This is amusingly weird, like something the Parallax Corporation would design, but is probably a digital art project of somebody's...
http://www.hypnoid.com/psytest2.html
Here's my result...
Always happy in a crowd, you love to converse, to relate, and above all to have fun. You tend to think in a more holistic manner than many others. Like a crow you are attracted to shiny objects, new ideas, playful exciting colors and the thrill of a new personal relationship. You love to talk or gossip. You are highly invested in the reality of day-to-day life. Practicality is far more important than issues of honor or allegiance. You are a creature of the here and now. You are a natural multi-tasker, often switching mid-thought from one duty to another. You have a flair for presenting your personality in your work, and are known as a great storyteller and natural actor. You are very skilled at taking in a barrage of information and distilling what is most important from it. Naturally charming, you are quick to win new friends. Over stimulation is a danger.
Showing posts with label Creepy. Show all posts
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Friday, October 15, 2010
Monkeyboy
Alright, so I'm watching "Monkey Shines" tonight, and I'm reminded of the trailer for it...
Monkey Shines Trailer
Which masterfully chooses that cymbal-banging chimp as an image for it....
Who in their right mind ever thought those were fun? Was it some wicked toymaker who crafted them? Was it simply the novelty of the automaton ape banging the cymbals that sold it? Or were kids so fun-starved back then that they'd take any toy, even one as creepy as this. I remember a cousin having one of those, and he skinned it, which made it look even creepier. But seriously, who would give that to their kid?
"Here ya go, Scout!" (tousles hair) "Have FUN! Daddy's going out drinking tonight!"
Kid sits in room, gazing in terror at the cymbal chimp...
Jolly Chimp
Monkey Shines Trailer
Which masterfully chooses that cymbal-banging chimp as an image for it....
Who in their right mind ever thought those were fun? Was it some wicked toymaker who crafted them? Was it simply the novelty of the automaton ape banging the cymbals that sold it? Or were kids so fun-starved back then that they'd take any toy, even one as creepy as this. I remember a cousin having one of those, and he skinned it, which made it look even creepier. But seriously, who would give that to their kid?
"Here ya go, Scout!" (tousles hair) "Have FUN! Daddy's going out drinking tonight!"
Kid sits in room, gazing in terror at the cymbal chimp...
Jolly Chimp
Monday, October 11, 2010
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSure
This story is predicated on people's historical ignorance...
Waffen-SS reenactors
Sorry, but these d-bags playing soldier are going for something very specific in reenaacting the Waffen-SS.
Not the Wehrmacht, mind you -- that is, the standard German Army. But, rather, the Waffen-SS, who were the fullest expression of Nazi ideological aims. Hitler was displeased with his dependence on the Wehrmacht in WWII, and, particularly with the reluctance and political unreliability of the German generals -- he wanted soldiers who were politicized, fully Nazified, and willing to carry out the atrocities required of them without question.
What he'd originally relied upon was the Wehrmacht to conquer an area, and then the SS would come in behind the regular army and start butchering civilians. And sometimes the SS would cross paths with the Wehrmacht. Hitler and Himmler crafted the Waffen-SS (literally, "Weapon SS") as the ultimate Nazi soldier -- and that's the important distinction: not every soldier in the German Army was a committed Nazi -- and that was the "problem" in Hitler's view: he wanted a whole army of fucking Nazis, and the Waffen-SS served that role.
So, these paramilitary goons who play "Waffen-SS" aren't just innocent history buffs; they are creeps who actually fondly want to play Nazi in a way that they can get away with, so they come in under the war reenactment aegis as a cover for this clear fondness for Nazism. The Waffen-SS weren't better soldiers than the Wehrmacht, the professional class of soldiers -- they were more prone to fighting to the death and to committing war crimes, but, again, it's because of they were political soldiers and weapon-toting goons who were put in that role because they were hitmen for Hitler. Basically, death squads writ large. They were never part of the professional German Army, and Hitler wanted them to remain independent of them because he wanted them to remain "politically pure." They were responsible for any number of massacres and war crimes during WWII. That these creeps in this country are reenacting battles as Waffen-SS men is disgusting.
