Tuesday, September 26, 2006

K-Dough Helping the Melancholy

In quiet times, my mind often drifts to pondering the pain and anguish that those poor EMO kids have to go through. Some say I feel too much, but you know what, that's who I am. Contrary to popular belief, K-Dough is compassionate. I have even read a few pages of a book that someone bought for me, which outlines the Dalai Lama's teachings on compassion. Incidentally, the person who bought me the book sheepishly and tearfully pleaded with me to read it because she was spineless and lacked any semblance of self-confidence. But, I digress.

I want to help those EMO kids who have no one to hug at night as they weep themselves into a dark narcosis while listening to old Cure songs. That's why I created Comfort-Me Emo- the only over-sensitive, broody stuffed red toy with an addiction to benzodiazepines (Zanex for the lay person) and Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia. Yes EMO kids, you can now have a personal confidante to wile away hour after dreary hour staring at your own myspace profile, wondering why no has messaged you.

And the best thing is that Comfort-Me EMO doesn't talk to you -- because that's what you prefer in human relationships. He merely sits there lifeless, staring off into the distance like you don't even exist, completely ignoring your long-winded, boring stories of heartache and social dislocation.

And we've incorporated some amazing technology into Comfort-Me EMO. Just pull the string on EMO's back and he will either tattoo a solemn tear on your cheek or slowly slough away to nearby closet where he will write dark poetry and sulk until his episode is over.

So get 'em now kids, while they're still around- or before the entire human race becomes extinct in the coming firestorm of death, due to the injustice, cruelty and insensitivity perpetrated by the soulless, dark-hearted mouth-breathing creatures that populate this disgusting ball of filth we call the world, that dismally revolves in the dark wheel of pain and misery that we call this galaxy.

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37 Comments:

Blogger Joe Calgary said...

It's a good thing he doesn't talk... the kids would have to put up with boozy cough-syrup breath.

11:32 AM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

I did feel for them when the band got all commercial and hit-like...must have been a real shock. But they redeemed themselves a bit with that Traveling Wilbury's thing....ahh, fuck, sorry....I was thinking about ELO kids. Carry on...

11:45 AM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

Don't bring me down. Grrrrruss.

11:54 AM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

"...before the entire human race becomes extinct in the coming firestorm of death, due to the injustice, cruelty and insensitivity perpetrated by the soulless, dark-hearted mouth-breathing creatures that populate this disgusting ball of filth we call the world, that dismally revolves in the dark wheel of pain and misery that we call this galaxy."

That, by the way, is sheer fucking poetry. Why it makes me laugh uncontrollably, I don't know, but yet here I am, weak in my chair.

12:02 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

Leather- Geez- I hope you don't have a sheer heart attack!

12:07 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

That has been a concern since marrying a fat bottomed girl.

12:10 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

Why can't everybody be happy like good ole Freddy was? Why does underground music these days have to be about death, blood, teen breakups and bloody death?

12:13 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

Perhaps since technical proficiency on instruments has been devalued, no, actually FROWNED upon, the only shock value left is lyrical? ie...you can't blow anyone's mind with a guitar lick/great guitar sound/fantastic groove/drum fill/incredible vocal range, mind-boggling production,etc. anymore, so that only leaves lyrical subject matter to shock and distinguish oneself. Just a theory.

12:22 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger AJSomerset said...

What a surprise, leather, to discover that musical merit consists either in technical proficiency or in lyrics.

I guess that puts paid to my foolish notion that it might have something to do with the music itself....

12:48 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

hmmmmm, what's this? dissent? controversy amongst the rabble?
do pursue this kids!

I'll help. While I recognize the tone in Leather's comments as sarcastic, I don't believe he was castigating all modern music. I think there is a thread of truth in what the man says.

