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Adventures In Living With The Mythical |
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A military veteran is adopted by a werewolf and brought into his pack. Insanity ensues. About "Life With A Werewolf" Life with a werewolf is a dramatic blog. As such the characters in this blog are not real but maybe loosely based on real people. The situations represented are not real but maybe loosely based on real things that have happened in my life. There are a multitude of ways to view life, this is simply one of the ways I have chosen to view mine. Updated Every Friday unless I can't or don't want to. If this is your first time reading this...start here: https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1040400-Welcome-To-The-Pack The first year is available as a compilation on Amazon Kindle: https://a.co/d/gBLLL7E Audio and print versions will be available in the future. My book, "Dreamers of The Sea" is available now on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0uz7xa3 |
| A while back I asked Crash to hear some werewolf music. At that time, Crash would send me things like Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark At The Moon" or Metallica's "Of Wolf and Man", or other songs that reference werewolves in some way across rock, country and blues. At the time, I'd given it up, figuring that there either wasn't any such thing as werewolf music, or that it was Crash's way of saying "I don't want to share this with you right now." Turns out, there may be such a thing as werewolf music though. And it came from a slip of the tongue from Crash. We were watching a documentary one evening on YouTube about a style of rock called, "Psychobilly". This genre of music is a blend of punk, of hillbilly, of country, and its a fantastic, chaotic, wonderful madness of music. It's Jackson Pollock on LSD and speed, ramped up to 200 bpm. During the documentary, one of the popular bands, one of the originators of the genre in fact (no I won't say which one), came on screen. Crash pointed and said "he's a werewolf." Crash does this from time to time. There's a lot more famous people who are werewolves or vampires than you'd think. And the occasional minotaur. But very rarely trolls though. I guess being in the public limelight doesn't interrupt their own unique lifestyles or whatever. I don't know. I just know if I ever happen to catch one of them at a convention in an elevator or something, I'm asking how they balance all that. But, it makes sense for psychobilly to be a sort of werewolf style of music. It's aggressive, yet playful. Has it's own snark and attitude about it, yet it's strangely respectful of it's own roots, unlike some other musical styles which actively try to shun their roots the moment they rise slightly above them. You can figure which genres of rock and country I'm talking about, I won't go naming names here. Yes, I may be stirring the shit pot today, but I'm not licking the spoon. Even the clothing, the torn off sleeves, and the jeans. The stylized hair, it makes for easy shifting if you think about it. Plus, if you do manage to tear up your clothing a little in the midst of a shift, who could really tell? Wouldn't it just add to the aesthetic? Put some safety pins in it to hold it together, and keep rockin! All in all, this just makes me want to attend a psychobilly concert. I'd like to see some of these groups in action, to see if I can spot a werewolf or a vampire on stage singing and crooning while most of the crowd is oblivious to what's going on around them. Come to think of it, much of the subject matter in psychobilly - the songs of vampires and werewolves, of dark love and fantasies, actually fits right in to the entire mythical life style. Perhaps it's a musical style tailor-made for mythicals? Mythicals singing about things that they'd be able to relate to, but done with enough sarcasm, snark and fantasy to hide the truth between the lines in the song? Who knows? Crash wasn't very talkative when I asked him about this. Though he did get that look on his face that said I was close to something he didn't want me to be close to just yet. So, I don't know if my idea is accurate, but it works for me for now. And if psychobilly is really built for werewolves, vampires and the like, then I say I hope they enjoy it. I hope their musical style is fantastic. And I hope they don't mind me listening along too. Cause some of those songs are pretty catchy. And it's a small ear into their real culture. Into how they'd interact and know each other without the knowledge of a regular human being around. A small ear into them being themselves, in other words. Themselves that this world rarely ever gives them a chance at being. Come to think of it, how many times do any of us get to be ourselves? That side the world rarely ever sees? We all have the friendship side that our friends know. The family side only parents and siblings could know. The work side that's only brought to the office and the service side that's only brought into other professional settings, like a doctors office or a grocery store. They're all different versions of a person presented in different ways. But how often can someone be that other side, the one that doesn't see the light of day all that often? This isn't necessarily that side that wants to be painted lime green and run down the street naked holding a red ball on your head while screaming "I'm an olive! I'm an olive!" I mean, it could be. And if you have that side, more power to you. But that does mean you're crazy. Or live in Florida. Or both. No, this is that side that maybe likes those things others may find strange or embarrassing. This is that side that may attract silent judging instead of jokes. As the ages creep up, it's the silent judging that hurts more than jokes. After all, zingers can always be swatted back with another good zinger. Silent judging? Any zingers back at silent judging, only gets worse silent judging. Which could be another reason that psychobilly very well could be werewolf music. Or mythical music, anyway. What better way could there be to hide your culture than to hide it in plain sight with old B-grade horror movie references sprinkled in here and there? To be able to talk about your struggles to the public without the public ever knowing? It'd be a blast to go to a psychobilly concert, having this knowledge on my side, and these unconfirmed suspicions. The entire concert would take a different level for me then, and hold a complete different meaning. Maybe I could talk Crash into going? Well, if the overworking oaf could wrangle some time off, that is. |
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