>That would be 'Nu Metal'.
>
>Inspired by rap's ultra thug division and over-clocked metal stylings
>bands like Linkin Park find novel ways to have an excuse to see the throat
>specialist.
>Nu Metal shouldn't be confused with 'screamo' which is the heavier
>incarnation of already sorta heavy emo, a form of music built mostly
>around the subject of how terrible your relationship is.
>
>So terrible apparently, you need some serious ass decibel output to
>communicate the full scope of the problem.
>
>.d.
I'm not old darn it. I KNEW it was spelled Linkin Park. Honest!
Nu Metal huh? Yes, I'd gathered it was about how terrible relationships are. Once in awhile, you can actually discern lyrics. :)
Nu Metal. While the hax0r habit of playing with phonetic spelling was always good for a laugh--a shared wink--when practiced by intelligent old school hackers, the spread to the wider culture irritates me almost as much as Nu Metal screams.
If anyone's paying attention, btw, I have forgotten the subscription address to PEN-L. Can someone pass it along? Somehow, my PEN-L archive was hosed and I'm too lazy to dig through my backups CDs from Charley -- when I hastily backed up (twice!) everything on my boxen and didn't care whether it was organized or well-labeled, just that it was there!
Thanks!
"Be a scribe! Your body will be sleek, your hand will be soft. You are one who sits grandly in your house; your servants answer speedily; beer is poured copiously; all who see you rejoice in good cheer. Happy is the heart of him who writes; he is young each day."
--Ptahhotep, 4500 BCE