(MODTRICCA) Nov. 4, 2024: Let's look at a creepy TikTok compilation that one should never watch alone. These mysterious TikToks and scary YouTube shorts have become some of the most viral videos on social media, causing many to question reality. This unsettling montage features some mind-blowing celebrity conspiracies, unexplained UFO encounters, and more proof that the Mandela effect is a real phenomenon. If that’s not enough, there is also some terrifying paranormal activity caught on camera and strange animal hybrid creatures that completely defy logic. There’s even more evidence that The Simpsons uses "predictive programming."
Serj Tankian gets personal about his band System of a Down
(Q with Tom Power) May 14, 2024: System of a Down’s Serj Tankian grew up hearing stories about his family members who died during the Armenian genocide [or what the young Ottoman Turks call a “misunderstanding”], many years before he was born.
In his new memoir Down With the System, he shares his family’s story and looks back on his career through the lens of his Armenian heritage. Tankian joins Tom Power to talk about the origins of his activism, how System of a Down (SOAD) got on the radio (KROQ FM), and whether or not you’ll ever hear any NEW music from the band.
BAT (Bad Acid Trip) performs "Beef Moo" to prove they have chops
It is notable that we never knew we needed Armenian nu-metal, but it may not just be Serj's genius behind the mic or guitarist Daron coming up with all sorts of great song ideas because there's another very similar band, with frantic starts and stops and screaming. They never made it big. They're called Bad Acid Trip. If it were just about having an Armenian member or raging about genocide and racism in and around Glendale and Little Armenia in Los Angeles (which has a massive Armenian population to rival Armenia and an enclave next to Hollywood that includes Cher and the Kardashians), that was needed, BAT should be as big as batsh*t is to growing strong garden plants. Guano is great fertilizer. Where are all the SOAD copycat bands like Korn engendered? BAT is signed to Tankian's label Serjical Strike Records.
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Do SOAD fans read? The hardcover is out today (May 14, 2024) by author, poet, lead singer, KPFK radio host Serj Tankian. It has 5 out of 5 stars with just 2 ratings. It is a #1 New Release in Rock Music.
This is an exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band Serj Tankian.
Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System Of A Down, was as “unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music history: a band of Armenian-Americans playing a practically unclassifiable clash of wildly aggressive metal riffs, unconventional tempo-twisting rhythms, and Armenian folk melodies, with me alternately growling, screaming, and crooning lyrics that could pivot from avant-garde silliness to raging socio-political rants in the space of a single line.”
After all, as Tankian concedes, “it’s not easy listening.” Even so, there’s no doubt that System’s music had struck a chord with millions of listeners across the world ever since they burst onto the scene in the mid-1990s.
With nearly 40 million albums sold, three albums topping the Billboard charts, and a devoted legion of fans, the band dominated the alt-rock and nu-metal scenes just as the world hurtled into a new millennium, redefining the very idea of what rockstars
could and couldn’t talk about,
could and couldn’t do,
could and couldn’t represent.
With no CD to promote, SOAD still headlines
In Down With the System, he presents readers with a memoir that is far more than just a rock 'n' roll fable. It’s an immigrant's tale, it’s an activist’s awakening, and it’s a spiritual journey from darkness toward light. And all of this comes down to the fact that he himself has had the chance to live an extraordinary life — thanks to a combination of luck, circumstance, struggle, talent, and spiritual awakening.
Born to Armenian parents in Beirut, Lebanon, Tankian grew up hearing bombs drop outside his childhood home during the country’s [Israel-induced] civil war, before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 7.
As a young man, he is immersed in the SoCal community of “Little Armenia,” learning more and more about the brutal genocide faced by his ancestors [under the Ottoman Empire that is now Turkey], while helping his parents adapt to the constraints and contradictions of the American Dream.
