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[squid_pants]

I don't know what it makes me, but I still LOVE Crass.
It let me know there are others out there that don't belong as much as me.

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I find it very challenging being senior in Aikido. I want to teach the junior I'm working with everything at once. Then they start getting the deer in headlights look.
I'm not a good teacher

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.. you want to come closer?

[noizefreak]

thank you thank you thank you for still being one of the only people i know to give a shit about Crass anymore. you don't know how much this refreshes me.

sometimes when various bullshit in life is getting me down, and i'm just about to feel overwhelmed, i get into these modes where i listen to Crass for days, and i'll be damned if it's ever failed to help me rise above.

i always stop and wonder at the overall view of punk nowadays, and even back then for that matter. it seems almost impossible for me to separate the very core values of what punk is and bands like Crass. you know, the whole SLC Punk thing. the "let's be angry and do a lot of drinking and fuck around and do nothing" kind of thing. i mean, while the movie was entertaining and whatnot, i couldn't help but feel "is that what people think it's really about?"

and then i had this horrible realization that that's really what it was. that's really what punk is to people. you know it's a really lonely feeling to feel ostracized from that kind of group

Re: .. you want to come closer?

[squid_pants]

Well, a few random snippits that elicted.
First, SLC Punk is very closely based on Catcher In The Rye, so it had to focus on what a fake the main character is. That being a given it's no co-incidence that it was set in the punk scene to give that effect.
Second, when I was young, a friend gave me an article from some teen magazine, it's title was "Good News Girls! Punk Is No Longer A Lifestyle, Now it's Just A Fasion Statement!" I shit you not, that is verbatim.
Next, alot of people joined the scene because it's a ready made community. they didn't join because it's punk, they joined because there were groups already set up where they could project their romanticized vision of what "being on the streets" is all about. Half these "wars" like the one in your example conversation didn't have any existence outside of that speakers mind.
Let me quote from Crass "Anarchy's become another word for "got 10p to spare?"

Sir, if we're on the same page as them, then we're at least in different books from them.

Still, you know that they're