//This shit is everywhere and I apologize.\\
[Before I start I must warn that I'm on coffee... Again. Squeak also won't lay off my Fritos! I said that Alice was the weirdest cat I've ever met so she has to compete for that title again. At least Squeak doesn't get on your lap while you're going to the bathroom.]
Look at the world today. We're supposed to be evolving but there's still a fucking war, kids dying every day, murder, rape, and police officers STILL shooting protesters and Anarchists when they're not hurting anybody with their actions. That's a reference to the Facebook message I got from this one group I'm in. I don't know the whole story but most of the time the people don't do anything but the police still attack. Take a look at all the animal rights protests. Not the Peta ones because they're not a great example.
Now, where would the world be without music? What if there was never a punk rock genre or those Rock Against Bush CDs? Fuck, even if there was no Britney Spears or Madonna!
I'm singling out punk rock for a reason. That reason being that it's a genre of people who aren't just sitting on their asses letting all this shit happen in the world. Punk isn't just noise believe it or not! Okay, don't count most shit that's classified as pop punk. Good Charlotte and Simple Plan were NEVER punk. GC sold out majorly. I don't say that too often. Writing a song about the rich and famous and how they bitch and moan and then going on to be those kinds of people and dating Hollywood sluts? Just no. I don't really give a shit it you worship Paris Hilton or Nicole Ritchie. What are they really famous for? Because their daddies have money. Then they go and bullshit a so-called career. Paris Hilton could never sing without modern technology there to fix it.
I'm getting off topic here. This thing is called what it is because we need a new fucking revolution. There have only been two waves per say but I like to count whatever the fuck Punk revival was as a wave. That would make us ready for number 4. We don't need this bullshit "emo" revolution which by the way most of it is just pure shit. Emo evolved from hardcore punk. Hardcore punk is what happened when people played around with punk. Your emo is not even close to being punk. Oh no no! Take a look at 80's emo for a second. It was all about color. I think. I'm not really into 80's emo but I CAN say it's nothing like today's emo. Haha, I just love 80's punk! Most "Punk Revival" bands suck anyway. Pffffft.
Do you know how punk came about? Rock 'N' Roll bored the shit out of 'em. Today's rock? Nickelback sucks, Daughtry sucks, Buckcherry sucks, and fuck! even Avenged Sevenfold is starting to fucking suck. Okay maybe not. But their newest CD pretty much sucks. Everyone's going soft. Rock music isn't fun anymore. Most of today's bands that are classified as punk aren't even punk. Panic At The Disco [No matter how adorable they are] aren't punk. Neither are Fall Out Boy. Seriously, stop saying they are. But who am I to say what's punk and what's not? [You have to admit they aren't punk.]
Let me tell you a story. A few years ago I didn't even know what punk was. I was brought up on Classic Rock, Country, Pop music and even some 80's because my Mom is like stuck there. My aunt is stuck there too. Mom graduated in 80 and my aunt in 83 so they were teenagers/young adults then. That explains everything. Hard to believe that I was one of those Backstreet Boys and NSYNC fangirls though. [I was, more specifically, a Lance Bass fangirl. Which might explain my obsession with gayboys.] I loved the 49ers [Football] and Jeff Gordon [Nascar]. I was one of the many firehouse kids who all the older members still remember as a cute little baby. [Darla was sooo the cutest! I don't care if all my relatives that were born around that time were there too.] I was raised in the country. They raised me as a hunter/fisher and that's all I thought was out there.
I did what I was told. [Sort of. Okay, when we're little we all do things that are parents think are horrible. I can't be the only one who almost killed my Mom and drew on the ceiling [with crayons and gum], right?] I wanted to be the best kid I could be, you know? Impress my parents and try to make them happy. You know what happens next? I got a life. Parents don't deserve to be happy if they're selfish assholes. Well my Mommy does. I've come to realize that she's not that horrible after all. She's just kind of a coward. I started to grow up [a little. I'm still not grown up yet. It's never happening either.] and realize that life isn't always about making people happy. Do yourself a favor and make yourself happy first. It's not selfish, it's the fucking truth. If you do what everybody wants you to do how is that being yourself? I was too blind to see that people can be stupid self absorbed fuckers. I slowly began thinking for myself. It took a while and I'm pretty sure a certain
parent hates what I've become but I seriously don't care. If it says it hates me then let that dickhead think that of me. Nothing he does will ever make me do what I don't want to again.
What does punk music have to do with any of this? It has
everything to do with this. I found this band. You might have heard of them before? They're called Green Day and they're from The East Bay Area, California. Formed originally under the name of Sweet Children in 1987. Years before I even know who they were I heard this song called Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life). [It's attached below] The song originally appeared on their 1997 album
Nimrod. In this 2 minute and 34 second long song it says so much. It has importance to me because it's like saying, "Fuck you, I'm not a little fucking kid anymore. Get a life of your own and stop trying to control me. I hope you had fun being an asshole when I was too young to understand." Okay, that's what it means now. Back then I had no idea. In 2004 I heard of this new album coming out called
American Idiot. Dude, I was a TEENAGER. What's cooler than an album like that? Teenagers are so easily amused. I got this album and I was in love from the start. I did my research and found out they had so much more music. So I downloaded some of it like a good little illegal downloader. Shut up, I went and bought the albums! I did more research using Green Day's influences. I found even more music. What was this genre?