Then, during a pivotal drive home from an LSAT class, he decides to turn away from a promising future in business and law to make music instead — a decision that leads him to touring five continents as the lead singer of a hugely popular rock band, hitting Number #1 on the Billboard album charts the morning of 9/11, then having the hit single from the same album BANNED from radio two days later.
In the years that follow, his uniquely singular story continues, as he evades glass bottles hurled at a cancelled show by angry Slayer fans, teams up with fellow KPFK Free Speech Radio host Tom Morello (articulate guitarist for Rage Against the Machine) to push social justice issues on unsuspecting Heshers and metalheads, argues with LAPD officers over the best way to quell rioting fans in Hollywood [we were there and there was no "riot," just a big crowd], and defines new sounds and singing tactics with famous Slayer producer Rick Rubin.
Braiding together Tankian’s thought-provoking insight with heartfelt prose, Down With the System retraces his remarkable and unlikely journey. It explores what it has taught him — about music, about art, about activism, and about himself.
This ticketed signing only event will take place at Book Soup located at 8818 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood. Tickets include a place in line to get one new hardcover copy of Down with the System signed, which will be handed out at check-in. Please note that Serj Tankian will ONLY sign copies of Down with the System, ne memorabilia, no photos, no talk. Questions? Please email Book Soup at info@booksoup.com
System of a Down, Waldus Lacroix; Finn McKenty, Punk Rock MBA 2024; Serj Tankian with Q with Tom Power (CBC, May 14, 2024), new book (amazon.com), KPFK.org Book Soup event; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Does Kim work for the Devil, get told what to do by demons, or have Illuminati membership?
Nikki Glaser shares the jokes she didn’t tell at Tom Brady’s roast
Pete, they were so mean to me (PageSix)
(5 Minutes with The Howard Stern Show) May 6, 2024: Nikki Glaser reads the jokes she didn't tell at the Netflix Roast of Tom Brady. Get her FULL interview with Howard Stern now on SiriusXM! 👉 sxm.app.link/NikkiGlaser-HS #SternShow #HowardStern
Nikki Glaser on roasting Tom Brady, her dad kissing her on the lips and remembering she’s going to die
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 7, 2024: Nikki talks about getting confused for Josh Brolin’s wife (her identical twin) in an intimate picture he posted, doing the Tom Brady roast, jokes she ended up pulling, her dad kissing her on the lips the way Brady kisses his son, her parents meeting celebrities at the event, and her new HBO comedy special “Someday You’ll Die.” #Kimmel
(TMZ) Delivers the star worship with Met Gala, Madonna, roast, more
Kardashian survives this country hating her
Kim booed at Brady’s roast edited out of live Netflix special
Well, that just about wraps it up for Kimee
(Access Hollywood) May 8, 2024: Kim Kardashian was booed during a live taping of Netflix’s "The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady,” and despite the moment going viral on the internet, you aren’t able to see it on the streaming platform because it was edited out. On May 5, the Armenian reality star took the stage, after being introduced by Kevin Hart, to roast 7-time Super Bowl champ Tom Brady, and while she was initially met with cheers from the audience, that quickly turned to boos. “All right, all right, all right,” the SKIMS founder said in response. #accesshollywood#kimkardashian
Kim Kardashian gets ruthlessly BOOED, Madonna plays to 1.6 million crowd (world record), more
(TMZ) TV full episode for 5/6/24 (released May 7, 2024) KK gets ruthlessly booed at Tom Brady roast, Madonna crushes personal concert record with 1.6 million fans in Rio (at a tour finale free show), J Lo (Illuminati member Jennifer Lopez) left hanging for a ride at star-studded pre-Met Gala dinner, and Teyana Taylor puts on a sexy show.
