A Recipe For Human Perfection

The new Otep album is out. Otep is one of the last (of few initial) Nu Metal outfits still producing quality material. Most of the songs on Smash the Control Machine are un-subtle, but not UN-entertaining angry left-wing pieces of poetry. While the music and lyrics are extremely obvious and not very clever, they get the job done. Obvious angry progressive screeds are still angry progressive screeds. This workman like slab of Metal is made better by the following combination of facts:

1. Otep is Metal

2. Otep is female

3. Otep is beautiful

4. Otep is a lesbian

5. Otep sings angry Metal songs about having lesbian sex

6. Otep sings angry Metal songs about having lesbian sex while having lesbian sex in the background

These truths all point to Otep being humanity perfected. A frontwoman who borders on divine, plus a few catchy songs, make for a really good album. [8/10]

Is Anonymity Out of Fashion?

With the Facebooks and the Twitters and the whatnot, you are encouraged more than ever to use your real name. The mainstream face of the internet is no longer the wild wild west where people with names like LarryJuanaBlunt42 attack you from all sides with horrifically creative epithet combinations, involving races, sexuality, gender, religion and geographical region. Also, it seems as though people are no longer worried about The Lawnmower Man finding out where you live and molesting you. They should be. I am still out here. I will make all the phones in the world ring at the same time. The phones are my herald, my Silver Surfer. When all the phones ring, they are singing of the coming Torrential Molestation Wave that I shall bring.

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