Hello Jocks

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Author: losl
Posted on 08/02/2004
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Y

es! Its Friday! Thank what ever your supreme being is for creating this wonderful day! Can you tell I am pumped for the weeked? Actually for a school day this was suprisingly good day. All my classes where easy (WE DID NOTHING WEWT!!!) and next week doesn't look too bad (We get off early on thursday and no school on friday). And on an even better note my mom let me buy blade2k.net for the site. 10th hour (last our of the day at my school, we don't have block scheduling) I picked up a wonderful copy (yeah right) of my school's paper, the clipper. It was all the same old junk with poor grammar and spelling, I quickly flipped to the back page to read the opinions of the jocks who tried to be funny by writing editorals like Tristan did (Tristan being a goth-like 300 pound 5'-8" smoker who wrote articles about music). I was greeted by this wonderful little doosy written by Rex Martin, the editor of the clipper:

<b>Hello Ladies</b>
<i>The most "punk" article in this paper</i>
"I've noticed alot of kids walking around lately trying to act like the are 'down' with the whole 'punk thing' and I've got to admit they don't really see the "point" behind this whole movement.
For anyone that doesn't know what punk is, I'm with you on that one. From what I do understand about it is that whatever alot of people are doing and is popular is definatly not punk. Green Day, probably the most famous punk band ever, was shunned by 'punk purists" when they became popular.
` 'Sellout' is by far the the dumbest term anyone has ever 'invented.' Music was made by the people to hear it. Why are you suddenly 'tagged' with the term sellout because you get rich? I don't think anyone would turn down 'more money' and 'groupies.' Which raises the question: Why would you star a band and make music unless you 'wanted' to become popular and have lots of people hear your music and make money?
With more and more people 'converting' to punk everyday, I've come to the 'conclusion' that it's more now more punk to not be punk. I think?
Yes, that is right, this call goes out to the that is everyone that is truly punk. Its time to burn your MXPX and Good Charolette CD's and cut up your Hurley clothes. Abercrombie And Fitch, Vanilla Ice, and Milli Vanilli are way more 'punk' now than that stuff ever was"

Hold up there buddy! Your missing the whole point of punk rock! Its not just shunning what is popular its also a fight against the establishment. Any "punk" band that forgets that is no longer punk. Its a clean way to deviate from the normal and talk about the stuff that the rich people who get laid all the time don't know and the teen age pop stars want. Punk is the last standing form of mindful expression left in the music business.
Punk isn't about how hard the music is or how fast the guitar soloes go, its about the message the song presents to the listener. Let me tell you, Good Charolette is Definently NOT the center of the punk universe. They the right style but their lyrics no longer have any meaning because the people who made it popular don't understand what punk is. As for the "purist"'s that think that green day is a sellout obviously stopped thinking when they heard that green day had hit the high end of the charts. Those purist's just became as un-punk as it gets because they let the media fool them into thinking a great thing is a bad thing.
As a final thought, Rex's ideas of punk is are totally incorrect, just as is the notion as there is such a thing as "pop punk," which is completely abusurd to me. Punk is black and white. You are either accepted as punk or your not. There is no arguing the point. There are variatons on the style, sure but thats the kind of stuff you have to have to have a genre. What would happen if you suddenly decided to classify Styx and Rolling Stones on completely different sides of classic rock just because a focal point for Styx is an organ? It makes no sense to me. I want to view this a grey scale music world. Period.
Lastly, if you really wanted to do an article on punk Rex I would of done a little bit of research! It baffles me how people can be so damn lazy as to not punch Punk into google and find punknews.org. It has a plethora of bands that would of been way better examples of TRUE punk for the article. Thats the way I see it and if you don't like it... BITE ME! ^_^

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