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The Shrine’s final resting place(?)

Posted by Barry on September 17, 2017
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I have a habit of moving the Shrine from one service/platform to another every few years, when something better comes along.  So…a few years ago I moved the site to a self-hosted WordPress blog, which has been awesome, except for something I’d never really had to worry about before:  spammers and malicious bots.  WordPress blogs attract spammers like crazy.  It’s gotten got really bad, and over time I’ve ended up having to install spam filters, hack blockers, IP bans, captchas, and extra passwords just to keep them out.  And all that still doesn’t stop them completely.  Here’s a snippet about it from my personal blog in 2013 at the height of a spam attack:

The spam levels had been steadily rising over the past few months, from 10,000 in July to double that in October.  Then in November it exploded at nearly 40,000!  Once I began banning China and some other IP ranges in Brazil, it dropped dramatically in December as you can see below.

shrine-stats

I think I know why spambots are so attracted to that site.  I have a couple of pages on there which contain my old guestbooks from ages past, and those contain email addresses.  Old ones, but still…a spambot sniffs out email addresses like Toronto mayor Rob Ford sniffs out dime bags.

That Rob Ford thing really dates it, right?  Anyway, I finally got fed up with dealing with all that crap.  Now the site is hosted on WordPress.com, which eliminates the need for constant battles against spambots trying to gain control of the site.  However, I’m now having to use a free site theme which isn’t nearly as nice or customizable as the one I had when hosting it myself.  I could get a paid account and do whatever I want with the design, but that’s $99/year and I’m already paying that for my personal website, so…this will have to do.  And since the Shrine has been more or less in “archive mode” for the past few years, this should work fine.

I did have to give up the Jukebox since WordPress doesn’t let you host your own music files on the free tier, but all the other stuff is still here.  There’s also an “About” page which tells a few of my personal Nina stories, for anyone who might be interested and/or bored.

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Flashback: 2012

Posted by Barry on August 16, 2017
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Guess what?  Another move to another blogging platform.  But this would turn out to be the best one ever:  WordPress.  I hosted it on my own paid webspace with the fantastic LunarPages, and was able to install my own themes and tweak them as much as I wanted.  It was a kind of design freedom I hadn’t had since moving to the blog format.  Not super fancy, but still very Shriney.  I got to experiment a little with CSS and php files, too (which I’ve since forgotten).

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Article about Nunsexmonkrock on Dangerous Minds

Posted by Barry on October 12, 2013
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NINA HAGEN’S ‘NUNSEXMONKROCK’: THE GREATEST (AND WEIRDEST) UNSUNG MASTERPIECE OF THE POSTPUNK ERA

Nina Hagen’s 1982 Nunsexmonkrock album is one of the single most ground-breaking and far-out things ever recorded and it deserves to be considered a great—perhaps the very greatest—unsung masterpiece of the postpunk era.

There I’ve said it.

I’ll take it even further: To my mind, it’s on the same level as PiL’s Metal Box, Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica or Brian Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Or The Dreaming by Kate Bush. Make no mistake about it, artistically it is a monumentally important recording.

To this day I have never heard anything quite like this album…and is weird, but in the best possible way.  It’s how most of us American fans discovered Nina, and it left quite an impression!  There will never be another album like it.  Check out the rest of the article, it’s a pretty good read.

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Relic from the past

Posted by Barry on July 22, 2012
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I’ve had this for years but I don’t know if I ever put it on the Shrine:  a demo copy of “My Sweet Lord” that Loka kindly sent to me before I even knew of the project!  It has temporary art (or as Nina would call it, “interim” art :)) and most of the songs from the final version.  Actually I think one of the tracks ended up on the re-release “Mother is Reacting.”

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Cover and inside photo

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Volksbeat (2011)

Posted by Barry on January 2, 2012
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Wir Sind Das Volk

Submitted by Carlos Evaristo de Araujo in Brazil

Hey – Herr Waffenlieferant
Nu pass mal schön auf!
Hey – Familie Bombenbauer
Sperrt eure Löffel auf!
Eure ganze Lebenslüge
Hat das Volk so satt!
Eure illegalen Kriege – Schach matt!

Die Kriegsverbrecher dieser Welt
Die Zittern vor’m Gericht,
Wenn das Kregverbrechertribunal
Sein gerechtes Urteil spricht.
Im Namen unserer Kinder:
Wir flehen euch an!
Legt die Waffen nieder
Dann fängt die Zeit des Friedens an

Wir sind das Volk des Friedens
-wir verehren uns

Wir sind das Volk des Liebens
-wir vermehren uns

Wir sind das Volk der Freiheit
-und wir wehren uns
Gegen Gewalt! Gegen Gewalt!