Kim Kardashian, Page Six (New York Post); Nikki Glaser; ET (Entertainment Tonight), May 8, 2024; Howard Stern Show, May 6, 2024; Jimmy Kimmel Live!, May 7, 2024; Access Hollywood, May 8, 2024; TMZ, May 7, 2024; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
What's the big deal about Slayer? Let's look at their life story in this fascinating thrash metal bio-pic
Kardashian loves Slayer, does not love her back
It's funny that we were just talking about Slayer reuniting (Slayer then and now: true crime, new band) as the new band "Kerry King." That pending release seems to have spurred everyone but Jeff Hanneman to get back in the band, though his ghost (preta) is almost certainly present, wishing it could participate like we saw him doing that one time at the Palladium.
Slayer's back! Thrash legends have officially reunited and announced their
first shows in ~5years. Loudwire's Joe DiVita, Lauryn Schaffner discuss.
(Rock Feed) Feb. 21, 2024: The extreme metal thrash band Slayer has announced that they are reuniting in a surprise announcement. Slayer retired in 2019, and guitarist Kerry King recently announced his own solo project album with the Slayer sequel band "Kerry King" doing much the thing Slayer was doing when they left off.
The treatment has been raved about by the likes of [American actor and Goop capitalist] Gwyneth Paltrow and Kourtney Kardashian.
A woman who "lost her sexuality" after heartbreak got a celebrity-approved "orgasm shot," costing $1,400.00 per session, and said it's made her "feel alive again."
Glória Vieira, 50, felt she'd "lost" her sexuality after the end of her 16-year marriage.
It's "science." And I get to give the shots.
She said her sexuality has always been a "big part" of her identity, and she wanted to bring it back.
After some research she stumbled across research about the "orgasm shot," said to increase sensitivity and improve sex.
It is a series of injections of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) into the intimate areas to stimulate tissue development.
Within two weeks Vieira began feeling the effects of the shot and said it was "as close as I could get to a miracle."
Vieira, an accountant based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK, said: "When my marriage ended, I wondered what I could do to make me feel like myself again. More
(Horses) March 21, 2023. Don't be fooled. Ed Sheeran is a phony as are others, even Marie Antoinette.
Music:
Beyond Words - Many Moons Ago
La Vuelta a Lerida - Vendla
It Goes On - Peace Reels
Torn Apart - Infinity Ripple
Synesthesia (scaled down version) - Peter Sandberg
Photography: Lisa Fotios, Skylar Kang, Inga Seliverstova, ph.galtri, yaroslava bondareva
Art: Midjourney AI engine.
(DailyWire+) I fell down the Balenciaga rabbit hole. Here’s what I found by Feb. 6, 2023, due to the #Grammys' #SamSmith#scandal. Gay Satanist Sam Smith and transsexual Kim Petras' "Unholy" Grammys performance brought Balenciaga, the fashion brand tied to Satanism and child molestation, back into the news. Balenciaga was recently involved in a scandal sexualizing kids in their fashion ads. DW+ wanted to understand what was going on and why. So it was looked into, and this is what was found.
Do European-Christians really worship the Satan (or Lucifer) of their childhood religion for fame and riches, selling their "souls" (future) to advance their worldly lives in this lifetime?
Don't make me hate you: Maureen Langan full standup comedy special
I got a book deal. Pete, can you ghost write?
(Dry Bar Comedy) Nov. 1, 2022. Don't make me hate you, or at least that's what Maureen Langan wants to say in her first full special from Dry Bar Comedy.
In this special Maureen Langan talks about how it's getting harder every day to not hate people and how Martha Stewart is the cause of all women's problems. Whether you're a fan of Martha Stewart or you just have a hard time not hating people, this Dry Bar Comedy special is sure to have you laughing from start to finish.
Ya regret Pete? Now ya take me back? Ya'see, I'm bigger than Trump! - Take your meds.
Banner saying ‘Kanye is right about the Jews’ hung over the 405 Freeway in LA
(FOX 11 Los Angeles, Oct. 24, 2022) An antisemitic hate group was behind a banner hung over a busy Los Angeles freeway on Saturday saying “Kanye is right about the Jews,” after Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, made a string of antisemitic comments in recent weeks.
