― K-reg, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
A friend of mine did production work on his cable-access tv show, and all he did was whine about how he couldn't find babysitters for his kids, and then try to convince the college kids who were doing the production work on his show to babysit for him. And demand artificial sweetener for his iced tea. A threat to society he ain't.
I really couldn't buy anything if I only bought from people who were considered nice.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
if they didn't speak English how were they supposed to understand his request in the first place? sheesh, why not draw a picture asking everyone who is blind to get out?
― Peter, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Wasn't Mark Radcliffe (of all people) briefly drummer in the early pre-nazi incarnation of Skrewdriver (or possibly even before that - maybe it was an earlier band of Stuart's)?
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― David, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
As for the Norwegian black metal stuff, one of the amusing things about that whole thing is that the main guy in Burzum, who was imprisoned for murder and arson, was ruled personally financially liable for the repair and rebuilding of the churches he burned down. So in buying Burzum records you are contributing to the compensation of his victims. Kind of.
― The Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 10 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
About 10 years ago I had the misfortune of being trapped in a Psychobilly's car for an hour and being forced to listen to a Skrewdriver tape (long story)
the lyrics weren't so much direct, wild assaults on things a la Rotten, as po-faced addresses to the NF faithful that it was time to "cleanse our country". And as such, simultaneously vile and dull, a uniquely Nazi attribute.
― Peter, Thursday, 10 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
As far as not buying records based on the principle of their composer/performer being an a$$, yet again I cite PRML SCRM. I quite liked "kowalski" but didn't buy it for that very reason. Eventually it turned up on IIRC a "select" cover CD. Ha! Victory!!
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― norman fay, Thursday, 10 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― chris lea, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Phil Berdecio, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
For a long while, I refused to buy music created by "Nazis", "fascists", racists. This eventually evolved into me not buying music by capitalists, anti-animal rights-types, anti-Earth- types, people who champion the drug culture, and just about anyone who wasn't a vegan straight-edger.
I became immersed in the whole "moral rush" and my life became more and more limited. I became a total moralist, and in that I became more and more reactionary, even though that was not at all my intent. Along with my selection of music being very limited, my diet and my mind was limited as well. I used to be so objective and open- minded, but that all had changed.
After a time of growing sick from not having access to enough of the right foods (as I refused to drive a car because of it's effects on the environment), not knowing why I was doing what I was doing (I mean the REAL question behind the questions - WHY?), and from pushing people away from me I started to come apart. Something broke.
Slowly but surely everything became undone. I reached an extreme and shattered internally. I fell apart, became depressed, considered suicide often (sometimes as a result of the thinking that I'd be better off dead than risking the chance of hurting another living thing), and after multiple cycles of "recovery"-lapse-recovery-lapse- etc., I fell into a state of utter nihilism and apathy.
In the end, I reasoned myself into not acting like or listening to certain individuals because what I thought I was doing was right. But if you pick deeper and deeper into a subject, you will eventually reach a breaking point. If you follow the path of "moralism," you will eventually have to question why you are following that path at all, and you will realize that there is no real good reason for it, for the meaning of life has not even been explained. How, if we don't know why we are here, can we seperate right from wrong? Who makes the distinctions? Who draws the lines? (For the same matter, why shouldn't we seperate right from wrong - but in doing so, are you making judgements based on fact, or opinion?)
I can't go into the many, many, MANY ordeals I went through as a student of "philosophy." The books I've read and the ideas I meditated upon eventually tore my mind apart in every direction. I eventually came to the conclusion that life will always remain a mystery, as nobody (at least from my perspective) is omniscient. We can't be sure if there is or is not a higher power dictating to us the difference between right and wrong. All we have to depend on is us fallible human beings. And we are bound to fail miserably from time to time. Even Einstien had wished he hadn't made the discoveries he had made after he found out what they would be used for, and do you think Christ would have preached had he knew he would cause billions of people to kill in his name? (Tricky question for Christians, as they will say that Christ knew/knows all - but then was Christ a murderer? One question leads to the next, and to the next, etc.)
You might say I'm a pessimist, but I don't see it that way. I see the fact that we are all alone in the universe when it comes to making any big decisions a chance to express one's self in a most beautiful, human manner. Stand out. Listen to what you want, and don't let anything - and I mean ANYTHING - stand in your way. Let yourself BE YOURSELF, and fuck anyone who can't deal with that.
You are only who you are, and that's the most anyone can ask from you. Just because someone refuses to listen to Burzum, Charles Manson, David Koresh, Skrewdriver, etc. doesn't mean they are better than someone who does - and it doesn't mean they are smarter, either. I personally hate Skrewdriver - I think they suck. It has nothing to do with the fact that I am not a racist. If I was a racist, I'd still think they suck. But I am not ashamed of my growing collection of Burzum albums. Does my rejection of Skrewdriver and embrace of Burzum sound absurd? Life is absurd. Deal with it. And the best way to deal with it: Just be yourself. Listen to what YOU want.
Thanx. (And sorry again for my scattered brainwork.)
― Philip Gomez, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Oscar Murcia, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link