"What" you say? "Has DX gone mad?!" you question frantically, believing I've finally gone completely insane from drinking party liquor (see: paint thinner) and snorting cheese doodles.

Of course, being that it's been ages since I actually posted anything substantial on Stripcreator, the majority of you likely think I'm just batshit insane and are trying to figure out who the shit I am in the first place.

Those of you who know me are still boggled. Those of you who don't know me need to know a few things about me before I lose you. I am a metalhead, which is why the former still think I've finally snapped. In the time I've been visiting this site, I've changed a lot. I came here a younger, less-informed elitist asshole with no tolerance. I'd like to think that's changed a bit over the years.

So for the few still hanging on, know that I'm not insane, and I'm not admonishing ALL metal fans and metalheads out there. Just the elitist assholes who have nothing better to do than to bash on the more popular bands (like Dimmu Borgir or Slayer, for example) and consistently look down on people who like music that doesn't fit into their spectrum of good music.

At one point, I was one of these people, to an extent. I wasn't a super-elitist and still liked some of the more popular metal acts, but would treat fans of stuff like Korn and System of a Down like retarded monkeys. I still think these bands suck dirty anuses, but I also recognize that these are my opinions. I lean toward it being fact that the two mentioned are in no way metal, but that doesn't alter my perception of their quality and the tastes of their listeners. I don't like them, but if you do, bully for you.

I mention all of this because I really am a little nuts in that I think anyone gives a crap. I felt that everyone here should be informed of the insanity of just how deep elitism can go. I thought it quite important that you also all know that not all metalheads/black metallers are as retarded as this guy...

http://www.last.fm/user/Buffalohed/journal/

I would highly reccomend not spending too much time reading this dude's opinions (which he seems to think are facts). The "Bad Taste Part I" is what got me rampaging. I just can't believe that anyone who claims to be a metalhead could be *this* bad and *this* lacking in a sense of humor.

I still think it's a very well-executed troll.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

Music is just stuff to listen to and if it stimulates your own wetware in a positive way, then it's good music. Unless it's Kanye West -- he objectively sucks. But I consider him the exception that proves the rule.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

Fuck that guy.

Feel free to rip on my tastes:

http://www.last.fm/user/SpudNYC/

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-=- You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world. -=-

DX, i agree with you. metalheads (which i still qualify as) are some of the most vehement in their bashing not only of other music, but of other metal bands they don't like.

and like you, i was once much more inclined to tell someone not only how much a band they like sucked, but why. nowadays i just don't care what anyone listens to or how disagreeable i find it. if it makes them happy and keeps them off the streets for an hour or two, great.

i still delight in tormenting some of my friends about their musical tastes and have the added advantage that 99% of the people i meet have never even heard of most of the bands i listen to.

i will say however that with the style of metal i'm currently into, that Europeans blow American bands out of the water. sad but true.

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Kill Whitey.

My ears filed a lawsuit against the rest of me after the one time I listened to Metal.

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

METALHEADS are the most outpsoken elitist pricks of all music freaks? How about the advocates of the most boring genre of music on this planet? INDIE ROCK. Every single "indie rock fan" I know automatically bashes ANY form of music, no matter what the genre, that has had at least one song on the radio. Any music of mine that they do like is music that they "used to like" and claim not to like it anymore because "the band has gotten way too pop". If I tell them I've never heard of their favorite band, "The Flaming Ass Scandanavian Folk Trio from Kansas", they look at me as if I'm the biggest retard on this planet and scold me forever on how I need to improve my musical tastes as they hastily shove an LP in my face. And all of them seem to follow the general theorem that the less people who know of a band's existence, the better the band is. Have any of you ever heard of Rilo Kiley, Portugal The Man, or Of Montreal? I have. They fucking blow ass and all lack emotion all sound like a fucking drugged up hippie whining 'crytpic' lyrics into the microphone while playing some obscure instrument that no one outside of Eastern Europe can pronounce.