Anti-Semitic banners hung on overpass of LA freeway
(Inside Edition, Oct. 24, 2022) Anti-Semitic banners were hung over a freeway in Los Angeles. Some of the banners read, “Honk if you know Kanye is right about the Jews,” referring to comments recently tweeted out by Ye, also known as Kanye West. While the comments were removed from Twitter, the artist had made statements claiming that people were being “controlled by Jews.” [He's gone DefCon 3 on an ethnic group.] Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.
Kanye West's "White Lives Matter" shirts given out to homeless people in LA's Skid Row
(CBS Los Angeles, Oct. 18, 2022) A known associate of Kanye West posted a video of a group apparently handing out the artist's infamous "White Lives Matter" shirts to the poorest of the poor living on Skid Row. Laurie Perez reports.
Hallelujah, Drake's God's Plan is da shiznit!
People don't like Jews. People dislike Jews. That may sound controversial, but it's often denied. "It's all a misunderstanding." Some people, such as American in exile Eric Dubay, don't think it's a misunderstanding. They are disliked.
Do Jews have an outsized influence on US media news and entertainment? You can't ask that! That question's anti-Semetic. Are Blacks Semetic? The Los Angeles City Council exploded over an anti-Black racism scandal that continues to reverberate over the country's second largest city, which seems like the largest by far. Maybe it's its second place public school system, size wise. LA trails NY.
There are not now nor have there ever been even a million Jews in the USA. Jews make up 2% of the population, and if the population is 350,000,000, that would be 700,000 Jews, mostly concentrated in metropolitan areas, particularly NY and LA.
What a shock that Kanye Ye West-Kardashian is not a fan of an entire people, echoing the splash Mel Gibson once made when he was drunk. Maybe Ye is just off his meds, one of the symptoms of which is anti-Semetism? Recently, West tried to shock the world by wearing "White Lives Matter" shirts. Candace Owens and a cadre of Uncle Toms almost certainly agree. (All lives don't matter until Black Lives Matter, but the BLM organization is not doing Black people any favors by malfeasance and financial shennanigans. Should Candace Owens be shut down and canceled for saying so? The world loves a whistleblower for saying what we already think but hates one for going against the grain and surprising us. "Ain't nobody got time for that." For what? For anyone else's version of "truth."
I'll come up with the questions and the data.
So let's stick to the facts. Where do facts come from? From the university and private corporate researchers, which seem overrepresented in one group, per capita. What percentage of any ethnic or religious group go to college or go into a given field? Those are facts, data, no one is inclined to ask.
We are living in a post-Obama America, so racism is over. Trump indicates that America is racist all over again, possibly more so than before. Or it's more explicit. Are there Neo Nazis in the US? Yes. Are there Neo Nazis in Ukraine? Yes. Aha, there can't be because the elected leader of Ukraine is a Jew! It's ridiculous to think the race of a figurehead determines what the person on the street is up to. Racism ended in England yesterday as an Indian Hindu took office as prime minister. Who believes that?
I agree with the majority and science.
There's just as much racism there as there was before. Are things getting better? Yes, one hopes. Will there be a British backlash? You bet. So let's look at what Black Trump (Ye West) has been up to, stirring the unmelting pot that is the US:
Now that the U.S. government bent over backwards to extradite Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in England with the help of the British government, Assange is being put through the same sort of torturous treatment Pfc. Bradley Chelsea Manning was forced to endure to whistleblowing. Assange is being accused of helping Edward Snowden reveal the NSA and CIA's massive spying program being inflicted on all Americans with a cell phone or Internet presence. What the kangaroo court will do to him can already be predicted. It was exactly this sort of injustice that kept Assange in the embassy for so long. Will Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian, Amnesty International, the ACLU, the [sold out] Intercept, Democracy Now!, or any other justice advocates be able to get him any semblance of a fair trial?
(9/11/19) Pam Anderson defends Assange on Megan McCain's The View
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