November 2011
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Best Halloween EVER!
I got engaged :D Just Sayin
October 2011
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I sat at the front and they threw sandwiches at me, And I cried because I’m emo and I’m ugly. Don’t laugh, it’s not that funny. I got these clothes from the Easter bunny. Actually, not really. I took them from my sister. You might think I’m gay, but was I gay when I kissed her? I got off the bus and started going home, And some fat kids threw sticks and stones. So I...
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Charmanders are Red Mudkips are Blue, Of all the pokemon i choose you. Your smile is stronger then a hyper beam. I’m like Ash,Your my Pikachu. But most of all i love you
A Sandshrew ate my sandwich A Weedle ate my stew A Togepi ate my chips What was I to do! A Charizard ate my salsa And all the food I had A Phsyduck ate my plate I was getting pretty mad! Then I said to all the Pokemon “Don’t eat anything more,” A Pikachu ate a crumb I kicked the Pokemon out the door!
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Little Buneary Foo Foo Hopping through Viridian forest Scooping up the Rattata And bopping them on the head Down came Clefairy, and she said “Little Buneary Foo Foo I don’t want to see you Scooping up the Ratatta And bopping them on the head.”
ROCK ON, BABE!
ROCK ON, BABE! (Sung to “Rock-a-Bye Baby”)
Rock and roll baby, See how you bop I put on J. Hendrix, you say, “Don’t thop.” When Mozart goes on It helps you in school But “Purple Haze” Grandma Makes you more cool.
Read more: http://www.grandparents.com/gp/content/opinions/humor/article/nurseryrhymesjustforgrandparents.html#ixzz1c5X4EakY
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It is only appropriate that I would publish a post with the word “doomsday” in the title, today of all days. Readers, you may be unaware of this but before the Rapture, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 had been long anticipated as “DOOMSDAY.” You might be curious as to why that is. Well, that was the day of the official release of Atavist, the highly-anticipated new record from the metal band Otep. I had...
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LA-based metallers Otep have just released their latest album “Smash The Control Machine”. Here we catch up with singer Otep Shamaya to get the lowdown……. This album marks the return of Mark “Moke” Bistany on drums and Rob Patterson on guitar, which I’m sure will please many long-time fans! How did this come about? We’ve all remained friends over the...
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Guitar riffs, killer bass, brutal drumming, grueling screams, and poetry that sticks in your mind for days; this is a band known as OTEP. I had my first experience with them on 2004’s Ozzfest and have been hooked ever since. Here is my first interview with OTEP’s vocalist, Otep Shamaya, as she talks about the backgrounds of where she grew up, a little bit about the band, and their new...
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OTEP SHAMAYA: THE METAL ARMY INTERVIEW
Artist, poet, author, actress and political activist; Otep Shamaya wears many hats in addition to being the front woman of her band OTEP and she is adding new roles all of the time. She changes guises naturally like snake shedding its skin and she slips comfortably in and out of every role. Out on the road supporting the recently released Atavist album she...
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Liz Wize: So you are actually the first female I’ve ever interviewed. What’s it like to be not just a female in the music industry, but also a female in metal?
Otep Shamaya: I enjoy the moniker of being the first. I get asked that at every interview. I suppose it’s very similar to the way you feel- journalism is pretty dominated by men. I get my share of people who don’t...
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Exclusive Interview with Otep Shamaya
Otep Shamaya is the lead singer and namesake behind the band Otep. But to call her a front woman is discrediting her other interests and works. She is an accomplished and published poet, an outspoken activist, and public speaker. She was listed on CNN’s “People You Should Know” special feature. So naturally when we were given the opportunity...
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Interview with Otep Shamaya Kris Scott Marti, January 31, 2005
At an old Hell’s Angels bar on the industrial edge of San Francisco, heavy metal band OTEP takes the stage in front of a chanting crowd. Leader Otep Shamaya returns the fans’ traditional heavy metal two-finger salute with a single raised middle finger. The audience surges toward her, grasping at her hands. Blonde hair covers her...
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Speaking of Voices from the Shadows Good Omens and Good Conversation with Otep
By Rob Swick Photos by Marco Herrán
A few hours before her band’s eagerly-anticipated Halloween performance, poet-singer Otep Shamaya met with Rob Swick from All Access Magazine to talk about music, media, and messages…
All Access Magazine: Tonight it’s Halloween in Hollywood, and Otep is playing the...
