Supervillain.
Writer, metal ambassador, poet, metalhead, rock critic, geek, gamer, gourmand, sadomasochist, feminist.
I'm the author of DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains (Insomniac Press, 2012) and Thumbscrews (Snare Books, 2007).
I live, write, and wreak havoc in Toronto, ON. Once a scholarly, bookish young woman, I now spend my time permanently damaging my liver and my hearing. I write for Toronto Standard, Hellbound.ca, This Is Not A Scene, Angry Metal Guy, About Heavy Metal and Exclaim!. I am also the Managing Editor of Canada Arts Connect Magazine, and the Review Editor for This Magazine. I write poetry about S&M, gastroporn, comic books, video games, and heavy metal. I am also the Wordsmith and Promotions Wizard behind Golden Spruce Entertainment. I live in a beach cave with three psycho jungle cats and a Bearshark.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Maryland Deathfest 2012
Here’s all my Maryland Deathfest coverage, written for Exclaim! over the course of the festival. All photos are by the fantastic Laina Dawes.
“Maryland Deathfest: Electric Wizard, Outside Stage 1, Baltimore MD May 27th 2012.” Exclaim. May 28th 2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: YOB at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 27th 2012.” Exclaim. May 28th 2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Rwake at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 27th 2012.” Exclaim. May 28th 2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Disma, Outside Stage 2, Baltimore MD May 27th 2012.” Exclaim. May 28th 2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Noothgrush at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 26th2012.” Exclaim. May 27th2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: The Devil’s Blood at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 26th2012.” Exclaim. May 27th2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Dragged Into Sunlight at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 26th2012.” Exclaim. May 27th2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Napalm Death, Outside Stage 2, Baltimore MD May 25th2012.” Exclaim. May 26th2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Negură Bunget at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 25th2012.” Exclaim. May 26th2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Today Is The Day at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 25th2012.” Exclaim. May 26th2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: Agalloch at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 24th2012.” Exclaim. May 25th2012.
“Maryland Deathfest: ABSU at Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 24th2012.” Exclaim. 25th2012.
Saturno Buttò 1957 | Italian surrealist painter
thegildedcentury: Fantastic Adventures, December, 1943
Metal is catharsis, metal is flooring it to “Love Me Like a Reptile” on an open highway, metal is a flailing mosh pit-punch to the eye (and the killer shiner afterward) and, when in the throng of tens or thousands of headbangers, metal is where I find my brothers and sisters, horns up and ready to scream bloody gore. — Lars Gotrich
Meet four people who headbanged and high-fived at Maryland Deathfest.
VICE WRITERS
Music Reviews
Rating: X(((((((
Ladies, imagine being a Vice writer. Just walking around everywhere with your entitlement and ennui and midlength penis all gently bouncing in step; wearing a male tank top or a waxed mustache or some shit. Imagine having an ironic, retro-sexist dudebro-voice and getting together with a couple of other white guys and some cocaine and making your not-at-all-different voices all sync up as tautly as your nihilistic senses of humor, then snuggling all up together (no homo!) in a big Bushwick loft of partially employed trust-fund kids while something noninformative is happening on the Internet. What a life. I guess there’s the whole “everyone in the world thinks I’m an asshole” thing to deal with, too, but let’s not split hairs here: Vice writers got it pretty fucking made.
Maryland Deathfest Portrait, No. 8: Meet YOB’s Mike Scheidt from Eugene, Oregon. The band’s thunderously meditative set at MDF was a personal highlight for me, inspiring ecstatic full-body motion something like a decibel baptism. For Mike, he doesn’t think YOB’s musically spiritual overtones are necessarily new, just more inclusive.
“The heart in [metal] is so sincere,” says Scheidt. “Nobody has any illusion of it being any better than this right now.”
Headbanging: It can be done at any time.
At a concert/show:
In the car with friends:
During a class presentation:
While holding a sign outside:
While trying to start a fire:
(Source: totsdarkplace)
Girl vs. Whale: 8 Reasons Why You SHOULDN'T Date a Fucking Writer*
You will spend a lot of time alone or in the same room/house with someone who is very consumed with what they are doing and will not want to talk to you. That is until they need to read you a sentence/paragraph/chapter/entire story to see if it makes sense; until they need your help figuring out…
1. Avengin’ Ur Luv
2. Loki Can’t Luv U Like I Can
3. Keep On Moving (Coz Love Is A Battlefield)
4. My Heart Is Hammerin’ For U
5. Hulking On The Dance Floor
6. Shwarma’s And A Movie
7. Cupid & Hawkeye (Got Me Falling For U)
8. Eyepatched Love feat. Nick Fury
9. Collecting Vintage Playing Cards Of U feat. Agent Coulson
10. I’ll Shield U From AnythingI’ll Shield U From Anything *cries*
Can we have Livin’ La Vida Loki as a Guest Artist Bonus Track??
… I love the whole world.
#SHOT THROUGH THE HEAAAAAAART~ AND HAWKEYE’S TO BLAAAAAAMEEEEE~ YOU GIVE LOOOOVE A BAD NAAAAIIIIIMMMEEEEEEE~
(Source: evelyn-preston)
