(Not So) End of the Week Links
by Kelly
I’ve been neglecting to post interesting links lately, and I realized I’ve accumulated quite a bit to share with you all! So, even though it’s a day late, and technically the BEGINNING of the week, here we go:
–>Top 10 Worst & Overused Defenses Of Roman Polanski
–>Hot Topic Punks in a Fake Punk World
–>Dirty Dancing, feminist masterpiece
–>Abortion Fight Complicates Debate on Health Care
–>Why I Hate “Recessionista” Lifestyle Pieces
–>If You’re Going To Wear A Sexy Halloween Costume, At Least Be Creative About It
Related RLG post: The Next Generation of Halloween Costumes
What are you planning on being for Halloween? I’m deciding between a badass assassin or Jay from Jay and Silent Bob. Anyone want to be my Silent Bob?
–>Reader Emma brought this AMAZING video to my attention…What if Edward Cullen from Twilight was dating/stalking Buffy rather than Bella? You’ve gotta see this clever, feminist portrayal of Twilight:
What links/videos have you been enjoying lately? Have you written a new blog post you want people to check out? Leave us a comment!
- Dollface
Punk Rock is not dead. You just have to know where to look. The sound has changed some, but it’s still around and kicking. There is still great stuff coming around, especially from the folk punk scene, defiance, ohio, johnny hobo and the freight trains, andrew jackson jihad, bomb the music industry, and this bike is a pipe bomb to name a few.
I concur, but I still think the commentary on “Hot Topic punks” is funny.
I laughed for sure.
Eh…The Hot Topic article. Made sense– There really isn’t anything “punk” about buying a pair of $40, mass-produced pair of black pants.
But, the article still sounds like a bunch of high school hullabaloo to me. I can just imagine this article being composed by some of the kids I went to high school with. They wore faded Circle Jerks tshirts, converse that were falling apart, and bright green mohawks or black and white liberty spikes. They listened to punk and they wouldn’t hesitate to show they were some how more punk than you. Their main way to do this was to show they had superior taste in music as they riled off loads of 1970s punk bands. They mocked those who listened to the bands mentioned in the article (Simple Plan, Good Charlotte). Really, those kids just needed to pull their heads out of their asses…
I don’t know who considers the bands mentioned as punk bands other than popular magazines and major record labels who only do so to sell a glorified idea and an image. Okay, and maybe 13-16 year old consumers buy into this idea too. But, most of us realize this though– that it’s an image the media is trying to sell us. For the 5% who don’t…well, who the fuck cares?
And, maybe it’s just me, but doesn’t the idea of punk (at least the kind that this individual is promoting) seem kind of contradicting? This idea that in order to be legit you still have to follow this constricting set of rules that dictate the kind of music you listen to down to where you find safety pins?
…*steps off soapbox*
btw, I agree with Ian; I don’t think punk is dead. It’s just morphed with the times. Totally understandable.
As for Halloween, I think I’m going as Zoey from the Left for Dead video game. I think my boyfriend is going as Bill (also from L4D).
Halloween is going to be awesome this year. My fiance and I are going as battlestar galactica characters.
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@ Jackie — Sorry for taking so long to respond. 2 papers and 1 test all in one week…ugh!!!
Anyway, your comment killed me. You are right on — I actually remember the EXACT kids you describe being at my high school too. Ya know, my friend (who doesnt like punk music) said to me the other day, “why are all the punk guys so concerned with their clothes? its like they spend hours trying to look like they dont care” I thought that was a pretty funny observation.
Ian & Jackie — Awesome costume ideas!!
Great post. The six minute Buffy-Twilight Remix was waaaaay more entertaining than the original crappy two hour long movie. *Shudders*
Punk goes way deeper than being just a trend adhering to a certain timeline.
To say Punk is Dead, is to say that Jazz, or Pop is Dead – simply because there’s no market for the Punk from The Replacements, Jazz from Miles Davis, or Pop from Sinatra.
I think genres constantly mutate into what the market wants, what those Indie trailblazers are doing, and so on and so forth. Two albums were never the same.
And for bands like Simple Plan or Blink 182 to call themselves Punk is not at all unseemly. Listening to The Replacements would show you that Blink 182 was the logical endpoint of such “Punk”.
Girlophobia, sexual ambiguity, the themes are all the same; it’s just how it’s being put out that’s different.
However you do have those bands that sell out to become the band that always either sings crappy love ballads, songs about picking yourself up (just for kicks), and songs about nothing at all (Good Charlotte comes to mind, so does a modern Green Day and the lump of Simple Plan songs.)
Enough about the music industry that’s falling to pieces!
I just finished this article on the Stages of the “Unnamed Viral Ailment”
Got some flu-like virus on Friday. *Sighs* Feel like shit, can’t get off my computer.
Read on!
http://immigrantheretic.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/stages-of-the-insert-undiagnosed-contagious-ailment/