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Interview with OTEP So, after a deep slumber, Music Equals Life has broken from it’s cocoon and we are ready to share all music that we feel you should know about if you don’t already. Or if you do, then to help you expand your knowledge of it. As you know, we definately focus on the melodic rock aspect of music. But we also delve into the other regions of music as well.
We...
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[INTERVIEW] Otep Shamaya Tops Our VMA Poll; Dishes On Rihanna, Gaga And ‘Fists Fall’ Posted 8/23/11 7:33 pm EST by Caroline Walker in Art, Contests, Interview, Music Photo: OTEP (Djosefin Maurer) If you weren’t an OTEP fan before, now’s as good a time as any to join the bandwagon. Metal singer Otep Shamaya creamed the competition in our extended Best Video With a...
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Otep Challenges Corey Taylor, Jonathan Davis To Poetry Slam
Heavy metal singer welcomes all challengers in her quest to destroy the world.
By Gil Kaufman
Alchemical stews, Marxism, Nietzsche, the puritanical elite, the history of Sapphic poetry, Egyptian mysticism, ancient Roman graffiti and the patriarchal slant of children’s toys.
A list of topics in a college course, perhaps? Nope.
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Alt-metal band Otep will release their third album, The Ascension, October 30. The disc was produced by Dave Fortman (Mudvayne, Evanescence) and, according to Otep, marks a concerted effort to break out of the nü-metal box some have placed them in. “We said, ‘Genre limits and music fads be damned,’ ” frontwoman Otep Shamaya said in a statement. “Let’s write...
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Metal File: Otep, Dimmu Borgir, Unearth & More News That Rules
L.A. metallers Otep discovered a new energy while recording in New Orleans.
By Chris Harris and Jon Wiederhorn
Otep’s forthcoming third full-length album, The Ascension, was written long before the Los Angeles metallers boarded a plane bound for New Orleans — where they’d track the effort with Grammy-winning producer...
September 2011
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Otep Dedicated to My Enemy :D
Dedicated to my enemy You have 7 seconds to decipher your life,before my tongue becomes a blade and your brain gets sliced. I warned you before,I’m addicted to war, I was prayin’ for Armageddon on the day I was born.. 3 pounds. 4 oz. 7 weeks premature perfectly flawed and perfectly impure See, it was a night of lies it was a sick, quick,compromise it was… the devil in his eyes it...
January 2011
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If hope is all we have, then all I have is Otep :)
Quiet Lightning On a Noisy Mountain. Otep’s latest book. Full of essays, short stories, poems, and her gift of words. She certainly is busy, a new album, I’ve heard talk of other books to, not to mention she is engaged AND she is a good citizen voting and listening to our politicians talk so she will be well informed. Protesting against injustices done to us all. She practices what she...
I am waiting for Otep’s new album AND new books. Honestly right now I need them. She has the power to save lives, like mine. All I need is her guidance. SS4L
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Otep is working on a new album as i post this. She recently said she is working on two new books. She is so busy, she is so amazing! SS4L
December 2010
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Otep Tribe
As I’m sure you know Otep is my hero. I love her acceptance and the way she interacts and involves her fans. Her art is simply amazing just like her music. I wouldn’t fuck with her, her tribe will stand around her and rally for her. :)
November 2010
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October 2010
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Otep: Voted 28th most important Lesbian!!!
An out lesbian at the center of a metal band named after her, Otep has been at the forefront of LGBT and equality politics in the metal music community since 2000. The band’s first two albums were with Capitol Records, but Otep has since moved to indie label Victory. Their 2009 album, Smash the Control Machine, peaked at #47 on the U.S. charts and the band was also nominated for a GLAAD...
Otep on Facebook :)
Otep: "A jug fills drop by drop." -Buddha
Guillermo Andreas-Guadalupe Diez: God does not exist.
Amber Buckley: That's not the point, the point is do everything a little at a time then something bigger will come of it
Otep: Indeed Amber .... becoming anything substantial requires work and passion. drip, drip, drip
Attention!!! MY NEWS!!
When I started on this site my intention was to only make posts on Otep, and also i hoped to do it regularly. I changed my mind on it being srictly Otep. It is now going to be 90% Otep 10% things I think are important. In a month i hope to have enough together to start the Otep blog. I’d like you to help me recruit followers. I’d love for Otep to be a follower, I’d love her...
“I liberate the devils in my head through the paragraphs crafted by my pen. These...”
– SERV ASAT / SEVAS TRA / ART SAVES (via girlgoesgrrr)
“The #2 in command of the Mormon Church attacked gays & lesbians on a...”
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Otep
Otep saves! Lets celebrate her art : )
August 2010
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