Let's take metal for instance (i.e. the giant genre called metal and all the offshoots that currently exist). Firstly, when I say metal, I use it in a European/muso context. I don't mean the lower plebeish form of dark, garage band hacker shit that flourished in the late 80s and now again (ie Slayer, Venom, black/death/speed etc). While that was still metal, it was not anywhere near the pinnacle to which others elevated the art of guitar playing by that time. In fact, those oven-mitted, beef-handed grinders were the guys who couldn't technically match the skills of guys like Malmsteen, Satriani, Vai, McAlpine, Schenker, Moore et al. These guys could be considered virtuosos by any musicologists' standards.

The black/speed/death guys used speed, disortion and taboo themes to distract from the fact that they couldn't play as well as the greats. Stupid people flocked to them and the rest is watered-down grunge history.

The genre has never recovered from the damage inflicted by those subterannean mole-men.

To hear bands like Sum 41 say they were inspired by Iron Maiden makes me scratch my nuts quizzically. Not that I don't like them, because I do. They just have nothing to do with 80s metal- or punk for that matter. They are their own thing and great in their own context.

However, they are not accomplished musicians.

1:33 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Andrew W. said...

Very nicely put, K Dough.

2:32 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

Thanks ALT. Of course, I am generalizing when I say the trash guys can't play. Some can, and well.

3:09 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

Shit, I missed out on a potential debate because of the almighty dollar pursuit.
Wonderdog, the whole crux of my somewhat sarcastic statement was the devaluation of technical proficiency in modern pop culture. I can get a good goose bump from the right lyric, the right chord, the right atmosphere...there are many recorded happy accidents and musical moments which nobody can perfectly recapture...hence there lies the magic and mystery of art.
At no point did my statement address "musical merit". Far too subjective and broad a topic for humble Leatherhands to attempt a soapbox dissertation.
However, I can righteously get pissed off at people who tell me something sucks because there is a guitar solo/ slick production/technically proficient playing. Yup, this is FROWNED UPON now.
This is the great generational divide I'm experiencing now. I have no problem checking out crazy new stuff....some of it I really like. Love the attitude. Love the shunning of digital technology. Hate the generalizing statements that people who have reached a certain level of proficiency on their instrument are incapable of producing anything that speaks to anyone. That's what pisses me off no end.

4:43 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

K-Dough,
Sub-Terranean Mole-Men? LOL!

4:47 PM, September 26, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know I'll never get a straight answer from either of you, but I'd really like to know if you have any of your old spandex pants. I bet you do...And an old can of hair spray.

K-dough,

Don't you think Sum 41 is just a little 80s punk? I'd say so..(But I am not the music critic that you are..;)

6:21 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

Pam, no straight answer? I beg to differ. Chucked out the "Milli Vanilli" pants ages ago, as the result of numerous roach burns. I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. As a drummer I mostly wore shorts. (You can't really see what's going on down there behind all those drums, so I thought I may as well be as comfortable as possible.)
However, when I did a MM Big Ticket back in '89 you can clearly see I'm wearing next to nothing. I played an old videocassette copy recently and my daughter said "daddy, how come you're naked in front of all those people?" In K-Dough's case, the "unit" would have been the defining feature, so I'm sure he has some of those kicking around...

8:27 PM, September 26, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

leather, that is fucking hilarious. Milli Vanilli pants. One of my old high school buddies did their hair or make-up briefly at the height of their "career". They told her that they would "take care of her for life". Hilarious.
Seriously, think K-dough struts around in his spandex after a few beer? Has he got a big gut that hangs over his leopard print??

8:35 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

Ha ha...trying to pump me for K-Dough info, huh? I assure you, he looks just like you think he does...

Pam, who's the chick who did the make-up for Milli? Their manager (Todd Headley) tried to fuck me for the longest time. He wanted to take care of me for life.

8:42 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

OK, that's not fair...he was interested in managing me, and he was super nice. There was an underlying alterior motive though. (In financial retrospect, I probably should have gone for it....)

8:47 PM, September 26, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Her name is Rosemary Martin..She wasn't even a hair or make-up pro, and I can't remember how she hooked up with them in the first place, but she had a good (short) time while it lasted.