But then, these are the same brand of creepos who are fond of doing Civil War reenactments, likely wishing everybody could be on the side of Confederacy! I highly doubt these same freaks do Red Army reenactments, even though there were plenty of battles where the Red Army routed their beloved Nazis. No, these guys are very specifically honoring a criminal, politicized, blood-soaked, and disgraced paramilitary army, and are, thereby, disgracing themselves in the process.
Oh, and I'm sure they play innocent and claim that they're only "honoring" the conscript-dominated Waffen-SS of 1943 and beyond, but I highly doubt that. The whole organization was a criminal enterprise, the warhammer of Nazi Germany.
Waffen-SS reenactors
Sorry, but these d-bags playing soldier are going for something very specific in reenaacting the Waffen-SS.
Not the Wehrmacht, mind you -- that is, the standard German Army. But, rather, the Waffen-SS, who were the fullest expression of Nazi ideological aims. Hitler was displeased with his dependence on the Wehrmacht in WWII, and, particularly with the reluctance and political unreliability of the German generals -- he wanted soldiers who were politicized, fully Nazified, and willing to carry out the atrocities required of them without question.
What he'd originally relied upon was the Wehrmacht to conquer an area, and then the SS would come in behind the regular army and start butchering civilians. And sometimes the SS would cross paths with the Wehrmacht. Hitler and Himmler crafted the Waffen-SS (literally, "Weapon SS") as the ultimate Nazi soldier -- and that's the important distinction: not every soldier in the German Army was a committed Nazi -- and that was the "problem" in Hitler's view: he wanted a whole army of fucking Nazis, and the Waffen-SS served that role.
So, these paramilitary goons who play "Waffen-SS" aren't just innocent history buffs; they are creeps who actually fondly want to play Nazi in a way that they can get away with, so they come in under the war reenactment aegis as a cover for this clear fondness for Nazism. The Waffen-SS weren't better soldiers than the Wehrmacht, the professional class of soldiers -- they were more prone to fighting to the death and to committing war crimes, but, again, it's because of they were political soldiers and weapon-toting goons who were put in that role because they were hitmen for Hitler. Basically, death squads writ large. They were never part of the professional German Army, and Hitler wanted them to remain independent of them because he wanted them to remain "politically pure." They were responsible for any number of massacres and war crimes during WWII. That these creeps in this country are reenacting battles as Waffen-SS men is disgusting.
But then, these are the same brand of creepos who are fond of doing Civil War reenactments, likely wishing everybody could be on the side of Confederacy! I highly doubt these same freaks do Red Army reenactments, even though there were plenty of battles where the Red Army routed their beloved Nazis. No, these guys are very specifically honoring a criminal, politicized, blood-soaked, and disgraced paramilitary army, and are, thereby, disgracing themselves in the process.
Oh, and I'm sure they play innocent and claim that they're only "honoring" the conscript-dominated Waffen-SS of 1943 and beyond, but I highly doubt that. The whole organization was a criminal enterprise, the warhammer of Nazi Germany.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Fleetwood Mac Attack
They're a band that has always struck me as ineffably eerie and creepy -- not Stevie Nicks or Lindsey Buckingham so much -- they seem mostly just along for the ride (although Stevie Nicks's dark-eyed gypsy princess stage persona was, in itself, both compelling and haunting). But Mick Fleetwood always seemed like this ghoulish, creepy figure. Maybe it's his scarecrowlike 6'6" beanpole self, or his (and most of the band's) rampant fucking each other, but if any band was a bunch of vampires sidling through society and the pop culture, it'd be Fleetwood Mac. I would be unsurprised. And the cocaine-cool mid-70s sound of the band at their commercial apogee is just creepy, too -- it's hard to really classify them. A Rock band? A Soft Rock band? A band to snort coke to? I don't know, but that combination just always raises the hackles on my neck, makes me wary and faintly alarmed by them. And I'm sure it centers around Mick Fleetwood, who is like a stand-in for Satan. He just seems sinister to me.
