Misc. Debris

[thatguy]

I don't know where to file this one...


https://boingboing.net/2020/07/19/watch-...thats.html

Watch the music video that's making karens and qanon hysterical about Adult Swim today

Adult Swim is Cartoon Network's late-night counterpart, showing adult-oriented shows, animations, art and so forth. It's been doing so since 2001, with Cowboy Bebop, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Rick and Morty among the popular faves. Last night, however, an angry lady found out about it and all hell broke loose on Twitter.

Celebs waded in. Internet "Free Thinker" Robbie Starbuck has reached the limit of his free-speech principles: "What redeeming value or non-evil value does this bring to adults? This is a celebration of death, evil, rot & darkness."

The video that they're freaking out about is PreBirth by Mike Diva, embedded at the top of this post. It features pyramid-headed figures drumming with baby dolls, which giggle along no matter how extreme the treatment. To anyone with a passing familiarity with pop culture, Satanic Panic and the edgy surrealism of music videos, it's a darkly-humorous joke about how consumerism breaks, molds and manipulates us into becoming the gleeful demonic spawn of capital—or something like that, anyway.

It's presented in the most comically offensive way possible using the capirote symbology of Christian cultism and the retro occultism of The Omen, Rosemary's Baby and all that followed. It's a menacing modern echo of 1982's Pink Project.

But karen cannot tell a thing from its parodies—and neither can the Qanon conspiracy cult, to which this material is freebase illuminati crisis sugar, sending them spiraling toward the event horizon of lunacy.

Some things must remain ... unlinked.

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

Not sure if this is true (it's old), but it is amusing...

FEBRUARY 22, 2008
The Torture Playlist
The songs that American guards and interrogators used to torture detainees.

• JUSTINE SHARROCK[/url]
  

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Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose. Read about the guards here.

[b]Deicide:[/b] Fuck Your God

[b]Dope:[/b] Die MF Die, Take Your Best Shot

[b]Eminem:[/b] White America, Kim

[b]Barney & Friends:[/b] theme song

[b]Drowning Pool:[/b] Bodies

[b]Metallica:[/b] Enter Sandman

[b]Meow Mix:[/b] commercial jingle

[b]Janeane Garofalo/Ben Stiller:[/b] chapter from the Feel This Audiobook

[b]Sesame Street:[/b] theme song

[b]David Gray:[/b] Babylon

[b]AC/DC:[/b] Shoot to Thrill, Hell’s Bells

[b]Bee Gees:[/b] Stayin’ Alive

[b]Tupac:[/b] All Eyez On Me

[b]Christina Aguilera:[/b] Dirrty

[b]Neil Diamond:[/b] America

[b]Rage Against the Machine:[/b] unspecified songs

[b]Don McLean:[/b] American Pie

[b]Saliva:[/b] Click Click Boom

[b]Matchbox Twenty:[/b] Cold

[b](hed)pe:[/b] Swan Dive

[b]Prince:[/b] Raspberry Beret

Bonus: Listen to investigative reporter Justine Sharrock explain why the Meow Mix jingle, Neil Diamond, and the Barney theme song all lend themselves to “no-touch torture.” Plus: How Metallica reacted when they found out how their music was being used. —Gary Moskowitz

[Greg]

I listen to a bunch of those....

[Drunk Monk]

Good. Then you'll be resistant when the torture begins...

[Greg]

I've had plenty of practice being tortured right here.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

Remind me to send you a recording of Maeve asking in the middle of the night to be let on the bed . It's great fun.