#devil's gun

[mywifeleftme]

91: C.J. & Co. // Devil's Gun

Devil's Gun C.J. & Co. 1977, PAC 3

Ass-whipping disco-funk in the vein of the Spinners at their grooviest, co-written and produced by Dennis Coffey of the Funk Brothers. Five songs, 36 minutes, zero ballads, an easily two-minute long jazz flute solo toward the end, and one shirtless green fuck-prince of darkness on the cover.

Realistically, that’s about all you need in a review, but let’s lay it on a little thicker. Every musician on here has their own C.V. of Motown classics longer than a Krasznahorkai sentence, and in the absence of a star frontperson they get to let loose. This is the kind of disco that makes you feel like BA Baracus: force of nature strings, rubbery bass, peppery drums, chicken scratch guitars, girl/guy gang vocals featuring one of those dudes with a cartoonishly deep voice. Are you gonna dance, or throw some cops through a bunch of wooden crates? With C.J. & Co. you’re ready for anything.

In conclusion, Devil’s Gun doesn’t let up for a second, and it’s an absolute steal at any price you’re likely to find it at (i.e. chump change).

91/365

[lesdeuxmuses]

Devil's Gun - Sing For The Chaos (Black Lodge Records, 2019)

[duraante]

DEAD BY DAWN

[cranity]

THE FUTURE RULES!

[st-hedge]

*clapping* fight fight fight

[qiornono]

the future

[butchinelle]

*cries*

[merricatblckwood]

Interview with the vampire season 2 episode 8 The queen of the damned by Anne Rice - The devil's minion chapter Special effects by Larry Cohen

[fennelwasp]

Clara + various burdas + my take on a western au because lordoftablecloths’ cowboylogic inspired me to slap the aesthetics of my hometown onto the healers

[sugar-grigri]

Pochita, if you can read, why don't you speak ?

Wouldn't it be humane to protect humanity and demonic to protect the underworld? And what if... it was actually the other way around.

The interweaving of questions and answers is exactly what this chapter does.

While Yoru sordidly states that children are nothing more than the property of their parents, the one who can't speak, instead of devouring a human as he did with all those demons, decides to go to the blood drive.

Pochita understood what the sign meant. He knows how to talk. But he'd rather hold up that sign and roar than make any demands.

Worse still, he does not decide to give any orders.

It's not words that symbolise order, it's that raised index finger that already in Roman times expressed command.

In the United States, arms are a constitutional right (as recently reiterated by the Supreme Court, which does not admit of any restrictions), a fundamental freedom but also a means of preserving one's freedom, allowing organised militias to fight and protect the State.

You can see how it's all a construction, the weapons are a technological creation, the State is an administrative and political creation.

And that's where things get interesting. First of all, this chapter is highly symbolic and has a very strong political message (oh my god, political interpretation in a manga, impossible..........)

Yoru has sliced off the index fingers of those who support the right to bear arms in the United States. Or campaign for that freedom. But what Yoru is doing. In fact, it's taking it away from them. How can I shoot without this index finger? You can't do it.

It's by taking weapons away from men that they actually regain their freedom.

But it goes even further than that. Why does Yoru sacrifice these fingers? Because it reinforces the fear of weapons. Let's say I point a gun at you (sorry). You'd be less scared if you were as armed as I am. Especially when you're trained, know how to defend yourself and aren't afraid to shoot.

Yoru makes those who thought they were invincible with weapons vulnerable. She strengthens the Gun Devil's power. She contracts with them through her sacrificed child.

Weapons,

freedom,

deprivation of childhood,

of loved ones,

obsession with a mentor,

To think that a god created them.

Remind you of anyone?

Infanticide is what makes you immortal.

The sacrificed demons become weapons, lost between humanity and the demons. Not being human, nor demon, because they have no parents. Even artificial weapons like Reze and Katana display these characteristics. Isn't loneliness one of the ingredients?

Humanity sacrifices its children. As Fujimoto confirmed, they were prepared to do it for eternal youth.

And now you're going to say to me. NOOOO! Yoru too! Just as Makima wouldn't hesitate to do. The demons are also ready to do it.

Yes, because they are influenced by men.

Yoru speaks, uniting with humanity to say horrible things. Whereas Pochita doesn't speak. Worse still, he has chosen not to speak. Worst of the worst, even worse. He'd rather be a dog than a human. That's his choice.

Pochita fights for those he loves, he doesn't sacrifice them.

The demon of birth, it swallows but can spit out. Suspending existence, giving it new life, denying none of it.

Wasn't Makima devoured by Denji proof of this?

Nayuta is the symbol of this rebirth. A perpetual love that surpasses hate.

Pochita loves demons. He also loves those who mean something to him, like Denji. But he also knows that when we become too human, we can end up sacrificing ourselves out of vanity rather than love.

Pochita has sacrificed himself for love, without expecting anything in return as he waits permanently for Denji's dreams.

He is also Denji's lock, preventing him from fully adapting to men.

That's why killing Black CSM was Denji's wish come true. Because Pochita is preventing Denji from becoming normal.

Because he wants to protect him from humanity. Pochita has never been for humanity.

He is simply the guardian of the underworld, all those demons whose existence he guards, a supreme mother. Humanity must endure in order to continue to be afraid. But if humanity is prepared to overcome the ultimate fear of losing its child, then fear is scorned.

So Pochita tried to wipe out the weapons' existence, to devour them. But they still existed. Why? Because they are already the result of infanticide.

being devoured by the demon of birth, mother of the underworld, actually reinforces their existence.

Being devoured by their mother is the reason for their nature.

Whereas weapons are beings born because their mother has killed them.

Denji is the result of the death of the Supreme Mother.

It's not a weapon.

He's a wall.

Hero of the underworld.

A hero of the underworld who has been fighting from the start for the victory of love, sacrificing himself for those he loves and not sacrificing them. So he asks for blood.

And I'm sorry. If weapons really are born like that, they have to look human, and I think this is the last possessed human.

Someone's been ringing the doorbell.....for 100 chapters… it's time to answer it, isn't it?

[dead-ghouls]

sketches 🫶

[shinriha]

Insane reveal bc WHAT

Wdym my girl Yoru is A MOTHER OF TWO ???

[emoclowncircus]

the order giving up on using Dante for their plans after finding out that he's a lame-ass bum who sits all day and eats pizza is funny af

[madeofvoid]

Not Fujimoto showing us that behind the paper thin face of "Liberty" is just another monstrosity born of the military industrial complex purpose built to cause untold destruction to other nations the world around. So much so that the mere concept of the American dream is enough to crush thousands of lives with the wave of a finger.

Not Fujimoto dismantling and critiquing american gun fetishization and imperialism so fucking succinctly in a single fucking chapter after having spent the previous two showing the evil in mothers treating their children as tools and then showing us how War uses the children of a nation as weapons for wanton destruction.

Not Fujimoto then showing us how the elderly of the world would gladly sacrifice their children and grandchildren to a weaponized embodiment of motherhood in a fight against the horrors of war solely to extend their own pathetic lives.

Not Fujimoto showing us beforehand that the Gun Devil is always used as a tool by the elites and those who seek control and violence, never having a will of its own like a literal child soldier.

pure fucking kino

[popfizzles]

Player Select ...?

[ishimaru-suprimacy]

Gun fiend aki :3