my breakdancing skills are flawless.
i was talking to a friend of mine about politics and the new youth movement, and i almost fell off the chair when i realised that i have no concepts about popular culture. i cannot stand those slippedknots, those linkin logs parks, those april livigne, those limpe pisskits. i am old. i hate kids.
like, when i was young, it was hard being different. i liked punk rock and was ridiculed. i was fighting at school for my right to dress like it was halloween. and it wasn't just about how we looked. things were more conservative when reagan and bush(sr) were in office. if we wanted to know things, we read the papers, books, watched documentaries, learned about what was going on. it took me months to hunt down a bukowski or burroughs novel. there was one punk record store, and this was in the 4th largest city in the nation. that struggle breeded a certain attitude that drove an acceptance of fringe behavior. but that acceptance was based upon a real understanding, an understanding that i found for myself. NO ONE HANDED IT TO ME. it wasn't on tv, not on the radio, and certainly not at the mall.
i wanted to be different from the kids at school who were into madonna, motley crue, and billy ocean. it took work to be "alternative". i had to pierce my nipples with a safety pin. there was no piercing salon. the only people with tattoos in my neighborhood were thugs, bikers, sailors, or convicts. now popular culture "looks" like my old "alternative" culture, but it takes no work, and is a style choice, not a lifestyle choice.
the problem, i think, is that all these kids today are just trying to be different on the surface, they don't think different, they just wanna look different.
all style, no substance. my generation hated being told what to do, but this new generation is doing exactly what it is told, from what is cool, how to dress, and when and why to riot. it is a psuedo-intellectualism. i must be a free thinker, i have a pierced clit and a tattoo!
(sigh) anyway, it makes me tired. i have decided to start dressing like james spader or andrew macartney in almost any 80's movie. i am gonna be a prep! i heavily tattood prep, but a prep nontheless!
i was talking to a friend of mine about politics and the new youth movement, and i almost fell off the chair when i realised that i have no concepts about popular culture. i cannot stand those slippedknots, those linkin logs parks, those april livigne, those limpe pisskits. i am old. i hate kids.
like, when i was young, it was hard being different. i liked punk rock and was ridiculed. i was fighting at school for my right to dress like it was halloween. and it wasn't just about how we looked. things were more conservative when reagan and bush(sr) were in office. if we wanted to know things, we read the papers, books, watched documentaries, learned about what was going on. it took me months to hunt down a bukowski or burroughs novel. there was one punk record store, and this was in the 4th largest city in the nation. that struggle breeded a certain attitude that drove an acceptance of fringe behavior. but that acceptance was based upon a real understanding, an understanding that i found for myself. NO ONE HANDED IT TO ME. it wasn't on tv, not on the radio, and certainly not at the mall.
i wanted to be different from the kids at school who were into madonna, motley crue, and billy ocean. it took work to be "alternative". i had to pierce my nipples with a safety pin. there was no piercing salon. the only people with tattoos in my neighborhood were thugs, bikers, sailors, or convicts. now popular culture "looks" like my old "alternative" culture, but it takes no work, and is a style choice, not a lifestyle choice.
the problem, i think, is that all these kids today are just trying to be different on the surface, they don't think different, they just wanna look different.
all style, no substance. my generation hated being told what to do, but this new generation is doing exactly what it is told, from what is cool, how to dress, and when and why to riot. it is a psuedo-intellectualism. i must be a free thinker, i have a pierced clit and a tattoo!
(sigh) anyway, it makes me tired. i have decided to start dressing like james spader or andrew macartney in almost any 80's movie. i am gonna be a prep! i heavily tattood prep, but a prep nontheless!
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and who is Bukowski?
[Edited on Aug 01, 2003]