Wir sind das Volk! Wir sind das Volk!
Wir sind das Volk – Das Volk sind Wir!

Massenmörder – Lesereise – Autobiographie
Ein ganz legaler Kriegsverbrecher
S’grenzt an Shizophrenie
Deine feine Lebenslüge
Hat das Volk sooo satt!
Deine illegalen Kriege – Schach Matt!
Die Gentec-Lobby Sugardaddies jagen wir davon
Wer die Schöpfung patentieren läßt

Der hat hier nix verlorn
Wann wird endlich Frienden sein
Und Menschlichkeit auf Erden,
In Liebe und Gerechtigkeit,
Was soll aus uns nur noch warten
Auf eure Gunst
Wer hat den Graten
Des Volkes so verhunzt?

Zieh euch warm an, Volks-Verräter
Seelenausverkauf
Herzen kalt und hart wie Stein
Das Böse schlich sich bei euch ein
Wir brechen euren bösen bann
Wir schaffen ihn ab
Ganz ohne Gewalt
Nicht so wie ihr, aber so wie wir

Wir sind das Volk des Friedens
-wir verehren uns

Wir sind das Volk des Liebens
-wir vermehren uns

Wir sind das Volk der Freiheit
-und wir wehren uns

Gegen Gewalt! Gegen Gewalt!

Wir sind das Volk! Wir sind das Volk
Wir sind das Volk – das Volk sind wir!

Wir sind das Volk! Wir sind das Volk
Wir sind das Volk – das Volk sind wir!

Wir sind das Volk! Wir sind das Volk
Wir sind das Volk – das Volk sind wir!

Wir sind das Volk!!

 

(More lyrics to come eventually – feel free to email more to shoogle2 @ gmail . com)

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Coming soon: “Volksbeat”

Posted by Barry on October 11, 2011
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Looks like Nina’s new all-German album “Volksbeat” is just around the corner!  Pre-order it from Amazon.de using this link, if you would be so kind. 🙂

In a short interview with Max Nöje, Nina talks a little about the new release.

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The Shrine moves…again!

Posted by Barry on September 11, 2011
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It’s been a few years since I moved the Shrine off my own web hosting service onto TypePad.  Using TypePad was OK, but it was never very pretty to look at and their design options are pretty limited.  So the other day I got a wild hair and decided to move the site back to my own hosting space  in a format I have almost full control over (WordPress).  This at least lets me tweak things I couldn’t before, yet still keep the “blog” format without having to use an HTML program.  So I can still be lazy about it but keep it looking decent. 🙂

All comments posted by readers have been brought over to the new format, which is nice.  And, as always, you’re free to comment on anything posted here, no account necessary.  Also, feel free to put in a fake email address if you like.  I don’t spam people, but I can’t say the same for spambots which may attempt to scoop up email addresses from here.  There’s not much I can do about that, unfortunately…

There haven’t been many updates here lately, but Nina’s homepage will always have the most recent info about what she’s up to.  There are also some great fansites out there which are much more current and interesting than this one…the Shrine will continue to be more of a media archive than the full-blown fansite it once was.  This has been my hobby for nearly 15 years and I’m happy to keep it around a bit longer!

 

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Flashback: 2010

Posted by Barry on September 10, 2011
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Since Nina was coming out with her autobiography (and, later, a new album), I decided to bring back the TypePad blog and start posting about it.  Also began beefing up the interviews section by adding more interviews, PDF versions, and translation links.

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Stereo Total covers “Wenn Ich Ein Junge Wär”

Posted by Barry on September 24, 2010
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Check it out!  You can hear/buy the MP3 (or the whole album) on Amazon as well as Amazon.de and many other places.

They also do an interesting cover of "Tour de France" on the same album.

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Another interview!

Posted by Barry on September 14, 2010
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“Gott kam mir mit ausgestreckten Armen entgegen” – zeit.de (Apr 8)
Link / English / View PDF

Translation to English via Google:


“God met me with open arms”
Nina Hagen on loss experience in her childhood and youth

TIME magazine: Mrs. Hagen, when you were a child , your mother, Eva-Maria Hagen tried to kill herself.

Nina Hagen: Yes, that was a big shock abandonment. Then you suddenly see that they are not the center of life is. My mother wanted me to live alone. She must have forgotten how much she loved me. I always wanted to protect her. I had such dreams in which my mom on the road running around naked, because I wanted to say you love so much that I think it sucks that they should put on something.

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