blog.craiga.id.au — posts about Punk Rock

Wednesday,
26th August 2009

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I’m Through With White Girls by The Dirtbombs.

I saw these guys play at Golden Plains at the start of last year. I was un­im­pres­sed at the time, but listening back to this I think my reaction may have had more to do with the fact that I was dirty, tired, hung-over, stoned, sick of crowds, sick of hippies, sick of enviro-toilets and sick of camping than the actual band them­selves.

Suffice it to say it would be one hell of a line-up that gets me to Meredith again.

Monday,
8th June 2009

A wise soul once told me that Rock ‘n’ Roll was once about rebellion. I saw a documentary once that claimed the same thing about Punk music (by which I mean actual punk music). When I was an angsty teen, Grunge was the rebellious movement de jour, and it seemed that to call someone a “sell-out” was the biggest insult that could be levelled at anyone. So when I see shit like this photo, I think “fuck you, Ramones.” I know every second music fan in the world thinks they’re one of the best things ever, but fuck ‘em — they put out records for about ten years too long, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School was a diabolically shit movie, and the overwhelming majority of their songs sucked.

A wise soul once told me that Rock ‘n’ Roll was once about rebellion. I saw a documentary once that claimed the same thing about Punk music (by which I mean actual punk music). When I was an angsty teen, Grunge was the rebellious movement de jour, and it seemed that to call someone a “sell-out” was the biggest insult that could be levelled at anyone.

So when I see shit like this photo, I think “fuck you, Ramones.”

I know every second music fan in the world thinks they’re one of the best things ever, but fuck ‘em — they put out records for about ten years too long, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School was a diabolically shit movie, and the overwhelming majority of their songs sucked.

Wednesday,
18th February 2009

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I Punch You by The Sailors.

Friday,
31st October 2008

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Manchasm by Future of the Left, playing Friday January 9th at The Corner. Do it.

Who’s Mark Foley?

U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, a get-tough advocate for anti-child predator laws, resigned from Congress on Friday as more computer messages emerged that showed he exchanged sexually explicit notes with a teenage boy who used to work on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Mark Foley quits in disgrace (Herald Tribune)

Update: Apparently I’m quite wrong about this. Mark Foley is just some guy who runs a studio in Cardiff.

About Craig Anderson

By day, he works for ABC TV as a web dev­el­oper. By night, he plays bass gui­tar in Look Who's Tox­ic. He also runs a little Unix Time­stamp con­ver­sion site. There are plen­ty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.