Not only did I go through 2, count ‘em, two copies of Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking when it was released, I started looking for similar, progressive-minded metal acts that could fill the void until the band released Ritual de lo Habitual.During that time, I came across the Atlanta, GA band Mary My Hope.
Initially, I wasn’t that impressed; I spent some time with M.M.H.’s debut (and only release) Museum which seemed too tame to rival Jane and too polished to move me.
But the follow up to Museum, an e.p. (or “cd5” or “maxi-single,” depending on those novel formats that record labels used to come up with) suddenly brought me some newfound interest in the band.
The Suicide Kings e.p. features one of Museum’s best moments, “Monster Is Bigger Than The Man,” a couple of non-album tracks and a couple of live tracks. The new material and live recordings address every complaint that I had about the debut and it shows M.M.H. in a much better, rawer light.
Leader James Hall is responsible for much of this, wailing with a possession that sounds like he’s in front of a large audience. It isn’t until you hear him mention that he saw a cockroach scurry across his amp and hear the sparse applause after killing his voice that you realize he’s in a small club.
The key is: he doesn’t care.
Sadly, Mary My Hope disbanded shortly after Suicide Kings and they had a chance to see other bands mining similar elements achieve success in just a few short years. But even if a band like Smashing Pumpkins was able to hit at a more appropriate time, their success was paved by the bands who braved small clubs and large insects, motivated only by the energy created through their (then) out-of-step music.
Appropriately heavy and wonderfully Bowie-esque, Mary My Hope remains one of those bands that may have eventually found success if they could only have found a way to stay together during those years of public indifference.
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Nice post! Similar(ish) story to mine....I thought Nothing's Shocking wasthe beez kneez, and bought Museum after reading a review which referenced it - and was hooked straight away.
Your job as a future mother is to learn the god's ways and to help your child understand despite the negative reinforcement and conditioning of today's society. Without consciousous parents the child will have no hope, and may even exaserbate their disfavor by becoming corrupted in today's environment.
Your ultimate goal is to fix your relationship wiith the gods and move on. You don't want to be comfortable here, and the changes in Western society in the last 100 years has achieved just that.
1000 years with Jesus is the consolation prize. Don't be deceived into thinking that is the goal.
Much like the other prophets Mohhamed (polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny) and Jesus (forgiveness/savior), the gods use me for temptation as well. In today's modern society they feel people are most weak for popular culture/sensationalism, and the clues date back to WorldWarII and Unit731:TSUSHOGO, the Chinese Holocaust. They used this Situation to bury Japanese atrocities.
It has been discussed that, similar to the Matrix concept, the gods will offer a REAL "Second Coming of Christ", while the "fake" Second Coming will come at the end and follow New Testiment scripture and their xtian positioning. I may be that real Second Coming.
What I teach is the god's true way. It is what is expected of people, and only those who follow this truth will be eligible to ascend into heaven as children in a future life. They offered this event because the masses have just enough time to work on and fix their relationship with the gods and ascend, to move and grow past Planet Earth, before the obligatory xtian "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" begins.
The Prince of Darkness, battling the gods over the souls of the Damned.
It is the gods who have created this environment and led people into Damnation with temptation. The god's positioning proves they work to prevent people's understanding.
How often is xtian dogma wrong? Expect it is about the Lucifer issue as well.
The fallen god, fighting for justice for the disfavored, banished to Earth as the fallen angel?
I believe much as the Noah's Flood event, the end of the world will be initiated by revelry among the people. It will be positioned to be sanctioned by the gods and led for "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".
In light of modern developments this can entail many pleasures:::Medicine "cures" aging, the "manufacture" of incredible beauty via cloning as sex slaves, free (synthetic) cocaine, etc.
Somewhere during the 1000 years the party will start to "die off", literally. Only those who maintain chaste, pure lifestyles, resisting these temptations, will survive the 1000 years. Condemned to experience another epoch of planet's history for their ignorant pursuit of xtianity, they will be the candidates used to (re)colonize (the next) Planet Earth, condemned to relive the misery experienced by the peasantry during history due to their failure to ascend into heaven before the Apocalypse.
Never forget:::It is not a house of Jesus.
If this concept of Lucifer is true another role of this individual may be to initiate disfavor and temptation among this new poulation, the proverbial "apple" of this Garden of Eden. A crucial figure in the history of any planet, he begins the process of deterioration and decay that leads civilizations to where Planet Earth remains today.
Which one is it?:
One transitions into the other, allowing the gods to wash their hands of obligation to their Chosen One. My personal "consolation prize".
And since the gods never committed despite tens of billions in mass media, product development and natural disasters/tragedy they will employ the freedom they positioned into the Situation and CHEAT me out of everything.
Fuck the hundred trillion year-old gods and their "gangster capitalism" positioning:::The Matrix.
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