Dimmu Borgir is My Clandestine Lingerie

So I was talking to some dame on Halloween weekend. By some dame I mean a woman who was standing in the crowd next to me between sets at the show I went to. As will happen, the ‘game’ was started at some point. She mentioned that she loved lingerie, was constantly buying it and wearing it to work. I asked why. The answer? She loved to wear it at work because it was her secret. She was wearing something slinky and sexy underneath long gray skirts and thick white blouses. It makes her feel mysterious and powerful. I didn’t really understand this feeling. I am aware of it, I have heard of it before, too many porn movies start this way, but I had never really experienced it.

A month or so ago I bought a Sansa e280. A couple of weeks ago I decided that I could get away with wearing it around the office so long as I was prompt to take the earphones out when people were talking to me. Now I work in white collar America. As you can imagine the stuff people listen too is pretty much what you would expect. The Older crowd listens to things like Hank Williams Sr., Crosby Stills and Nash (and sometimes Young), Mozart. The younger listen to whatever the hell is on the top forty radio now. Me? I am hard pressed to even come up with 5 bands that I listen to that are from the Americas.

So invariably someone asks.

“What’s playing right now?”
“Dimmu.”
“Who?”
“Dimmu.”
“I don’t know them.”
“They are fantastic, you should look them up”

That’s about all they get out of me as we pass in the hall. Invariably when someone asks I am listening to something so out of line with white collar America that no one knows what the hell I am talking about. And it is fun. It really is a sense of mystery or power or whatever since I know that they would all hate it. Some may even be shocked. Who cares? At least it helps me understand what that dame was talking about.

Now I know what you are thinking. Doesn’t it ruin the point if she tells you exactly what she is wearing? Probably, but it was Halloween so the whole room knew anyways. But you know what is best in all of this? People don’t try to make office chit chat with me as much anymore!