Pizza Hawaii, Dream Nails and Sex: Linus Volkmann’s Pop Week at a glance

BEFORE YOU START: LESBOS / MORIA

It had to be on fire before Europe could see it again. The events surrounding the Moria reception camp on the island of Lesbos show the helplessness and lack of empathy with regard to the fate of the refugees. In a survey on parliamentwatch.de you can see how the individual parliamentarians voted on the question of accepting refugees. The result will (not) surprise you – and in many cases it is in direct contrast to what they are now expressing cheaply in favor of those affected.
But resigning himself to the computer does not save anyone, a few euros may not be the solution, but in total they are a concrete help. #leavenoonebehind

For example here: www.proasyl.de/spenden/

LOGBOOK: CALENDAR WEEK 37/2020

Cooking with pineapple. Who would have thought the explosiveness of this topic? All the hysterical memes about the supposed obscenity of pizza Hawaii consumption have at least cheered me up on bad days on the net (and there are many of them). A cheeky YouTuber from Koblenz (@JohnnyMutante) has now contributed an extremely entertaining mockumentary to this internet phenomenon. I got a cameo as a cook, was cut and made into fruit. But no price is too high for a good gag.

THE SMALLEST INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK: LYDIA MEYER

I can still remember my explanation, which was very cliché for the time of BRAVO’s Doktor Sommer and the few random hours of sex education in the fifth and sixth grades. It wasn’t particularly productive now. In “Sex und so” (200 pages, 11.99 EUR) one learns that the author Lydia Meyer (@meyermeyermeyerrr / among others working for the video blog “Auf Klo”) did not fare much differently. Because of this deficit, she has now brought out a colorful and inclusive educational book at Ullstein that is state-of-the-art. With drawings by Clara Fridolin Biller (@fffridolin_). Doctor Sommer was once just a rather creepy chimera, Lydia Meyer, on the other hand, is real, read for yourself:

Lydia, if you had been told ten years ago that your educational book will be published in 2020, you would have thought at the time: “Sure, of course it all comes down to that!” Or rather “WTF?”
LYDIA MEYER: Ten years ago I studied cultural studies in the third semester and was firmly convinced that I would never be able to do anything with it anyway. So yes, I would have thought WTF if you had said WTF ten years ago. However, in 2010 I held a “Missy Magazine” in my hand for the first time and started to deal with queer-feminist topics. But yes, to be honest: WTF. I still think

The book is the antithesis of the exclusion produced by classic educational books. While writing, did you worry about overlooking something yourself?
LYDIA MEYER: Sure, I’m still worried and it’s justified. I am not a gay man or a trans woman, I cannot speak for a person who is international and also not for one who has come out to a conservative family. So I brought in a few people who told me about their coming outs, their menstrual cramps or their operations, and I started surveys among my friends, asked them for tips on how to wash their penis or what the best thing to do against unwanted erections. Nevertheless, the book is by no means complete and there are a thousand other things that belong in it. But maybe it’s a start.

What did you learn about sex while working on the book that you didn’t know before?
LYDIA MEYER: I learned to look at puberty in a completely different way. This blatant and intense state of confusion, in which a lot happens and all feelings are mixed up and somehow everything is possible and everything is allowed. If it weren’t for these adults. And this heteronormativity. And this two-gender system. While working on the text, I noticed how rigid it is and what role language plays in it: that the term non-binary, for example, only works through this negation and that something outside of “m” and “w” appears It is so hard to imagine that the term can only work by putting a “not” in front of it, I think it’s crazy. This is nothing new and I’ve had problems with binary since I was a child, but when you write such a text yourself that actually misses binary and wants to cover as much as possible, you notice the limitations of the German language even more.

FILM OF THE WEEK: “KINGSMAN – THE GOLDEN CIRCLE”

This franchise is just exploding. Rightly. After the surprise success of Part 1 in 2014, this sequel came here three years later – and the prequel has already been announced for 2021. Fun fact: I haven’t seen the first part for a long time because I saw it on Netflix for “The King’s Speech “Stopped – and yes, I have an attention disorder, why do you ask?
Anyway, with a little delay I got into the hype of the first film – and now “The Golden Circle” is on Netflix. Would he be able to reinterpret the highly aesthetic material battle of the original? The answer is likely to disturb large parts of the population: it can even outstrip them.

The British super agent with a peaked cap and cockney charm Eggsy (Taron Egerton) is exposed to the almost complete destruction of his Secret Intelligence agency with a tailoring background, the American branch (with a whiskey factory background) steps in. The rest is beguiling comic violence, as if “Itchy and Scratchy” had congealed into a bond film. “Kingsman” succeeded with this part of THE state-of-the-art agent film, this is the Rebirth of Cool. No 007 will be able to scratch it anymore.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: DREAM NAILS – “Dream Nails”

Extremely distilled punk rock with the uplifting staccato of Le Tigre – there is really not much space left for the third chorus or artisan shit on the guitar. That is Dream Nails from London, that is pointed music with attitude and style. New album now on bandcamp (and beyond).

VIDEO OF THE WEEK: TOMAS TULIP

Weird pop as an art form, that kicked people back in the 80s when the Dada label Atatak from Düsseldorf was founded. Well, maybe not THE people, but a good number of nerds with an eye for detail and the bizarre. The Berlin Tomas Tulpe would have fit into this world. Several decades later, he produces trashy little pop hits and lovingly crazy videos in astonishing quantities. From his most recent record “The Man in the Pawn Machine” (Bakraufarfita Records) he still wrests more octave bass fool’s gold and so now “Bier auf’n Weg” appears as a clip. If you can do something with drunk nursery rhymes and infernal DIY charm, you can hardly recommend anything else. I totally love it.

MEME OF THE WEEK

GUILTY OR PLEASURE (90S-EDITION, PT.14): CRASH TEST DUMMIES

The thing is very simple: An act with abnormal behavior from the trash canon of the 90s is checked again. Horny or fail? Judge for yourself!

EPISODE 14:
Crash Test Dummies

ORIGIN: Winnipeg (Kanada)
DISKOGRAPHIE: Nine studio albums and 4 live or best-of records
SUCCESSES: Germany loves kitschy folk bands. At least the key piece “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by the Crash Test Dummies did not have a number one hit in any other country, in Germany the album “God Shuffled His Feet” also achieved this. The worldwide success remains undisputed despite the peak in our Bockwurst charts. The record received three Grammy nominations and sold over 5 million copies.
TRIVIA: “Dumb and Dumber” – The band contributed a cover version (“The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead” in the original by XTC) to the soundtrack of that film with Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey. It was sung by keyboardist Ellen Reid.

PRO
In the early 90s, grunge was the measure of all things guitar music. The crash test dummies fished at the edges of the sound and thus brought more conservative rock listeners into a dinghy of the zeitgeist.

AGAINST
If the English teacher, who also runs the Theater AG and wears baggy jeans, would tell you that he had a band … in the nineties it would definitely have sounded like that. Crash test dummies, that was the complete absence of cool and a foot smell that kept wafting over.

What happened until now? Here is an overview of all pop column texts.

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