8:53 PM, September 26, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And that is the ONLY REASON I bought their cassette. I swear to God.

8:56 PM, September 26, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

K-D -

Hey, I like the Cure!!!

Tickle Me EMO, or cuddle, would comfort those EMO'ers who insist on sitting on the floor at the Horseshoe listening to their bloody favourite band. Drives me insane!!!!

9:40 PM, September 26, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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10:31 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger Sheena said...

LOL K-dough.

Oh, and on the music front, saw some kick ass tunage in the 'Peg this weekend. Th' Legendary ShackShakers at the Pyramid, with warm ups The Farrell Brothers and drum-roll please... The Fabulous Kildonans (ie, the stale remants of the Stretch Marks).

Unfortunately, my Harleqarma remains dangerously off, missing their private Transcona gig due to poor coordination amongst the locals.

11:30 PM, September 26, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

My only question after all that:
So was Rosemary actually doing their hair or miming it?

Pam-I can assure you that I work hard to ensure there is no K-gut, thank you very much...

6:44 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

Leather: By the way, I hope the phrase "I assure you, he looks just like you think he does"
means that you find me as attractive as one straight man can find another man...

8:47 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

I'm merely using my marketing expertise to perpetuate the K-dough image. (Keep 'em guessing, and feed off their curiosity.)
Having said that, if I were gay I would have banged you already, you dangerous, muscular man.
(See? just bury a few pieces of info into a throw-away sentence....they eat it up..)

8:59 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

So you don't mean it? It's just some cheap... marketing... lip... service... strategy? I don't feel well. I think I'm gonna barf...mffff...plffff...splatter.

Oops, sorry I'm back. Look, I need people to love me - regardless of gender, race, phenotype, religion, musical taste or their place on the political spectrum.

Love me dammit! Why do you think I spend so much time and effort verbally dancing around like a fucking circus monkey with this stupid little red hat on and a semi-hard on?

LOVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9:54 AM, September 27, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can be SUCH a drama queen. Yes, we LOVE you, even if you are a very high maintenance blogger-type.

Are we only worthy of a semi? Or is that an age thing? Just askin'.

10:10 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger Leatherhands said...

Not an age thing Pam, it's that Goddam warming lubricant....turns your cock into medium-rare semi-flacidity. It's a curse, I tell you.

10:27 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger Joe Calgary said...

Yeesh... quick, somebody throw the monkey a peanut before he pee's on the floor.

11:13 AM, September 27, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Or a jar of warming lube.

(Never try to wash this off if it's too hot and burning. Never.)

11:24 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

eek eek eek peanut!

crunch crunch crunch

now crank up that fuckin organ grinder and let warming lube flow- I'm about to dance!!!!!!!!

11:26 AM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger Joe Calgary said...

I thought the lube was FOR your organ grinder...

3:19 PM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger K-Dough said...

you know what? that would be fucking awesome band name:

Organ Grinder

3:32 PM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger Romana King said...

Holy cripes. Of course these little Emo-buggers need comforting. Have you ever listened to both side of Pornography? You'd want to slit your wrists too! Oh sure, everyone sings along with 'Lovesong', but good ol' hair-farm Robbie certainly wasn't sitting in for love a decade ago. Back then, though, our little Emo brains could only be comforted by a dark room, a loud stereo, a big fattie and 26er of smirnoff. Good times I tell ya. Good times.

Then again maybe a damn doll is the perfect fit for a couple of over-sensitive, wrist-slashing teens who think all-black was invented during their emotional angst.

Kudos to you K-dough. I'm sure Comfort-Me Emo will be a success in every rural town and teen-angst neighbhourhood across the continent.

3:34 PM, September 27, 2006  
Blogger scout said...

i confess, i don't know who emo is. but i sure got a kick outta the pic.

3:01 AM, September 28, 2006  

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