woops

is not like other people
I did three tattoos on complete strangers this week and they all went pretty well. I cant wait to be the most succesfull artist on this board
if you've done 3 tattoos i'd say that makes you already the most succesful artist on this board.

bit late to this thread but yeah hamburg is great i think i've been ten times and played about 9 times, amazing music scene, for some reason my stuff always goes down really well there, the reeperbahn is a mad place, the golden pudel klub (which is just by reeperbahn) is the stuff of legend
 

woops

is not like other people
also re. speaking german and french. i get the feeling that germans would rather you spoke their language WELL as tehy all speak flawless english better than most english people. whereas the french with typical arrogant pride appreciate speaking their own language. so you might not get good reactions if you went there and just didn't bother. i can speak french so i'm alright
 

woops

is not like other people
different attitude again in japan where they assume japanese is too difficult for any foreigner to learn. but their english is mostly shit. so even if you try to speak to them in japanese they will reply in broken english. or so i find. this makes it difficult to learn japanese through conversation
 

luka

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different attitude again in japan where they assume japanese is too difficult for any foreigner to learn. but their english is mostly shit. so even if you try to speak to them in japanese they will reply in broken english. or so i find. this makes it difficult to learn japanese through conversation
i found that even if they speak good english they are too shy to demonstrate so none of us speak
 

woops

is not like other people
different attitude again in japan where they assume japanese is too difficult for any foreigner to learn. but their english is mostly shit. so even if you try to speak to them in japanese they will reply in broken english. or so i find. this makes it difficult to learn japanese through conversation
probably goes back to that long period of isolation from the world they enforced
 

martin

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Love this footage of The Pretty Things performing on French TV, doing a song about the Battle of Britain and with their own androgynous, cake flour-faced Bez arsing around in a revolutionary hat, mock saluting and simulating French air force planes crashing in flames in WW2. The audience looks really awkward... well-groomed, Baudrillardian boho students vs hairy West London squatter yobs. That dancer’s smug face cracks me up, am practicing it for the next Dissensus meet-up :cool:

I’ve always thought that bit on Flux of Pink Indians’ magnum opus The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks, where they read off the Falklands fatalities/injuries list, was copied off the closing monologue on this tune…

 

shakahislop

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Is it a language thing? Do the french not like using english?
i guess one observation i have, based on no actual evidence whatsoever, is that we tend to forget in the US/UK that there are other bits of the world where people aren't so chronically online as us. i'd say that France is one of them, based on my experience.

i guess the kinds of music covered on here are quite anglo-centric as well, the 'nuum etc
 

shakahislop

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one thing that i like about france is the conservatism of the culture. in that they've basically used heavy, heavy, heavy state intervention in order to preserve particular parts of it, not let them change. i don't think that kind of state action necessarily fits easily into a left/right axis. it is the opposite of what's happened in the UK/US though, where it's all been about letting market forces decide what's what.
 

linebaugh

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one thing that i like about france is the conservatism of the culture. in that they've basically used heavy, heavy, heavy state intervention in order to preserve particular parts of it, not let them change. i don't think that kind of state action necessarily fits easily into a left/right axis. it is the opposite of what's happened in the UK/US though, where it's all been about letting market forces decide what's what.

Ah I didnt know that. Thats great, theres a few towns in america with similar ordinances and it upsets me thats not everywhere
 
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