If you're MALAMOR, JTFK, or COLD "SORE" SURVIVOR.
I was sent this message on MYSPACE after deleting Cold War Survivor (no drama, just a deletion) off my friends list after consideration over a year of harassment and exploitation. This blog "controversy" taking place a year before I registered for MYSPACE, but is not priority in any way, shape or form over my life. Keep in mind that I was a black studies and Journalism major at SUNY New Paltz... Here goes what I wrote in two separate e-mails.
Ian's e-mail from MYSPACE:
Hey T,
I just did a google of my band's name and came across a blog posting you had written last year. You must have been mad when you wrote it because you had a lot to say about CWS and me specifically. Now I really don't care if you don't like my band, but I gotta say I was surprised at the level of visciousness of your personal attacks against me. You described me as "Jewish" more than once in a derogatory manner and that was especially surprising coming from someone who is a self-described anti-racist.
Now I gotta admit I'm not too sure why I'm bothering to write you about this, I guess it is a very delayed reaction to what you had to say, even though I read it for the first time today. But listen - as far as I'm concerned, its old shit and water under the bridge to me. I'm definitely willing to let the past be the past, I guess I just hope you feel the same. And don't worry there is no hidden motivation in me writing this, I mean I'm not gonna be asking or expecting you to ever do me or my band any favors.
One more thing...Bloody Mangled Corpse was "rap-rock"?? WTF? I remember you being at almost every one of our shows and in the pit enjoying yourself (which I appreciated!)...just strange to me that you would characterize BMC that way...jeez, I guess you haven't heard that stuff in a while!
So yeah, whatever. Just to let you know, this isn't going in a blog or any public forum, it's directly from me to you and no one else. I'm just hoping at this point, you've let bygones be bygones...my guess is you have, as you left us a nice comment on our myspace page back in June. I hope I'm right.
Peace & Stay Metal.
Tee's response: (Ian is referring to my blog ITP)
Hi Ian. This is Tee. I'm hoping you (and your friends in Lugosis Needle, whom got deleted from myspace two days after your message to me,which has nothing to do with me) got owned on MYSPACE the other day and your lame asses has learned to respect "boundaries" as I had only been on myspace for two months and nothing ever happened there.. Don't let this get out of hand, because my friends are really angry with you.. During the last 4 weeks, I've had a sneaky
suspicion that something is going on. I've been stalked, and you don't want me and my friends to defend ourselves.You're nothing but a polluted pot head... I ran into your (ex?) girlfriend at Stop and Shop, and while she, as always, was nice and friendly, her male companion made threats yelling about CWS. This shit must end,. You understand? Let me NOT find you or any of your friends any where near me. You didn't respect.
the boundaries as I deleted your shit band off my friends list and blocked you a week before your message on Myspace, then you acted like a retard. Rejected?.. What part of no don't you understand, the No or the O?
Secondly, you are the most ignorant person about your own culture. Judaism is religion and not a race. Read here moron, as I can't imagine how many wars have been fought over religion.
FROM ABOUT.COM.:
Being Jewish is not a race
Being Jewish is not a race because Jews do not share one common ancestry or biological distinction. People of many different races have become Jewish people over the years.
Being Jewish is not a nationality
Being Jewish is not a nationality because Jews have been dispersed throughout the world for almost two thousand years. People of many different nationalities are Jewish.
Being Jewish is like being a citizen of a religious movement
Being Jewish means you are a part of a religious movement. However, the great majority of Jews become a part of the religious movement through birth and not due to their beliefs or actions. In this way, being Jewish is like being a citizen of a religious movement.
So, tell me, Ian, how am I "racist" being Cherokee, black, female, and not straight... If I stated how cheap you are, and you didn't give me a ride home after promising one after Vader's set, after I helped your band find a gig (wich I networked for in the first place) when I was sick from Hypoglycemia, (but had purchased my tic in advance so went anyway).. You can't be trusted, you're off my friends list...In this small market rural area, THE LACK OF CARPOOLING IS WHY BANDS/ PACKAGE BILLS (EXTREME METAL SHOWS) DON'T DRAW, MAKING IT EXPENSIVE TO GO TO SHOWS... We are a community of metal heads and we have to look out for each other at shows.. That's why I go to shows in nyc, better public transportation, family friends there and no posers... .If your band had said show at The Chance, and pocketed the ticket money,. they would kick your ASS out of the venue don't matter what the religion of said musicians are, don't do that to friends helping you out either..
