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Brix
I do the punk rock thing pretty hardcore. I've called myself
a 'punk rocker' a few times, as if to 'explain'. But I'm so
punk rock, I don't even want to be called punk rock- cuz
then I'm enslaved by punk rock (yes I'm half joking- but only
half.)
Every ounce of my being rebels when I say I'm
anything.
Besides, as soon as I say, "I'm a punk rocker," there's
going to be that push to explain what
makes a punk
rocker. Which is a set-up, because no one knows, really.
Everybody seems to be pretty sure it has something to
do with clothes and music- but what clothes and what
music are under debate. Plus, it seems to be agreed that
you have to have a somewhat 'punk' lifestyle- but no one
is sure if that means you have to be violent
or obnoxious,
violent
and obnoxious, or just a non-conformist who could
be growing vegetables and wearing a sweater.
Plus, if it's 'cool' only young people can do it- in the minds
of most. So as long as punk rock is still cool (and it seems
to have become 'cool' again, if it ever stopped being cool, I
can't be sure)- if you are older than 28, you can't 'be' it
anymore. Coolness is off limits for 28 plus.
I saw a post on The X-Ray Spex video of "Poseur" on YouTube
and read, "This was my mums favourite song in the 1970s when
she was a punk rocker." I thought to myself: "Why isn't she
a punk rocker anymore?" Take a guess, folks. It's cuz she's
old.
Anyway...perhaps punk would be proud to be dead.
I was going to put up the X-Ray Spex "Poseur" in reference to the comment I
mentioned, but "Plastic Bag" is my favorite X-Ray Spex song, so I posted that
instead.