KORN

[Adam]

Take care of yourself/selves.

[Thorngrub]

theladyofthelake said:

Looks like we're all set to take a glancing blow from that Rita bitch this weekend.

I live about 200 miles inland, so at least we won't get the full brunt... unless she takes a sharp northern turn, then we might still end up with a cat 1 or 2 hurricane to deal with. If she swings west of us (as projected -- fingers crossed), we'll just get the rains, wind, power outages, and the occasional tornado. Sounds like a fun weekend.

Aw . . . hang in there Lady. Hope it blows over quick.

[Thorngrub]

PISSIN

Don't forget that you are born
free, Better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees


the name of the new album is See You On The Other Side, and will be out Dec. 6

[Thorngrub]

Wow.



that is truly a heartbreaking title . . . . .


*luv it*

[theladyofthelake]

I wonder what has sparked this transition from short-and-sweet titles to these long, awkward, unwieldy-as-hell titles we're forced to initialize to even discuss the album? It's ok, I guess... but I'd have picked a title that wasn't an Ozzy tune, at least.

I just can't be appreciative of much right now... that damn hurricane is coming right up through here. They're telling us to prepare for 100 mph wind gusts and at least a few days without power. At least it'll break these 100 degree temps we've been having. I swear to god, the weather this year is signaling the end of the world. As we know it, anyway.

[theladyofthelake]

It's funny... all the Houston people I know often say they don't know how I can live in a place like this: small, boring, close-knit. With all of them now evacuating to HERE, using all of our gas (several stations have run out between here and Houston), clogging our highways and buying up all of our groceries, I can't help but feel just a tiny bit of triumph in the ongoing your-town-sucks-no-YOUR-town-sucks argument. I wouldn't live in that shithole to save my soul. This is only *one* of the many, many reasons why. But, I still wish 'em all the best.

[Thorngrub]

"end of the world. As we know it"

Damn straight, and it always strikes me as insanely peculiar how at least half, if not more than half, of the population is in Total, Outright Denial about the obvious cause for it:

"Earth has warmed by about 1ºF over the past 100 years. But why? And how? Well, scientists are not exactly sure. The Earth could be getting warmer on its own, but many of the world's leading climate scientists think that things people do are helping to make the Earth warmer."

I mean, how grown ups who graduated from high school can NOT put 2 + 2 together and realize that the emissions from 1 single automobile would naturally effect a CHANGE in our atmosphere (however slight), how these so-called "pragmatists" can not see that the cumulative effects of not 1 car but EVERY SINGLE DAMN AUTOMOBILE ON EARTH STILL RUNNING would extremely UP the ante in "atmospheric affect", is beyond me. HOw these simpletons can NOT see that the auto industry is but one teensy percentage of the Total Cumulative Effect that we've incessantly churned into our atmosphere from the hundreds of other industrial pollutants ceaselessly being VOMITED out of EVERY NATION'S FACTORIES, how these people can YET remain in such obvious & total DENIAL about the impact such post-industrial pollutants MUST inexorably have on our ATMOSPHERE -(isn't that where the Weather forms-?)- how these mutants can't see the effects humanity have cumulatively produced on our atmospheric conditions is just totally beyond me.

I mean, there's ignorance . . . .and stupidity . . . and idiocy . . . but these proponents that "Global Warming" is some Leftist Myth are on an order of magnitude so very far below these words . . . . the mind reels . . . there's not a word INVENTED to appropriately describe the level of their pig-headed ignorant denial . . . I'll have to work at coming up with such a term.

[Thorngrub]

As for the longer titles. . . I see what you mean, Lady. Also, I forgot that was an Ozzy song. . . it made me think of the Pink Floyd line "I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon".

It may not be the most original title in the world; however, it IS somewhat original to use that as an Album Title, and what sinks it home for me is the outright honesty and straightforwardness of its intent.

Personally I feel for the 4 remaining survivors of korn, to have lost their brother in arms.

