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ohiblather’s last post was to the effect of when you’re having a bad day, what makes you feel better?”
Depends on the kind of bad day. On a day like this, when I am angry and frustrated and sick-headachey and want to get big and green and smash everything in sight, I find what helps is Laibach.
For anyone who hasn’t heard of them, they are a Slovenian band who, for whatever reason, choose (or chose: I haven’t heard anything of them for a while) to use a lot of Nazi symbolism in their stage shows. They say it’s satirical, and for all I know it is. Their music (at the time of “Opus Dei,” the only album I know) was loud, bombastic and martial-sounding, and their vocals alternate between passionless intoning and a sort of gravelly growl like Lurch on something illegal. It’s orc music. If there were orcs, this is the kind of music they would like. They specialise(d) in taking bright, happy, uplifting pop songs like Queen’s “One Vision” and turning them inside out, showing the dark assumptions that underlie them, how easily they could be perverted into anthems of evil.
And somehow it helps. Being an orc for a few minutes makes it easier to recover my usual sweet, sunny disposition and positive outlook on life. Stop looking at me like that.
ohiblather’s last post was to the effect of when you’re having a bad day, what makes you feel better?”Depends on the kind of bad day. On a day like this, when I am angry and frustrated and sick-headachey and want to get big and green and smash everything in sight, I find what helps is Laibach.
For anyone who hasn’t heard of them, they are a Slovenian band who, for whatever reason, choose (or chose: I haven’t heard anything of them for a while) to use a lot of Nazi symbolism in their stage shows. They say it’s satirical, and for all I know it is. Their music (at the time of “Opus Dei,” the only album I know) was loud, bombastic and martial-sounding, and their vocals alternate between passionless intoning and a sort of gravelly growl like Lurch on something illegal. It’s orc music. If there were orcs, this is the kind of music they would like. They specialise(d) in taking bright, happy, uplifting pop songs like Queen’s “One Vision” and turning them inside out, showing the dark assumptions that underlie them, how easily they could be perverted into anthems of evil.
And somehow it helps. Being an orc for a few minutes makes it easier to recover my usual sweet, sunny disposition and positive outlook on life. Stop looking at me like that.
