It's Danish!!!!
It says he got hit under the eyelid with a lollipop, that he had a fight with a child in the playground as a kid and thats why his eyes are funny and then it says that his management were concerned
//vidulant
That has got to win the prize for "neologism of the week award".
//Or move near airports
In all fairness, that is a different problem involving increased air traffic affecting people who have always lived there.
Marty is so much more gormless than Booga, at least Booga allowed himself to have some real success before he got a habit, Marty couldn't even hold out till the first record was released.
Incidentally, there is a French cultural theorist, whose name escapes me, who writes about the exchange of capital in culture. He has a great theory of Cultural Capital that works really well with music. He says there are two types of Capital, Embodied and Objectified. A musician with embodied cultural capital is one who has learned his craft. This is something that involves a large investment of time, and the rewards take time to eventualize. Objectified cultural capital on the other hand is a more immediate thing that only requires investment in items of cultural worth such as, say, A Vox Ac30, a gretch guitar, a leather jacket, a greasy haircut. These things make you a rock star in a very visual way.
I know that ultimately you need a bit of both to have full Cultural Capital, because the public are very easily swayed by the visual side of things. But Marty is one who hangs too far to the side of Objectification, rather than embodiment. Or to cut to the chase, he’s a talentless old junky dressed up as a rock star.
you been sniffin too many fumes man-Bad Brains were a reggae/hardcore hybrid. Y'sure yr not thinking of Living Colour (ha)
//yet another forum which keeps on repeating itself...
And look who started it, He should know better.
I also blame the fact that it's been 30 years since "Punk" was born. It should have been 20 years since it dissolved into the ether (to join the Teddyboys, and greasers and other outdated teen identities). Unfortunately Punks snotty attitudes appeal to kids of every generation, and kids are surely passionate about their teenage rebelion, but unfortunately they are also stupid and gullible, and now, as a result, 30 years down the track Punk means nothing anymore. Every generation has bastardised it to siut their particular problems, the boredom of 70's New York, the opressiveness of late 70's Britain, the plastic disco pap of the 80's, and now in the 21st century the kids are railing against telecom for robbing them of the right to send as much text messages as they want to the guy who's sitting right next to them.
Jet is fortunate enough to live in a country where the bums know their place and sit very quietly on the sidewalk with a sign and a box making very sure to ovoid eye contact. Not like the good for nothing drunks that exist in wellington. And I read in the Dom today that "Blanketman" has been released from jail, whoohoo????.
Were Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr or Negativeland? No, but most of the rest were.
What have the MC5 and the Beatles got to do with it. On the right track though.
strictly speaking SST bands were 'Hardcore' not 'punk'. Confusing eh?
//under 40% of us voted
This is the standard everywhere in NZ, always has been always will. But lets face it, Local Body Elections are not the most exciting thing in the world. Infact if Local Body Politicians didn't come out with such contentious statements, like Master Banks', we wouldn't know they were there at all.
(also---if the Mayor is a woman, does that make her husband the Mayoress?)
"The term "punk", which in the eighteenth century was used to refer to rotten wood or something equally worthless, at the end of the nineteenth century deignated a passive male homosexual, in particular a tramp's young companion."
from Angus McLarenThe trials of Masculinity, policing sexual boundaries 1870-1930p16.
For a more recent account...
Read "From the Velvets to the Voidoids" By Clinton Heylin, for an understanding of why Blondie is considered punk (and why the Velvet Underground aren't).
And then Read "Englands Dreaming" by Jon Savage.
And stop wasting our time.
Everything I know about sex I learnt from "Shaving Ryan's Privates." HA
Sorry, but I just cut off my pig-tails, so I don't think it'll work out.
Also I thought it was a bit cruel to leave in the bit with the half finished car, and the line about going back to school-it just adds to the tragedy of it all.
Anyone know where I can score a Misty?
The Show would have been so much better if half of it had of been devoted to Marty Squire. He got a habit, fucked up his band, went on the methadone and got fat, and then got a new band too. He also looks uncannily like a cross between the Fat Elvis and Beau Bridges, just like Bogie.
As a sidenote, why is it that ex-junkies always talk in a nasily whine, I know an ex-junkie who reckons it's from subjugating yourself to everyone for junk.
Loved your show at The Cross the other week. You are one funny guy,
"and the maori girls go....harae mai, harae mai" .
Genius.