Wer Leben Immer Noch
That's the name of a Nina Hagen song, and has no actual relevance to my life, in case anyone was wondering why I have the phrase "They Who Live tonight" as my title. Be not alarmed... though I do live tonight. I don't know.
I think Nina Hagen could actually be an influence on any music I make, considering I love her moody use of keyboards and sporadic vocals - not to mention her incredible flair for drama. But shh, don't tell anyone.
In any case, I just scored an interview with Lydia Lunch for the upcoming issue of Drop Dead Magazine, provided Polina likes the idea, which she did when I first mentioned it to her. Interviewing Lydia Lunch would be incredible, considering I love her music so much and how much she's done to progress and shape women in artsy and underground music in general, most notably their attitudes. To me, she was the model feminist - actively trying to change the way people treated and viewed women through actions, not lots of talk and protests. For example, i was reading the other day that she's an advocate for pornography. She thinks it's a wonderful idea. She argued that pornography doesn't exploit women. It exploits men, because the men who look at the porn and masturbate are the ones who are made to look like the fools, perverts, and assholes. Women just do what feels good and get paid for it.
I love that logic because it's kinda true, the more you think about it.
I also want to get my hands on some No Wave cinema, considering I never knew there was a cinema movement associated with the music movement. Apparently Brian Eno was a major player in both the music and the cinema. I knew he had a lot to do with the music aspect of it (his own albums, plus the No New York compilation, for example), but I never knew any of it had anything to do with movies, and I guess it isn't surprising, because you could easily apply the rhetoric and statement that No Wave was making and apply it to cinema, and I guess it really does fit with what was going on at the time.
That whole No Wave movement really is the closest thing, I think, punk ever got to the original roots - the 60s Andy Warhol stuff with VU, MC5 and the Stooges and such. Making a statement, but doing it in an artsy way, as no one can imagine Warhol angry. heh.
In any case, I think I'm done now. There isn't too much to write about. We (theoretically) have band practice tomorrow. We'll see how that works out.
~Dax
I think Nina Hagen could actually be an influence on any music I make, considering I love her moody use of keyboards and sporadic vocals - not to mention her incredible flair for drama. But shh, don't tell anyone.
In any case, I just scored an interview with Lydia Lunch for the upcoming issue of Drop Dead Magazine, provided Polina likes the idea, which she did when I first mentioned it to her. Interviewing Lydia Lunch would be incredible, considering I love her music so much and how much she's done to progress and shape women in artsy and underground music in general, most notably their attitudes. To me, she was the model feminist - actively trying to change the way people treated and viewed women through actions, not lots of talk and protests. For example, i was reading the other day that she's an advocate for pornography. She thinks it's a wonderful idea. She argued that pornography doesn't exploit women. It exploits men, because the men who look at the porn and masturbate are the ones who are made to look like the fools, perverts, and assholes. Women just do what feels good and get paid for it.
I love that logic because it's kinda true, the more you think about it.
I also want to get my hands on some No Wave cinema, considering I never knew there was a cinema movement associated with the music movement. Apparently Brian Eno was a major player in both the music and the cinema. I knew he had a lot to do with the music aspect of it (his own albums, plus the No New York compilation, for example), but I never knew any of it had anything to do with movies, and I guess it isn't surprising, because you could easily apply the rhetoric and statement that No Wave was making and apply it to cinema, and I guess it really does fit with what was going on at the time.
That whole No Wave movement really is the closest thing, I think, punk ever got to the original roots - the 60s Andy Warhol stuff with VU, MC5 and the Stooges and such. Making a statement, but doing it in an artsy way, as no one can imagine Warhol angry. heh.
In any case, I think I'm done now. There isn't too much to write about. We (theoretically) have band practice tomorrow. We'll see how that works out.
~Dax