Sins of the Flesh

My humble apologies if you weren't expecting a hellfire and brimstone sermon on the evils of attraction and sex. I have no problems with consensual sex between two adults ... of any gender. That's not what this post is about.

Here's what it is about: I had iTunes on shuffle and the song Sins of the Flesh by Sister Machine Gun came on. I decided to plug it into a YouTube search and see what came up. What a surprise. Were you surprised? I was so surprised. Sorry, was channeling Eddie Izzard for a minute there. Anyway, in addition to the expected song, a whole bunch of other videos came up.

Since I'm easily distracted (I was supposed to be working on the third book in the Masters of the Storm series), I decided to check them out.

• 1 - Sins of the Flesh, by Lucky Dube This song was surprisingly pleasant to listen to (for me b/c it's reggae and out of my usual genre). Sadly, I found that the musician was murdered in a carjacking.
• 2 - Sucker Punch by Sins of the Flesh - Not sure what I thought of this. I think it's a song I could probably grow to like if I listened to it enough. I especially liked the point in the song where the vocalist's voice reminded me a bit of the vocalist from Faith No More
• 3 - Sins of the Flesh by Real Catholic TV - yeah, um, my eyes glazed over after about thirty seconds. These morons are trying to tell us that God gave us the ability to feel the ultimate pleasure yet we are supposed to not do it? Even if you're married, but not trying to procreate? How is that not turning your back on a God-given gift? Hey, for all I know, they addressed this issue, but all I heard after the first few seconds was blah blah blah, flesh, blah blah blah, pornography, blah blah blah diabolical ... I gave up.
• 4 - Sins of the Flesh, Lizzy Borden - first thought? 80s hair band metal. Let's check 'em out on Wiki. Yep, if it quacks like a duck. Don't get me wrong. I didn't mind some 80s hair bands ... in the 80s. It's just not all that appealing to me now.
• 5 - Sins of the Flesh - Greed. Wow. very speed metal-sounding. I liked. If I had found this when i was a kid, I'd have listened to it all the time. Just a tad long (14+ minutes) for my adult onset ADD :P
• 6 - Sins of Flesh - Dovble O.mov - Well, hip hop isn't my usual genre, either, but I liked the beat and the lyrics were honest. Not bad.
• 7 - Sins of the Flesh - First Communion - video claimed to be deathrock. I'm not buying it. Rock, yes, death rock? Nah. I found it way too heavy on the treble end of the spectrum to be pleasant to listen to. I actually had to turn the speakers down (the only other video that inspired such action was the hellfire and brimstone narrator on the Catholic video). Not really my cup of tea.
• 8 - Sins of the flesh: repent yourself before temptation strikes!- LOL! Turned out to be a car commercial from Brazil. Me gusto mucho mucho mucho. Okay, that was supposed to be the Spanish word for very (mucho) twice, followed by the silly English-speaker pseudo-Spanish word much with an 'o' on the end, but it either ended up being very times three in Spanish, or obnoxious English speaker thrice over. Anyway, very funny! Sins of the flesh: repent yourself before temptation strikes!
• 9 - Sins of the Flesh [www.silverdollargames.com] WTF??? Apparently, this is an Xbox game. Where is the receipt for my Xbox? Can I still return it?
• 10 - book trailer: Sins of the Flesh, by Caridad Pineiro. I never read it, but it got good reviews - currently 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon and 3.66 on GoodReads. Overall, her books seem to have good ratings. If you like romance, maybe you should check her out.
• 11 - Sins O' The Flesh Switch Night 2010 Freddie Mercury Trixie - Hmm, I like Rocky Horror, I like Freddie Mercury, and sexual orientation doesn't bother me a bit (everybody should do what makes them happy - provided it's legal), but I kind of didn't get this ... at all. Not the song from Rocky Horror I'd have chosen for a male to strip to, gay or otherwise. just weird. Oh well. Moving on ...
• 12 - Sins Of The Flesh by Toy Love - OMG! 80s stuff. Lots of 80s stuff. The song itself is kind of catchy. The images are horribly 80s.
• 13 - Sins O' The Flesh - In Show Safety Instructions - for anyone who had ever attended a midnight showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Well, to quote Willow a la season 6 (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Bored now. We're into variations on the search words now anyway. This was kind of an interesting exercise. Perhaps I'll repeat it in the future. Hmm, Kid Rock's I am the Bullgod is playing right now. Wonder what that search would get me? Never mind, it'd probably yield a bunch of Romney videos that I don't want to watch.