this'll be prevalently friend's only, from now on.

dude's got a point, though i'm not much of a lady.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=762Hg5Zb5g0



haha! this country boy's got me smitten, though. chalk it up to where i'm from and what my family's like, i suppose; there's just something about a man in flannel with strong hands, a nice beard and a big truck that gets my motor runnin'. so much for all my enlightened black metal city girl college student rigmarole...at least he's in a band!

second from right <3

Just finished the most important story of my career & sent it off to my editor. I feel AMAZING! As a wise Polish man once said, CONQUER ALL!

I'M INTERVIEWING ARCHGOAT BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I am more impressed with myself for nabbing that than I am for talking to Greg Anderson, Corpsegrinder, or any of the other hot-shot metal band dudes I've interrogated over the years.

*eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!*

my grandpa found my twitter.


i quit the internet.

i just killed the SHIT out of a spider.

one of the most satisfying things i've done all day, devil take all the hustlin' wheelin' dealin' and negotiatin' i've been doing since i woke up.

stage dives and high fives, bro.

0:50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qL5aDHV83s&feature=related

me: (playing blood ceremony's self-titled lp)

evan: "i like this band. they sound like black sabbath. are they black sabbath?"

me: "no."

evan: "how 'bout now?"


best dude.

BEST BAND.

the soundtrack to the sexiest black mass in town - pan pipes, hammond organs, '70s sleaze, pentagram-infused riff worship, and a sexy broad at the mic...how have i not heard this band yet? they sound like the devil's blood, if the devil's blood were 10x better.
 

pears, cheese, water, and a bitty bit of chocolate cake = lunch

killing cans at the camden canal, going to a metal club with sash & ludo, then curling up with him in his big cosy bed after = plans for tonight

new destroyer 666 album = GREAT

planning for hellfest = a gigantic pain in the ass

finally getting to talk to kelly, even if it is via the internet = best thing ever

this video = wonderful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

 homesick as fuck.

OCEANO VS. LAMBGOAT VIDEO STIRS UP CONTROVERSY

A controversial new video entitled "OCEANO vs. Lambgoat" went live on Metal Injection Monday afternoon. The video, which depicts the the band (with Metal Injection's Grim Kim) responding to some of the worst comments from the infamous metal site, Lambgoat.com, has stoked ire of metalheads all over the net. Viewed over 16,000 times on Metal Injection alone (along with it, a large boost in traffic which came close to crashing the site), the video was the subject of a 25 page flame thread on Lambgoat which was started soon after the video went live on Monday afternoon, deleted Tuesday morning and shortly thereafter spawned several other flame threads all across Lambgoat and beyond in the days that followed.

Since Monday afternoon, OCEANO guitarist, Andrew Mikhail has had to deal with numerous insults, prank calls and threats regarding the video. Here's his take on it and why they made the video:

"It wasn't meant for everyone to understand, it was a funny shot at those "ever-so-serious" about trying to put us down for doing what we love. If sitting online talking shit on humans living their lives the way THEY want is what YOU love, that's fine. To each their own, right? We just wanted to lighten up the racism & ignorance of the online world plague also known as "internet warriors" or "keyboard toughguys" have left on sites LIKE lambgoat or blabbermouth by showing how ridiculous people can really be behind a computer screen and reading some statements aloud. We honestly don't care what bad things people say about us, because those people obviously don't know what were about. But there are a good amount of people out there who DO get what were about and they understand that we weren't SERIOUS; and we can't express how happy we are to have them with us you guys rock and to the "haters" well, we just can't win 'em all c an we?"

Watch the controversial "OCEANO Vs. Lambgoat" video on Metal Injection: http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/3013/oceano-vs-lambgoat

I thrive on Chaos.


My German booked his flight for two weeks from now.
I made a bunch of new friends in Portugal; going to see some of them play a gig with Shining this weekend.
Going to Rome for a few days.
Losing my  mind living with these people
Coming home to visit for a week in June. Let me sleep on your couch.
Miss G.
Laptop currently broken; getting it fixed on Friday.
Just wrote my first blog for Terrorizer!
Bought a Satanic Warmaster/Behexen split 10" in Portugal last weekend, and a gnarly Burzum patch.
My back is killing me.
I miss pizza.
I'm booking a flight to Prague soon for Obscene Extreme fest; going with James.
Seeing fucking ELECTRIC WIZARD and HELLBASTARD next weekend!!!!!!!!!
Things could be worse.

