MAN In A Car Or “MANIAC” (Lyrics)

On to the second track of the record. Much more straight forward than SKEEVED. We got a nice gritty bass sound for this one… I have since changed amps because the Mesa Boogie was really really unreliable in live situations, and with my temper, that is not a good thing.

I remember when I went to the first audition and Schrecker told Jon to play the main riff in MANIAC and I always wondered when the hell I was going to record that song. If you caught on already, you know that the capital letters in the title MAN In A Car spell out MANIAC. Now does this have anything to do with the song… or about the person that wrote the lyrics??? Hmmm I wonder. [Read more →]

What The Hell Does “SKEEVED” Mean?

What the hell does “SKEEVED” mean?

Taken from the Urban Dictionary:

1. Grossed out, disgusted, to get a sketchy feeling about a situation. Originates from the Italian word “schifo” which means disgust.
2. To be freaked out, weirded out, revolted by or generally turned-off by something or someone

What an experience it was for me to get into a new band and record again. I show up on a Friday afternoon and meet these guys that are looking for a bass player and the next thing I know it, on the following Tuesday afternoon I am starting work at Moonbabe Studio on this crazy song. I (and I believe the rest of the guys) learned & recorded the tracks chronologically as they appear on the record. Christ I thought I was never gonna finish this thing! So many little fills and the damn chorus is different every time. When we were first playing this baby in rehearsal, I could tell that Schrecker and Jon could not remember the exact order of the parts in the chorus sections either.

I doubt any of us can get it out of our head’s now. Every song has a picture to represent it on the record cover poster that is included when you buy the CD. The picture that represents this song is of a girl with a gun to her head on her knees in front of a guy (me) with his pants down. Now doesn’t that seem “skeevy”? [Read more →]

Metal Edge Magazine

Just because I haven’t written anything for a while doesn’t mean I’m not fucked up, depressed and otherwise preoccupied with trying to figure out how to put myself into and early grave.

Here’s what’s been going on:

Metal Edge:
The Jan/Feb edition of the Metal Edge Magazine CD sampler includes The Gods Of Now track Lobotomatronic!!! It’s song #8 on that bad boy. Pick up a copy when it comes out and bring it to our next show and we’ll sign it up for ya!

Barfly
We’re playing this Saturday night at Barfly on the Main. If you don’t know where it is find out cuz it fits about 50 people and that’s stuffin’ them in there. If you can find it it’s gonna be a night to remember.

Web Radio:
Go to www.radiorockcafe.com and request us. Then listen to the Indie show. Email them saying you want to listen to us 24 hours a day! Hahahahahaha! Could you imagine how fucked up you’d be if you did! You’d be close to where I’m at, sociopathically speaking. They have The Gods Of Now merch to give away so listen and win! Belt Buckles yo! [Read more →]

We’ve Only Got Porn

No one is enough. Not one of us, no matter how talented or fucking intense or beautiful is enough. No, not for anyone. You are not enough for me, and I – I am not enough for you. I’m starting to think that I was born empty and whatever was supposed to fill that space has fucked off laughing with the hottest girl I’ve ever known. I will always be empty. I just have to live with it.

Listen, if need dictates each of our connections, then what the fuck is this problem about simply caring for someone enough not to hurt them? Seriously, I’m asking here. Am I doomed to this? I mean, animals use instinct to get them through the day and you don’t see them needing to build 10 million dollar spas on 500 meters of the most blinding white sand on the Pacific Ocean. How can we ever be satisfied if our instincts tell us THIS is just not enough?

And if we’re never satisfied, how can we ever be happy? And by “we”, I of course, mean “me”. I once wrote a long time ago “If you don’t love me, you need help.” Well, baby, I’m the one who needs help these days. And I have had it with these fucking days.

Back Stage At The Record Launch

Back stage with Sally and Melsha we wonder where the tray of cocaine is. Here I have the girls but I forget the fucking drugs. Damn! We laugh at the irony of life.

The girls remark at the really un-glamorous condition of the back stage. I tell them about CBGB’s in NYC (RIP). Ramones throwing up on the ceiling and a toilet on a pedestal. Truly a punk throne for such mad kings as have never been seen since.

Such ripped and torn eyes from California look at me with an excuse that there are many boring places there, never mind Hollywood and Vine or the illegal thought processes. Oh, Sally, I have a feeling wherever you are, it is plenty interesting. [Read more →]

Connections

Men and women and women and women and men and men and on and on it goes. Sometimes it’s… magic. Sometimes it’s a horror show. But for a brief, shining moment it’s fucking perfect. It was, wasn’t it?

It was fucking perfect for a second.

Passion is always dying, see? That’s its charm. That’s why it’s addictive and that’s why it chose us. The Ashes we are: we, who are also always burning up, dying so wonderfully, consumed by flames of desire and woe. We are so sad and beautiful, aren’t we? What a wake we’ve got going here on our planet.

Fire-fans in the two performers’ hands are hot on my face even though I cannot see them – I feel them, I smell the fuel. Melsha and Sally. They are both dark beauties, gothic and gorgeous. Sally says backstage later, “There’s nothing about me that hasn’t been ripped or broken.” I like her immediately. But right now I try to see through the cowl of my cassock the two lithe female forms, ghosts of my imagination, moving through my journey to passionate death… fire leaping from their fingers. Zasta and I are giving the two women pulse and rhythm and they, in turn, become fucking perfect for one burning moment. (will have a vid soon, but for now here’s a pic below) I can honestly say, I’m happy.

7 Days Earlier:

I’m not happy at all. Fuck.
The only thing I know about the launch for sure is that TGON is going to perform the record and there’s some Fetish Acrobats that are interested in performing too. The latter concerns me only in its execution. The concept – a guy rigging up a girl to a pulley system and she basically flies above the stage in a sort of bondage dance – I like. [Read more →]

Interview On CHOM 97.7 FM

Hey guys! Just a quick post to let you all know we got an interview coming up on CHOM 97.7 FM (Montreal). And you’ll be able to listen to it by downloading the podcast of the show. Huge thanks to Mike Metal! :)

You can check out The Metal File page on CHOM here.

See ya on Wednesday at the album launch!