Ian there are many Jews, black, white, green yellow...I, by adoption, "might" be Jewish, but not a practicing one, because I am not religious at all, I'm atheist... I am all for religious tolerance, and if I offended you from statements made on my blog, then so fucking be it., you screwed me over.. .When I helped to network you (CWS) to a gig for March 18th, 2005 (Amorphis, ect..) you played dumb, didn't pay the 15-20 % owed, it's obvious that you are unprofessional and didn't put me on the guest list. Plus your band, CWS. didn't draw...That's why your band has no shows, or not many of substance..
Too CHEAP to do that for your "friends", to incompetent to do that for himself, to greedy overall.. Could I possibly assume that YOU are racist because you ripped off a black, female, disabled, lesbian,ME.?.I could. Want to play the race card?.... You are so arrogant and act like being a Jew is the only minority that could possibly exist. WRONG.. You are not so "visible" of a MINORITY as others, being white..
In fact, the only Nazi apologist/propagandist Ian was YOU in 2004, with the JTFK vs. ARA as you couldn't wipe the cum off your face quick enough defending JTFK so you could get a gig from them. (Johnny Thursday and the Friday Knights, this being two years to the WEEK of that controversy)..As Josh (ex JTFK guitarist) is kinda out there with his political points, I know him, but he wasn't organizing under a nazi front and was always kind to me. Josh does like Skrewdriver too mutch as he we once listened to them together at his house... Ick Skrewdriver suck. The deputy mayor was his ex, Jason West knows nothing about music and tried to rationalize this ARA presence by making a "bad" example out of JTFK??? Who tells Jason West what to do, a bunch of heroin addicted squatters, how pathetic. As a lesbian I would never vote for Jason West seeing the division in this community,racial tensions in August 2004, wich doesn't promote unity..In fact Jason West would have to be running against Attila the Hun for me to ever vote for him, although gay marriages should be legal I agree.. The tension at the JTFK show 2 years ago at Snug's brought people to the conclusion that is perhaps whom they are..When real nazi's came to Kingston, NY last November I didn't see you idiots rallying against it...... Josh had problems wich he served time for. I don't care about politics, , neither do you..It's just that you try to justify and rationalize exploiting other minorities wich is racist... If you try that "race card" issue on me. I'll say you exploit your own friends. So fuck off, and keep politics out of this, and realize this is personal. .
So you lied,you couldn't have found said entry last Wed.,. if you want to have a go at it, say it to my face.. The Saturday before last, I couldn't, add, delete or update my journal for a few hours, I assume that someone YOU know removed the entry without due process. Very suspicious and illegal of you, and that BS dude, you're in deep shit..
Lastly, I will let everyone know what you did to me, and to make sure your crappy band is BANNED. Yes, I've booked bands before, but if Ian walks into a store and steals from the merchant, no one is going to be polite to him, they will be calling him every expletive in the book. Never again will Ian every get anything from me. NEVER...
A few other points:: MY RESPONSE on MYSPACE.COM:.
Excuse me, first of all this 'puter's fucked up, so I don't know if I can respond. I think I've said this to you last year. So it needs not to be repeated more than once. If I help someone score a show, (March 18, 2005 Amorphis ect.) I expect at the least a free ride to the show and or tic and that is being reasonable or 15 -20% of the profit of the shows. Most unsigned bands are not profitable and I don't expect (them or me) to make much money at this level.You didn't offer either or, my bad for trusting you.. Considering the mess with the last band I dealt with (you know who) you were a temporary replacement for them.. Neither band floats my boat and I listen to alot of extreme metal, but you fit the bill.. It pissed me off that you expected someone (me in cold weather) to go out and
sell tics for your band, with no reciprocity there fore no incentive, on one weeks notice when you and said other band sat on the gig for FOUR months. ugh...
Business and not personal as I let that go, but don't offer anything or services, LIKE THE HOLOCAUST NEVER AGAIN DUDE to such "musicians" or anyone else.
Do you fucking understand?
