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always know why: Reagan Youth and You...not quite so perfect
together.
FLCL
4EVER
"sprinkle THAT on your cornflakes, Slappy." anonymous (haru?)
anyway, envious people are just that way and they'll say ANYTHING.
you
can tell cause it is not loving or even tough loving which is like
loving but hurst sometimes...
REAGAN YOUTH were a punkrock band in the crucial ('crucial youth")
eighties, before poseurs predominated somuch that
heavy metal laughed
and punk just choked and ied and the zombie went on in the place (you
cantell from th' smell...punk is dead)
but what HAPPENED to Reagan Youth?
from the Online Hitchikers Guide to the galaxy (actually true
resource..)
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A1906652)
Many punks and hardcore types will know Reagan Youth as one
the best
bands to come out of New
York during the early 1980s.
As well as playing some blinding live
shows, the band were renowned both
for their amazingly angry songs such as ‘Disorder’,
‘New Aryans’ and ‘I
hate hate’ or for the ingenuity of
their later stuff, like ‘Miss Teen America’ or ‘Jesus was a Communist’.
The tragic story of the
suicide of the band’s singer, Dave Insurgent, after the murder of his
girlfriend, Tiffany Bresciani, is
much
less well known, however.
Born five years before Dave Insurgent to unmarried teenage
parents,
Joel Rifkin was adopted at just
three weeks old in 1959.
Despite being intelligent (he had an IQ of
128) Rifkin did badly at school and
was bullied, with people calling him ‘the Turtle’
due to his slouched
posture and slow footsteps. After graduating in 1977, Rifkin held a
series of short-lived jobs, and spent the
majority of his time living
at home with his parents.
Meanwhile, Insurgent and Reagan Youth
were releasing some great records and were very much active socialists,
playing
some shows with the
Dead Kennedys on the ‘Rock against Rascism’ tour. Unfortunately for the
band, Insurgent discovered
drugs and the clarity of his radical ideas was rapidly and sadly
replaced by his heroin addiction.
Eventually, years of touring
with no profit also began to take their
toll, and a tired out Reagan Youth
quite fittingly officially disbanded when Ronald Reagan
left the White
House.
Unfortunately for Rifkin, his meandering existence was
shattered in
1987 when his father, the
terminally-ill Ben Rifkin, ended his life.
After the death of his
father, Rifkin’s life took a turn away from
the comfortable home-life that he was used to, and he began to visit
prostitutes. Rifkin also became
obsessed with serial killers, especially those who killed prostitutes,
and started to collect books and
newspaper clippings concerning famous mass-murderers. At some point,
Rifkin’s obsession crossed
over from being merely a
detached fascination and became much more
serious, leading to him
committing his first murder (of a prostitute) in
1989.
anyway,
sadly Satanism dug into punk because it was exuberant and positive
despite safety pins and Sneering, enviously like a vampire
satanism
creept in along the cracks of broken heartedness and frustration with
fixed systems
envious people are just that
way and they;l say ANYTHING. you can tell cause it is not loving
or
even tough loving which is like loving but hurts sometimes...FLCL is
about music and the
pillows' songs are sort 'l' homage punque' -- they
allude to punk but the point is -- punk
as a genre is a s dead a sbebop
or flapperdom (zoot suit riots, daddy) at best todays relics
of what
was shocking and for gods sake NEW twenty years ago are like Civil war
reenactors or
the people at the rennaice faire, and not even THAT
cool
as the people at those gigs KNOW
they are reanacting something...
todays post punk faded
substitutes, like oh, so corny avril lavigne and
gots the look but none
of teh social consciousness good charlaitains,
Good Charlotte are TRYING..and they fool people
who didn't live
through the realpunk years...but they are strictly 'Bush League'...the
suicide
of kurt Cobain unargyuably signaled the death of punk rock.
it's okay...jazz is dead, too.
cyberpunk is NOT dead.
