Mostalgic Monday

Up a little late, today's cut is Deep Down Trauma Hounds by Skinny Puppy. Always about the big splash, SP was the first band to film 'an x-rated video' due to violence (full details here). When I was in high school, I had a couple of friends who... strongly rejected traditional value. I was on the rebellion train, but they wanted to be the conductor and engineer. One night we snuck into the basement of a local church, carrying a boombox with a Skinny Puppy tape (I think it was Rabies) and candles. What followed was the sort of thing I'd expect the Maury Povitch show to film in order to show their viewers a Satanic Mass. There were appeals to Satan to crush God, there were a few drops of blood coaxed gently from pinpricks, there were ecstatic moans... I was amazingly self conscious then, and I'm still pretty embarrassed about it now. But I was the guy who went along because he wanted everybody to have a good time. Still am.