MOG

I just realized today that it's been ages since I've been on MOG ... the reasons (in no particular order) are many ... holidays, laziness, acquisition of a Wii (wow ... I have never really been one for video games but the Wii is addictive), acquisition of a new 80GB multimedia player ... yes, Santa was too good to us this year ... but I digress ...

While recouperating on the couch yesterday after far too many glasses of bubbly on Sunday night, I remembered that I had recorded this film over the holidays and I thought I'd give it a go ... for those of you out there who started off listening to metal as I did (one of my first serious albums was Iron Maiden's The Number Of The Beast, followed by AC/DC, Judas Priest and Motley Crue), this is a must see ... I wouldn't say that I was huge into metal in the way many of those in the film are ... for the most part, I think I dug it because it really, really annoyed my parents ... in any event, I guess they were still my formative musical roots and I do appreaciate the heavy stuff still ... one thing I did disagree with is there were many in the film who stated that metal is a form of rebellion and about letting people know they are different ... it wasn't like that for me (aside from pissing my parents off) ... where i grew up (Canadian midwest), metal was the accepted form of music to be listening ... it would have been a lot more rebellious and different to be listening to The Cure or The Smiths or the Violent Femmes ... so, based on my personal experience I don't really see metal as a form of "I don't give a sh*t what you think of me" type of expression as some in the film implied ... but you should definitely draw your own conclusions ... here's a link where you can check out more info on it: http://www.metalhistory.com/ ... the dude who made the film is Canadian (coincidentally) and an anthropologist in addition to his credentials as a headbanger :-)