I Have One Thing, and One Thing Only to Say...

"Corporate cream cheese of evil!!!!!!!" That is all, now watch Foamy!

Anime Spotlight: Trinity Blood

Yes, my little gothlings, it's once again time that I brought an anime into the spotlight. I haven't done one of these in a while, and my roommate just put one in so I figured it was about time. This time it's Trinity Blood that gets the glory. This anime is a bit older but I can never, ever get tired of it. It combines vampires with a more modern, kick-ass version of the Vatican, how can you beat that? In essence, you can't. The plot is set 900 years after an apocalyptic war that Humans were responsible for. During this war, Vampires (or Methuselahs) started to appear and became the biggest threat to humanity. The story follows one of the priests from the Vatican named Abel Nightroad (you'll notice a lot of Biblical references in this) who is also a Crusnik, or a Vampire who feeds on the blood of other Vampires. Interested yet? You have a Vampire who kills and feeds on Vampires working directly for the Vatican. And when he's not in Crusnik form, he's very charmingly hopeless. Abel's almost constantly broke and getting himself into some kind of troubling situation. As the series progresses, you learn a lot about his past, which winds up being a main plot point throughout the later part of the anime. Trinity Blood is also available as a manga but I haven't managed to read it yet to compare and contrast the plot or characters much. A while ago I wanted to cosplay as Esther Blanchett, a nun with a major hatred of Vampires who joins the Vatican's AX Team, which Abel is also part of. The AX is essentially priests and nuns who are trained in battle or have certain abilities that make them useful during a fight. All in all, the anime is pretty action packed for the limited number of episodes it has. But it manages to pack in a nice story in only 24 episodes so how can you complain about that? Definitely give this show a try, it's one of my favorites!

Dungeon Duds N Jewels

I have just recently discovered this shop courtesy of that friend to all artists, etsy.com. Dungeon Duds N Jewels is one of many artists on there that creates amazing work and you want to guess what they specialize in? Go ahead, guess...

Ok fine I'll tell you. They specialize in renaissance clothing! And all of it is gorgeous, I can say this with absolute certainty since I just received my custom-made bodice in the mail today. And I love it beyond all reason! It fits with my new costume so perfectly I could die! I just got done putting (almost) all of it together and minus the one piece that I'm missing, it is better than I could have ever hoped for. I cannot wait until the Renaissance Festival comes back around to the Burgh to show it all off! For those of you Ren Fest nerds like me, go and take a look at DDND's shop, you will not be disappointed!

Just to Prove an Earlier Point

A long while ago I did a post about alternative fashion sense and how Hot Topic is definitely not the center of the alternative fashion any more and hasn't been for a while. I'm definitely still standing by all my points against this retail chain after experiencing it for the first time in a stretch of time yesterday. I was down in my old hometown to spend some time with my friend and fellow undergrounder Pat. We decided to take a quick stroll around the mall since there really isn't one very close to where I'm living now. Well... on a quest to find him a new hat, we wound up in Hot Topic... This was a bad idea. Within minutes I was bored of looking at the same t-shirts with five different arrangements of studs on them and seeing Nicki Minaj, Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga, Lil' Wayne, and Twilight on every other hoodie. We walked back out of there with only one thing in hand... Sour Punch Straws. Yeah, I walked out of what used to be the forerunner of goth/punk fashion with nothing but a couple packages of candy. Do you really need any more persuasion that this ship is sinking really damn fast?

Band Spotlight: Indica

In my eternal attempt to bring good music to the masses, I once again ventured out in the musical realm to try and find something new and original. This is harder to find when you've picked through every single symphonic metal group imaginable and only found a handful to meet your criteria... Yeah, I'm going with symphonic metal lately, can you blame me? Well, that good old standby Finland has come through with flying colors. Why is it that Finland and all those Nordic places tend to have the best musicians and bands? Yes, I'm tired and given to rambling so let's get back to the subject shall we?

