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"Von ihrer Ästhetik her ist ,Death in June' eine rechtsextreme Band", sagt der Sozialwissenschaftler Martin Langebach, der sich mit Rechtsextremismus und Jugendkulturen befasst. Die Gruppe ziehe auch Publikum aus dem Milieu der intellektuellen Neuen Rechten an. Das Problem: Ihre Texte ließen sich nicht wie bei anderen Rechtsrock-Gruppen klar zuordnen. So wurde ein Album der Band 2005 indiziert, weil ein Text darauf als Leugnen des Holocaust gelesen werden könne, so Langebach: "Sie sind uneindeutig." Für Anetta Kahane ist der Fall dennoch klar: "Es sieht aus wie Rechtsextremismus, es hört sich an wie Rechtsextremismus, es ist Rechtsextremismus", sagt die Vorsitzende der Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung, die sich gegen rechte Gewalt engagiert.

Also in anderen Worten: "Wir sind der Meinung, daß es sich hier um eine Naziband handelt, stehen aber vor dem Problem, daß wird das nicht nachweisen können, weil es keine klaren Beweise/Hinweise dafür/darauf gibt. Da sie aber uneindeutig sind und es uns ärgert, daß wir sie nicht klar zuordnen können und weil wir gerne der Meinung wären, daß sie eine Naziband sind, beschließen wir jetzt, daß dem so ist.

Ich glaube, sowas nervt mich ganz besonders, weil ich eigentlich ganz gute Argumente zur Unterstützung der "Das sind doch Nazis!"-Fraktion habe. Wenn man sich dann noch nicht mal dieser guten Argumente bedient, sondern stattdessen schlechte oder eigentlich-noch-nicht-mal-Argumente benutzt, ist das eine Enttäuschung.
Ich mag gute Diskussionen zu sehr, um mich mit solchen faulen Abkürzungen abzugeben.

For a start, there is a surprisingly sensible take on the BBFC's banning of "The human centipede II" from somebody writing for the *gasp* Daily Torygraph.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100091490/i-don%E2%80%99t-want-to-watch-human-centipede-ii-but-i-want-the-right-to-watch-it/

It is in essence what I thought when I heard about what happened to "A serbian movie" in the UK. I think I even blogged about it at the time. What Mr. O'Neill misses out on is the fact that this sort of shit has been going on for quite some time and that censors have in fact gone on record stating that there is in their opinion material that the educated classes can cope with sensibly while the low-intelligence proles surely will be driven to acts of violence and insanity. If you know your history, you will know that a bit further back in time, the same point was made along gender lines.
I would still rather live under the diktat of the BBFC than the one of the FSK/BPjM. Let's not even talk about the MPAA. (Well, from a convenience point of view, at least.)
And yes, I do want to see "The human centipede II" and I do want to see "A serbian movie" uncut.


Musicwise, here is my new favourite net-radio station:
http://www.laut.fm/nonpop
Chockablock with "difficult" stuff. I love it! :-)

There was a third link here somewhere but it seems lost. Ah well....
EDIT: Here it is: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

Have a good weekend, people.

On the occasion of me having been to a rather fine concert recently, I would like to share with you two tracks that particularly appealed to me. Just because. That is not to say that some other tracks by the same artists are not also deserving of your attention, so look around.

A folk song about ASBOS?

Trio Noir - The wild, wild berry

Sieben
The video sadly does not give you an impression of the full sound or the sheer nervous energy that Sieben possesses. The SO actually had to close her eyes during his performance because he made her too jittery. ;-)

Oh dear, I said "two", didn't I? Ah well, doesn't matter now. Have an extra track that some of you might already know: An English Garden.

Peter Christopherson
27th of February 1955 - 24th of November 2010

Safe trip, Sleazy.

http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/25/throbbing-gristles-peter-sleazy-christopherson-dies-aged-55/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkeGkdxbwzk

I haven't done the music recommendation thing in a while, but the simple fact that I have listened to this song about four times in the last 48 hours makes this worthy enough to be shared. Also, I am still pondering making an Autumnal Playlist and if this isn't an Autumn song, I don't know what is.

(Sadly, the last minute of this video has buggered sound, so you will have to make do with part of the song. Thankfully, it's the good part. ;-)

Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you've heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what albums my "music-fan-friends" choose.

(Well, don't worry about the tagging thing)

1. VNV Nation - Futureperfect
2. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
3. Tool - LaTeRaLus
4. The Beatles - 1962-1966 (aka "The red album")
5. Nine Inch Nails - The downward spiral
6. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
7. Radiohead - OK Computer
8. Catatonia - International Velvet
9. Test Dept. & Brith Gof - Gododdin
10. Dälek - Absence
11. Vangelis - Blade Runner OST
12. Soundgarden - Superunknown
13. Einstürzende Neubauten - Silence is sexy
14. Rage against the Machine - Rage against the Machine
15. Sigúr Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Peeps,
if you think that mp3 is the way to make the CD obsolete, you really need to start listening to better music. That highly compressed, non-dynamic format may be all well and good for bland pop but if you want to get the most (and that means dynamic treble and bass) out of a piece of music, this simply will not do.
Metal, noise and the sorts of techno and rap I listen need that extra oomph!

In the german corner, all the way from 1920something, Herr Paul O'Montis:
Mein Bruder macht beim Tonfilm die Geräusche


Makes you want to wear smart clothes and drink cocktails. (and give Marilyn Manson the finger).


And now, from psychedelic 1966, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band with their take on the material:
My brother does the noises for the talkies


Do you think that drugs might have been involved?

But after hearing Mark Kermode's review of "Brüno" I feel even less inclined to watch it than I was before. Up to now I had felt about the film the same way I felt about "Borat": Yes, it looks funny and cringe-inducing but I don't know if I really need to watch it on the big screen. With the slight difference that "Borat" obviously tackled issues like racism and people who need very little prodding before revealing their prejudices, while "Brüno" probably deals with homophobia somewhere along the way, except... none of the trailers and excerpts I have seen so far really mention/imply that. What they do stress very much are Brüno's outrageous outfits, ridiculous celebrity ideas (That adoptive child named "O.J.") and vigorous usage of the word "dildo". Yea, verily, apparently this film is most outrageous, edgy and controversial, not afraid of offending and not pulling any punches. Whoah!
Oh,by the way, when we say "not afraid of offending everybody", this does not include the large and very affluent number of Michael-Jackson-fans, for whose benefit (and purses) we shall remove a sequence that might remind them of what Mr. Jackson's public image was three weeks ago.
Which smells to me like an attempt at having your cäke and eäting it.
(oh, and I have just had a look at the dubbed trailer.
Point 1: Dubbing does your film no favours when you are dealing with supposedly "real" people.
Point 2: I am disappointed that Brüno did not get to speak in the austrian dialect. Come on, guys, if "Dead like me" can do it, so can you.