Am I Evil?

I had this vid initially posted on my Facebook wall, but I'm sharing it here again for those who aren't in my network. It may seem a bit depthless, showing this as a simple link in a social networking site and attracting each and everyone of my bloodthirsty friends, but for me it defines everything in me that is conservative. Everything in me that is METAL.

Please check the comments on You Tube for this link. Those are by far, the most reasonable I had ever staggered upon relative to defining what is considered a 'nigger'. I felt a stout heart knowing that there are a lot of decent black folks out there who condemn this thug/gangster attitude and that the white folks who commented were polite enough to recognize the sentiments. The thread is fantastic. It's not everyday you stumble upon intelligent discussions on a video like this. All the time you get kids lashing out at each other without even the capacity to spell english words properly!


Let me quote a few:


"...anymore that nigger has no correlation with skin color. look up nigger in websters. says nothing about color. just " an ignorant person" at one time nigger was at black skinned people but anymore now it is any color because it is not the color of the skin it is the attitude/ personality of thugster gangster and people of all races have that mentality making them niggers so when i say nigger i could be talking about a white person (and i know a few) or any other" -moneytoh


"I am a black man and I think that the black guy was wrong in this situation. There was no reason for him to put his hands on the older guy. He got what he deserved. Also, I really hate being lumped into the same category as so many of these ignorant black folks. We're not all like that, the same way that white people aren't all racist." -madison456


"I really appreciate you saying that madisson456. As a white person it's unbelievable the double standards that were subjected to . This isn't really about race if you look between the lines. It's always going to be a touchy issue when it comes to race. " -x11115

Moving on..

How does it translate to my music, you ask me. Call this redneck shit, white power musing, white trash sentiment- but hey, I’m Asian. So the joke must be on me, right? Fuck you. I can go on til morning defending that the Iron Cross on Hetfield’s ESP ain’t a racist thing at all. But of course, Tom Morello wouldn’t take ‘that shit’. In fact he even founded an anti-racial slur organization housed in some booths outside of Ozzfest concerts with members of System of a Down. Apparently, this commie fucker Tom Morello ain’t comfy with all those Nazi symbols boldly brandished in tattoos and shirts. Well, who would be who is not white?

Damn did he miss the whole fucking point.

pure fucking UNADULTERATED metal.

Don’t get any of that rap/crap music near anything that is metal! Never mix, never compromise! That is how you keep it musically conservative. And that is why I hate fuckin Incubus.

Don’t get me started on a barrage of anti-turntable mantra. We’re all on the same page here. And if not, I can sleep in peace knowing I pissed a lot of folks today.

Gauge my personality via my earlier posts and you’ll get the feel that I’m, well, fairly nice. But hurl at me a subject like this and it really gets me offended on a personal level. Call my music noisy, call it loud (THE FUCK IT IS!), but never stop a cassette tape, an iPod or even a vinyl that I'm playing for some gangster rap shit!

This is why Diamond Head's Am I Evil is so fucking memorable for me. I will not forget that night I had first streamed this song a couple of years back. All the time I was being decent and nice in that spit-filled internet cafe by not turning the knob way up high. Unfortunately, some Fil-am fag in ridiculous baggy jeans and REALLY large shirt (all the more it made him look like a midget) took the spot next to me and started playing Usher, or whatever that gay shit is, very loud. But then I saw I had bigger speakers, and my mind went Spinal Tap-ish by thinking '..this one goes to eleven!'

Tri-tone, Devil's Third..call it what you will. That heavy metal assembly of notes may be best exemplified by the song Black Sabbath. But Am I Evil? sure comes in close next.

There I was, finishing my day in that cafe, cross-legged in my mean cowboy boots,  puffing on Marlboro Reds, savoring the moment.