IMMORTAL positivityyyyyy.

Hello pumpkin pies! We have been undergoing a debate at PGL recently as to what constitutes positiveness, and, by extension, what we can put on our lil' blog without betraying our message of peace and luurrve. We would never endorse censorship, however, recently we posted a story involving obnoxious pricks and how to deal with them while still coming out on top. Immediately after posting this story we deleted it, worried that since it was in large part a rant against negative people and how they negatively affect us; that it was by definition a negative story. But in the few days that have passed since this moral dilemma arose, we had a loverly piece of advice given to us - positiveness can arise from negativity. Beautiful, no? To delve into this theorem in greater detail, if we were to tell a story that was itself about something negative, the result could be that the reader might relate to it, and feel better for not being alone. Oooorrrrr, the wording of the story, rather than the subject itself, could be written in such a way as to induce laughter or even joy! Hooray!

In a similar theme, we have been wonderin' about a little somethin'...... we have been known to let our hair down at the odd metal jig, and can't deny taking enjoyment out of a bit of cheeky head bangin' to Slayer, Mayhem, or Bathory. Siiiccckkkk. However! Some of the 'godfathers' of the scene, like that naughty Varg Vikernis, were, as well as being dark musical overlords, ignorant  racist, murderous sociopaths. So! We thought.... Is it wrong to listen to their music, buy their records, and support  them? By doing so are we in fact supporting their wayward beliefs? We were sad to think that we had to let them go, but were prepared to do so if it meant not allying ourselves with racist creepazoids! But, my pretty young thangs, we finally came together and decided that we could sit somewhere the grey area. If we were to to choose not to listen to anyone whose beliefs were askew we would end up burning our entire record collections! Bad Brains? Homophobic! Dj Premier from Gang Starr? It is rumored that he is the same again. But don't fret, precious gems, of course we would never willingly suppport ignorant or evvviiilllll jerkkkzzzz, so we said to ourselves that the line we would draw is this - if they are a bunch of openly skinhead punks, with lyrics, merchandise, and band-names that openly encourage racism or any other kind of hatred, we will turn our backs on them with the utmost outrage. But- if the individuals involved in making the music are themselves morally reprehensible, but their music does not belay their beliefs in terms of direct lyrical content and sloganeering, we will choose to love the music - just not the men.
Now that's positive!