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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.


“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

A combination of these thoughts is how I’ve taken it- a sense of the ridiculous - but he’s also paranoid enough to buy in, and he’s been rewarded for taking it as inspiration so there must be a reason it resonates

Given the climate of our age, I could see him tipping over into Q but also could see him put off that it’s so concerned with quotidian politics.

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

two years pass...

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


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