cyberpunk is
yet unborn. in modern japanese - originated drawn motion
picture art (anime) there
are ideas and there are ideas, but one that keeps popping up is
the
idea taken from american classics like total recall and blade runner --
by the time
you get to The Matrix the genre has gone to Japan from
America and come back. cyberpunk
can't be dead because it is unborn as
of 2006 and the people credited with coining the notion
(william gibson
and
briuce sterling but there are others wisely added touches that alluded
to
the notion of cyberpunk dying, sighing sadly and going on
with
existance at the heroic impossible
magic level
-- the dixie flatline
is
a cyberpunk character -- a truly southern-fried, quintessentially
and
even
somewhat sterotypically -- if gently so -- black hacker who dies but is
stored digitally and goes on advising console cowboys and netrunners
well into the fanciful, idealized cyberpunk age.
(it's cold and ugly
and cruel and maybe more techy than now. it could be coming --
or we
could be infor worse.) if people create a
real cyberpunk scene internationally -- as it looks like they wish to
from the images we get from things like Mezzo and FLCL and Cowboy
Bebop--
they will probably borrow inspiration from the novels (you could
probably pick it up without breaking the bank.)
.....................................
paranoids, however, will only self marginalize into a failed way of
seeing -- a self destruct where the intuitive, intellectual and heart
centered will naturallywatcgh with interest and sadness as paranoids
self-destruct. they will scream BULLSHIT right into the
leming vat...we have seenit over and over. punk remains
marginalised as a tool for social agitation -- and underrecogniozed
except by Rational Anarchists like Heinlein and RAW as a tool for
healing of societal miasmas. sadly the fools scream 'we need a
leader'...only leaders are causing the problem. if the saying is
true and punk means thinking for yourself -- cyberpunk will mean never
letting machines think for you.
<Prisoner627> but it's
convenient ;) can get more reading done and maybe find a job lol
<Longshot> i am giving
up...on my goal of establishing hip weed culture in philly. so
desperate and paranoid.
<Prisoner627> lol there's no
hip weed culture here either
<Prisoner627> in fact, it's
moved on from a-social weed culture to a-social cocaine culture,
great... thinking about moving
<Longshot> weirdly...i have
found that i can get a great buzz from the black resin of my TOBACCO
pipe
<Prisoner627> I haven't been
out in the city for, hmmm, 8 months
<Longshot> really...where
are you talking bout? i am in philly...pondering a move to cambridge
<Prisoner627> sometimes
tobacco gives me that buzz too, but meh you know
<Prisoner627> ostend,
belgium
<Longshot> it is way hard to
live like a shaman.
<Prisoner627> thinking about
moving to anywhere in the world but western society :p
<Prisoner627>
I just recently started with entheogens and shaman, was into philosophy
& alt. history at first and then discovered this whole new world a
few months ago
<Longshot>
but ya know? if a smooth cool underculture - not even counter culture
but underculture -- is established in two years republican christian
doctors will be sining the praises of legal coca and marijuana
<Longshot> huh
<Prisoner627> I'm not one to
establish it, I need to practice more zen before I can deal with the
droids without losing my mind
<Prisoner627> you were
talking about jung btw?
<Longshot> you mean asia. i
wonder if hokkaido...okinawa...japan...if you can
inculcate...amazingly, so hip.
<Longshot> inscrutability is
the shield of true fun
<Prisoner627> I'd love
japan, maybe india, maybe thailand, all have incredible downsides too
though
<Longshot> yeah i am a self
proclaimed jungian astrologer
<Prisoner627> awesome, I
looked for Jung in the library but nothing that really sparked my
interest, so I took some crowley
<Longshot> i heard it in my
head..on pbs there was a special about jackson pollack and the term
'self proclaimed' kept coming
<Prisoner627> I just looked
him up, cool work
<Longshot>
you know sting is tantrik attained...very old soul. advanced, self
realised. his gift is quicksilver with a virgo balance -- practicality
<Prisoner627> yeah I heard
that about him
<Longshot> jung understood
that archetype...very important...was key to gnosis
<Prisoner627> well, the
tantra ;)
<Longshot> when you really
understand your chart, Thou Art God...venus, mercury, jupiter and mars
walk with you
<Prisoner627> I have to say
I know next to nothing about Jung man, but I'm very interested. I just
read the terrible wiki articles
<Longshot>
to learn about jung, learn to skim and cull...the body of work is HUGE.
and know that most of modern psycho analysis is Freudian. Jung was
almost a nazi == but then he saw what was going on and separated
himself from that. he was a analytical intuitive
8.20.05(s
It had been a normal night.