Without him in the mix, Fleetwood Mac would likely only be vaguely off-putting, but put him in there, and they just arc into sublime spookiness. And throw their massive success in the 70s into it, and makes them even more creepy to me, somehow. Like everything falling into place, and this band of Anglo-American vampires sank their teeth into the pop culture and took a long drink from it. They are, perhaps, the PERFECT Baby Boomer band, one of those zeitgeist bands that reached the Boomers at the perfect age to dig their icy grooves...
"Dreams"
"Oh Daddy"
"Rhiannon"
I just get creeped out by them. Maybe it's the keys they choose for their tunes, or the tightly produced, compressed and generally quiet sound. I mean, songs like "Don't Stop" were somewhat more reassuring, since they kind of hit along more conventional Pop-Rock lines, but I always factored tunes like that (and the Buckingham tunes) as a kind of reaction against the slithering evil-seemingness of Mick Fleetwood. It also bothered me that a drummer in a band should be so prominent -- I know that violated my sense of Pop Culture Propriety. Drummers just shouldn't lead bands (even if creepily, from the behind the scenes). Especially diabolical ones like Mick Fleetwood. Now that he's an old man, some of that sinister Rasputin/Fagin kind of vibe he carried with him has dissipated, but in his heyday, he was one creepy-looking chap.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Haunting
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Oscar Mayer Being Wieners?
Hmmm. "Cold cut envy?" Oscar Mayer, oh, you ham! You'll LONG for their deli fresh meats. Mmm hmm. Psychosexual subtext in your advertising, anyone? She looks like she really, really wants to take a mouthful of his...sandwich?
Thursday, March 4, 2010
By the numbers
Yesterday, I stumbled across an article in one of B1's kiddy mags about "numbers stations," something I hadn't known about before. Apparently, they are shortwave radio stations countries covertly use to beam information to spies, using one-time coded number messages. Officially, they aren't acknowledged, but unofficially, they are used all the time, and have been for some time. Shortwave radio buffs tune into them and there's apparently a subculture devoted to listening to them and studying them. They are very odd. Some folks have even YouTubed some of them, made kinda creepy videos to accompany the broadcasts...
Odds are that the coded messages are things like "Don't forget the payoffs, Sven" and so forth (again, every country seems to use these numbers stations), but it's just weird to think of that stuff just floating through the air, undetected, all this cloak and dagger stuff communicated through numerical codes on shortwave.
Maybe it's just the audiophile in me, but there is something about bad signal that horrifies me. Especially bad signal that isn't simply noise, but actually carries information. The blurry photograph of something mysterious, an odd and garbled transmission -- even a telephone ringing in the wee hours of the morning (or night) when there's no reason for it to be ringing -- those things scare me, creep me out, and have even since I was a kid. I don't exactly know why, but I feel it very viscerally, instinctively. I remember, as a boy, drawing pictures of space probes beaming back the last picture of something eating the probe. Something about that just gives me the creeps. And hearing that static-laden broadcast with its seemingly random (but not really random, only encoded) messages on it spooks me!
Odds are that the coded messages are things like "Don't forget the payoffs, Sven" and so forth (again, every country seems to use these numbers stations), but it's just weird to think of that stuff just floating through the air, undetected, all this cloak and dagger stuff communicated through numerical codes on shortwave.
Maybe it's just the audiophile in me, but there is something about bad signal that horrifies me. Especially bad signal that isn't simply noise, but actually carries information. The blurry photograph of something mysterious, an odd and garbled transmission -- even a telephone ringing in the wee hours of the morning (or night) when there's no reason for it to be ringing -- those things scare me, creep me out, and have even since I was a kid. I don't exactly know why, but I feel it very viscerally, instinctively. I remember, as a boy, drawing pictures of space probes beaming back the last picture of something eating the probe. Something about that just gives me the creeps. And hearing that static-laden broadcast with its seemingly random (but not really random, only encoded) messages on it spooks me!
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