8.1 + champagne & controversy "One girl lifted her skirt to show me her legs and asked if they were nice. We were rockstars, but declined all offers of hot sex and set course for our hotel alone." - or_/replika schMerzPnkDaDa live 1998 THESE PAGES ARE CURATED BY FRANK ROBERT A124 courtesy of null spenn records and or_/herregud+ lesund, Norway 2008 HILMER A152 HAS A RESTRAINING ORDER FROM THIS PAGE. :-- --:--: "Im convinced that when a group of people get together and sing The Internationale this is a more complex, more subtle, stronger and more musical experience than the whole of the avant-garde put together." - Cornelius Cardew "For us, the fight for freedom, liberty and cultural zenarchism is the battle against the forces all parts should be scared of; mental or physical abuse, violence, control orientation, democratic dictatorship, apathy and alienation. We are at war with the forces of self restraint as they breed so much undirected aggression and wasted energy. We are here to comfort and to be comforted." - or_/erotika statement in a debate --:--:--:-- --:--:--:-- 'As for you, you may as well just go and play your stupid Muslimgauze records. And while you're at it, please remove my e-mail address from your mailing list. I have no desire to be in any sort of contact with anyone whose line of thinking is so blatantly irrational and misguided. P.S.: Don't bother writing back with more bullshit; all your mail to me is filtered to go right where it belongs --- the trash can.' - Robert --:--:--:-- "When asked about any collaboration with origamists, the answer is usually COOL! go ahead! let's do it! or do it yourself! But that's only because no enemies have bothered to embarass us, other than a couple of ignorant left and right-wing comments on our seemingly endless naivity and enthusiasm, but those we take as compliments. Control this!: ...vegans vs beef-eaters, drunks vs straight-X, liberal anarchists vs commie controlfreaks, youngsters vs oldtimers, gays vs homophobic virgins, dead vs alive, noise vs silence, wordmen vs birdmen... Take control? In charge? Not me..." - Boe A22 --:--:--:-- "Apparently this band ... is part of this huge artist collective and their shows are ridiculous because they are all artistic and people get naked and paint their body and there are fires and incense. That is all well and good but all I can see is a bunch of naked people asleep in paint next to a fire because this is the most drony, quiet, and boring CD ever. Its sort of like those nature CD but there are some instruments in there. I don't know. No one will buy this. Just open a window and listen to the wind instead." - Brian W A194 -:--:--:--:--:--:--:- Spit Spit Spit 1994 Artists Trying To Be Emotional And Communicate Something About Life And Death By Putting Up Five Iron Sticks Or Paint Two Black Squares And One White Cynical Academics Trying To Analyse Mankind Through Methodical Studies Of Stone-cold books And Summarize Insufficient Statistics Weakling Atheists Spending Their Whole Life Trying To Deny Any Religious Beliefs While Complaining About The Nothingness And Lack Of Spirit Among Other People Homofobic Hardcore Punks In Leather Boots And Jackets Trying To Fight Conformity And Uniforms Through Attacking Individual People In Fur Coats So-called Magicians And Occultists Dressed In Black Trying To Convince All Others That They Deal With Life Though Lacking The Slightest Knowledge On Social Behaviour Stupid Norse Satanists Talking About Death And Hell Putting Dead Matter On Fire Celebrating life and Image While Stabbing Their Friends In The Back Isolationists Nationalists And Fascists Hiding Their Obvious Inferiority Behind Phrases About White Supremacy The Flag And Blood Honour While Drinking To Music Inspired By Negro Spirituals -:--:--:--:--:--:--:- noisier >>> Miguel A144's definition of noise-music: 'It's music for teeth'. "Pentagon lawyers have drawn up a 72-point "matrix" of acceptable stress, including: stripping prisoners naked, subjecting them to bright lights or blaring noise, hooding them, exposing them to heat and cold, and binding them in uncomfortable positions." - The Independent May 18 04 "Art, in the current cultural context, is noise. Some art might be interesting, or even subversive, but it is noise nonetheless. In response, artists can offer more noise, in the form of new 'art movements' or just more art, or they can offer silence." - Novoid 7, Art Strike special 89 'In 1970 a unit from the British Army's intelligence wing deprived 12 IRA suspects of food and sleep, placed hoods over their heads and forced them to lean against walls with only their fingertips while playing into their ears a piercing high-pitch screech of "white noise".' - The Independent, May 18 04 --:--:--:-- silences >>> "Silence is sexy - but your silence is not sexy at all." - BB A185 "Well, I'm just one of those ramblin' boys, ramblin' around and making noise" - Bobby A43 "Sometimes the silence comes like thunder." - Bobby A43 "It aint mean a thing if it aint got that swing." - Soren Kierkegaard "Don't walk away in silence." - Joy Division "In the naked light i saw ten thousand people maybe more people talking without speaking people hearing without listening writing songs that voices never share - noone dare disturd the sound of silence." - Paul Simon