Random Observances on Popular Culture
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By:
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Squad 69
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Mood:
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Stoned
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Date:
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01/01/2008 14:12:00
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Music:
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Ramones
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- Is Brokeback Mountain just Toy Story with two Woodies?
- Why don’t you come all over Valerie?
- Is anyone other than Brandon Flowers really surprised that the Devil’s water is not sweet?
- If you wish you were a punk rocker with flowers in your hair, then consider this:
Flower power was a reaction to a restrictive culture. It consolidated the efforts of my grandparents’ generation against a Nazi ideology that told you how to behave even if your behaviour had no detrimental effect on others (see Jack Straw’s attitude to veils and hoodies for a good example of this kind of thinking). Punk rock was just a reaction to the stranglehold the record companies had over creativity and didn’t really change anything, although it warned of the dissatisfaction that was going to bite them on the ass with the mp3 revolution of the late Nineties. The notion that the two had any objectives in common arose at the end of the Eighties with greebo (ask yer dad) and is largely a trick of history. Punks hated hippies.
Looking back with longing is generally a mistake. I was a teenager in the Eighties and honestly believed there would never again be truly great bands like the Pistols, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, the Small Faces and everything else I’d missed. I was gutted that my stupid parents hadn’t got it on ten years earlier. Then The Pixies and Nirvana happened. Thank you Jesus.
Watch the skies - it can’t help but happen again.
Jason Wray Stevensson, 2007
Jason@squad69.co.uk
www.squad69.co.uk
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