"all we have is some dipshit putting up orange curtains in new york. fuck that guy!"
- evan, talking about how much cooler art is here in england

long story short - norway fucking rules and inferno was AMAZING. reviews of the fest will be up on metalinjection.net, noisecreep.com, and the terrorizer website soon enough.


germany and ragnarok fest this weekend. valhalla awaits!

metalsucks.net is doing a nifty 'top 21 albums of the 2000's' countdown and asked a whole bunch of bands and industry people to send in their lists to be compiled. i was one of the people asked (glee). it took me about an hour to cut it down past 37, but i finally managed it. so here it is. dispute/compliment/discuss all ya want, wankers!

Drudkh – Autumn Aurora
Satanic Warmaster – Carelian Satanist Madness
Eyehategod – Preaching the End Time Message
Amesoeurs – Ruines Humaines
Coffins – Buried Death
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Archgoat – Whore of Bethlehem
Samothrace – Life’s Trade
Salome – Salome
Woe – A Spell for the Death of Man
Darkthrone – The Cult is Alive
Krallice – Krallice
Weedeater – God Luck and Good Speed
Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta I: Dialogue with the Stars
Wolves in the Throne Room – Diadem of Twelve Stars
Bestial Holocaust – Final Extermination
Cormorant – Metazoa
Insect Warfare – World Extermination
Velnias – Sovereign Nocturnal
Horna – Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne
Nattefrost – Blood & Vomit
Falkenbach – Heralding – The Fireblade
Celestiial – Desolate North
Anaal Beehemoth – Forest Paranoid
The Devil and the Sea –  Heart Vs. Spine

(honorable mentions!)
Sin of Angels – In the Grip of Despair
Moonsorrow – Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
Graves at Sea –  Documents of Grief

www.kimkellygoesglobal.blogspot.com

Also, the British cannot dance.

NYC tomorrow for: photo shoot @ the AOL main office (headshot for my column), photo shoot in Greenpoint for this dude's "NJ Metal" photo series, then dinner @ Miyabi with some of my best girls and sweetest dudes and maybe Sourvein @ Europa.

Wednesday: radio show with Matt, then packing, theoretically seeing Kelly somewhere in there, driving to parents' house in Jersey, being driven to Newark Intl, then hopping a 10:25pm flight to London.

Thursday: Arrive @ Heathrow at 9:05am, do my best to navigate the Tube and find my way to the place I'm living/studying in for the next few months, get orientated, then Agalloch/Dornenreich/Fen @ the Underworld that night and meeting up with Louise and Aled.

Friday: no fucking clue. Discharge that night.

Saturday: no fucking clue. Extreme Noise Terror that night.

expect lots of culture-shocked entries over the next week or two, and holla at ya girl:

myspace: myspace.com/scream_bloody_gore
comment for my email/SN/Facebook/Skype.

what's with all these random european national socialist dudes adding me on facebook? do i just give off "i wanna suck off hitler" vibes, or what? gee whiz.

this mouse situation is getting out of control. i'm dreading packing and finding holes and worse in my belongings from these vermin.
there are more than one now. right now. in my room. running around my room, in plain sight. i just saw one hop out of a pile of sweaters that is stacked within easy jumping distance of my bed. that means that i could wake up tomorrow morning to a mouse, or evidence of mice, in my BED. BECAUSE MY ROOMMATES ARE FILTHY FUCKING PIGS WHOSE RICH PARENTS NEVER TAUGHT THEM THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEANING UP AFTER THEMSELVES AND SHOWING RESPECT TO SOMEONE THEY SHARE A DWELLING WITH.

death is too good for them. worst human beings on the face of the earth. i HATE them.

i don't think i've ever been so confused by a boy's behavior before.

the thought of leaving anthony now, and for so long, is tearing me up inside.


healed scar tissue and new growth be damned - looks like i'm due for another heartbreak.

my radio show (and name!) were mentioned on blabbermouth and smnnews (and who knows how many other news sites) in conjunction with my RSG boys. fucking rad.

