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By nightflameblue (Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 03:39:01 AM EST) (all tags)
Had a rather strange dream this morning. Stranger than usual in that it was so vivid, so real that I could have sworn it actually took place.


AFKS and I go to another Dethklok concert, number three. Only, for some reason, instead of Brendon up there rawking the fawk out, it's this dude that works out on Funhouse Line3. Only instead of the douchebag Eagles cap, sweatshirt, and pubic hair on the head look he usually sports, he's rockin' a black t-shirt, long flowing hair, and sporting Brendon's Skwissgaarr special Explorer.

Halfway through a song they stop and he starts handing out these little "surveys" and saying, "you must complete these in full, or we won't continue the show." Which seems exactly like something that butthole would do.

I look at it and it's essentially a multiple-choice wiring scheme for stage setups. Pretty much every imaginable scheme, and you have to pick which you would want to set up.

So, instead of grabbing the pen off the clipboard attached to my survey, I start screaming, "What the fuck? No, WHAT THE FUCK?"

Line3dude says right into the mic as he points at me, "you got a problem, asshole?"

"Yeah, I got a problem," a hush falls over the now pissed off metal crowd. I loft the clipboard straight into his face and scream, "THERE AIN'T NO TESTS IN METAL!"

With that, I toss the clipboard to the stage and walk out, AFKS right behind me.

He spends the next several minutes chewing my ass for defying the RAWK GAWD.

I finally woke up at the point where I told him to just take my fucking car and shut the fuck up about it, then grabbed two pillows that apparently were filled with helium or something, because they took me straight up into the air. Right up to that point, the entire thing felt like reality.

And the words just keep echoing around my head, like there's some kind of meaning to them, something vitally important, something I must learn, "there ain't no tests in metal."

There ain't no tests in metal.

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Not true. by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 03:49:47 AM EST
Black metal has very specific tests. Their rules are very stringent and harder to attain than a good SAT score. See artists like Dimmu Borgir, recent Enslaved, etc for examples.

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Yeah, but that's not tests for "metal." by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 03:52:23 AM EST
That's social tests to fit into their specific grouping.

See also the entirety of the weirdness that is the murder-metal genre.



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I believe they hand out a questionnaire. by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #3 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 04:05:29 AM EST
60 questions and you have to answer in the blood of the innocent.

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Still by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #4 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 04:10:38 AM EST
Social Grouping, not a test for metal.

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I need your blood to fill out this questionnaire by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #7 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 05:00:35 AM EST


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You said blood of the innocent. by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #8 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 05:04:25 AM EST
Asking for my blood = U FAILZ ITZ!

You get to try again in five years.



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Dummu Borgir?!?!?!? by atreides (2.00 / 0) #9 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 07:11:17 AM EST
A bunch of sad old men in makeup with a great laser light show? I have seen their exam results and they failz itz.

He sails from world to world in a flying tomb, serving gods who eat hope.
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He thinks Amon Amaroth is the second coming. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #10 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 08:19:25 AM EST
We let him live with his delusions.

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They are by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #13 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 09:46:47 AM EST
I also like Enslaved and 1349.

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That was my point: they don't make the grade by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #14 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 09:47:38 AM EST
either does recent Enslaved. Old Enslaved still makes the grade. Immortal of any age gets a free-pass for being amazingly bad-ass.

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I thought you were using them... by atreides (2.00 / 0) #15 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 10:13:29 AM EST
...as paragons of win, not paragons of fail. My mistake...

He sails from world to world in a flying tomb, serving gods who eat hope.
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I am a paragon of win by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #16 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 10:28:15 AM EST
A virtual pagan idol unto it.

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If you are, in fact, a virtual pagan... by atreides (2.00 / 0) #17 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 10:48:58 AM EST
...then, for today, you, sir, have won it. Of course, if you are not, then today you are made of both lame and fail.

He sails from world to world in a flying tomb, serving gods who eat hope.
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I am a virtual pagan by Clipper Ship (2.00 / 0) #18 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 11:43:51 AM EST
If I were literal my Sunday morning trips to the church would be nothing but a failure at my religion.

Or, would it?

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Whoah. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #19 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 11:46:49 AM EST
This thread has just caused my brain to have a failure_at_interrupt() error. Epic.

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Dude by Gedvondur (2.00 / 0) #5 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 04:28:22 AM EST
You need a vacation.  Clearly work is getting to you.


Gedvondur

"I love my brain. It's the only organ I can afford to lose." --frijolito


Work? by nightflameblue (4.00 / 1) #6 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 04:52:40 AM EST
Discussing it with BB, this is mostly a combination of the boss and the engineer and their three times a week RAWK TAWK sessions, wherein they discuss how playing the local bars makes them better than all the bands that have actually accomplished something, combined with my disdain for Line3dude, combined with too much Metalocalypse. So, if I've had too much metal, what would my vacation be in the winter?

Time off fast approaching. To go to a Disturbed concert. If the metalz fails it, I'm screwed.



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I count lots of tests in metal by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #11 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 08:41:37 AM EST
There's 38 on the wikipedia page. Not necessarily metallurgical, though.



datz nots metalz! by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #12 Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 09:14:16 AM EST
Metallurigicals is for nerds and dorkses.

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