I love it!
When our attorney talks to your attorney and you talk to the attorney to tell our attorney you’re sorry for being asshole #3 we’re gonna send attorney #8 to get attorney #24 and then he’s gonna tell your attorney about your record store money for my inner legal pitbull RRRRRAAAARRRWWRRRRR!!!
So, there are 2 assholes ahead of Chris. One is obviously Barker, but who’s the other?
Rieflin maybe? He was the first to be vocal about his contempt.
Martin Atkins?
Still, I’d think Chris would outrank these guys because of his book alone.
True example of being able to judge a person’s character by the company they keep. Two foxes guarding the hen-house.
Yeah, Rieflin was the only name that came to mind, but Atkins sounds like a good bet too. I just didn’t realize those feuds were still live and active at that point. But, I guess until the Al-less Cocks’ “reunion” a few years back we didnt’ really get to see much of any of this aired in public.
I’ll go with Rieflin. He was, after all, in R.E.M. (maybe still is, I don’t know) and that makes pretty much anyone hate-worthy in my book.
The humorous part of it all is I don’t think she even knows who the #1 asshole is or was at the time. Brain fog, anyone?
Exploitation is a subjective term, I guess. It’s funny, I can name at least 3 main players who were not paid for services rendered on Houses Of The Mole. I wonder if she could? Of course she couldn’t.
I suspect Asshole #2 isn’t Rieflin for the simple reason that Rieflin hasn’t involved himself in anything Ministry related in ages. Paul and Chris both put on those Cocks Members shows. I have to assume that’s what this is all about (why else would she want Chris to “cease and desist” something?)
EDIT: Just occurred to me that Asshole #2 could be Mrs. Barker. I definitely can’t see those two getting along…
Anyway, I bet Afra’s got some letters like that filed away somewhere too.
REM is, thankfully, very dead. I’m sure that Bill is off doing acoustic folk music at a coffee shop somewhere. Austin, maybe.
I just love the adolescent tone of these letters:
“GROSS GROSS GROSS”
and my personal favorite:
“and trust me, we have A LOT of them now, so bring it on. . .”
The cease and desist portion of the letter, at least to me, looks like it refers to him sharing any portion of this letter publicly.
Al is mad at Martin because Martin ended up fucking Al before he ended up fucking Martin. So Al ended up fucking anyone in the future so he wouldn’t get fucked first, the fucker. That’s a whole lot of fucking!
I don’t think Al likes or liked anyone but Mikey. But, he even tried to dupe Mike, which is just low - good thing he never held it against him. Good guy right there, true heart.
REM is, thankfully, very dead. I’m sure that Bill is off doing acoustic folk music at a coffee shop somewhere. Austin, maybe.
Michael Gira recently posted pics of him working on the new Swans. And he was recently with King Crimson. So he’s doing alright.
Angie’s letters in a nutshell . . .
REM is, thankfully, very dead. I’m sure that Bill is off doing acoustic folk music at a coffee shop somewhere. Austin, maybe.
HAHA!!! Glad to hear that juggernaut of faggitry is finally put in the ground.
And, yeah, I could see Bill rockin’ the coffee circuit.
“So, this next one is a song by R.E.M. and, by the way, I was in R.E.M. in case you didn’t catch that when I mentioned it in front of the previous 8 R.E.M. songs I played for you. What’s that? Did you just say ‘Play Breathe’? Security??? Get that fucker out of here!!!”
“This is Starbucks, Bill. We don’t have security.”
I just love the adolescent tone of these letters:
“GROSS GROSS GROSS”
It’s almost charming in a way, how it reminds me of paper notes that would get passed to me in junior high school classes…“TOMASZ, KATY SAYS U R A NERD AND SHE SAW YOU AT ALADDIN’S CASTLE TRYING TO LOOK COOL BUT YOUR STILL A POSER, HAHAHAHA!!!”
It’s a good thing she didn’t go Full 1980s and call him GRODY, which is I think was a step up from normal GROSS in suburban Chicago pre-teen lingo.
She could really fire a death blow at him and call him “GRODY TO THE MAX!”
“Grody” was one of the infamous phrases attributed to the “Valley girls” of the 80’s. I honestly don’t know how much of the valley girl catch phrases were truly organic or just made up for the movie and/or Frank Zappa’s song.
It’s a good thing she didn’t go Full 1980s and call him GRODY, which is I think was a step up from normal GROSS in suburban Chicago pre-teen lingo.
Here’s the first one he posted, with the remark:
Going through a drawer of old paperwork I found a 3 page pulitzer-prize winning Manuscript from the (ex?) wife of a certain musician I used to be involved with: pretty good read, and she is so disappointed in me. Waaaah!
I like this one because at the top you can just make out the words “aggressive and Cowardly”
I can only wonder what came before that made her use such a ridiculous oxymoron
To me it seems like Chris made those letters by himself to release his hate towards Al and Bungee J. Remember, Chris is very good at lyrics and fairy tales.
To me it seems like Chris made those letters by himself to release his hate towards Al and Bungee J. Remember, Chris is very good at lyrics and fairy tales.
Are you a leftover from Pissarmy?
Are you a leftover from Pissarmy?
No. Tell me about it, cause I have no idea what are you trying to say.
[reply]Are you a leftover from Pissarmy?
No. Tell me about it, cause I have no idea what are you trying to say.[/reply]
The Piss Army was the “official” Ministry online bulletin board from about 2003-2010.
[reply]REM is, thankfully, very dead. I’m sure that Bill is off doing acoustic folk music at a coffee shop somewhere. Austin, maybe.
Michael Gira recently posted pics of him working on the new Swans. And he was recently with King Crimson. So he’s doing alright.[/reply]
Yeah,he did a bunch of shows with King Crimson(he was one of 2 drummers…the excellent Gavin Harrison of the mighty Porcupine Tree was the other)…he has a long history with Swans also…both are a billion times more preferable to REM…god damn I hate that band…