I hear the Germans have a good chuckle at the American tendency to view Blixa Bargeld as some mysterious, dark and dangerous creature. The man we know best as the firestarting sledgehammer-wielding Einstürzende Neubauten shriek'n howling Bad Seed with S&M themed performance & fashion aesthetic is better known to his country volks as a national institution: Movie Star, Urbane Gentleman, Celebrity Chef, and now, the face of the German equivalent of Home Depot.
Fabio Roberti, aka Our Fobsie, host of Strength Through Failure, shows us the following award-winning German television commercials, starring our hero:
- Blixa recommends a strong mosquito killer.
- Blixa can't get enough of these new paving stones.
- Blixa not love a power drill? Pshaw!
- Blixa on paint.
You're invited to further nosh on Neubauten. Herewith, my interview with Blixa (RM link) on April 28, 2000. I was scared shitless. It was my first radio interview ever, I was intimidated, and it was my birthday. I desperately needed to smoke cigarettes and drink beer. We did, and it went fine, though I'm sure I'd be humiliated to hear it now.
And here once again is Our Fobsie, hosting (RM link) another Neubauten, Alexander Haacke.
And finally, here's an mp3 download of the song you hear playing in all those commercials --
12305 Te Nacht (5.7m), from the album Tabula Rasa. Yippee ya-ya yippee yippee yay.
hm- my comments were here yesterday. i'll repeat, in digest form:
doesn't ANY one - ANY where - have a sense of dignity anymore?
Posted by: craig | December 05, 2005 at 01:03 AM
thanksler..
Posted by: sohbet | December 23, 2006 at 07:48 PM
These are the best commercials of all time.
Posted by: Juliet | September 18, 2007 at 09:46 PM
I can only wish that's how he reads his paper every morning..
In regards to the interview: "You don't like squid?"
Lol i love how anything Blixa says can be taken confrontationally.. he's so hard to read sometimes.
Posted by: Yassi | December 15, 2007 at 11:12 PM