But that makes them 'different', so they must be good.

Oh, and my favorite genre is ska. Lovers of indie rock feel free to have at me.

from www.dieselsweeties.com

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-=- You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world. -=-

That's exactly what I was quoting, Finn... I just had no idea where I had seen it originally. God I love DS.

Frank, I'd say that being an indie music fan almost makes you need to be an elitist. Popularity basically destroys your favorite music when you're indie because the second a band gets popular enough and gets signed, that band is no longer indie. A lot of metalheads are just as bad as indie kids. They just wear more comfortable pants.

I've known a lot of metalheads who fear the idea of metal going mainstream. Sure, there is a valid concern here. Fame seems to wreck some metal bands. Look at metallica, possibly the most famous metal band in the last 20 years. And look at Ozzy! That man went a little nutty, but I still blame that on the drugs.

Other people cite bands like Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir as being the examples of "too popular for their own good". Personally, I think Dimmu Borgir's music became more interesting after fame, but that's just me.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

I think it's time people got over their petty misconceptions and prejudices- taste, racism, sexism, and just got down to hating each other for who they are.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

I was going to write a much longer post, but I suck at collecting my thoughts so here it is summarized:

-There is such thing as good music, this is generally not the music on the radio and MTV and bars, people only listen to it because they are lazy, this means that everyone who actualy likes good music has to listen to it all the time and as such form an animosity towards it.

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Poop.

DragonXeroi think absolutism in general blows goats, which i'd say elitism is a shade of. both the obvious absolutism of "YOU SUCK IF YOU LIKE THIS" (which really means you suck if you don't like and dislike what i like), and the more subtle smug smiling "You're a retard for thinking that, but i'll keep quiet and smile contentedly."

it's like it's inherent in people to think that someone disagreeing with you somehow threatens to change the objective reality of the thing you're disagreeing on. it would be smarter to start considering people's opinions as telling you more about the person who has it than the thing the opinion is about.

that said though, a little bit of absolutism is needed in conversation. if everyone was just all "you're entitled to your opinion," there wouldn't be any real discussion. everyone would basically tune out everyone that didn't agree with them and only listen to those that did. then again, that's how most people are anyway.

i'm including myself in this too btw. even though i logically know the truth of relative values, i guess i still don't emotionally. i can't count how many times when twi was looking to buy a car recently, i said "that's crazy" or "don't go look at that one"

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what if nigger meant kite

for when you're not feeling all that charitable...

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Kill Whitey.

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-=- You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world. -=-

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what if nigger meant kite

My inclination was to Photoshop that picture to say "Suck Manboobs."  But I couldn't be arsed, so I'm just putting my idea down here in case anyone wants to run with it.

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

I used to be a major indiepop purist.  I grew up.  And while I still think Talulah Gosh is the best goddamned band nobody ever heard of, I'm equally comfortable touting my totally non-ironic love of 80s Hall & Oates.

In my world, Jandek can peacefully co-exist with Wings.

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I has a flavor!

It's all true, what DX has said.  It's why as much as I like the music I really haven't ever been able to get into the larger metal community, such as it is.  I haven't had time or a desire to engage in media elitism since I was a teenage video game snob, much less involve myself in a whole society based on it when I don't really share much in common with a lot of them besides a few bands.

What do elitist metalheads do? Fight about who likes the more obscure shit music?

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Batman created by Bob Kane

Eletist metal heads only like music with at least 5 adjectives in the genre description.

Example: Danish Psuedo-Folk Violin Death Metal

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Poop.

danish pseudo folk violin death metal?

what the name of that band? sounds good...

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Kill Whitey.

AngryAmerican

They're ok, just don't get anything after the black album. That's when they sold out.

AngryAmerican

Pffft, everyone knows that the Danes can't do pseudo folk violin death metal for shit. 

true. don't know what i was thinkin, you have to go to Finland for that.

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Kill Whitey.