Empty World

You know… - 23/03/10

Time flogs our asses like Mistress Helga. That multiplatinum pop artist is revealed as a shallow and disposable whore. That public health scare is revealed to be so much hot air. That new genre of movie is revealed to be just a flavor-of-the-month trend. Want to know the truth of something? Let it sit for a few years.

What I like doing is looking at pop culture figures that have fallen off the radar, and discovering what they’re doing now. Meaning, I type their names into Google.

Prussian Blue

I was just thinking, “hey, what happened to that white-power pop group? Are they still around?”

Everyone had a hair up their ass about Prussian Blue a few years back, but lately they’ve just dropped off the grid. If you don’t remember them, they were the creation (in numerous senses) of their mother, April Gaede, who has attracted controversy even among her fellow Nazis, in order to promote good ol’ tried and true values such as independence, patriotism, and curb-stomping black people.

Anyhow, Prussian Blue learned to play instruments (“NO! NO! NOT THE TUBA, YOU STUPID GIRL! THAT’S A JEW INSTRUMENT!”), crapped out a couple of albums, attracted more media attention than most Third World disasters, and now they’re gone…although maybe there’s an explanation for that.

Are they really trying to break away from their mother’s views? If so, that’s very brave of them. They’re only 17 years old, and since they still live under their mother’s thumb (I guess), they probably can’t openly defy her. I want to see what becomes of them after they move out of home.

By the way, it will be fun when they apply for a job, considering that searching for their names brings up page after page of Neo-Nazi hate sites.

Corey Worthington

This was the 16 year old kid who posted his home address on Myspace and had his party gatecrashed by 500 people (roughly 600 more than he deserves.)

Maybe I have a personal stake in this, since one of my friends met Corey in person and he called her a bitch. Anyhow, the world has returned to its regularly scheduled activities, including not giving a crap about Corey Worthington, and he decided to do something vaguely within the ballpark of acceptible…get a jorb!

Worthington’s manager Max Markson said the controversial teen had not worked since his party planning disaster, other than various media appearances, including being an intruder on Big Brother.

But he said his client was ready to get his hands dirty and was looking for a job as a bricklayer, a carpenter, or a concreter, “anything outdoors”, in the Narre Warren, Dandenong, or Frankston area.

“He is happy to work five days a week, he is happy to work seven days a week, he wants to work,” Markson said.

“His 15 minutes of fame is well and truly gone. He has earned some money from that, now he has to join society and get a job.”

A manager? Freaking shit, this kid needs a MANAGER? I want to punch this entire stupid planet into the sun.

Still, it’s great that he’s doing something useful with his time, and is finally integrating into…

…NO, WAIT, SCRATCH THAT, HE’S GOING TO AMERICA TO PARTY ENDLESSLY, SMOKE SUITCASES FULL OF CRACK, AND ALSO MAKE A MOVIE.

Crap.

Jim Gillette

I know, you’ve never heard of Jim Gillette. Let’s see if I can fix that.

He was a famous cock rock singer from the 80s. Over the years, he has gone from this…

…to this…

My thought pattern followed “so where’s Jim? Is he standing behind the rhinocerous…oh, he IS the rhinocerous!” Seriously, that’s some major jacking up. Guy must have an IV of anabolic steroids stuck in his arm.

There’s a ton of folklore surrounding Gillette. He claims to have the highest voice in metal (over an octave higher than Rob Halford), and can shatter glass with his voice (he turned down an appearance on Good Morning America where he was meant to demonstrate this). He said he was starving once. I mean, literally starving. He claims to have gone 14 days without food. At one point, he was touring with his band and three men jumped him, and he beat their asses. Says he still has a scar where his kneecap smashed in some poor fucker’s teeth.

So what’s he up to now? He’s raising children…and turning them into killing machines. Here’s a video of Rocco Gillette in action:

His sons and Prussian Blue should hook up. This could be the start of a true master race.


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