International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army in 1945. Today we remember millions of victims of the Nazi regime, including those that have often been missing when talking about the victims.
Gay men, lesbians and trans people were sent into concentration camps, marked by the pink or black triangles, tortured, kept in inhumane conditions, worked to death and exterminated, along with jewish people, romani, disabled people, socialists, communists, Slavs, and others.
On these slides we will quickly cover queer prosecution by Nazis, as well ways in which for them the discrimination didn't end with the Holocaust.
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theyre rly not fucking around with the moe in gangstalia. hamsters
and okay sorry for having a very one track mine(hrgk) ames. 🙂 am. ames. ame... ame... i don't know(about to puke). anyways. specifically ame and china shocked? i can't read japanese... so i'm left to assume the reasoning is a blacktriangle related thing 😖🤔
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PERMANENT STAINS
Thirty years in, and Permanent Stains are back at it. We caught up with members Malstain (M: vocals, keyboards) and Tex Styles (T, drums) to discuss their current reunion tour, their beginnings in Ottawa, and their creative use of just about everything during their live performances. Check them out Wednesday, August 9th at Pressed!
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepermanentstains/
Web: https://permanentstains.bandcamp.com/
Latest Release: Is Gonna Reign: Permanent Stains’ Greatest Zits (Album, March 2017)
Upcoming shows:
Wednesday, August 9 - Permanent Stains, Coastal Pigs & Worn Robot. 8PM. $8. Pressed. Ottawa, ON.
SA: How did Permanent Stains first start as a band?
M: I was approached by my two best friends in the hallway in Grade 7. They said “Let’s start a band!” I later found out that they weren’t actually serious, but I totally was. I got really excited and started dreaming about all the stuff we would do. We didn’t even have instruments for the first year or so, then my brother Nick got a drum kit and I got a keyboard for Christmas, we started jamming, and it just kept going from there.
SA: Who would you cite as primary influences on your sound?
M: When we started, the biggest influence was definitely Weird Al. I often cite the Ramones as my transition to punk but looking back, there were a few bands that bridged that gap, whether outright comedy-punk like the Dead Milkmen or bands with a more cryptic sense of humour like NoMeansNo. Over time we started to get darker and more confrontational. I think probably the catalyst for that was when Nick and I saw John Zorn’s Naked City, with Mike Patton on vocals, at a Dutch jazz festival on a family vacation in ‘91. The way they combined jazz, noise and punk, and the way they actively provoked the crowd, was eye-opening.
SA: You're 30 years in. Thus far in your career, what has been your biggest success?
M: We’ve never really had “success” by any traditional definition, but I think we’ve made an impact in our own way. We’ve definitely blown a few people’s minds along the way, and that’s what I’m most proud of.
SA: Concerning this reunion tour, what has been the biggest challenge you have faced, and how have you dealt with it?
T: Basically getting our act together! Malstain has really driven the bus on (so to speak) and finding the time and resource to get seven guys in their forties from literally all over the world to the same place at the same time is quite an accomplishment. It’s so hard that it wasn’t even possible at the 25-year mark!
M: Seven guys, two continents, four time zones, five offspring between the ages of 2 and 22, and no money… logistics have been a wild ride.
SA: How do you guys approach the song-writing process?
M: Sometimes I or others will bring songs in written, other times we just make them up in rehearsal. Last year a few of us got together and just improvised for a few hours. Not free noodling (well, maybe the occasional hint), but actual songs that we just made up on the spot. We might do some of that onstage on the tour, we’ll see.
SA: You guys may have experienced a wealth of different cities now: what are your thoughts on the Ottawa music scene?
M: My impression is that the scene goes in waves every few years - getting really healthy, then going through periods of scarcity. Venues close down, people move away, things quiet down, then others are inspired to fill the void and the cycle begins again. When I started going to shows, it was a very active time with some really cool bands like Neanderthal Sponge, Grave Concern, the Trapt, Black Triangle, FurnaceFace, and no doubt others I’m forgetting… it was typical to have hundreds of kids out for a show of all local bands. I haven’t lived in Ottawa for years, but from my outsider’s perspective, right now seems like a good time with some cool bands and venues.
SA: If you could narrow it down to one individual Permanent Stains show as being your favourite, which would it be and why?
M: It’s really hard to narrow it down to one, but I’d say the SAW Gallery in April ‘93. It was a great show because we had all the over-the-top theatrics, but also actually played well. (It was always kind of a crap shoot how we would sound due to our revolving membership and our aversion to practicing.) When I think of that show or look at the video of it, I just remember the fun of playing together.
T: Back in 2001 we played a gig at a sort of concrete bunker behind a strip bar that served as a boozecan/all ages punk show venue in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The audience were complete strangers, mostly drunk kids, and they went apeshit for us. I’ve had a few truly great shows with different bands in my life but that will always be my favourite. It’s great to play for friends and fans but a room of total unknowns getting into you is sublime. And the cops shut it down, which was the cherry on top.
SA: What prompted the reunion tour and how has it been going so far?
M: It’s our 30th anniversary and we haven’t done anything for 10 years! Seemed like the excuse we needed to get off our asses again. As far as how it’s going, you’ll have to ask later - the Ottawa show is the first one on the tour!
SA: In press material for the band, it mentions that you were originally known for (among many other interesting things!) your 'creative use of kitchen appliances as instruments'. For those of us who weren't at the early gigs, could you elaborate on that one a little bit?
M: Yogurt Boy, our mascot and spiritual leader, plays the blender as his main instrument. At various times he also experimented with hairdryer, alarm clock, oversized salad tongs, and possibly some other ones I’m forgetting.
SA: Lastly, what are the plans for Permanent Stains after this tour? All the best this coming year!
M: I’d really like to do some more recording next, but we’ll see. It’s hard to organize, but we love playing together, so there’s no reason not to. I figure we can keep it going for at least another 20 years.
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April 12
I guess I’m super bad at keeping a blog. Hell, I haven’t done it since high school. That was 10+ years ago..
Anyway, the drive down (and back) to NJ wasn’t bad this time. I drove at night and drifted behind all of the zoom zoomers. The sonohysterogram was Thursday afternoon, and wowza. That shit was painful. I’m not a cramper when I have my cycles so yeah, ouch.
I know my biggest concern was trying to secretly nurse Layla at night to get her to go to sleep. But it was pretty easy as Mercedes gave us the bedroom ( very thoughtful) and she took the couch. (makes me feel bad though :/ )
Anyway.. not surro-related but we are done breastfeeding. And so I don’t have to worry about lying to my IPs. Yuck. I hate lying, and it’s not something I hardly ever do. :/
Sono went well. I have “The Perfect Black Triangle.”
Earlier on, JJ had tested positive for CMV so we were waiting till a week before my projected start date of my period to test JJ’s blood again. If negative, we would’ve transferred 45 days after the start of my period. i.e. middle of June.
Fast forward to now: He’s tested positive for CMV again (it can take up to a year for his numbers to go down) and you see how the cycle will go.
Thing is, if this gets delayed further, we have a chance of visiting Arkansas in July. And I’m hopeful for that!
As much as I would love to transfer tomorrow, having my daughter spend as much time possible with my family as she can is happiness to me. Plus, I kind of love them, too. ;)
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