Monday, October 26, 2009

Why are skeletons always accociated with evil?



First Pic:
its funny! american idol creates more rocker types and the sky hasnt fell yet.
you can get this on a
T-shirt on Richard Hell's website

Second Pic:
The beauty currently known as Santa Muerte
Holloween seems pretty novel these days. A chance parody and make people laugh. Cheap thrills from haunted houses. Its OK to be knock off creepy and make the outside of your house look like shit with plastic tombstones and cotton on your bushes. any other time of year its silly goth flagrent if you have too much gloomy decore on display. Fall as a season lends its unique hand in enough symbolism with trees weather change to display a death like quality in nature. Trees are getting ready for suspended animation by dropping there leaves, the weather is teasing you with brisk days and cold rainstorms. At its roots holloween is pagan, like putting trees in your house (The Angel on the top of your tree looks confused if you look hard enough.) But whats wrong with assimalating pre-christian practices into a dominantly christian country? I don't see a problem because it brings back forgotten colors of a past outlawed ideas. Take day of the dead or the contraversial "Santa Muerte" in mexico. These concepts have been morphed from pre-columbian imagery and notions about mortality and its finite nature. To an american skeletons to quote Ali G or my friend Paul "always associated with evil" unless your a greatful dead fan. People dont want to look at skeletons because they think there ugly and a sign of bad stuff. Indiana Jones teaches us that skeletons signal booby traps or musty cripts with more rats than even Willard could handle. The truth is its your future self on this planet and its not so bad (imagine if we were invertabrates, we take that for granted) no cool fosil records just a shadowy relief on a rock. We can laugh at the old clanky bones but I think we should leave a little room for respect. I think its the grim reaper thats off putting (have you seen the pictures of death in those plague paintings?) he looks like death gone wild, fluanting his job while people run from him like godzilla. In mexico shes a saint and a guiding force in a place were life can seem brutally unfair and death happens frequently. A perfect adaptation to offer some peace of mind when mortality can be gravely apparent. Oh! And ma new mixtape is in the workinz roight now, hope you think it's reallness!! and brings da true meaning! Oh oh! blog shout out to the man in ARMOR!! shlingg! (samurai blade sound) A.K.A Squeek cuz im sure he still jerks off and thats OK.

1 comment:

  1. Ry I cannot stop laughing from this amazing blog. This one has to be by far my favorite. I am sure you are right about Squeak. In the case of skeletons I have never been one to look at them and think fear. I have always associated them with a part of life, not only being at our core, but being the representation of what is inevitable for us all. I, being the pirate that I am, also look at skulls and skeletons differently and mostly as a symbol of adventure and warning. I also love Dia de los Muertos but am still swept up by the fabricated capitalist holiday that is called Halloween only because it reminds me of fun times in my childhood and it is a good excuse to dress in costume and put shit all over your house.

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