There are no words and no actions to explain how much I love Nick Cave. And I just started to love him even more for this video. It’s the best video since the Weeping Song! Or the best video ever in the history of music videos. OK I’m off to die out of pure love.
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“The Boy Bands Have Won, And All The Copyists And The Tribute Bands And The TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture To Be Shaped By Mimicry, Whether From Lack Of Ideas Or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try To Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket And Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It To The Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, Or Hold Art And Music And Literature As Fixed, Untouchable And Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try To ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form Of Music Are, Like The Copyists And Manufactured Bands, Doing It The Worst Disservice, Because The Only Thing That You Can Do To Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It… Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, And The Boy Bands Have Won.”
- Chumbawamba
A week or so before we were going to the Roskilde festival I found out that I had a work shift picking up refund at the time Patti Smith was going to play… and that noone was allowed to change shifts. I cried the whole rest of that day and was terribly sad for another day or two after that aswell. I whined about this to everyone (mostly to Frej, I was a real pain in the ass to him and said I didn’t want to go to the festival anymore, since she was the only thing I really wanted to see.. but he cheered me up again pretty good, and besides I couldn’t back out of the refund collecting, nor seeing my dear festival friends.) A day or two into the festival I realised she would play at the opening of the festival aswell and got a bit happier again (even though it was a memorial for the people who were killed in a stage accident 10 years prior, so I can’t really say I was that *happy*), we went there and I got to see her play two or three songs. Then they also showed a documentary on her at the Roskilde Cinema!
It was a very beautiful documentary, I found that trailer to be quite lame in comparison. I think you should all watch it ’cause she’s a hero.
Anyway, fate came to my rescue again after that. On the day we were going to our work shift to pick up refund, the leaders told us that our schedule had been changed and that group was to pick up refund next to the stages instead of at the camping as we had done the other two work shifts!! So after all that whining and crying I could just skip my lunch break and go watch her instead! Suckiest day became best day in a long time thanks to that! And she was amazing of course but I bet she always is.
“When I’m in nature everything falls into place. I’m just one tiny piece of a big jigsaw puzzle, and I like that. For me religion isn’t intellectual ; it’s more related to physics. It’s about things exploding and planets moving in synchronisation and where we are in all of that. When you consider that stuff, some book in the Bible seems ridiculous to me.
Religion isn’t about speaking and it’s not about people, it’s a cosmic thing about your place in nature and space. When people spend too long in cities they get neurotic and paranoid, but if you put them in the mountains for two weeks all those small worries drop down like dead flies.” – Björk
Absolutely fantastical music!!! Found through my sweet ex-flatmate Julia’s tumblr, think I have now listened through all Soap & Skin songs on Youtube, in a row. Wonderful wonderful voice. This video was really gorgeous too.
Janis Joplin/Summertime
Live in Stockholm in 1969!
What I’ve read! This year I’m ahead on my new years’ promise! Maybe I can make it to 2 books/week:
15. Från Pax Romana till Pax Americana – Björn Hettne
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This book was clear and nice and just basically good to read if you want to understand the world systems better. I don’t have that much more to say about it, it’s always a bit hard to write about school litterature. I had much use of it anyway.
16. Papalagi, den vite mannen – Erich Scheurmann
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This book was published in the 1920s and made up to be speaches by a samoan chief to his people, about why they should not be seduced by western life style and such… I thought it was an interesting book because of the perspectives of both the writer in the preface of the book and his fictional chief aswell so I liked it even though it would have been way more interesting had it been real.
I am now reading the Tin Drum by Günter Grass, still.. it’s taking me a while because I keep taking breaks from it, but I love it, and also Scars of Sweet Paradise, the life and times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols which has already made me appreciate Janis’s music way more than I did before. I don’t usually read biographies, but Suss does and has inspired me!
Was going to do this yesterday but didn’t have time before Frej seized the computer! My favourite versions! (Shane McGowan one is going to be second on the list after the original now…!) It is so good! It seems you can only buy it in the UK & Eire?? So you should if you’re there! I will instead then watch the video over and over. EDIT: found you can buy it here. But here are the other ones I love.
Screaming Jay Hawkins
Marilyn Manson
First version I heard of course, being a total little mansonite.
And someone’s made a really gorgeous video for it aswell!
Nina Simone
Joe Cocker
The Birthday Party
(not really a favourite.… but it’s Nick so I have to put it on my list anyhow!!!)
Spotify Playlist
1. Det ska bli slut på rumban – Röda Bönor
2. Oh bondage, up yours! – X-ray Spex
3. Beauty Fiend – My Ruin
4. Awful - Hole
5. Gloria – Patti Smith Group
6. Nanny Nanny Boo Boo – Le Tigre
7. Can’t Hold Us Down – Christina Aguilera feat. Lil Kim
8. Down at the Pub – Lunachicks
9. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien – Edith Piaf
10. To Kill a King – Hungry Lucy
11. That’s Not My Name – The Ting Tings
12. Shake Yer Dix - Peaches
13. Sången om Sexualmyterna – Röda Bönor
14. Då Är Det Inte Kärlek – Tant Strul
Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl
Ani DiFranco – Shameless
Wish I had time to think of more songs to put on the playlist but I have to rush off to school! Tonight I’m going to a demo and then to a party to celebrate the 100th international women’s day!
- i'm Karin, I'm 23 & live in Göteborg in Sweden. (grew up in Jönköping.) I run an online vintage shop called Lily of the Valley.
I like antique things, I buy way too many books with the last cash I own, I am interested in body modification, art, knowledge and Frej. I am a vegan and pretty involved in environmental issues. I've studied human ecology and CSR, going on to environmental revisioning this fall..
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