Philadelphia, PA’s RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER see the debut of their “Nothing Defeats The Skull” video online now via MetalInjection.net. “Nothing Defeats The Skull”, the first video from the band’s brand new album Living For Death, Destroying The Rest, was directed by David Causa for The DC Experience and produced by DRP Entertainment.

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder recently recorded a live set to be aired this Wednesday, March 11^th on WKDU 91.7 FM. Songs from the set can be heard during the “Dawn of the Apocalypse” show, airing Wednesday beginning at 11:00 am EST with host Kim Kelly, as well as WKDU.org.

i feel pretty cool right now, not gonna lie.

http://www.smnnews.com/2009/03/09/rumpelstiltskin-grinder-debuts-video-new-tour-dates-announced/#comments
 

i think i might literally hate everyone and everything right now.


funny thing is, i'm not even in a particularly bad mood. just cold and misanthropic.

pretty grim, i guess.

:/

in exactly one month, i hop a plane to europe and will not be returning for roughly six months. i don't think i'll look back - only towards a few people, places, and things. this city's been destroying me from the outside and i need to breathe some clean, alien air for awhile.

march 26 - june 14th: studying abroad in london, england. will post mailing address when i have it (let's be penpals please).

june 14th - mid-september: traveling through the rest of europe, covering metal festivals, making new contacts, meering new people, seeing new sights, breathing new air, maybe even figuring out what it's like to be entirely on my own for the first time. growing up. only time will tell. this part's a bit up in the air still; i know it is happening, i am just unsure as to what exactly is going to happen.
good thing i like surprises.


things are otherwise okay, i guess. school is sapping my energy reserves and everything else is jolting along on its usual rollercoaster tracks. philly tattoo convention this weekend should be fun. going to atlanta this weekend for scion rock fest. www.scion.com/rock  look at that fucking lineup, seriously; how could i not go? i have a press/photo pass and will be doing interviews with some friends - nacht, krallice, zoroaster, salome - for aol.
stoked to see friends and make new ones and rock the fuck out. i haven't had an adventure in a few months; like a bottlefly nestled deep beneath my dermis, the itch to roam returns.

Invictus

http://www.okcupid.com/personality?type=DBSM&g=0&o=1

Your results are in! , you are...

birthday soon.



boy.



perfect.

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losing my mind again.
some good things though:
made the dean's list.
itay got me a gps for my birthday because he's amazing.
just got the new cannibal corpse album and it is not terrible.
had a good time with the nyc crew while DJing the oceano listening party.

so i'm pretty stoked on salome and blutschrei lately.

NOT stoked on the cold. fuckin' a, i don't even want to go outside anymore.

very stoked on itay. making things official with him was 100% the best decision of 2009 so far. he came over last night and we went grocery shopping, made dinner, smooched forever etc, got ice cream from sv and curled up to watch Wall-E. i fell asleep on his chest then woke up as he was leaving to get home in time for whatever it was he was doing that day. i reallyreallyreallyreally like him. seeing him tomorrow in new brunswick - basement show then hookah then heaven.

new things.
officially going to be blogging for aol music. gonna be promoting a salome/ocean/batillus show for a friend. gonna be djing the kyber on my birthday. taking mom out to dinner at a brazilian steakhouse for her birthday. going to atlanta to see neurosis and various band friends next month. might be djing the punk rock flea market. have my birthday show coming up. getting flyers made this weekend i think. still stoked on blutschrei. tired tired tired can't sleep yet have to finish a story for metal maniacs fuck.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Virgin Atlantic Airways VS2 - Airbus Industrie A340-600
Depart	10.25pm	New York, NJ Newark (EWR)
Arrive	9.05am +1 day	London, United Kingdom London Heathrow Apt (LHR)

less than stellar, but functional. take THAT, adobe.

apparently my hard drive's dying and my keyboard/mouse pad have been fucked for weeks. sending this motherfucker out tomorrow. not stoked.

goodbye internets! i knew thee well.

