Aug 05, 2005 02:33
i just got hooome. i should be in bed already but i need to stay up a few minutes and do useless things so here i am.
i almost watched 'march of the penguins' {by myself} today, but no. ): damn it.
however, i did go to the bookstore and purchase sex, drugs and cocoa puffs. i skimmed through it quite a bit and i liked it, but i think this is what really drove me to spend $13 for this book:
"i hate punk rock.
actually, that's not true; i kind of like punk rock, sometimes. what i hate are people who love punk rock. there has never been a genre of anything that has made more people confused about what art is capable of doing, and they all refuse to shut up about it.
a few years ago, one of my favorite humans of all time died from bone cancer. a few hours after the funeral, i found myself in a conversation with someone who was as depressed as i was and almost as drunk. but --in order to avoid talking about our friend, probably-- we started talking about pop music, and this guy kept saying, "punk rock saved my life." he said it like four times in ten minutes. "when i was in high school," he insisted, "punk totally saved my life. if not for that music, i wouldn't be here today. punk rock saved my life, man."
i have heard those exact words said thousands of times by hundreds of people, and none of them are ever joking. they exist in a culture of certainty. they want to believe what they are saying so much. they want to believe that this sentiment is literally true. and all i could do while i listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, wow. why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? i guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty black flag records."
hahah i love it, i love it, i love it!
i won't deny that this is not extremely unlike my lj friends list sometimes, but it's so good. best $13 i've ever spent on a book. well, one of the best $13 i've spent on a book. my copy of the grapes of wrath cost that much.