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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ([personal profile] merridia) wrote2026-01-21 11:48 am
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[514] you have been hugger-muggered, and carom-shotted into a war, and you know nothing about it

Bad mood. Bad day. So tired, even though I got to bed at a decent-ish time. I'm a little concerned that, after a little over half a year, I may have hit the wall where I cannot continue to exist on this schedule? Hopefully that's not true! So cold, and also I feel like shit because Mom went to all the trouble of bringing me a space heater and I turned her down because it was too big and I'm scared of tripping a breaker at work? Why did I do that! I should have at least tried it! I'm so miserable all of the time! Still weigh more than I ever have in my life and feel like walking garbage as a consequence. I need winter to be over. I need the theatre to open back up. I need to stop eating and shopping my stress away. I need a lot of things!!!

Hopefully tonight we'll at least be heading back to the furniture store to pick out some new options that can actually be successfully delivered this time around and that particular hassle can be put in the rearview by the weekend. It's going to be expensive, regardless.

I hope Evil Uno announces Mystery Wrestling dates soon; I need to know if they might factor into my vacation plans.



Wikipedia Sez: Opus Dei is the third studio album by the Slovenian and Yugoslav avant-garde music group Laibach, released on March 23, 1987 by Mute Records. It features "Geburt einer Nation" ("birth of a nation"), a German language cover version of Queen's "One Vision", and two reworkings of "Live Is Life" by the Austrian pop rock band Opus'. The Opus song became the German language "Leben heißt Leben" and the English language "Opus Dei". "The Great Seal" is the national anthem of the NSK State, the lyrics taken from Winston Churchill's 1940 "We shall fight on the beaches" speech. A new arrangement of the song appears on Laibach's seventh studio album Volk (2006), with the title "NSK". On Volk, the song is credited to Laibach and Slavko Avsenik Jr.

Genre: Pop/Rock, Electronic

Styles: Alternative/Indie Rock, Industrial

Release Date: March 23rd, 1987

Prior Familiarity: None!

What I Did While Listening: Chores, mainly. Got the living room all swept and mopped and ready to go for the couch that would never arrive.

Verdict: Weird droning marches, stressful screaming, bonkers instrumentations, what is it about weird German (and/or Eastern European in general I guess??) music that I love so much?? From krautrock to confusing artsy stuff to (apparently!) industrial satire, it's all just so extremely my shit. Boy I hope the Nazi vibes are as ironic and antifascist as a cursory google leads me to believe they are, because I don't know enough about Slovenian culture to say for sure!!!

Favourite Song: Leben heißt Leben, followed closely by its sister track, Opus Dei

Leshia's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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[personal profile] whatwedo 2026-01-21 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
This was one of the few international music albums that I'd already heard of!

Also, I'm sorry to hear shit's been rough :( We just went through a similar saga with our new appliances, and that shit blows. MAY WRESTLING CURE ALL ILLS.