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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 what punk rock has been reduced too I am sick and tired of degenerates that i turn up in searches that call themselves punk rock. Don't get me wrong, i am not saying that i am the punkiest punker that holds the greatest punknocscity but i am fed up with fakes that can't admit how stupid they are. Once again i am not saying that i am the smartest guy in the world...in fact...i am considerably dumb in the grand scheme of things. This is what chaps my ass: 1. Punk is no longer a way of life but a plagued fashion of comeovers and tight pants. 2. Emo kids say they are punk as fuck. 3. Emo is the next generation? 1. Punk is no longer a way of life but a plagued fashion of come-overs and tight pants. I have been going to warped tours sine i was 13 when i saw great punk rock bands like Bad Religion, Swingin Utters, Mighty Mighty Bosstone, NOFX, All, Pennywise, Strung Out , No Use for a Name, Sick Of It All, The Bouncing Souls, Man Will Surrender, Hepcat, Ozomatli, Descendents, Lagwagon, Red Five, Mad Caddies, Tilt, El Centro Furious IV, No Knife, and the list goes on and on and on................ The best part about these warped tours is that the crowd was harmoniously infested with preps, sharpies, hard cores, hippies, rad boys, skanks and punk rockers. The mix of culture and taste is what gave warped tour its unique, pronoun-filled, deliberate blend of unplanned style. The style simply was. Nowadays, when at the warped, i generally stick with my bro's at the union stage and try to catch a worthy sound lane of the main stages when my favorite bands are on. It sure beats scraping my way through the generic sea of tight-panted cry babies that consumes the depleted numbers of FANS in the warped crowd. I am not saying that i am prejudice against the stereotypical emo style. Hell, i like playing games with my bro's to guess if its is a male or a female ass that we are drooling over glued motionless to the inside an 80 dollar pair of pants. What i am saying is that now the kids compare themselves by the intensity of there style and punk rock is being devoured by these emotional leetch-like rollercoasting basketcases we call emo's. Punk rock never was about style...it was about not giving a shit and not giving in to all the fashions presented by the manipulated world. Now all we are left with is oceans of drones who all look the same and are starved for affection. They fill there souls with the looks of other manican and strive to look better than they feel. It chaps my fucking ass. 2. Emo kids say they are punk as fuck. One time i was in montreal at a place called The Metropolis. Nofx was playing and to my surprise...they rolled into the Decline. Needless to say...i spilled a bit of becks filled diharrea into my drawers. The crowd drew silent as Fat Mike said calmly "Just sit back and shut up for next 20 minutes." The crowd entered an uncontrollable frenzy of shit-kicking and screaming. I turned to the bar to get a fresh drink for, i quote myself...."The most intense piece of punk rock production ever recorded". As i turned to the bar, a 17 or 18 year old kid smashed into my back and caused me to spill my beer all over my buddy...i turned around and to my surprise stood a cocaine-filled chunk of adrenalin with his hair pasted over his face, yet perfectly intact, wearing a white t-shirt that said in bold writing, "Save Punk Rock". I was pissed to shit that i spilled my beer and looked at him like i was going to shit in his mouth. The little fucker had the balls to say "Get out of my way ya old fuck." I was too excited that the Decline was being played live to manhandle him, so, i tuned back into getting a fresh beer and kept an eye on him just to see what he would do next. Of course, this little emo kid, sporting a "Save Punk Rock" shirt dove into the crowd fists first and started kicking and screaming solely focused on moshing as apposed to the music. Saving punk rock is about showing up to the shows for the music, not violence. In fact, the whole thing was one big controversy. I am sick and tired of self-righteous, hypocritical people-haters like that dumb fuck that spilt my beer. I hate that kid for being a hypocrite and spilling my beer, not for being an emo kid. C'mon emo's...get your shit together. 3. Emo is the next generation? That chaps my ass. That sub-title scares the bajesus right out of me. To think that a sea of people that titles themselves "Emotional" is the next generation is dis-heartening at best. So concerned with your own feelings. How bout the feelings of others? Self-righteous?

Sunday, July 08, 2007 MTV Major record labels destroy what is real about music. Production agents come in with the jingles, put a face to some words and exploit human nature at its worst to a sea of blood-thirsty drones. The drones absorb this information and live by the story they are exposed to. Little do they know that the stories being shown are always far from the whole truth. How many bands on MTV do you think lived in a van for a month, touring the nation on a self-booked tour? Rock means living the life. I can honestly say that the top five bands i have seen live were at dingy holes in the ground on self-aligned tours. 1. FLASHLIGHT-Call the Office 2. PLANET SMASHERS-Cafe Campus Bottom 3. CHRIS MURRAY-Cafe Campus Bottom 4. MUSTARD PLUG-Trasheteria 5. THE LUDES- Central Tavern I respect these great bands because they are part of hard working touring labels that strive solely to keep good music realistic and free from unwanted residue left behind from the leach-like corporate blood suckers that we call MTV.

Sunday, July 08, 2007 Punk Rock to me Trends of humans have been operationally manipulated. Lifeforms much like ourselves capitalize on uniformity of culture and political views. Progressively through time, titanical operational methods of mass marketing, have reached a new high in there manipulated class form, the stereotype of "Normal". These "Normal" people don't express themselves in any way to do good, bad or anything at all. They go with the flow/with the grain and do no good in the world with there meaningless lives. A dedicated, true punk rocker knows it is not about changing the world. It is about fighting for your own battles to get through the world you are dissolved in. To be a punk rocker you are not a victim of conformity, you will not give in to anybody. You got something to say, well bloody well say it cause if you don't you will be swallowed by the title wave named "hypocrisy" which carries the "Go with the flows" and the "With the grains" smoothly and comfortably above the oil-track ridden earth that has been un- righteously exposed, iceberg water enclosed but not oil owner nationalist owned.