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Do you ever notice the standard text in LJ polls ("open to: all," etc.) showing up in Russian or Hebrew other weird characters? It flips me right out.

I dreamed that I was moving out of my old house in Starkville again last night. It's scary how much I dream that. And it was kind of a fitful night's sleep besides--stuff on my mind, I guess. Good stuff, though. Having things to look forward to rocks.

What's the worst skeleton in your musical closet? Menudo? (sp?) Poison? NKOTB? Milli Vanilli? I guess mine would be Twisted Sister or Asylum/Animalize-era KISS.

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We got kicked out of the library for a board of governors luncheon, came back and it smelled like repickled fish ass up in here. Kinda still does. Damn that.

I was totally diggin' the Top 100 Metal Moments show on VH1 last night. I never thought I'd see segments on Manowar and Mayhem on VH1.

God supernaturally healed me of ulcerative colitis which was a chronic disease in my colon. If it wasn’t for Jesus I would not be able to eat any fried food, raisins, caffeine, seeds, chocolate, hamburgers etc. (all the nice stuff).I'm very grateful for God's grace in my life!

In 1969 Ima Hogg, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Lady Bird Johnson became the first three women members of the Academy of Texas, an organization founded to honor persons who "enrich, enlarge, or enlighten" knowledge in any field.

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Seriously, man, Mayhem has the coolest bio in the world. Check out what I ganked from allmusic.com:

Formed around 1985 by Necrobutcher and guitarist Euronymous (born Oystein Aarseth), Mayhem was the first death metal band from Norway to make much of an impact in their homeland, which in the early '90s developed a burgeoning underground scene rife with violent, sometimes anti-Christian activity — as evidenced by Mayhem's non-musical history. Drummer Hellhammer, who at one time worked in a mental hospital, is the only remaining member of the band's prime-period lineup. Lead vocalist Dead committed suicide in 1991 (two years after joining the band) by shooting himself in the head; Hellhammer made a necklace using some of his skull fragments, and Euronymous reportedly cooked and ate pieces of Dead's brain. Euronymous, in turn, was stabbed to death while in his underwear on August 10, 1993, by the band's bass player, Count Grishnackh (born Christian Vikernes). Grishnackh's alleged motive was jealousy over the fact that Euronymous had a more evil reputation; he inflicted 23 separate wounds, it was also rumored, so as to outdo rival band Emperor's drummer, Faust, who was convicted in the stabbing death of a homosexual acquaintance. When police arrested Grishnackh, they found over 150 kg of stolen dynamite in his house, complete with a plan to blow up a large church on a religious holiday. Grishnackh went on to pursue his electronic-influenced project Burzum while in prison; meanwhile, Euronymous' parents requested that his bass tracks be erased from Mayhem's 1994 album, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, (which featured session vocalist Attila Csihar). Still, thanks to growing worldwide interest in Norwegian death metal, Mayhem product has continued to appear on the shelves into the next century. Hellhammer also put together a new Mayhem lineup, which has toured sporadically. During one such tour in 2003, a concert-goer in Norway received a fractured skull as a sheep head flew from the stage while band member Blasphemer was cutting the head away from the torso.