[Glice]

I like where this has gone. I agree with pretty much everyone here - offending people is pretty facile, juvenile. I oscillate between liking and disliking Whitehouse for this very reason. I personally find Anal Cunt tickle my funny bone in the right way, but they rarely get played except maybe when I'm hoovering. It's like with Prussian Blue - they are, in a sense, really not very good, and no-one would know of them if they weren't (allegedly manipulated to be*) racist. The fact that I enjoy them because they fail in a way I find charming (it's like the Shaggs, in that sense) is inseperable from the fact they're dealing with this hokey Volksmusik and that they're jailbait, all dangersexy** points for me.

I think for me, I like it when you get something that's a bit more capable in being challenging. It's not the subjects that Sarah Kane writes about that are challenging per se, it's how she writes. 448 psychosis floors me every time, not because she's writing about suicide & depression, but because she's writing about it with an honesty and empathy that's a hair's breadth from spastic. Good art - anything from Chaucer to Henry Miller or whoever - will always be more challenging than pubescent stasis.

* I wanted to strikethrough this.
** English doesn't do this with words. I mourn my lack of German.