TITLE:SPANDIMERDA INTERVIEW WITH WOLFMAN of BALANCE (UPSTREAM ED) PALETTE:0223 099b 08ba 0cc9 3 SPANDIMERDA INTERVIEW WITH WOLFMAN OF BALANCE Macno: Spandimerda, as 3Beppe1 knows, is an italian word with double meaning. It may mean self centred and arrogant person and it may also mean a guy who talk shit about the others. 3Mantronix and Tip1, for example, are spandimerda in the former meaning, 3Chester and Orlando1 are in the second meaning and 3Chaos1 is a full accomplished Spandimerda, in whatever meaning. Wolfman, do you think to be a Spandimerda? 2Wolfman: 2Huh? I don't know I am one myself... Perhaps other people think of me as one, 2I hope so and I try to be one as well. Does anyone feel like being slagged off 2out there? If so, please get in touch... We think so, anyway, that's why we are making this interview. We have liked your spandimerda slogan "We try hardest" for its sober irony. What has been the inspiration for such a nice sentence? 2Well, of course R.A.W's slogan has PERHAPS helped me a bit on the way. 2Actually it wasn't anything which I thought of for a long while, it just popped 2right to my mind like: "Hey, we actually try hardest!" Upstream, we have all noticed it, is trying to beat nothing less than RAW and to succeed it has started to spandimerda RAW here and there, more or less allusively. It has happened in the Issue 6. There we have realized that you could try to do with RAW what 3Lord Helmet1 did with Zine. Is it true? You can't deny the evidences... 2Uuuuh, I hope Hjelmen doesn't read this. I would like it to be a surprise for 2him... A mean one of course. So, yes.... I am now using Hjelmens OWN weapons 2in beating him. 2Actually I believe Zine must have been quite easy to kick to the floor. Chester 2and Orlando are...or were simply not fit out to resist the real spandimerda 2which will make the whole scene laugh on Chester and Orlando's behalf... DAMN 2Effective! The Spandimerda Commitee for Awards Awarding doesn't consider you a real Spandimerda Master, anyway. Yes, you have got good potentials and you are learning fast, but, let's tell the sad true, guys like Chaos and 3Zinkfloid1 are miles ahead. How do you feel in this unease situation? What are your plans for a brilliant spandimerda future? Have you got some words for the Spandimerda Commitee? 2I'm not a master? Oh I see, I have to be the GOD... Yes yes, many people have 2often stated to me that I was a god... 2Hmmmm, I can agree that Chaos is a great spandimerda, lately he has also brought 2a lot of humour into his spandimerda... As for the Spandimerda Commitee: "I've 2got something in store for YOU!" 2PS: Zinkfloid? WHY?! One of the biggest disappointment for the whole Spandimerda Community has been the Warzone in Upstream 6. It could be the beginning of a good and powerful spandimerding but it resulted a wimpy, light, tender bunch of sweet words. Are you going to change it? Will we find in Upstream finally some good professional spandimerding? 2How can I make a warzone if people believe so much in friendship?! Please 2scene. Have wars again... Wars make the world go round! 2Make WARS - Not R.A.W's! Lord Helmet is a spandimerda legend, like Beppe (the most important Living Scene Analyst) says. He has introduced a new style in disk magazines, aggressive and scandalistic, which has influenced the main editors of almost all the diskmags around. You included. How much do you think to owe to Helmet for this? Do you think you can do better? 2Hmmmm. I can't say I've seen many editors beeing effected by Hjelmens style.. 2The only ones I see having matched (and beaten) the style of R.A.W is 2Upstream... Seriously, other mags attempting to be mean to people have totally 2missed the real essence of R.A.W's and ours style. It's usually ending up in 2slagging other people off in manners that can not be descriped as ironic... As 2mentioned I believe I can do better than R.A.W.... It can't be done much 2better, but I will push the limit... As you know, there is spandimerda and spandimerda. You can find the spandimerda of Zinkfloid, very aggressive and almost evil, and the one of Lord Helmet, more subtle, lateral and ironic, the one of Chaos, perfect, and the one of Scenarium, which includes many genres. What is your favourite spandimerda form? Are there, according to you, some spandimerda deviations and degenerations that damage the good image of the Spandimerda comunity? 2I probably prefer the form being used by Hjelmen as I use that one myself. Even 2though I have never read anything from Zinkfloid, I can't say I actually admire 2his spandimerda. It's not intended, and the thing he is pulling off at 2Propoganda is quite poor. Really good spandimerda have to be formulated very 2well. Something which most editors can't handle... 