Check 'em out if you like old-school thrash, new-school rawk'n'roll, proggy techy death, or raw black metal. Ya heard.

http://ravishinggrimness.blogspot.com/

ok ms kim kelly i get to do cool stuff all the time always and am awesome
jeez
today im gonna interview the dude who invented gold and hes giving me gold bars oh cool ok
today im gonna interview this talking candy bar wow
ok today im gonna go to the california raisins tour and go backstage and hang out with the grapes
today im gonna go to germany and eat a lot of chocolate and interview this dude who invented chocolate records
today im gonna get free money from this fountain that spits out money that only girls named kim kelly can go to
hi my names kim kelly and im on the moon and gonna eat this first moon pizza
hi my names kim and i have my own planet



this kid.

i hate it when ridiculously-established bands (celtic frost, for example) only post songs from their latest (and almost universally subpar) records on myspace, ignoring the classics that dragged them out of their basements and made them matter. fuck you with your 'progeny,' i wanna hear 'circle of the tyrants' without digging it out of my vinyl stack.

i have really, really awesome friends.

buying ice cream from the bodega across the park = adventure time when your roommate has large tattoos and your person is adorned with god knows how many bips and bobs of metal. mexican clerks were stoked.

"my best friend is a vampire" = A+ MOVIE. main character is hot and quite be-cheekbones. would tap that pale ass.

am activel aoiding press work/deadlines by internet mindfuckery.

back home in philly next weekend.

my friend tony is randomly coming up from richmond to visit me. he made me promise to be his date for the weekend and take him to do cute touristy things in the city. i'm stoked. his band's touring with the casualties soon too, so i promised to take him to get the best pizza in philly when they roll through.

uhh here's a video of me interviewing tony and his band. it's cool. first video interview ever. more to come? we'll see.

will update on new orleans trip soon. maybe.

i'm under a lot of stress. i wish i wasn't.

i dot know how i keep getting roped into writing stories about gay bands. i guess something's gotta balance out all the obscure black metal i force people to let me cover.

top micro is itchy. not stoked about it. gonna tear that little motherfucker out someday and let the blood flow.

i feel weird. it's been a very long, trying, draining weekend and week so far, and it's only tuesday. tomorrow's wednesday, and then it's thursday, and then i'm off to new orleans to see eyehategod and catch up with some friends down there. i don't know where i'm sleeping, i only have the vaguest idea of where i'm going, and i'll be down there for three whole nights. i think i'm going to book a room in a hostel for a few nights just in case, then sort of see where the nights lead me. i'm covering the show for metal maniacs, will probably end up hanging with the band thanks to brian p, and am sure to end up in all sorts of highs, lows, and all-around messes. dixie whiskey and southern sludge and me on my own hundreds of miles away - sounds good to me.


i still can't believe i'm actually doing this.

I interviewed Dani Filth today (lolz). His music blows but he was a funny, generally nice dude. After that, hung out and barbequed on Long Island with Matt and his friends. Harris came by and gave me a bunch of his band ASRA's merch cuz he's a sweetie and exuded a strange sort of sexual tension (that I was drawn into in spite of myself?). Tomorrow Lynyrd Skynyrd (yeehaw!), Saturday hanging with Davelapse/Alejandro, and Finntroll/Warbringer at the Troc. Sunday, doing gang vocals for the new RumpelGrinder album then trekking back up to NYC to catch Finntroll/Warbringer again if I feel up to it/end up having to cover it for MM.

Get at me on Saturday, Philadelphia.

                                               
 

Imagine what would happen if you took the gentle Canadian hippies behind Nadja’s blissful ambient drone-pop, locked them in a room stocked with Merzbow records, three used copies of “Streetcleaner,” and a drum machine, pumped them full of angel dust, tossed in a rabid wolverine or two, then sat back to watch the fun.

