Skinny Puppy
Note to self: Never come back from a war zone and then immediately go to a Skinny Puppy show. I made sure I sobered up good before I came home, so that I wouldn’t wind up painting qabbalistic signs all over my office walls with a bucket of beef hearts.
Damn. Good. Show. Energetic and mesmerizing, with some of the best performance video I’ve seen. And very freakin’ dark. When I saw ohGr they were just clownish and funny. Puppy was a storm of paranoia, fear, and incredible cynicism and rage.
A lot of Bush == Hitler & US == Nazi Germany stuff, which I didn’t really interpret as the knee-jerk Bushitler crap that ANSWER likes to spout. From the context of the presentation, I believe it was an earnest point — they were claiming that violence is violence, the destruction of human life is the destruction of human life, whether it’s done under a US flag or a Nazi flag.
Bleah, a bit hung over from the party afterwards. I’ll be spending today looking into assistantships and helping Alison with any last-minute stuff she needs. She heads off for Taiwan on Tuesday for two months to work on her master’s research, so we’re a bit busy around here right now.