Inverted Crosses

 

“Are you mad or just insane?” – King Diamond (“Twilight Symphony”)

I spend too much time alone in Mexico. This happens every time I come to Mexico and it is essentially inevitable. Everyone works and I just stay at my grandma’s house all day watching ESPN hoping something interesting will happen over the transgression of the day. During this time, I also just have my labtop open blasting music. The great thing though is that metal isn’t necessarily songs about rainbows and flowers, just random things, from non-fiction to science fiction.

While alone time is good, it has lead to a lot of dark thoughts over the last few days, both good and bad. I would like to point out that these dark thoughts are nothing new, but they happen a lot more often and darker than my usual ones. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about putting inverted crosses and pentagrams on a lot of my things. Backpacks, jeans, shoes, as tattoos, etc. I wouldn’t wear it as a form of anti-religion, but more for shock value. I think it inverted crosses are fucking out of this world. I wouldn’t hesitate to put an inverted cross on my backpack and walk around with it for kicks.

I’ve also been thinking of how awesome my nails were when I painted them black and would do it again any day, but I still live at home and yeah.

Chimaira. I love this band and pretty happy I had the opportunity to see them almost three years ago. I’ve been listening to them a lot lately. I’m not sure if it’s because of the dark and personal lyrics, or because the guitars as extremely catchy. I get a lot of the adrenaline rush when I listen to their songs.

I’ve also been listening to a lot of Mercyful Fate. Dark themes galore. Even though I don’t like their album 9, I want to get the shirt with the album cover on it because it looks satanicy (is that even a word) just like I want to get the Don’t Break The Oath shirt too. (I also want to get the Them King Diamond shirt.)

I don’t know, but I need to maintain myself occupied and my mind busy instead of leaving it so much in the dark (no pun intended). Sorry for using the word “also” so much. It sorta just came out like that, but then again it is 12:30 am so maybe my mind is just putting out whatever it feels like.

Also, America, if you read this, I miss our weekly hanging out and just chatting about random stuff for hours, watching Beauty and the Briefcase, and giving Irving crap for making us watch movies until 3 am. We’re hanging out when I comeback from Mexico and going to find a good coffee joint.