Sounds pretty interesting, right? Well, now imagine the aural equivalent, and you’re pretty close to what Winters in Osaka may sound like on any given day. That is, unless they’ve decided to indulge their powerviolent grindcore roots that morning, or gotten caught up in a swamp’s worth of drone-heavy doom after their afternoon siesta; perhaps they’re in the mood to worship the Sunn0))) well into the night. No matter what genre these Chicagoan noiseniks choose to explore, it’s safe to say that they’re going to do it a hell of a lot of justice, and inject some fresh venom into any number of dead scenes.

Russian
20th Century Russia
Artist Representation  
Marketing & Promo
Math 101 
Intro to Marketing Management 


Mon
2-2:50pm
3-3:50pm

Tuesday
9:30-10:50am
12:30-1:50pm
3-3:50pm

Weds
2-2:50pm
3-3:50pm
4-5:50pm

Thurs
9:30-10:50am
12:30-1:50pm
3-3:50pm

Friday
2-2:50pm


Acceptable so far. Let's see how DrexelOne manages to fuck it up, shall we?

i got a lot of work done today.
i am pleased.

sent off interview questions for metal church.
wrote the bio for the atlas moth.
sent out an email to about 400 press/editor/industry-types about catharsis pr and my bands.
made a deal with stronghold records to represent their bands.
solidified my deal with gwynbleidd.


tomorrow - work at metal maniacs.
dinner with nile to discuss working pr with his project, ossein.
then more work i'm sure.

tuesday's open so far.

wednesday - the melvins/big business in williamsburg with marc ferret and asra harris.

livin' for the weekend.
just got 'dopesmoker' and the new neurosis album on vinyl.
just ordered cheesy bread from dominos.
epic wins all around.


every day i'm hustlin'.

i am a grouchy old woman.

i'm okay with that. stress jamz '98!
bring it on.

i hate organic things.
they look so sad and wrinkly and hugely unappealing.
and are expensive.
fuck you, trendy hippy vegan douchebags. i want some damn chemicals.
slllurrrrppp 'em down.


i can't comprehend why new yorkers are so taken aback my my appearance.
its new goddamn york city!
how have you people not seen stretched lobes, or lip rings?
i'll excuse the comments about the micros,
but honestly,
is it too much to ask to be able to go into a store or walk down the street without getting stared at, or asked
"omigosh, do those hurt??"
yes. yes they do. that is why i have had them stretched since i was 14. i an a perpetual mass of suffering.
i seriously DO NOT LOOK THAT WEIRD. i just don't.
honestly. get over it.
here are much more interesting people out there, like the nice gentleman on the C train yesterday who had rainbow dreadlocks and serenaded us with a saxophone before skipping merrily off at the next stop.
stare at them, not me.
then kill yourselves.

i'm dreading the universal reaction when i get my bridge in a week or two. god knows what will happen once i start with my tattoos.


i'm cranky.
i have too much shit to do.
i have mad shit due.
municipal waste live review for metal maniacs. due this week.
feature stories on krallice and behexen for unrestrained. due at the end of the week.
features on clutch, the red chord, the faceless, dethklok, metal church, sourvein, chrome division, testament, nachtmystium, black cobra and celestial bloodshed for hails & horns. no idea when deadline is.
feature on leftover crack and the starfucking hipsters for amp. again, deadline?
reviews for about.com. already late.
have to do bios/press releases for two of my catharsis bands. asap.
have to interview the red chord and hand out clutch stickers tomorrow at mayhem fest (while trying not to kill myself for being near so many shit bands. literally no good bands. none. hate my job sometimes)
have to interview testament this weekend. buh.

on the bright side, i made out with a boy i like this weekend,
and heard from another one i wouldn't mind getting to know a bit better today. muy caliente.
and i'm seeing motorhead, judas priest, heaven & hell and testament with summer and the gang this weekend.
ace of spades? hellbent for leather? yesyes.


edit:
most annoying thing ever = people trying to use me for perks.
no i can't get you in for free.
maybe i could, but i'm not going to.
no i can't get you backstage.
maybe i could but i'm not going to bother.
no i can't give you so-and-so's phone number.
i have it, but you're not getting it.
no i am NOT that important at all.
maybe i will be in a few years' time, but for now,
go fuck yourselves.
why don't you try doing something productive and getting involved in this industry
instead of just trying to leech off me?
/end rant.