Not really surprised either, hasn't he been going on about David Icke and lizard people for decades now?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
I definitely remember Pike mentioning Icke in an interview I read years ago. The only musician I've ever had bring the reptoids up to me in an interview was Wino, who's now an anti-vax crank, so.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
From what I've read in interviews with Pike and from my one, extremely drunken on his part, conversation with the guy, he seems more to just be into the lizard people conspiracy thing from a "this is batshit sci-fi fodder for kick-ass metal songs", I haven't gotten the sense that it's too engrained but I could be wrong.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
I picked up an Icke book from a charity shop last year thinking I'd find out what his thing was. It's still sitting in a pile unread beside he toilet. THought it be some interest. I dunno.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
Like seeing how glaring the holes were or something
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
Oh there was definitely a time in my life I would have checked one of his books out from sheer curiosity, had I been aware enough to care.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
Doing some googling, yeah, it's def. a weird purgatory of repurposing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a lizard people parable drawn from life, but the lizards are not, Icke insists, not Jews, just all powerful Zionists who *happen* to be actual, real space lizards.
I dunno, I didn't waste any more time on him. Pike, it's hard to tell what's up with Pike, though if you told me he believed or believed in literally anything it wouldn't come as a shock. Iirc the dude is even anti-earplug.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
No interest in defending the guy, especially if there's more questionable beliefs of his I haven't stumbled across before, but he always struck me more as the old fashioned aliens and Illuminati corner bar type conspiracy theorist than the more dangerous, anti-vax, Q adjacent always online modern type conspiracy theorist.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
Very contrarian "I would never belong to any club that would have me as a member" vibe.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
he seems more to just be into the lizard people conspiracy thing from a "this is batshit sci-fi fodder for kick-ass metal songs", I haven't gotten the sense that it's too engrained but I could be wrong.
― bendy, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
The line between aliens and Illuminati and Q has gotten thinner over time - the kooks were never quite as harmlessly goofy as we wanted to believe.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 February 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link
I think they were slightly more harmless before they were able to congregate online and stoke each others batshit.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
a friend posted about this interview on FB with the "anarchist libertarian" bit, and I was like, "uh, I wonder if he's still in Oakland?" and then I skimmed the interview and lol of course he moved to Portland
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
Matt Pike seems like the sort of dude who lives wherever he wakes up. Did you see that thing about his amputated toe?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
No surprise, the new song is pretty rad, but cliche or not it concerns me a little that Pike would name the album and song "Cometh the Storm." Given his predilections, he's the last guy I'd want talking about a coming storm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVr9AU9gMfo
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:22 (two weeks ago) link