2Anyway, Zinkfloid's spandimerda is as you said youself aggressive and that shows 2that he's actually pissed at for example Propoganda. If he really didn't care 2too much, he would not care, or try to write an article actually joking with the 2whole affair... Lord Helmet is one of the few people being able to do that. 2Last I can say that Zinkfloid's spandimerda is really deviating for the proud 2tradition of spandimerda. Beppe once declared that a real spandimerda makes the spandimerda because he doesn't care of the scene. He doesn't care of good manners and of behavings. He knows that it's a world made by handles and not by persons and therefore he doesn't find harmful his spandimerding. What's your opinion about that? 2He's absolutely right! And that's also why I don't see Zinkfloid as a true 2spandimerda, simply he attacks Propoganda so agressively 'cause he cares a lot 2about what people say about him and his mag.. 2If people begin pissing on us... Well, we'll answer them back with some 2humour... It's far more effective to make other people laugh at the attacker. Now we have to make you the usual questions, just necessary in every decent interview. Be patient with us, we are not much original, we know. Favourite Spandimerda Demo: 2Broken "Releasedate" Promises Favourite Spandimerda Mag: 2Abnormalia Favourite Spandimerda Slogan: 2We try hardest Favourite Spandimerda Guy: 2God (me) Tell us something more about the Spandimerda out there. Who are your masters, who are the ones who don't deserve their spandimerda fame, who are the new names for the future? 2Aaaah well... I've been looking forward for this question dear friend... I 2don't really have any masters, but I do admire Hjelmen for his spandimerda It's 2almost as good as mine ... Then of course there are those glorious editors at 2some Italian mag...... Who? You! 2It should by now be QUITE obvious who doesn't deserve their fame, but for the 2ignorant people: Zinkfloid. Two silly questions just to make this interview longer. What have you got to do in your life to be able to say, just before dying, "my life has had a sense"? 2I want to have started a religion where I am the god... The center.. Just 2think of how many girls a god can score... "Hmmm, I need something good here... 2Oh Cindy!" What is your opinion about the future of humanity? 2The world needs a strong man to lead us all.... Uuuh, this could very easily be 2misunderstood... But I would very much like to become WHQ Back to our matters. You are not italian and therefore the word spandimerda shouldn't sound easy at your ears. Do you think we should change or modify it in order to have a stronger impact on the scene? What about these words: merdoso, merdone, merdaccia? Do they sound nice? 2Merdoso sounds really macho (It's a maskulinum word, right?) and strong. 2Perhaps you should make the word a little more English since there are many 2people who do not have the right way with other languages. The finnish sentence Katso merta (I look at the sea) in italian sounds like "Cazzo merda" (Dick shit). This always make our simple people laugh merrily. Do you think that Finland is a spandimerda country, full of perkeles and cazzomerdas? What country has the best spandimerda spirit? 2I have never noticed any Fins being real spandimerdas, but their language sounds 2quite funny... Like a throat illness or so. 2The country with the best spandimerda spirit? Uuuh, that's a tough one, 2spandimerda seems to be located equally in each country like Germany, Norway, 2England, Denmark, Italy and perhaps Sweden as well.... Hmmmm, I love the Danish 2humour actually... It can be sooo sarcastic. That's one of the vital things in 2the spandimerda. Say one thing, but mean the total opposite. We love Denmark, its decision to stay out of EEC is a remarkable (and clever) spandimerda intuition. What did you vote at the referendum? 2Oh well, Denmark is a member of the EEC now... But at the last referendum I was 2still dicking around in the age of 17... But I have to say that I would 2probably have voted YES if I could at that time. In a comment about The Charts by Ram Jam, an italian group, you wrote: "There can't be much cheating on The Charts or the Officila Eurochart, but since it's obvious in the blood of the Italians, who can tell if the editors from RAMJAM are accepting bribe...;-)". We are furious with you. That final smiley has destroyed the whole spandimerda spirit! We can't accept smileys in a spandimerding declaration! They ruin the spandimerda tone. Wanna try to repair to the misdeed? 2"I'll make you an offer you can't refuse!"..... Well, you know. There are some 2dorks who would actually have thought I was serious if I hadn't placed that 2smiley, but okay I admit it: It should have been a gonnar! Our final question (Marzullo rules!): Is life a dream or dreams help to live? 2Life can be both a nightmare and a dream to us... Dreams help us to have a goal 2or a task in our life... I have a dream that mag editors should be granted 2support from the state and be able to live a good life for their hard work! No thanks for the answers and no wishes to you for anything. You have not even the space to write your final words here. Impressive eh? 2Wooow! Well, eat this then!