Wednesday, September 21, 2011

MORE FUN WITH LOU REED AND METALLICA!




“The poster – which had apparently already appeared in one or two places – depicts a dismembered, cut and bruised female mannequin. The word LULU, the name of the album, is scrawled across her in coagulated blood by the perpetrator’s finger, we presume. Perhaps from cutting up her legs. I’ve only just stopped feeling sick an hour after seeing it. The artist has made the face as human as possible; this is no lifeless plastic model”.
So blogs Lucy Jones columnist for the British newspaper the Telegraph about the poster for the Lou Reed and Metallica album. She’s writing about how British transportation officials have banned the poster from British subways.
They actually didn’t do it for the reasons she is happy they took it down for: they took down the posters down supposedly because they looked too much like graffiti. I don’t quite follow the real reason why the British transportation officials did what they did. It doesn’t look like graffiti to me.
I think that’s great though, that this Lucy Jones woman is offended. Lou Reed and Metallica get much respect from me for getting censored in Britain, just as Tom Six with his Human Centipede 2 has. That must say a lot about me I was quite excited about both of those before Human Centipede 2 got banned in Britain and before they took the posters for the Lou Reed and Metallica down. Michael Savage, he’s been banned from even entering the U.K., I read his work and listen to his radio show sometimes. Savage. I would say that Michael Savage has anger management issues when the topics of homosexuality or Islam come up, and I would not consider him a top tier intellectual heavy weight of the political right the way someone like Ron Paul is. He has this amazing ability to provoke arguments, and in so doing he clearly hits on very sensitive and thus very core political issues. It’s almost as though that’s the mark of cultural relevance: you get banned in Britain.
Incidentally, Lucy Jones does not have an incorrect analysis of the Lou Reed and Metallica cover. The music on the Lou Reed and Metallica album was written for a German play about a whore the gets killed by Jack the Ripper. If you read her blog though she was one of these people who maintain the asinine notion that works of art inspire acts of violence. If someone is moved to violence by the Lulu cover, then they are already insane; to paraphrase something the New York Times about making Human Centipede 2 quotes Tom Six. If the Loutallica poster disturbs Lucy Jones then she is weak.

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