It's easy to make light of the fact that Head was very integral to their band, after he betrayed them like this. I may have indulged in my share of Head-bashing since his abandoning of his brothers, but I must say I will always forever & a day respect the legacy he created for himself in the band with his own heart, mind and hands. That can never be undone: it is Untouchable, if you will. I do not wish to retain any bitterness towards him (it is difficult). I want to "take the high road" and maintain a civil demeanor towards Head & his new Life, whilst inwardly feeling for the loss his former bandmates are still feeling.

At this point, all a fukker can do is keep his/her fingers crossed & know in our heart of hearts that the remaining 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (for that is what they are, now) will be able to shoulder this load among themselves, from now on.

I know they can do it.

[Thorngrub]

I know! I think I'll call these Global Warming Denialists . . . . . .

































......"Turd Polishers"

[Thorngrub]

Cuz that's exactly what they are. I'll bet even their own farts don't stink, either.

[Thorngrub]

PISSIN

Don't forget that you are born
free, Better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees


My car smokes a lot. I'm sorry. I'd ride my bike to work if I could.
Lady, did they say your part didn't have to evacuate at all?

[theladyofthelake]

No, we don't have to evacuate. They usually only evacuate the coastal areas. But all the schools have dismissed today and tomorrow, so they can house the Houston/Galveston evacuees in the gyms. And I don't have to work tomorrow, so that's one good thing. =P

Yeah, yeah, I made a flip comment about the "end of the world," but the thing is, this isn't anything we haven't seen before. Our 100+ temps on the first day of fall haven't broken any records for this area -- it was hotter than this back in the 30s, and Galveston was flattened by a hurricane like this in 1900, over a century ago... it's not like this is a new phenomenon. Things just move in cycles; this is just the sucky part of the cycle.

[theladyofthelake]

Hey everyone! We survived Rita. It was scary as hell, but it was an experience.

She blew through over a course of 12 hours, from 2 am Friday night until 2 pm Saturday. Until about noon Saturday, we just had tropical storm-force winds, but after that we dealt with a few hurricane-force gusts that did most of the damage around town. She only lost her hurricane status right on top of us, so that was really a good thing; it could have been much worse. A town only about 60 miles south of us was practically blown away. Most of our county still doesn't have power -- my mom just got it back this morning, and today is the first day I've been able to get to work. We've also had MAJOR fuel shortages. I don't know what was more frightening: the winds or the garbage sack-covered gas pumps and the mile-long lines at places that actually had fuel. It was just surreal, coupled with miles and miles of evacuees trailing through town to get out of the storm's path. A town this size is not supposed to have traffic jams. They bought up all of our gas, and now that they're on their way home, they're buying it all up again. And complaining when we locals show up at the pumps, as if we can just stop living and working because they're trying to get back home. Their asses can't get there fast enough, as far as I'm concerned.

Yes, I'm a little pissed about all of that. Yesterday I sat in line in the sweltering heat for almost 2 hours to get gas. Even got a sunburn on my arm. Saw several fights nearly break out because people are on edge around here. At least I got fuel, though... a couple of days ago we were third in line from the pump and the station ran out. THAT will piss ya off. The attendant was crying when she came out to tell us -- I'm sure she'd been cussed out several times by the time she got to us. I've wanted to break down and cry myself several times over the last few days.

Anyway, it was the worst thing this area has ever seen; I can't imagine what those people on the coast are going through. I also can't imagine what would have happened to us had Rita made landfall as a cat 5. I shudder to think that it could still happen.

[Thorngrub]

Wow Lady . . . that's intense. I was wondering how you were faring over there. . . kinda worried. Glad to hear y'all made it through relatively unscathed. That's sick about all the gas lines. Sure seems as if the world's gone mad, as of late. Hang in there . . .

[theladyofthelake]

Head over to www.mtv.com/news to read a story about the new Korn vid...