Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: death metal

  • birthday, containers, books, cynic, etc

    Birthday was okay last week. The superfloat went fine, but I couldn’t 100% lock into it for four hours. I think I’m about done with the whole sensory deprivation thing. I think the meditative part of it is good, and the isolation. But the process, especially with the salt water, is such a pain in…

  • KONCAST Episode 6: Ray Miller

    Click here to for more details on this new episode of The Koncast In this episode, I talk to Ray Miller, creator of Metal Curse zine, the record label Cursed Productions, and bassist and vocalist of the band Adversary. We discuss: How we first met 32 years ago, going from Metallica to Death Metal, finding…

  • The Curse of Ancient Writing

    Something like 87 years ago, my friend Ray Miller had a zine.  A zine is like a tumblr account, except it’s on dead trees, and instead of pictures you take of yourself with a cell phone camera, it has words on it.  His zine was called Metal Curse, and it was essentially a way to…

  • Screams and whispers

    First of all, I’ll get all of the zine stuff out of the way: Press release is at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/09/prweb553756.htm The first trailer (yes, books have trailers now, I guess) is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w83ZgawVDF4. (This is the one I made, which is why it sucks more.) Second trailer, by AITPL#12 artist Matthew Pazzol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWEoSBZVBHU. I am waiting…

  • Death metal and blind accordions

    I can’t really write about what’s on my mind right now, except to say that I’m not feeling great today. I still don’t know who reads this or why, so I’m forced to tiptoe around assorted facts about my current mental well-being. While I agree that this is stupid, it’s probably best that I don’t…