Cabaret and the truth of life
Apr. 5th, 2004 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzYou know why people love cabaret? Because it makes them laugh, and does so while telling you the absolute truth...from a certain point of view. For example: Hans Teeuwen's talk about the Josti band (a band of mentally handicapped people who play music) can be seen as assaulting, repulsive and totally biased. He called them 'scum'. Now, as shocking as that may be, there are loads of people who so WOULD agree with him. And you just get reminded of that.
Youp van het Hek is even better, he mocks those who deserve it, like people with carphones, the Dutch phone company, Ikea, Barbie ("zo'n wijf, vijftig gulden. Voor drie barbies kan ik naar Yap Yum" - "so big a girl, fifty guilders. For three barbies I can go to Yap Yum" (exclusive club) )
So then there's comics. And comics are fun. Remember I said I was reading Mr.Finn's comics? Well he's got loads of 'em. Dawn, Preacher, Transmetropolitan. Preacher was fun, Dawn was great, but Transmet...is the creme de la creme. It's a comic, about a journalist who is forced to live in a huge city, where 48% of the people are starving, and the rest are doing a damned good job of keeping a perfect-city-facade. Comedy, cabaret, a mirror of today. Truly.
Warren Ellis, the writer of transmet, also has a journal: Die Puny Humans. And via that site I got to Crisper's journal, and then to his site.
Shocking. But it makes you stop and think.
Edit: I just found out...he's a friend of DHMO! Lol.
Youp van het Hek is even better, he mocks those who deserve it, like people with carphones, the Dutch phone company, Ikea, Barbie ("zo'n wijf, vijftig gulden. Voor drie barbies kan ik naar Yap Yum" - "so big a girl, fifty guilders. For three barbies I can go to Yap Yum" (exclusive club) )
So then there's comics. And comics are fun. Remember I said I was reading Mr.Finn's comics? Well he's got loads of 'em. Dawn, Preacher, Transmetropolitan. Preacher was fun, Dawn was great, but Transmet...is the creme de la creme. It's a comic, about a journalist who is forced to live in a huge city, where 48% of the people are starving, and the rest are doing a damned good job of keeping a perfect-city-facade. Comedy, cabaret, a mirror of today. Truly.
Warren Ellis, the writer of transmet, also has a journal: Die Puny Humans. And via that site I got to Crisper's journal, and then to his site.
Shocking. But it makes you stop and think.
Edit: I just found out...he's a friend of DHMO! Lol.