Straight. up. punk. fucking. rock. I loved this new found music. It was so brutally honest and to the point. I did more research. I found other bands on this record label of Reprise. There I found The Used. I also found this TV channel called Fuse. I found so much music. Bands like My Chemical Romance [I'm including them for a reason] who I researched and found their influences. This led me more punk bands like The Misfits and older bands that I would have never known existed because it wasn't included in the Classic Rock that I grew up on. Like Iron Maiden! I was so deprived of them for so long. It's that whole number of the Beast thing. Religious people suck for not letting their kids listen to that. Back on the subject of PUNK. There was so much music that I wasn't exposed to even though my elders knew it existed. From then on, my life became strictly music. In 4th grade I joined band but I mean it when I say my life was music from then on. Haha, confusing. I was never in the extra special band nerd groups or anything... Through my research since finding Green Day I've found all the classics like Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Clash, The Damned, The Adicts, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Aus Rotten, Caustic Christ, Behind Enemy Lines, The Casualties, The Business, Rancid, Operation Ivy, Anti-Flag, etc. Even some newer [and I don't mean that new..] bands like Rise Against. I classify them as punk even though some people don't. Since discovering that one band I've learned about every single subgenre of punk even the ones I don't like. [Cow Punk, ick]
That's what punk has to do with my life story.
Oh shit, that's long! Back to my 4th wave. The music has gotten so shitty and boring again. Bands with no talent at all are getting famous and for what? It sells. It's all about money it seems. Bring back the DIY bands! Sure I love some mainstream because what if ALL good punk bands stayed in the underground? The world wouldn't get anywhere.
Rock music was supposed to be rough and rebellious. It got so tame that they started to play faster rock music that was straight to the point. Look at today's top rock hits. You have S.E.X. by Nickelback [I'd know because my sister is in love with them]. You have Bad Girlfriend by Theory Of A Deadman. You have Too Drunk by Buckcherry. The common theme in these hits? Sex. It sells you know. What else do we have? This whole "Shake It" thing. Metro Station and The Medic Droid have songs with this in. We all know that Metro Station have no talent and only got famous because of who Trace's daddy is. And his sister Miley? How do you think she got famous? Famous by association. That isn't fair to the bands who work for it.
Look at Panic At The Disco. Their songs are catchy and everyone wants to know what the fuck was going through Ryan Ross' mind when he wrote those songs. They never played a show before they got signed. Not saying they didn't work but they got lucky. Most bands work forever and never get somewhere.
Back to Green Day. People complain about them selling out and signing to Reprise in '93. They say they're pansys that didn't work for it. Are you aware that they were a band since '87? No? Then shut the fuck up. They worked for it. Maybe it was a little luck too since they're from California where music dreams come true. -Snort- Just because they signed to a major label doesn't make them any less punk. They released 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk! on Lookout! Records. An indie label. They played shows at indie underground clubs to get a fan base just like all these other punk bands. They just were THAT good to get offered a contract. If they would have stayed in the underground how many people these days would actually give them the time of day? I don't know them but I can honestly say they're not in it for the money. If they were they wouldn't spend their money to record these songs that all the profit goes to charity. Seriously. Shut the fuck up and open your eyes.
This shit is all over the place but my last point is that punk music is educational. Since it's so brutally honest and straight to the point and everything. It isn't bullshit. Subtract all the shitty love songs for a second. There are songs about the world. The truth. What NEEDS to be heard. Going against the masses.
You know, you can learn a lot about veganism from this music. The straight to the point part? Some of those songs are very descriptive.
You don't want to hear it but you're going to anyway. Get over yourself and stop being ignorant. Hunting? It isn't needed anymore. That meat on your plate? It was a living this that suffered a long and painful death just so you can eat it. "But I didn't kill it myself." So? You're still a murderer for supporting it. "It was going to die anyway." That's true BUT IN 20 YEARS. "If I stop eating it it's still going to die. I can't make a difference." By being a vegan you're saving over 100 animals a year. A vegetarian is a little less but still. YOU'RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. If you support the ALF you're saving more than just "farm" animals.
Again, get over yourself and open your eyes.
This has now turned into another veganism rant.
If not you, who? If not now, when? Don't make me break out the bloody videos again. I will. "If you don't look I'll force you to." [Thank you Goldfinger] If I even have to treat you like how that meat on your plate was treated I will.
I think I'm done now.
Feed The Children (Book Of Lies)- Leftover Crack.
I swear I'm not on drugs. Except caffeine but it's wearing off.
Fuck.
