Miss Derringer – Winter Hill – CD Review
Miss Derringer
Winter Hill
Nickel & Dime/Triple X Records
8/10
I am not the only one who judges a book by its cover, or in this case, an album by its cover. Or even a band by their picture… Well, you get the idea. Anyways, so the cover art includes a razor blade with a heart shaped hole in the center, drippy-blood and what appears to be Nazi birds sitting on a high heel. Automatically I am thinking of incomprehensible female screeching about how they can rock out with the boys. The picture shows a singer who looks like Gerard Way’s autistic kid sister, complete with Black Parade-esque goth marching band gear. Which is a bummer, because she’s actually really fucking hot.
Imagine my fucking surprise when the album not only doesn’t suck, it’s actually pretty fucking good. I don’t know what genre to put it in, so I’ll use an analogy. Ready?
Psychobilly:Rockabilly::Miss Derringer:Doo Wop
While most of the songs sound like they could have easily been covers of the Chiffons or Shirelles, the lyrics are a bit more macabre. Lightly distorted songs about suicide, lover’s quarrels, threats… no, it’s pretty much the same, just a tad bit faster. Good stuff.
–Jonathan Yost
The term autistic has been misused to describe persons with anything from cerebral allergies and schizophrenia to attention deficient disorder and post traumatic disorder. Sadly, few doctors and educators understand true cases of autism to make a correct diagnosis. So they go with the latest media driven flow. Pick and choose from a broad and ever expanding spectrum. Or worse, they guess. The hallmark traits of autism are: sensitivity to sounds, specific tastes in food/drink, strange body postures, repetitive behaviors, inability to control emotions or excitement, poor reasoning skills, needs routines, resists changes, sense of direction and memory better than other skills, thinking based on association, not reasoning, once distracted by olfactory, visual or auditory stimuli, they become preoccupied. This is markedly DIFFERENT than ADHD, in that ADHD presents as easily distracted by stimuli, BUT, the person bounces focus from one thing to another. ADHD people don’t stay hyper-focused or fixate on something. That is what you will see a truly autistic person do. Fixate. Appear to be in a world of their own. Not wanting to play or socialize with others. Not wanting to play or socialize with others is only a hallmark trait of autism when it ALSO involves, not willfully choosing to ignore or not play with others. A truly autistic person doesn’t choose to not play or socialize, it’s simply who they are– not to play or socialize with others—is in itself the core of autism—within oneself. They may show signs of affection or social skills, but it will almost always be brief. FYI: jenny mccarthy’s kid was never autistic, is not autistic. Much like the mother who wrote the book about “tony” the allegedly autistic kid she cured, yeah right. Turned out “tony” had a rare cerebral allergy to milk…he was never autistic..and yes, years from now we will all know that McCarthy is yet another FRAUD who poses as a mother of an autistic son who was cured, but the truth is, he never had autism…..what a racket, what a scam , what a disgrace and slap in face to all families who are dealing with authentic autism as you can see on youtube when you type in autism and seizures or autism and self injury…..Gary
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