I would never pretend that my admiration of Peter Steele had nothing to do with him having an atrociously large penis BUT I would also like to impress upon you that he also looked like he gave THE best hugs. He had that whole ripped thing going on but you can also tell he was just a little bit squishy for when you need something soft to push against.
The world needs more hard bastards with squishy places for people to push into that know when to appropriately apply said hardness and squishyness.
It's interesting seeing people talk about smart glasses recording. I think Toblerone said specifically that his issue with phones was that it felt disconnected with staring at people's screens and not their faces. Glasses don't do that. As someone who wears regular degular my-eyes-are-just-shit glasses I still feel like I'm able to connect deeply with people. I still make eye contact and I still can participate in the weird connectivity that comes from mutual gaze. If I added a pinhole camera that passively recorded what I saw I don't think that would change.
And as for the ticket prices, that's the way of it. Until we smash the ticket holder monopoly and figure out how to limit scalping that is how it will remain.
I'd also like to make a point about Ghost getting popular and playing stadiums.
One, the man is loving the fucking dream so you can shut your bitch hole about that full stop.
Two, while Ghost is huge now there is no guarantee that it will be able to ride that train forever. Poison and Motley Crue used to play stadiums, now they play clubs again for the love of the show. Do you honestly think that Mr. Ghost would be told "yeah, we gotta down size" and be like "well then I quit"? Like he would retire at 50 and live in obscurity sitting on his ass and maybe take a call center job again? Fuck no. Not to be all parasocial but every single action he's taken with Ghost feels like the action of a person that loves the show. He gives me strong Alice Cooper vibes. Alice is 80 years old and still doing his crazy pants show. He plays theaters now, not really clubs but also not arenas. He's always said that he'll keep doing what he's doing until he physically can't anymore or people stop coming to his show. He still records and releases albums; he's still a legend and people still go to see him. That is Mr. Ghost up and down.
And if, a big old fucking IF, Ghost ends he'll bring us something else. Whatever that is we'll still turn up to check it out. And maybe it'll come to a club or a theater and maybe you'll get to see him up close and personal like. Just chill the fuck out.
I'm going to see GWAR for the first time since "Masters of Madness" tomorrow and I'm so hype. I made my white tee and am bringing a friend who has never seen GWAR. Hopefully it's a good time.
Two notes however: I just caught a picture of all the guys out of costume and it is the most "metal dads" photo I've ever seen. And these are metal dads who are my actual dad's age so it's much less awkward than "rock dad" TF.
And re:Ghost, the GWAR strategy for staying cool in insane costumes is to be mostly nekkid other than the big rubber suit shit they wear. TF perhaps g-sting instead of pants next tour? Pasties? Both?
I wonder if the advent of LEDs will lead to stage lights no longer really heating sets up and if that will create new opportunities for materials to be used that would otherwise melt.
I wonder if it will also confuse future performers when they read about "the oppressive heat of the stage lights".
I wonder if students studying this era in the distant future will find things like "if people want to buy houses they must stop buying avocado toast" and interpret it as avocados somehow preventing the building of houses or that avocados were so precious and rare that they literally cost as much as a house.
It makes me wonder what we've misinterpreted from our fragmentary records.
