God is dead. What's for dinner?

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible:
one thereby almost deserves to live.

- From the Nietzsche Family Circus at Losanjealous.

"Our music is about the revival of a healthy German self-esteem."

It's almost a classic of the newspaper trade: Sceptical journo interviews Rammstein, trying to get them to admit that they're all a bunch of fucking Nazis. Rammstein plays along by dressing in pressed chinos and polo shirts and expressing their total bewilderment that anybody could mistake their music for protofascist ubermensh-pop.

I asked Lorenz whether the allusion to the Nuremberg Rally was intentional. Pique played over his odd, pointy features. “There is no reference to the Nuremberg rally. This is the first time I’ve ever even heard of that. It never would have dawned on me. We purposely did a video without people and symbols. I think it’s a very nice video. It’s almost my favorite video. The ants are so cute.”

These things just write themselves.