Dancing Dead : Soundtrack for the Apocalypse

Rock it or Shock it

The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino opened up in Las Vegas in 1995 and quickly became a favorite place to see live bands perform. Around 2000, two memorable artists were featured in “The Joint” showroom.

As the big ticker rolled the calender into a new century, Marilyn Manson, on the “Antichrist Superstar” tour and Rob Zombie, in support of his “Hellbilly Deluxe” album, were taking shock rock to the outer limits. Their live shows were presenting an onstage vision of Hell undreamed of in the nightmares of the pioneers, Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper. Since then, the venue has been a welcome respite for road weary rockers like Santana and Motley Crue.

How did we make it?

Weren’t we all worried about something called “Y2K” then?
This was just before the election of Bush and Gore revealed the corruption of our political system. The electronic voting machines were presenting a back and forth fiasco not seen since the early days of “Pong”. It was long before 9/11 and the adopting of the Patriot Act. Yet somehow, the scent of doom was in the air and the soundtrack of the Apocalypse was on the radio.

General Chaos

Reading the news today can be hazardous to your health. This business about Iran getting a nuclear weapon is totally bizarre. In the recent presidential soap opera, we suffered chicken hawk presidential candidates who never served a day in uniform. They wanted to go to war again so soon after our worn out troops finally got to leave Iraq.

The Potential for Zombies

The global financial crises will soon be combined with the food shortages caused by the ruin of the corn crops in the widespread US drought. Are all those popular zombie shows actually a script for the time when the starving, homeless masses of former citizens must have their population reduced? Recently, there has been news that several agencies in the USA are placing unusually large orders for hollow point bullets. The Department of Homeland Security, the National Weather Service, and the Social Security Administration are stocking up to prepare for civil unrest .

Messiahs of Mayhem

Maybe Rob Zombie and Marilyn were just too far ahead of their times. It was a blast to hear “Beautiful People” and “More Human than Human” pumping out of the speakers in my convertible Mustang. Looking back now, we can see how rosy everything looked just before the millennium dial rolled over.

Age of Innocence

Jesse Ventura had just become governor of Minnesota and had not begun to unearth conspiracy theories. President Bill Clinton was in hot water over a blue dress that did not make it to the cleaners. Our Space Shuttle Discovery was docking at the International Space Station for the first time. Now we are reduced to helplessly watching killer asteroids flying by with our space fleet retired to mothballs.
On the pop culture front, it was a tragedy that Michael Jordan retired from basketball. On the plus side, Susan Lucci finally won an Emmy for “All My Children”! Ah, trivia can be so blissful.I am almost in a coma!

What Me Worry?

What were we worried about? Right now we are on the brink of nuclear war in the Middle East. The war drums are beating to heat up a fight with Iran and Syria. The Russians are making a comeback and the Cold War is starting up again. Meanwhile, the media has a field day stirring up fears about your children being massacred or a monkey fever pandemic scouring the earth. Just kidding!

Agents of Anarchy

Unexplained mass murders cause debates about gun control. The black masks of the so-called law enforcement agencies prepare for a tyranny that signals the end of the Constitution. Did you see those peaceful “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators get pepper sprayed in the face? What does that say of the old motto, “To serve and protect”?

Super computers and smart meters spy on us while killer drones rain mayhem from the sky. GMO giants battle in court to keep their twisted manipulations hidden from grocery consumers. Worldwide resentment of American arrogance breeds conflicts at embassies and unwelcome military bases.

Reality “ain’t” what it Used to Be

We don’t need to make up a crises. The big drought is turning vast sections of the country into a disaster area. Corn crops are withering in the sun, driving up food prices and creating food shortages in the year ahead.The economy is in the toilet and it’s hard to get a job. People are marching in the streets against an enemy that they cannot define.The political process is highjacked while the mainstream media provides a matrix for a hoodwinked population.

Let’s do the Zombie Shuffle

If they can bring Elvis back from the dead to make “A Little Less Conversation,” then I say give another listen to Marilyn and Rob, the cheerleaders of decadence and decay! At least they had the right attitude.

Here are links to some articles I wrote:
Mass Murders, Serial Killers and Manchurian Assassins
The Untold History of the United States
Mainstream Media Leads USA towards New Dark Ages!
Thanks for reading.


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