I love Nick Cave, I love the Murder Ballads.
I listened to it (again^^) on a hot summerevening, closing in on night, enough to say it was dark already.
Admitted I let the music sweap me away.
But just imagine this scene, outside, waterscenery and friends around a campfire. This music will qualify and outdo your regular horror story.
Not in the first case because it speaks of feelings and emotion that are real and known to mankind. Forget the Ring and the Grudge (Ju-on for the cultivated, however scary and magnificent they are).
To my already brooding mind the first notes of 'Song of Joy' immediatly placed me in another dimension, note hereby that interdimensional travel is a common passtime of me.
By the time the song was half over I was feeling cold on the outside, but duely noted, not on the inside. In spite the reference to me as psycho, and worse, I do experience emotions wich are not mistaken for the vague sensation otherwise known as 'feelings'. And for the record I do know remorse in a way that is different then selfjustifying, don't take my unwillingnes to talk about it for something else then unwillingness to talk about it, for reasons personal to me (bear with me this is not frigging newspeak I'm spewing here !)

Blood is sacred because it holds life in no way other then your own.
Therefor to spill blood is the most unforgivable of all sins.
Not for any other reason then that to commit murder (to needlessly and randomly spill blood) is to commit a crime against God. Note that God in this case is the collective of not only mankind but of every creature to walk this earth, that ever will and ever has. To aprehend the mind of a psychotic individual is exactly that, either in the deranged adherence of it or the blatant lack of it. The last case being the deduced fact that they are aware of it but ignoring it to the fullest extend imaginable.
They wish to blemish that sacred golden truth because it is painful for them, for reasons that are probably only known to themselves, and even that is doubtful in some cases.

For anyone doubting their own accountability in the psychotic department I suggest you watch a not so bad tv-show called : "Dexter"
Crudely drawn and slightly generic.
But then again all statements are exactly that.


Again I have to stop somewhere .. the time of active comprehension while reading / watching is less over 2 minutes ( yah I think that's sad too), generally speaking that is.
Since mediocracy is the standard I'll hold true to that standard here as well though with great reluctance.
If you didn't manage to read this text in that time period I shall have pity on your soul wretched creature.