Nakedly loud in Slovakia
Pluie à mon coeur
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>On 13 Jun 2002 03:00:33 -0700, Pluie à mon coeur
><rains...@newsguy.com>, <ae9qg...@drn.newsguy.com>, wrote:
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>>Sexuality is largely a fashion statement these days. The only reason I bother
>>dating at all is to look at myself in the mirror. The last thing I need is
>>competition. I might be unreasonable but that is the essence of being the
>>perfect male. It is not enough to be charming and delightful company, it is
>>important to be as conceited as hell in the most craven fashion imaginable.
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>Interesting statement; it would have been right in place during the
>Regency period, other than the "craven" bit.
>
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>Beth Friedman
>b...@wavefront.com
I was more a creature of the nakedly loud period in Slovakia, I didn't have much
going for me other than the fact I knew that I wasn't going to write any more
love songs. The price of chains is paid by the sheep amongst us rather than the
hedonistic. I was as conceited as hell in the most craven manner imaginable.
Making an art statement in the former eastern bloc required a surplus of
attitude over caution and even if I must admit it myself, attitude over talent.
It was important to approach life without much by way of a realistic risk
assessment. What have we got in return for it?
A flock of birds in Norway might have three funny little suitcases doing a ten
minute countdown in Moscow and the only additional safeguard is that the
strategic rocket forces might be begging for bread in the street when the siren
rings. The Russians are still looking for a lot of their missing suitcase bombs.
There were more than three funny suitcases I suppose on reflection. They had
located 49 out of about 130 or so suitcase H-Bombs last time I read anything
about it. The Soviets lost a lot of their nuclear weapons when their system
collapsed. We must presume they are still looking for them.
Most of their early warning capability is in ruins. The latvians blew their
facilities up and the satelite ships are a memory. Nothing works too good in
other words. However the general methodology of doing the mushroom cloud
business is the same, a flock of birds or even a weather balloon might have
Russians in a panic. We still live in fairly dangerous times.
99 red balloons.
floating in the summer sky.
Panic bells, it's red alert.
There's something here from somewhere else.
The war machine springs to life.
Opens up one eager eye.
Focusing it on the sky.
Where 99 red balloons go by.
99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
Eine Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn es so war
Dabei war da am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons
On ne voit
bien qu'avec
le coeur
Boris Gerlach
Carefully I guess you're in the wrong group.
Even if the song is from NENA, a girl from "West" Germany
famous in the 80th it has nothing to do do with GDR.
She never took care, she never did a song about the east.
So what about FKK, this is a topic of GDR indeed.
Best regards
Boris
Marilee J. Layman
<DRSt...@t-online.de> wrote:
>Carefully I guess you're in the wrong group.
He's a crossposting troll. Follow-up to rasff.
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gregory....@ntlworld.com
de.alt.folklore.ddr, de.alt.folklore.west-berlin were probably slightly
more appropriate than rasff, the post was about Sudeten Crčche and the
industrial pop bands prior to the collapse of the eastern bloc. The post
was about or alluded to the industrial or nihilistic pop bands of the
early 1980's.
The FKK movement on the other hand was about being naked a lot of the
time, that topic was introduced by somebody else but no doubt referenced
to the fact that the same person knew what a stage performance might
entail. Half naked sweating males cutting themselves to pieces with
broken bottles to a hypnotic or metronomic soundtrack.
The original FKK people did their nudity on beaches and stuff, the
industrial musicians would be oiled and greased on stage, spitting
ignited alcohol and banging gasoline drums or throwing bottles into a
cement mixer. One or two might have a piano or guitar as a gesture to
convention.
Pluie à mon coeur
The FKK people were very easy to search. When I released 'Europe in the Year
Zero' I used an East German news anchor, the prettiest girl I could find.
I gather the STASI supplied the background art collage for the front of my
album, they worked in the media, at least they had a section on assignment
there.
The news anchor girl sat in front of the collage which featured a variety of
nuclear rockets. American missiles of course. Not a Soviet rocket in sight.
Andrew Plotkin
> de.alt.folklore.ddr, de.alt.folklore.west-berlin were probably slightly
> more appropriate than rasff
Please do not crosspost this thread to RASFF and folklore groups.
Crossposting across communities leads to noise and flamage, not
discussion. If you wish to reply, please choose a single newsgroup and
talk there.
Thanks.
Followups reduced to rec.arts.sf.fandom.
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