Feb
26th
Sun
26th
WEDNESDAY NIGHT!
Feb
13th
Mon
13th
Nov
6th
Sun
6th
I wrote about the rise of PUNK STUDIES in the Globe
The story’s about why punk resists scholarly analysis more than other subjects. The basic answer is: the term has been associated with a dizzying range of values/ideas/styles over the years and no one can agree on what it even is.
One thing I didn’t get to say in the piece is that this isn’t just frustrating to academics, it’s frustrating to angry 13-year-olds too. I’m convinced that every rebellious kid who became a teenager after 1980 has been bewildered to realize that not even experienced punks seem to know definitively how a punk is supposed to live/act/dress/think.
When I was 13, I wrote a hit song about this for my three-piece band, Section 69, called “Punk Mentality.” The first verse went: “What the hell does ‘DIY’ mean? / and how about a ‘zine’? / This fucking punk mentality! / All these words I’ve seen…”
It’s the only honest punk song anyone ever wrote.
Since everyone loves this game, here are some academic papers I didn’t get to mention in the story:
“No Future No Longer: Pop-Punk and the Second-Wave Legacy “
“The Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine”
“Haunted by the Spirit of ’77: Punk Studies and the Persistence of Politics”
“Is it Punk to Protest? Punk Rock’s Rhetorical Features”
“Never Mind the Scholar, Here’s the Old Punk: Identity, Community, and the Aging Music Fan”
“Living the Punk Life in Green Bay, Wisconsin: Exploring Contradiction in the Music of NOFX”
“More Than Music: Notes on ‘Staying Punk’ in the Church and in Theology”
Nov
4th
Fri
4th
my nephew Tima wrote a poem
I copied Joe’s paper,
And I got a big fat F.
I thought Joe’s a genius
But I mixed him up with Jeff.
Sep
17th
Sat
17th
“This canvas belongs to a group of pictures in which Degas painted women looking at art in museums. In reference to another work in the series, the perversely contradictory and impish Degas nonetheless remarked to British painter Walter Sickert that he wanted to ‘give the idea of that bored and respectfully crushed and impressed absence of sensation that women experience in front of paintings.’”
May
12th
Thu
12th
How come in the choreographed dance sequences in the video for “Super Bass” Nicki Minaj is one of six girls, rather than seven?
Seven would have meant there were three back-up dancers on either side of her. Six means she’s one of three to one side, instead of in the middle.
Apr
25th
Mon
25th
THIS IS HAPPENING ON FRIDAY AND IT IS THE MOST FUN YOU’LL HAVE IN MONTHS. IT ALWAYS IS.
PLUS GOT SOME BOLT BUS JOKES COOKING FOR IN BETWEEN ACTS.
Apr
13th
Wed
13th
Thanks to Aurora Andrews for this rabbit.
April 29th, don’t miss it.
Apr
11th
Mon
11th
REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER
Refresh #6, ft. Tom Socca, Keyholez, Juli Weiner, Alice Gregory and Molly Young, and Akiva Gottlieb takes place at Happy Ending on Friday, April 29th at 8pm.
A new poster by Aurora Andrews to mark the occasion coming this week!
