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How to win friends and influence people on VampireFreaks.com
Looks like Kimveer Gill‘s Friends page at VampireFreaks has changed since two days ago. If I’m not mistaken, he has more friends now.
Charming.
I wish I could say this surprised me, but from what I know about fans it does not, not even slightly.
Disclaiming Kimveer Gill
Every site that Kimveer Gill‘s been associated with has posted a disclaimer of one kind or another. VampireFreaks.com blame the whole thing on the mainstream media and insist that there is no Goth on the planet who is the slightest bit violent or hurtful. Whatever. And Gothmetal.net says their whole site is down until the police are finished with it. But among the disingenuous and the bland, there is a disclaimer that is actually somewhat inspirational, and it comes from the strangest source.
Gill‘s favorite videogame was Super Columbine Massacre, and the creator of the site has naturally been inundated by curious and/or worried surfers looking for clues into the mind of a murderer. Did the game cause this? Did the game feed the rage or bleed it off? Who would create a game that relives one of the most infamous crimes of the last fifty years, and why? Let’s look at his answers and draw our own conclusions rather than look for confirmation of our assumptions.
To the Public:
I am, like most, saddened by the news of the recent shooting at Dawson College. I extend my condolences to those affected by this painful event. Please refer to the artist’s statement for the game’s intent. For further questions, please contact me here.
In the press I’ve been getting lately, I have tried to articulate very clearly that Columbine was a “wake up call” not just for our society but for ME in particular as I was once headed down a similar road. I found other outlets such as filmmaking and theater… unfortunately those like Harris, Klebold, and apparently Gill did not.
To Forum Posters:
This site is NOT a place to spread hatred or to cheer on the death of innocent people (quite the opposite, actually). Please be aware of the sensitive nature of Montreal right now and of those who were affected by this shooting. Videogames are important. They’re now under much scrutiny here. Own your words and mean them. If you want a world where freedom of expression prevails, please understand that with it comes an inherent responsibility to be thoughtful and mature about your expression.
-Danny Ledonne
“Columbin”
SCMRPG Creator
chubby bunny not so funny
Sorry, had to. From the CBC.
Have you heard of the popular new pastime for folks whose day-to-day lives just don’t contain enough challenge and excitement for their supercharged adrenal glands? No, not reality television. Chubby bunny contests. This highly competitive sporting event requires participants to stuff their faces with as many large marshmallows as they possibly can and still say the words “chubby bunny.”
Well today those bunnies came home to roost.
A woman is dead after choking during a marshmallow-eating contest at the Western Fair in London, Ont.
The 32-year-old woman died in hospital Wednesday, a day after collapsing offstage during a Chubby Bunny competition.
The contest features people stuffing one marshmallow at a time into their mouth then saying “chubby bunny” until they can’t say it anymore. The person who gags, chokes or spits out the marshmallows loses.
Emergency crews who arrived on the scene tried to help the unconscious woman but couldn’t remove the blockage in her throat. She was revived at the hospital, but later died.
The fair has since cancelled the eating contest.
Kimveer Gill’s blog
WELCOME, VAMPIREFREAKS
READ THIS FIRST:
This is NOT a goth-bashing site. If you’re looking for goth-bashing, take it somewhere else; it ain’t here. I’m sorry to be so pre-emptive about this, but I’m tired of all the morons posting about how I am a Goth-hater; I’m not. I was a Goth before most of you were born, yes, back in the Seventies.
If you don’t want to read what’s here before commenting, you actually want to post somewhere else. If you want to read this and join in the conversation, welcome. If you find I’m abusing you, it’s because you ignored this warning and made an ass of yourself by posting your prejudices in the comments.
Kimveer Gill‘s page has been taken down from Vampirefreaks.com, but Google still has the cached version, of course. Well, we can find it anyway. But the gallery and the actual blog are still up, although both posts he made after waking up on the 13th are gone.
Looks like it’s time to go mirror-hunting. There, that didn’t take long for the main page; thank you, Miss Dynamite! Gallery here, thanks to Wikipedia. And the googlecache of his blog is here. For now. Note that the two entries from the morning of the 13th after he woke up are gone. One is detailed below, the other basically said nothing memorable other than “Think I’ll see what’s for breakfast. Eggs and toast, yum.”
If you don’t know who Kimveer Gill was, read this backgrounder from the Globe and Mail. That, at least, is still up. May I ask what purpose it serves to take everything else down? After all, his web pages are part of his estate, legally.
Fatality of Mind and Soul
People once believed, that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens, that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can’t rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes the crow could bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.
Whiskey in the morning, mmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, good !! :)
P.S. When i call people “niggah’s” in my journals……it doesn’t have anything to do with their skin color. I call white people niggahs too, it’s just fun.
It’s all dave chappelle’s fault, ever since i started watching the chappelle show, i can’t stop calling people niggahs :(
Mood:No mood :(
Music:Megadeth – A Tout le Monde
And here’s an entry from the day before that really should have been a red flag; the Mounties say they have a unit that patrols sites like this and if they’d seen his journal they wouldn’t have considered what he posted there to be a warning. What do you think it looks like?
FUCK YOU September 12, 2006, 05:00:am Stop BullyingIt’s not only the bully’s fault you know!!
It’s the teachers and principals fault for turning a blind eye, just cuz it’s not their job. You fuckers are pathetic.
It’s the police’s fault for not doing anything when people conplain (oops, my mistake, the cops are corrupt sons of whores, so it’s not like they can do anything about it.)FUCK THE POLICEIt’s society’s fault for acting like it’s normal for people to be assholes to each other. Society disgusts me.
It’s everyone’s fault for being so apathetic towards fucking everything that doesn’t affect them personally. FUCK YOU SOCIETY.Mood:FUCK YOU!!
Music:Mudvayne – Happy
Vampirefreaks has posted a message to inform the world that all goths are loveable, sweet people who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Which simply isn’t true. Even Vampirefreaks.com blames this on the mainstream media. While I’m all for people’s freedom of choice when it comes to tribes, c’mon people! Have a steaming hot mug of WTF! Goth can be a very depressed, very violent subculture as well as simply a fashion and music style and pretending it’s nothing like it actually is does no good to anyone.
UPDATED TO Add: In particular, claiming that you’re Goth because you’re such unique individuals and then saying you’re ALL the same (ie nonviolent) is utterly contradictory.
Kimveer Gill was a Goth.
And Kimveer Gill was a suicidally depressed, homicidal and insane man.
So please stop with the we are all unique individuals and we are all completely peaceful rant. Speak for yourself as an individual, and own that; you don’t own anyone else.
Oh, and Gothmetal.org is offline totally until the police are finished with it.
Like Kimveer Gill (Fatality666). Or, for that matter, his friends, including the evocatively-named StabbieRIPStabStab.
Note that his likes include:
Night
Darkness
Cold Places
Individuality
My Knife
Blood
Ice Storms
The Crow
Frost
kittens
and that his results on the “How fucked up are you” quiz are:
WAIT THERE. We’re coming to get you now
we’ve called the guys in white coats to come and get you so dont commit a mass murder before they come or you’ll find you’ll be in there longer
Too late.