Secondly, my mom, dad and aunt are Jewish and white (by way of adoption) and I come from a diverse cultural back round (native American, black, Arabian) which I'm proud of but not prejudiced of others.I'm anti nazi.. . Judaism has nothing to do with me and you having "differences" I don't feel a need to be so PC about people ripping me off, including Next Man Flip, Lugosis Needle, CWS and if I so much as farted, then you bet it's about respect and it doesn't rationalize ripping me off.. I EXCLUDE you and don't include you because of your exploitation..Certainly I haven't offered you shit since, and CWS, who are they? Boring to me, and not active in the scene.,and not metal, boring metalCORE.... However, what I have offered are condolences for BMC being awful. Sure I used to, and still do support the scene (well the international one) and go to shows depending on time, how I feel. I separate the art from the artist. I was very good friends with your sister Lea for a while in 98/99 whom last I heard, her ex hubby was involved in gambling ring...
BTW, BMC and CWS are HORRIBLE hardcore/metalcore bands without the talent to up the ante to extreme metal... YOU are the idiot whom likes shit like KSE... Fuck hardcore and keep it out of metal. Hardcore is not metal...
Look dude "Bloody/mangled/ fucking/ corpse" it was close enough to nu/rap (horrid hardcore) metal to annoy me but it's not like your band was going anywhere, and when people are drunk and socializing, they'll mosh and dance to anything, because we're in the bar, but we don't take your bands seriously. No, I didn't like Bloody Mangled "fucking" Corpse, they honestly fucking sucked. I will admit to dancing to a P Diddy jam, but no, I don't buy those records. Get it..?
You couldn't really take "yourself" and BMC (just another horrible snug's harbor band that played only there and no where else, plenty of local metalcore/extreme metal bands laid waste to them in the 90's) all that seriously could you? Who do the fuck do you think you are? CWS, play no where, does nothing but subscribe to instigating drama and ripping off women, which is not so PC huh Ian?. There are cover bands that play the New Paltz, NY circuit that may draw onlyin New Paltz that suck in the worldwide scene. Regardless of what I "think of you" BMC sucked. Get over yourself. Shit man, I took the mic, and wiped the floor with CWS in 2004, and after years of harassment from Cirrhosis out their jealousy and them ripping off Next Man Flip on gigs I booked,, THAT was justice as Cirrhosis were a horrid example of band..
Lastly, you are harrasing me, and I'll cut and paste your PM and spread it like wildfire. I wrote in a blog, MY blog,
This might show up in the search engines. You think my complaints about you would be a deterrent from you ripping me off, as that Ian goes under my opinion of you and your band after substantial experience. The only person whom hasn't let this go is you, over a year later.. You can't expect me to give a fuck about you or your band, now come on idiot. Consider the timing of all of this, your message just a week after I deleted CWS from my fiends list.. I hope his ego is bruised..
You being not favored by me, doesn't mean you can attack me on here, just a week after a deleted CWS from my friends space, because I felt tension during the last year and half between me and your bassist, even if I don't say hi.
The irony of being ripped off by some bands going nowhere, as I replaced one band for the other under, (and I don't HAVE to do that for them for any reason as I coached
CWS, and coached them before the gig was announced publicly) that premonition that something would happen, and of course that other band being unreasonable, unreliable, liars. Makes no difference, not even in sales.
I feel a need to let people know, so they don't make the same mistake I did.
You bring this up a year later, I bring you up on something. If you don't like my blog, don't be a fool, don't read it,.I'm not forcing you to. Grow up. You all come from good working class, middle class families where you were well provided for,(Ian is from Westchester County, NY one of the richest counties in New York) anything that takes integrity, ethics, and the intangibles you aren't prepared for spoiled brats. Jewish isn't the word, spoiled brats whom are trying to be accepted. I won't edit the blog entry, your PM becomes yet another new entry.
Lastly in the worldwide metal scene, BOTH BMC, and CWS suck. I'm retired from booking which doesn't negate my accomplishments or my generosity.
