#rammblings

a few thoughts about the Adieu mv, in particular the latter scenes, also based on captions by Specter Berlin and David Gesslbauer on their IG with shots of the new video and borrowing some quotes from various wiki pages.

Feuer Frei / religion

These are the parts i still don't really get the meaning, the crosses used in the video, like this one..

but is it a 'latin' cross, and if so, a baptismal cross?

or is it a tie-in with another Rammstein video, per this IG post

the video of 'Feuer Frei' was shot in a church also echoes the blasts of figure in the hall of 'Doppelgänger' in the Adieu video. Also, Feuer Frei shows Till with a mohawk (but he had that in more videos...if the Adieu mohawk referenced the Feuer Frei mohawk, i'm just glad Paul didn't go back to the tonsure 😊)

Death and immortality

While most hear just a 'goodbye' in Adieu, the video seems to go beyond that into the afterlife, both Specter and David have used the words 'immortals', 'live on forever' in posts. And taken like that (which i actually like a lot), it isn't 'the end' like many fear, but the continuation in the after life.

Titans

Hell / Tartarus

The scene in the 'dungeon' or 'hell' (Specter mentions 'hell of a fanbase' but also 'best fanbase ever', he doesn't mean the former as an insult 😊)

In one of the posts on IG one of them (that i can't find anymore) used the word 'Titans, and that gave me the idea that this isn't just any old hell, but Tartarus, the (Greek) mythological location where the Titans were confined after being overthrown by the Olympian gods.

The Titans were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans (and six female Titans).

Originally, Tartarus was used only to confine dangers to the gods of Olympus. In later mythologies, Tartarus became a space dedicated to the imprisonment and torment of mortals who had sinned against the gods, and each punishment was unique to the condemned (best known for examples like Sisyphus who was forever forced to roll a large boulder up a hill for it to always roll back down or Tantalus who stood in a pool of water with a branch of fruit over his head but when he reached for the fruit or bent down for the water it would retract so he couldn't reach it).

That last bit imo is reflected in Rammstein imprisoned in a cage that seems like their small stage, or like the cell from the Mutter video, the band and the 'Damned' headbanging for all eternity.

Interestingly in some version of the christian Bible there is also a reference to the Greek reading Tartarus as a footnote: "For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment".

The Tartarus prisoners were guarded by the Hecatonchires or 'Hundred-handers', which in mythology were three monsters with 100 hands, but the 100 hands in this case might refer to the hands of the fans.

Valhalla

And what would immortality be without Valhalla (Norsk mythology)

This scene is inspired by a movie (afaik), but even if it wasn't it is very reminiscent of the idea of the Valkyries riding to select heroes to enter Valhalla. Odin would select only those fighting in battles "He should have no fear in fighting battles, his own or others, and in the process dying for the cause. It all comes down to his intentions and how he performs in his life. Another way a person can be fearless is that he would accept any circumstance and still go on. Whatever life throws at him, he will endure it and go forward."

The ceiling

Because of the mythological themes and trying to piece in something 'religious' i first thought the final image was of a religious celing painting, like Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam', or that is was 'just a pretty picture', making use of a beautiful location. But when i looked up which painting it was, it actually makes even more sense. From the 'Grand Foyer' in the 'Palais Garnier' (also Opéra Garnier, where a lot of the video seems to have been shot) in Paris, the ceilings are illustrations to various pieces performed in the building. The rectangular painting in the center of the ceiling, that is the last shot of the video, is by artist Paul Baudry

...and is called "music" 😊

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I’ll give my thoughts proper after a couple of listens but til then my favourites as of now are definitely Zeit, Angst, Dicke Titten, OK, and Schwartz

Adieu is a powerful yet lovely send off to the album, and if this is indeed their swan song then what a beautiful way to do so

All in all, they definitely put their Kollektive-Rammussy into that one folks

Just so we are clear I'M the wacko. Not Yang. Mr Yang if you ever read this just know I'm writing this at 1:23am and can't sleep. I'm using my cellphone cuz I didn't want to get out of bed... Yes I am lazy if I'm not being paid to do shit.

I do love my job but I don't LoVe LOVE IT.

So I come from a large family. We all live near each other but I'm the only one who's 27 and still at my parents ( my little sister if 21 doesn't count cuz she's still getting her life together now that she's a mom). I've had a stable job for the past 2 years and 10 months and 22 days ( yes I have counted every day but mostly cuz we have no windows and I find it helps to keep track of the time) and I try not to take any days off ( even paid leave) just in case something happens or I've finally hit my end. And the other day when I was watching another interview with Yang he asked what we would spend the $1000 a month on.

I never thought about it but last night my brain wouldn't let me sleep cuz of that. In my house I've been in charge of the bills ( my mom n dad lost their job for a bit and they could only pay the rent and I was already in charge of some of the bills and after I took over I never gave them back the control of the bills). And thanks to Yang I stayed up all night redoing last year's bills since I took over around the beginning of that year. 😩I went a bit overboard.

