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Date: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:49 EST
From: Josh
Email: 'anonymous'
Subject: your a pussy

your a pussy and you have horrable taste in music. elliot smith
sucks just as much as Dashbord and all those other pussygirl bands.
Metallica is awesome and all those niggerz on your list suck to.

I must admit, I stand in awe of an individual with such strong convictions, who at the same time has absolutely no grasp of spelling or grammar rules. That aside, though I'm impressed with the fact that you've even heard of Elliot Smith (he might be dead, but you should probably still capitalize his name). Clearly I wouldn't expect someone who articulates his feelings as easily and efficiently as you do to really appreciate an individual who constantly struggled to accurately portray his emotions through music. One might argue that Chris Carrabba of Dashboard does the same thing, but to me, other than the 8th grade level of Dashboard's music and lyrics, the difference lies in the fact that Elliot Smith stabbed himself twice in the chest with a kitchen knife, something much more badass than a person who doesn't even have the balls to leave his email address attached to a piece of hate mail could ever hope to do to end his miserable existence, which in this case consists primarily of making racial slurs and critiquing the musical taste of the author of a new, largely unfinished website.

And as for your selection of an awesome band - Metallica, on the one hand we have Elliot Smith, a man who had a consistent sound and style and who had the balls to stab himself to death when he realized he failed at using music as an outlet of all of his emotions, and on the other we have Lars Ulrich (I leave out all other members because they are all variable and, given enough time, will assuredly be replaced by someone that agrees with Lars on everything).

There isn't much I can say about the drummer of Metallica that hasn't already been said. He is a talented musician and more than that, he is a strict business man. In my book, that combination makes a 'giant douche'. He was the first to sue Napster, which led the once free music sharing program to charge a fee for its services (Dr. Dre helped out on that). So even if we ignore the claims by many that the douche changed his entire sound to reach the mainstream in 1991 (that seems to support one problem I have with that style of music as a whole, which is that in its pursuit of technical supremacy, it loses most of its artistic merit) he's still a bitch for doing the record label's job for them. Don't think that I'm making an argument against musicians making money. There is just a point where the music suffers for the money.

But enough with all of this, you have 'niggerz' to hate. So enjoy listening to your left-brain-driven, white, power music while ignoring the "pussygirl" white bands that you denounce in addition to the 70% of the world that isn't white and all the creative things they produce as well.