So screw off.. That's why, in no shape or form,or we offering CWS any gigs, promotional help either verbal, written or implied or otherwise or misleading him into believing that...Case closed.. A few local bands were nice enough to offer CWS a gig in Walden in July of '03. Cold War Survivor's bassist said he was "sick" and couldn't play 3 weeks before the gig..I could see canceling out of show up to one weeks notice or considering extenuating circumstances but three weeks notice? ... The day of the gig, he (Dave-Bassist CWS) shows up to the show as a spectator, drinking, socializing, putting on this prima donna axel rose pose, and not looking very sick to me... CWS most reliable band, no. It is no wonder that a fan (not me) on Ultimate Metal forum (Into Eternity) stated that they didn't like the local opener.
Plus you're reported to abuse by way of my space. Enjoy your tos.
Tee ..\m/ -l-Go suck a dick you free loading nambla president.. Stop sending this crap before I come over and tip over your card board box. If you expect " preferential treatment" because of your so called religion, or being white and male than you've got your head up your ass. What's with the discriminatory treatment towards me (being FEMALE, black and not straight towards bands I've booked and life in general) at the Bistro last November after I saw your bass player there... My family and I have chosen to eat elsewhere.... I was accused of not tipping the waitress,( I paid for my meal, and normally my family and I tip, but the gossiping about me and threats towards gigs and resources is more than I can stand) well every time I go in there (mostly with family) I'm harassed, and my JEWISH mom tips them very well... Keep in mind I had lost my check card at the Suffo show, had been issued a temporary card, and could only take out limited amount of cash and couldn't use the temp card as credit or debit...
GO FUCK YOUR SELF, AND STAY AWAY FROM US METAL HEADS WE DON'T LIKE HARDCORE and don't tolerate this hate and exploitation....What bothers me, is that any time an artist plays a public concert, displays "art" and sells a "product" (even if they are in an unsigned local band and it's not their primary source of income) people have a right to an opinion on that "art" (musical preferences) and to be an educated consumer... I have a right to say (being an educated metal head) if I saw said band, and they sucked or if I loved them, right here in this blog without confronting them personally.... If he (Ian) doesn't like that, or reserves those freedoms for white, straight men,(and gets all poonhurt if "opinions" on his band are not favorable, same thing with Thano and Lugosi's Needle regarding reviews I didn't write and they weren't prepared for) he can MOVE to a fascist, totalitarian dictatorship (or express in his own blog) and stay away from this supposed democracy (ugh post 911) that we live in here in the USA..Keep in mind, that nothing written in the blog in 2004/2005 was sent to Ian (or anyone) by way of e-mail,. snail mail, verbal or physical threats, it stays here. The way I "feel" is sometimes expressed in this blog, not what I say or do as I don't act out the way I feel all the time... The irony as I've received such threats, both verbal, physical, and e-mail, I'm consulting with a lawyer to see if I can sue or criminalize said idiots, I have proof, and I've tosed both, Abominatrix, L. Needle and others. In closing, all I asked for or expected that these moronic bands to do for me after I either or/networked or booked them gigs, is a free, safe, sober ride to and from the show or/and guest list privileges. Substantial tic sales would be 15 or 20% perhaps with a deposit of $100.00 with a notary public written agreement. This is why I don't bother booking local bands (wich does not negate my ability), but I might have upward mobility in the industry . .Being that Ian lives in New Paltz, it isn't exactly inconvenient for him to give friend a ride or return the favor, but the lame brain he is and perhaps prejudiced....
Cold War Survivor are a very lame, mediocre, metalcore band from New Paltz, NY, with the most simple, generic metalcore riffs..Metalcore is watered down third rate thrash riffs with a hardcore aesthetic..The rythym section would have to up the ante on drumming speed and variety with a better vocalist. Cold War Survivor have, however, improved with the addition of a secondary guitarist compared to their un listen able debut which featured a horrid mix, and terrible song writing as CWS back then were just a trio.Cold War Survivor promote drinking alcohol as part of their motto.. I have no interest in CWS musically or personally. The only thing I EVER agreed on that Rich Wager (former vocalist of Next Man Flip whom sucked ever said) "Some people expect the gig fairy to drop off gigs at their doorstep". LMAO, no, I'm not doing that at all, no reciprocity, no incentive, I don't need or want to.
..and with that Cold War Survivor are banned..Thanks-Tee-Never ripp me off AND then try to play the race card.
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