Sonntag, 2. Oktober 2011

Talk-Show Appearance at “Sonja”

This point concerns Kanwulf’s “storied” performance on German tabloid talk show “Sonja” in December 1999. Wrapped in a lacquer skirt and a cobweb-pattern blouse, Kanwulf presents himself here under the extremely-affecting-the-world-public topic: “The very sight of you makes me sick”.

A fellow student and room-mate of Kanwulf, namely André, blames the latter here for playing his Black Metal—according to said André’s definition some guitar-threshing, and someone’s screaming something to it[9], by the way—all-too loud and thus maltreating his co-inhabitants taste and ear to a degree not longer acceptable. In addition, he criticises Kanwulf’s outward appearance—according to these descriptions, kohl, lacquer skirt and cobweb-pattern blouse seem to be firm components of Kanwulf’s clothing habits, not an one-time gaffe—and notes that, occasionally, he’d indeed feel embarrassed to be seen with Kanwulf in public. And, yes, sometimes he’d actually get nauseated at the sight of Kanwulf. We as the audience could at that time already catch a glimpse of Kanwulf and hence feel ourselves able to empathise with that André for once.

In the light of these revelations, the host now addresses some disapproving words to Kanwulf, whose room-mate meanwhile lapses into a dull numbness and does the audience the favour of losing his ability to speak for the rest of the show. The audience, in turn, are laughing at Kanwulf—albeit restrainedly, as, after all, one is used to a lot—for his faggy appearance, while Kanwulf himself is making a mock of himself to the best of his abilities. This whole sick farce, which binds us to itself for about six minutes with the morbid fascination of a traffic accident, finally ends in such a way that Kanwulf pledges to henceforth more often adjourn to his car in order to listen to Black Metal.


Kanwulf at German tabloid talk show “Sonja”
And although this may indeed sound quite unbelievable at first, it still remains the truth, and for those silly fanboys who sporadically express their conviction that this talk-show appearance never actually took place but is merely a mean fabrication of a handful of naggers and enviers, I decided to provide a recording of Kanwulf’s talk-show appearance here.

Link to the Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U2oSExs4wc




By means of an entry in the then far more frequented Web forum of Eternity magazine, Kanwulf attempted to lie himself out as follows (why Kanwulf speaks about himself in the third person will likewise be answered a little later on):

Well, that talk-show matter. That was all a fake […]. He had lost a bet almost a year ago, and his stake in that bet was ought to be something that he’d never do normally! He decided for either having his hair cut or the above-mentioned. Well, he lost the bet. He now refused to cut his hair, as he always says it’d be some kind of pride to wear it. But he even more refused to do the other thing. This led to great distrust among his folks, as he always advances the view that a man’s word should carry weight and meet his honour. But exactly this wasn’t the case now.

But somehow he finally brought himself to do so, as his word shouldn’t be an empty one. So he went there with a false story and a slight acquaintance. He intended to appear without a shirt and ‘I hate you’ or something like that written on his chest. But they didn’t allow that (them from the show) and threatened him with legal action, as one has to sign a contract there. He put on the blouse of his wife then, as he didn’t want to show up with a Metal shirt on TV. He thinks that’d be the absolutely wrong place for such things. And right he is! He didn’t adhere to the answers that were given to him, either, and the discussion was eventually broken off by the host. He picked a quarrel with some technicians, too, because he wasn’t allowed to leave during the show. They even called security to stop him from walking off …

I think he condemns himself for doing that. But he didn’t break his word! The money he got there he gave a dosser on the street.[10]

Kanwulf (claiming to be Charoon), Eternity Web forum, April 5th, 2001

Kanwulf seriously seems to be keen to sell even this total ridiculing of both himself and Black Metal as an “honourable” act! Everybody, however, who watches the show by himself, will easily discover at least the following:

The clothes—more precisely: the cobweb-pattern blouse (it cannot be stressed often enough)—Kanwulf wears is by no means his then-wife’s. His then-wife is among the audience during the entire show and repeatedly caught by the eye of the camera (screenshot), so that each viewer can convince himself that if the blouse would have been hers, even the boyish stature of Kanwulf would doubtlessly have tore it apart like, … well, cobweb.
Another thing that everybody who takes a look at Kanwulf’s then-wife will quite certainly notice is the fact that she is completely dressed—what reason could she therefore have had to take that cobweb-pattern blouse with her that Kanwulf claimed having borrowed from her after being refused to show up undressed from the waist up? And why are we supposed to swallow that Kanwulf—who is filmed backstage laughing dumbly about his room-mate’s ridiculing definition of Black Metal—believed that TV’d be the absolutely wrong place for [Metal shirts] in the first place? It is the wrong place for Metal shirts yet the perfectly right place to make fun of Metal verbally?
Kanwulf and that sorely afflicted André do in no way give the impression of being—as Kanwulf later pretended—hardly known to each other. After all, the story they tell doesn’t appear to be made-up, either, but just as authentic as stories told in this kind of television show can possibly appear at all.
Neither the behaviour of Kanwulf nor the interaction between the involved persons altogether—clearly including the host—do at the least indicate that Kanwulf had “revolted” in any way. In fact, Kanwulf doesn’t leave the impression of being capable of such behaviour in the first place. Quite the opposite, Kanwulf appears overly friendly and considerate, is fooling around with that André and the host and, all in all, acting just like all the other sorry vermin who make fools of themselves in this kind of show every day. Consequently, and contrary to what Kanwulf said, the discussion was not broken off, and the incident that, according to Kanwulf, had occurred backstage is just as obviously mere fiction.

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