Anyway, while browsing through an already browsed list of related music on Amazon, I happened upon a sweet little band called Indica. Five lovely ladies first started this band back in 2001 singing in their native language, but have recently turned to English in their newest album "A Way Away" and they do not disappoint. I first listened to the song "Children of Frost" on youtube and I was instantly taken back to the days of watching The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has that sweet but creepy feel to the songs and the lead singer's voice is off-tune but very melodic. Not to mention all the ladies in the band are completely hot, score one there for all of you. For more fun info you can go and visit their site. If you haven't given them a shot already, you definitely should. In the meantime, here's a little tidbit of "Children of Frost" for you all to enjoy...

Foamy Once Again Backs Up the Little Guy

This newest episode of Foamy the Squirrel is truly speaking volumes considering some of the events that have happened just within the last few months. Obviously, bullying is still a practice that is alive and well in schools. Seriously, do a simple Google search on the internet and the page will be flooded with reports of children (especially teens) committing suicide after enduring months and possibly years of bullying from fellow classmates. The new "it" crowd for bullying tends to be teens who are homosexual. My biggest question in every single one of these scenarios is... "Where the hell are the fucking teachers!" This is utterly pathetic and borders on criminal negligence. Teenagers are killing themselves because those who are charged with looking after them and teaching them are nowhere to be found. And if they are there, it's apparent they aren't doing much in way of helping, because if they were many lives could have been spared. Those who have stood idly by and let this heinous behavior towards others continue do not deserve the positions they have been placed in nor do they deserve to be respected...

No, I'm not Watching the Superbowl

I have a complete and utter hatred of American Football. For one it shouldn't even have that name. What Americans call soccer is the original holder of the name football, and it fits a hell of a lot better. Not to mention football is just a bastardized version of rugby, but I'm not going to get into that. Two, I find it boring as all hell. There's almost no kind of continuous action to follow. It's all; run, smash, throw, run, smash, repeat until someone actually scores. Three, the point system is just ridiculous. Why should you earn 6 points for every completed touchdown? Make it something reasonable like 2 at least! Four, I have the misfortune to live close to Pittsburgh, home of the worst football nuts in the country. Remember, this was the place where its inhabitants trashed their own city after WINNING the Superbowl... Yeah, these cheeseheads trashed their own city because they couldn't control themselves even after their team won! Seriously, how much more idiotic can you get than that? It's like half these people have their lives revolve around this stupid sport, to the point where gods forbid you ask them to do something to take their attention off it for even a couple minutes. Like last year for example, my now ex-fiancee and I were at my mother's house to watch the Superbowl. It was getting close to the time we had to leave so I asked my ex to go out to the car and get my kitten's blanket so it wouldn't be so cold for him when we put him in his carrier. My ex, my mother, and my mother's boyfriend all reacted with something close to outrage at me asking him to do this simple thing that would require maybe two minutes of his time so that way our kitten wouldn't run the chance of getting sick. After a bout of yelling, I threatened to make him pay for any future veterinarian bills if we had to take the kitten to the vet and he got the blanket. So yeah, in short, I hate football. Always have and always will and I don't care who wins the stupid Superbowl this year or any year for that matter...  

Why Goths Want to be Antisocial Part 3

I'm not sure how I've managed to pass over this particular aspect of the undergrounders' want to stay away from the populace at large. Probably because I try to avoid the subject at all costs because nothing, and I mean nothing, pisses me off faster or more efficiently than animal cruelty. I will take the company of my kitten over the company of most people any day of the week. Why? Why not? I don't have to put up with any kind of incessant whining about useless crap that doesn't really matter, animals won't judge you, and they are far more entertaining and, in a lot of cases,  display much more intelligent behavior than most humans. Don't deny it, there are some people who wouldn't last two hours if matched in a Darwinism test. And what has brought about this sudden realization? People being heartless assholes and torturing animals... what else? This one comes courtesy of Facebook. I was wandering around looking at friends' stauses when I happen across one that pictures two guys looking like their think they're hot shit with two dogs strung up by their necks in the background. Que raging anger at all of humanity. *Note: Anyone who is sensitive to a massive amount of cursing should probably skip to the end of this post right about now* Leave it to fucking Mexico to not give a rat's ass about animal rights and despite the fact that these two fucking bastards were already convicted of torturing a puppy and killing it they only got off with a slap on the wrist, they probably won't be punished any more for this. I hope someone hunts these fuckwads down and give them a similar treatment they do to their animals... That is all... Die you fucking bastards... Ok, I'm done.