exclusive Milwaukee, WI radio interview with Jaz of Killing Joke is online

[colm mcwilliams]

Cheers for the info karen

colm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Kusic" <kkusic at EXECPC.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: exclusive Milwaukee, WI radio interview with Jaz of Killing
Joke is online


> Good question on the banned words.
>
> I believe I found some good info here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
>
> In the Killing Joke interview ... I know the DJ had to remove a couple
sh*ts.
>
> ;)
>
> I didn't even notice them when hearing the uncut interview since that's a
> pretty common word in today's vocabulary, that I probably use myself too
> much too, for better or worse.
>
> I'll probably find out more about this next year in school since I'm a
first
> semester Broadcast Captioning student ... that is, someone who's learning
to
> do "closed captioning" for TV.
>
> Let's hope the words get bleeped out in the live feeds I'll be getting so
I
> don't have to think about whether I should type it or not!  In court, they
> probably do type the exact words since they need a verbatim record of what
> was said.
>
> Censorship.  Not to endorse the "banned" words but after they've been used
> so much in today's society, they've really lost a lot of their shock
value.
>
> I suppose they're not words someone would want their kid using though ...
>
> I'm very opposed to censorship of any kind but I'm not a parent and could
> see why they might not want young children exposed to certain things
before
> they should be.
>
> Hope those of you who are interested in Killing Joke find the interview
> worthwhile.  I learned a few new things.  I should have posted OFF: before
> the subject but forgot ...
>
> The lead singer, Jaz Coleman, was introduced to rock at 15 by a girl who
got
> him stoned and played him a Can album!  More about that in this article:
>
> http://www.westword.com/issues/2003-10-30/music2.html/1/index.html
>
> So, a little spacerock connection there.  :)
>
> Karen
>