ANCA ([email protected])
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:32:38 +0200
If it weren't for Dennis Hopper's introduction at the MTV Music Awards, I
wouldn't have known what 'Mofo' is either! When I heard him 'The baddest
mofos of rock'n'roll!' something went 'click!' and I said to myself: 'No
way! THIS is what it means?' Of course it's 'ironic' and 'wayward',
considering the meaning of the lyrics.
But I'd like to talk a bit about the apology for profanity of the one who
answered that post (him not being the only one who apologised!) and I'd like
to talk it on Wire, not privately, because it is related to what's happening
these days in the States and elsewhere... First of all, the answer had to be
given on Wire, since there are, I'm sure, a lot of non-English speaking
wirelings who didn't have a clue either. Secondly, what was the 'correct'
answer supposed to be: 'the one who has sexual intercourse with his mother'?
Really!
I'm a girl, I don't particularly like bad language and I don't swear. But I
come from a place (Eastern Europe) where censorship of the worst kind truly
incapacitated our perception of the real world! Although, strangely, bad
language wasn't always censored, in literature at least. The reaction (or
overreaction) was that the movies made after 1990 were competing in
'colourfulness'. And here we are, in the '90s, watching TV stations (MTV, of
course) full of 'beeps'! Some of these 'beeps' attract the attention more
than what's actually said! Bad language is a human trait, we can't help it
and it must be regarded as such and accepted. Of course, in a perfect world,
it won't be used anymore, not against children or older persons or disabled
persons or... But I had enough of building a perfect world lately! So
please, beware of becoming a victim of this plague of the end of the
century, hypocrisy!
The U2 content: a friend once told me (in Romania): 'You know, some people
are shocked that Bono is such an wonderful poet and such a foul mouthed
person in the same time!' And I replied: 'It's part of his colourful way of
being and, besides, do you think that Byron, Baudelaire, Francois Villon,
even Shakespeare, were soft-mouthed people?'
Replies (and swearings :)) welcome!
Take care!
Anca
'Zooropa... better by design!' :)
PS: Two cheers for Modsavage! Well done!
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