Stranger Than Fiction Week 27
We’re all busy here! Go away!
Just kidding. Seriously though, we’re all a bit busy here at the Tank. I’m working, Fake’s working even harder and Half Baked? Well, I’d imagine it’s something like this:
Good times. Onwards!
LEAVE LEMMY ALONE
From Blabbermouth:
An investigation has reportedly been launched into whether MOTÖRHEAD frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister committed a crime under German law by wearing what appears to be a Nazi cap in a recently published photo. The picture in question, which can be seen below, appeared in a German newspaper prior to the band’s July 5, 2008 “Wacken Rocks Seaside” concert in Aurich, Germany with MACHINE HEAD and SAXON.
All “anti-constitutional propaganda” — and specifically any attempt to propagate Nazism — is illegal under article 86 of the German Penal Code. Article 86a also prohibits all “anti-constitutional” symbols, including all Nazi insignia, flags, slogans and salutes.
Speaking to the New York Waste web site, Lemmy stated about his Nazi collection, “I don’t only collect Nazi stuff, I collect objects from all the ‘axis countries.’ Also from countries who aren’t even mentioned anymore as former part of the axis. Like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Hungary. OK, in the end, they all said, ‘We’re no Nazis’ when they saw that the Germans were losing it. But five years before that, they went, ‘Yeah!’”
When asked where he gets the objects he collects, Lemmy replied, “The USA is a great place for collecting that shit, ’cause the GIs took everything back to America. They took fucking warehouses full of uniforms, Mercedes staff cars. One guy shipped a Focke Wulf 190 fighter home in pieces and rebuilt it in America. Now he owns the only fucking FW 190 in the world. I used to buy a couple of things in Germany, but now you can’t take anymore knifes or things back home in a plane. And it’s become more relaxed to buy stuff like that [in Germany]. There’s five or six stores in Hamburg especially. They’re advertising it. What’s the point, anyway? It’s not a nationalistic kind of thing, I mean, what the fuck you’re gonna do? Pretend it never happened? There’s airplane model kits of Messerschmidt 109 fighters. Shouldn’t you touch them?”
On the subject of whether people should wear uniforms, Lemmy stated, “I’ll tell you something about history. From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis. They all had killer uniforms. I mean, the SS uniform is fucking brilliant! They were the rock stars of that time. What you’re gonna do? They just look good. Don’t tell me, I’m a Nazi ’cause I have uniforms. In 1967 I had my first black girlfriend and a lot of more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism, I never thought it was an option.”
Really? Are we not over that yet? What I mean to say is, the guy is just collecting the stuff, he’s not a Nazi. I collect ugly t-shirts, does that mean I have no fashion sense? Don’t answer that question.
BETTER THAN A PORN TAPE
From Ultimate Guitar:
World Entertainment News Network has reported that a lost Jimi Hendrix album with rocker Stephen Stills has been discovered more than 30 years after it was recorded.
Stills recently found the recordings and his Crosby, Stills And Nash bandmate Graham Nash is helping him prepare it for release.
Nash commented, “He has an enormous history of recording. In the ’70s, he was a recording fool. He just found a bloody album he made with (Jimi) Hendrix. ‘Oh yeah, I forgot that.’ We’ve got to listen to that… I want to listen to every track he ever recorded in case he recorded with Al Jolson.”
That’s awesome! How do you just forget you have that though? “Yeah, I thought it was a coaster and it was acutally a Hendrix album! Who knew?”
HE HAS A MOULD MADE?
From Music News:
Jay-Z demanded a watermelon carved in the shape of wife Beyonce’s breasts during his stay in Africa. He wanted the sculpture to be displayed in his hotel room where he was staying ahead of his performance at the THISDAY Festival in Nigeria on Friday.
A source said: “One giant watermelon was split in two and ornately carved into a mould of Beyonce’s breasts. Two cherries were used as nipples.”
Seriously, a mould? I’m flabbergasted. I’m discombulated. I’m befuddled. Note to self, add that to “things to do if I get rich” list.
I’m going to try and write some more opinion pieces, but for this week it was just easier to do this.
We’ll get back on track on soon, promise!
And now, your moment of zen (other websites are doing, figured I would too):