh outta that.

The last memory I’ll share is from the American leg of the Divine Intervention tour in March 1995. It was Slayer band, Biohazard supporting, and Machine Head opening. We were playing the International Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. He had been sitting out some of the new songs from “Divine”, which was odd to me. We were hanging out in their dressing room before the show, just him and I, and I mustered up the nerve to ask him what the deal with it was. At first he joked that he just “didn’t feel like learning them, didn’t like ‘em, Kerry wrote them”, he was chuckling, and then he stopped. He looked down and got serious. He said he’d been having a lot of pain in his wrists, his hands and wrists were going numb all the time, and would go numb during those songs because they were really fast, then he started to cry. It was a startling confession. I offered some awkward feel-good comment, but he just continued to cry, and I decided to sit there in the silence with him for a minute. He gave me a hug, and said “Whoa!”, and laughed, walked out toward the stage, turned back and said “thanks dude”.

It was an intense moment, one of those rare, intense moments you have with someone, let alone with someone from another band.

It made me really respect the dude.

That’s the Jeff I’m gonna remember.

To Kerry, Tom, Dave, Paul, Rick Sales Mgmt and Jeff’s family, my sincere condolences.

R.I.P brother.

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- Rob Flynn (Machine Head)