Any who~

The bills in total in the whole house where about $7641 the whole year - which includes water, gas, electric, cellphone for the house hold, and the internet ( not included were Netflix, medical bills and Adobe account subscription)

Cell= $1568

Gas=$ 1079

Water=$1513

Electric=$2881

Internet=$600

So if I start to pay off my cell for the year and including my normal payments of the other bills, by 2nd month I should have it payed for that month and the rest of the year. And I'll just put the left over money into paying the bill for gas of that month n the year.

By the third month I should have the gas paid off for the year and that month. But now I have paid off my cell already so Eve. If the payment plan is about $110 for three phones I'll just start to pay $200 to give me more credit for the next year.

It's the third month and I still have about $93 left From the $1000 I used to catch up on the gas - so I use that to pay into the water along with what the actual total is , giving me a heads start to the water bill. Which I won't have payed off for till the 5th month.

5th month

I've been paying off the water bill and have it evened out for the year with the left over of $330. Which I use to get a head start on the real villain the electric bill. But remember I've been paying extra on my bills that I have already paid off on so right now it's like this

Cre means credit

mp means monthly payment

P means payment

Month 5 bills

CELL

Cre$180 - mp$110 +$200p= Cre$270

GAS

Cre$75 - mp $125 +$200p= Cre$150

WATER

Paid this month and the rest with the $1000 leaving me with $330 left over to start on electric. I pay the normal for internet.

I won't have the electric bill payed off till the 9th month and then I will have paid the year and that months. I'll have $570 left over which I use to take out the small fry called internet.

By the 10th month I'd have all the bills paid for the year and month. And the internet Bill will have been paid off leaving me with an extra $870 to put into wherever I want. I choose electric and internet so I can catch them up a bit with the others.

By the 11th month I'll be caught up with all and have to divided the $1000 between them all.

Water, gas, and cell get $200, electric gets $300, and internet gets$100. I'll pay the exact amount for the monthly payment.

By the 12th month (let's say it's December) I won't uses the $1000 for anything but presents for my family cuz it'll be Christmas and for once I could probably get them all anything they want. But I'll still do my monthly payments for all my bills which will leave me with some credit to start the year strong 💪💪💪💪.

Cell = credit $1020

Gas = credit $875

Water = credit $700

Electric = credit $975

Internet = credit $635

Which would mean I'd be $548 away from paying my cellphone bill away for the next of next year, $204 for gas, $813 for water, and $1906 for electric! Plus my internet bill would already be paid off in full with a credit of $35.

I could have all those paid off by the 4th month of the next year if I continue the monthly payment and the $1000 divided between all those. And on the 4th month I'd have an extra $529 to do away with.

Truth is by the fourth month of the next year I'd have it all paid off with Hu? I wouldn't have to worry about bills if I didn't use the $1000 for bills and just stuck with my monthly payment plan since it's estimated to always give credit back. And if I got fired or quit I'd still have a year to figure things out. Even without the $1000 a month.

I could continue to pay my bills with my monthly payment plan and then divided the $1000 the same way giving me more credit for the rest of the year or I could just save it all up for a place of my own and by then the bills will lower cuz there would only be me living there, no 6 plp home.

Or I could continue my monthly plan and use the $1000 like I did the first round so I didn't have to worry about the current year and the next. Which would be evened out by the 10th year of the next year. After that I could just do my normal payment plan for the bills and use the $1000 of the 11th and 12th month for Christmas ( I really like getting plp presents) .

Then at the start of the 3rd year I could save the fist few months $1000 to get my own place.

By now I'm probably 30 and should have my own place and yeah that's sad. 🏠. And we're I live you can get a decent home for like 50k ( might be a fixer but it won't be too bad) or a small plot of land ($12k -$25) then build a shipping container home there. Some aren't so expensive. I could easily pay it off in the two years I don't have to pay bills. Then I could place solar panels to reduce the electric bill.

And the year after that I could just redo my whole bills and $1000 thing so I'm always a. Year ahead of the game. So by the time I'm 33 or 35 I'll have a whole house paid off, my bills are always ahead and I have an extra $1000 I could save for retirement or whatever I want to do at 34. Maybe put some into my niece and nephew's quinceanera and quinceanero? That'd be fun. Then save up for the other two younger ones.

I don't have kids so they are my life.

I'd probably go to anime cons and so on.

Finally take a month vacation or save up to build a second home. Anything would be possible by then. I know nothing about business and I don't like to mingle with normal plp much but I could put some money away to start a small online business with my sister. Or focus on my real dream of making my own comic, manga, or book. Which ever comes first I guess.

I've noticed I've ramble on about this for a long a$$ time.