sie_muerte: (Default)
2012-12-20 11:40 pm
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When Our Old World Ends

I've slowly started to actually write again. Not just a series of diary entries, but actual fictitious writing. It's more difficult than I want it to be, but I am determined and I will get better with time.
I've accepted the fact that only I can hold myself back from the things that I dream of doing. And with this realization, I will do everything in my power to fulfill my wishes.
sie_muerte: (Blixa blindfolded)
2012-12-17 08:20 pm

Feeding My Manic Behaviors

It will begin to seem like this journal is becoming a sort of "fan page" for the music artists that I admire. I do admit that I tend to go through stages of obsessive behavior every once in a while! Especially when my attention is drawn around bands like Einstürzende Neubauten, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds who are intertwined with one another by Blixa Bargeld and Nick Cave. All of these have been my top favorites for years now.
Blixa Bargeld is an inspirational influence to me for his ideas on creating music without proper order. He cuts into that little place in my heart where chaos and anarchy meet my dreams of cold, derelict and desolate places.

As I wearily searched the internet for anything that would let me temporarily peer inside this man's mind, I came across an interview he had in November with the owner of a particular music review blog about some of his thoughts pertaining to Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

You can read the full interview here.

Some of my favorite quotes from Blixa in this article have to be:

“All I can tell you is, when we make music we always have done so with the idea that you don't think about it, you react to it. You listen and you add to what each person in the band is creating on his own... It was never about artistic decisions. We never decided to get our instruments from building sites, they were the only things we could get our hands on. We had no money for new instruments or any of that sort of thing. You could say that for a band from West Berlin, this way of finding materials to use for music was easy. There was still so much urban decay in the early '80s which became a resource for us when we were starting out. I always thought that it was strange that more bands hadn't thought to do something like what we were doing with so many materials just left to rust.”

“Well first of all, if Nick had've asked me to join his band on clarinet, I still would have said 'yes'. But the thing is, I have always looked at the outside techniques of what is considered 'normal' use of an instrument. What is the word in English... when the rabbit runs back and forth....? Zig-zag! This is how I play, using this zig-zag strategy to make music that nobody would expect whatsoever."

“Also I had to learn how to produce when we made our first album. Our record company had no money to pay a engineer, and so the guy who owned the studio just showed us what buttons to push and then left. After that if a producer tried to tell me what I could and couldn't do in a studio, I would say well yes I can, I have done it before. Over time these limitations on how to make music in a studio have become silently accepted, but if you don't destroy all these rules you become enslaved by them.”

“No, I think in your more democratic, free speech Western societies, provocation is very outdated concept. I never employed that as an artistic strategy. How people react to our music, is a personal thing for them, it is not something I can control.”

“I have learned to know when to duck if Andrew (Chudy – percussion) is wielding some huge piece of metal around on stage, but our audience were usually in no danger at all... it was always bouncers that got pissed off with us. They thought we were just trying to destroy the place... they had no clue.”

And with that safely archived, I can now get some rest!

**I read the article and wrote this journal entry while listening to Musterhaus-Ausstellung (I Anarchitektur, II Et Cetera, III Weingeister & IV Tohu Wa Bohu) by Einstürzende Neubauten on a repetitive loop!
sie_muerte: (EN)
2012-12-16 09:24 pm

Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala, Esplendor Geométrico, and Perc

My favourite music artist is the German band Einstürzende Neubauten. If you're a fan of industrial, post-punk, experimental, noise-like music then you more than likely have heard of these guys. Einstürzende Neubauten is very well known but I can't consider them being "mainstream". I'd like to think of them as a pioneer in their ever changing musical endeavors.

I picked up Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala sometime during my late teens in a used vinyl shop not knowing what to expect. As soon as I laid the record needle onto this album I was hooked (I even had the band's logo tattooed in maroon on my right arm).

Fünf Auf der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala has been described as "Einstürzende Neubauten at their unsettling, gripping, and tension-ridden best."



Listen to the tracks:
1. Zerstörte Zelle (Destroyed cell)
2. Morning Dew
3. Ich Bin's
4. MoDiMiDoFrSaSo
5. 12 Städte
6. Keine Schonheit Ohne Gefahr
7. Kein Bestandteil Sein
8. Adler Kommt Später

Wait.. There's More! (When You Can't Get Enough In One Day)


This is mainly for my own personal reference but you, dear Reader, can also enjoy these noise/industrial artists that I will be listening to during the week.
Pulsión by Esplendor Geométrico is an album I came across earlier today that I quite enjoy. I will definitely be looking further into this band!

A New Brutality by Perc was shown to me by my boyfriend when we were discussing this style of music. This is also a great website to listen to and discover new artists!
sie_muerte: (Lovecraft)
2012-12-15 11:17 pm
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Thoughts on Wine

The funny thing about this controversy is not about weapon control, but about how people in this country believe themselves to be "safe" wherever they may be.
It's not about guns or the mentally ill. It's about Big Brother. It's about our complacent Utopian society that is only now being reconsidered.
sie_muerte: (suthulhu)
2012-12-07 07:59 pm

Stars In My Eyes, Stars In My Face

I've decided that I am going to start posting my favourite albums as I listen through my current music collection.
Why should I keep them all to myself? I'm sure there is someone out in the world that can appreciate these artists as much as I do. I'm a few decades too late for most of these albums, so I won't bother much with writing out a full personal review.


Garlands by Cocteau Twins


For the past few days I have been utterly fixed and mesmerized by this album. You can listen to the album here for free.
Overt repetition doesn't stop me from loving Garlands. It is a pioneer album in its genre and deserves to be appreciated.


One review by Ned Raggett on allmusic.com )
sie_muerte: (Alien Sex Fiend)
2012-12-07 12:06 am

To Wish Impossible Things

I caught the common cold and have been sick for the past two days. I haven't been able to go to work which has led me to this place. I'm not fond of the way my head feels, I can't think straight, I've had too much caffeine, and I should sleep.
I'm too reclusive, spending last weekend organising all of the music I have collected onto two laptops and transferring it all into neat, tidy digital folders. Today I tried to organise my last.fm page by weeding out all the artists that I no longer care for or have no interest in listening to again. All the while, streaming Spotify which is more of a distraction from listening to all of the albums and discographies I own because I go off on tangents to find remixes to queue.
If I could also have the same motivation to organise my clothes, I'd be really doing swell in life. Unfortunately the sickness has overtaken most of my manic drive and has rendered me useless (only for a short while I hope!). I have been enjoying my manic states lately since I have lost the desire to drown myself in alcohol. This new found freedom has led me to do some rather useful and/or life improving things. The only downfall to this is that I have become less social. I find no displeasure in spending time to myself. (These little enlightenments are products from finding secure happiness.) This can only be credited to the one who holds my heart across the sea.
The knowledge that I'm never truly alone is comforting.

The medicine I drank earlier is finally starting to take effect now. I'm turning off the lights, closing my eyes and hoping that I get some rest tonight!
sie_muerte: (London underground)
2012-12-06 05:20 pm

An Introduction Of Sorts

I'm a mid-twenties nobody.

I also enjoy taking long walks, constantly listening to music, reading books (casually), independent film, cigarettes, my significant other, and all those things I've listed in my profile.
I've not given this particular online journal a purpose yet, but it's here.