List of things I really like

Food (preferably bar food)

Slayer

Death Metal

The Six Parts Seven 

Pig Destroyer, new album rips.

Pyrexia, old school death metal from NY.

Internal Bleeding, another old school death metal band that RULES.

Current favorites:

Slayer.

Altar of Sacrifice/Jesus Saves

Enter to the realm of satan!

The only album that matters.  

Also, isn't it so odd to think about what a difference 3 years can make?

Still way stoked on death metal and music in general.  I've got a lot on my plate and am way excited to listen to it all.

I've got:

Handsome - s/t (a walter schreifels band)

Coffins

Memorial

Slayer (of course)

And tons more...

I'm going to take a moment to talk about Dag Nasty.  Band ruled.  Wish I had know about them longer, Can I Say is near flawless.  I feel like theres a ton of music I've faked on or just never bothered to listen to and Dag Nasty is one of those bands I totally slept on.  Well, I'm happy I know about them now.

Dillinger Four, great summer music.  Love this band.

Shout outs to Anton for getting me into a lot of these new bands im stoked on.

God? No God.

I still have a lot on my mind.  Religious fundamentalists are totally beyond my comprehension.  But I can't get enough of them.  I love reading about religion, it's so fascinating.  Sometimes I question my own existence because it's really hard for me to understand certain beliefs.  I really wish I could stay up all night and finish this book.  

playlist:

fleet foxes

marginal man

nile

smashing pumpkins

ryan adams

palehorse/coa split

coa

life of agony

quicksand

My attitude towards religion is very cynical.  Religion infuriates me.  From my point of view, I cannot even begin to comprehend what it means to have "faith".  Is there something wrong with me?  Or am I perfectly sane?  Well, I know I'm perfectly sane.  I've seen both sides and I know damn well where I stand.  I think the way life unravels has little to do with any outside force.  Although I am very superstitious when it comes to the Laws of Karma, but anyways.  I've been reading a book about Mormon Fundamentalism and it only makes me more upset at how naive people can be.  So Joseph Smith (the founder of the mormon religion) is this dude who used to dabble in the occult.  Ding ding ding, your "this dude is nuts" meter should be going off right now.  After he got out of the occult, he began to hunt treasures using "peep stones".  Sound alarm #2.  Long story short, Joseph used his black magic powers to communicate with an angel that led him to golden tablets that would later be translated into what we know as The Book Of Mormons.  From that point on the church of latter day saints was founded.  

Now what eludes me is the fact that there are people that actually adhere to these teachings.  There is no physical evidence of the golden tablets, so who knows if Joseph is lying or not.  Apparently there were 16 witnesses that claimed they saw the golden tablets, but thats all hearsay.  

What I want to know is what drives someone to believe something so ridiculous?  Polygamy, incest, complete submission and obedience (women), and so on.  I understand that if one is raised a certain way they know no other way.  But what gives anyone the right to exercise such extreme power over another in the name of god.  

I have a lot more to say but I cannot get my thoughts straight.  I wish I could just talk and have the computer write the post for me.