Cats That Spat

First of all,sad to hear the news of Uwe Nettelbeck of Faust passing away from reading the blog today of bagrec  He will missed. Interesting to see what the papers say although there is link to an article in Pitchfork from Richard's LJ blog anyway.

Today  i was in Kingston doing this instore job for Abbey National, which i also did on Monday  in Eastbourne. With time available it allowed me a diversion  to pick up two CD;s from Notting Hill on the way back - The Boredoms "Super Roots 3" and "Super Roots 5" (both recently reissued and remastered on the Very Friendly label),"Gricer" by Gricer (Taut Recordings 2005) for only £2 (reviewed in Wire April 2006)  as well as deep gothic metal doom by Om "Conference of The Birds" (Holy Mountain CD).

A little spat from   steviecat caught me by surprise. You know some people just take things too seriously. Anyway the gist of it is that i thought (playing devil's advocate)  things have got too far PC in modern life,and that there should some levity the other way. No way did it make a Tory, a racist or an unconstructed Neanderthal (so hilariosly made to look ridculous in the excellent Life On Mars TV crime drama on the BBC.). Infact i am all for women's liberation ,racial and pro-equality, and have always defended minorities against abuse. 
He wrote  - "There are far too many... numbskulls (!) out there who either don't seem to have a clue why P. C. is necessary - were maybe blinkered all through the 'seventies and 'eighties - or else are unapologetically unreconstructed. I absolutely detest that pride in boorishness and ignorance which appears to have become more overt in the last few years and crops up all too often on programmes like Any Questions, generally from Tory MPs who trot out that ridiculous phrase "political correctness gone mad" when discussing anything to do with social justice and progress. Since I was say fourteen I've been proudly feminist and anti-racist and pro-equality and will stand up for P. C. in all shapes and forms. As a teenage music fan I was going out of my way to buy and read magazines like Spare Rib as it seemed bloody important to understand the issues which my favourite bands (e.g. The Raincoats) were writing about - at school I found the whole lad culture thing which was prevalent completely repellent, and decided to disengage myself from conventional masculine thinking as rapidly as possible, by educating myself away from what was expected." (Phew! Calm down it's only  an observation i was making)

The seventies and to some extent the eighties had way too much "laddish" mentality around that it needed PC ideas to kick boorish outmoded male standards out of the pitch (to use a football euphanism). Thank goodness punk happened as it tended to give females an equal footing (The Slits,X Ray Specs,etc) in the music world and punk changed people's attitudes. David Bowie and artists like Boy George also opened the gender issue with their androgynous looks and use of makeup or women dressing like men (such as Annie Lennox).. I am all for that. (that's why i have so many gay friends).  But then,just one small reply on a comment can deem you to be the evil one.Well you can't please everyone. Now where is my goth black nail polish - i bet the wife has used it again (tee hee!),and my worn out copy of "The Female Eunuch" by Germaine Greer.

Oo,that was a rant methinks. I better listen to these Boredom CD's to calm me down.