But
she woke upand her world was forever...different...made slightly weird.
She thought she had been an actress...but as the bonds were applied the
words came out.
"Impressionist...dupe...cheap ripoff." She was being
Tied Up by someone who wasn't supposd to exist and even she was sort
of agreeing with the bitter, bitter words hissed between clenched and
perfect teeth.
"Are you going to kill me?"The SubGenius WARS
"No," said Aeon, to the
actress.
"you're barely important. Why would I kill you..there are evil
people..and good people with lucrative price tags. You're...don't they
have a factory somewhere..."
Charlise was SCARED because
something weird had happened to her...
did i drop the roger rabbit acid at that party?
"Look, I have kidnapped you
because...you're all wrong. But i won't kill you. I want to send
a message to your --"
Aeon sneered and her eyebrow raised and Charlise
thought --
she's so beautiful just the way she is.
"-your handlers or
whatever owns and operates you."
"No one owns me," Theron
gritted,
huffily.
"Oh, everyone OWNS you,
you're a
nigger, a glorfied cotton picking monkey. And I use such talk to
drive the message you will deliver for me."
oh, all
right...this is too
fuck-ing weird.
But she was scared and
really had
to PEE and all tied up. she decided intelligently to be calm about
things...it was hard to be cool with the bladder emergency escalating
like the state of emergency in America.
"what's the message....i
basically
understand you."
"Good girl," said Aeon Flux,
and
she perched on the chair behind her, her limbs impossibly long, thin
and beautiful, she was almost like a spider, or a mobile of a girl made
of flesh and bones and coated in black leather.
"the message is this:
life
is serious but art is fun."
"what?"
"Life Is Serious But Art Is
Fun."
"Okay...what else do I have
to do?"
then they had SEX --
this is NOT AEON FLUX! the
NERVE! this
is Charlize Theron at fLUXcON '05. THE ARROGANCE, THE GREED OF
The FILMIC INDUSTRY. they really believe that anime is anon issue
and thatthey can -- without eventrying just try and take a true genre
with atradition and make a "moo-vee" out of it? it's an insult to
all the work Peter Chung did before. You like Charlize Theron?
SHE; looks great. she looks stunning. drop dead.gorgeous. but
AEON FLUX IS IMPOSSIBLE. hermoves her legs areway too skinny. her
shoulderblades stick out atr angle sthat could take outan EYE. and
herlogo -- an eye closing like a Venus' Fly Trap on an actual fly -- is
the whole idea that you can do with anime what people -- flsh people --
can...not...do! "don't judge us!' they will whine like hypocrites.
I got an Idea. Go remake
roger
rabbit. but for thebaby - get an ACTUAL BABY WHO CAN TALK AND SMOKE
CIGARS. the stupidty, the arrogance of greed!this isn't peter chung's
fault --he's gotta pay BILLS. But I know there is someone
greedy somewhere who begged to make this movie she doesn't even LOOK
like
aeon flux. ya know how i know? she looks like my ex girlfrind.
before a shower, or maybe after a shower with too much
conditioner. if -- God! if YOU TOOK THIS --
I AM HATED BY PEOPLE WHO
DON'T CARE
ABOUT PURE ART. i am immune
their slanderous lies against me are
like bullets off of superman or farts at oscar teh grouch. tell yoru
lies to the four winds! -- if you showed the pictruresof charlize
theron to any fan of aeon flux who did not know a movie was in the
works and ask them who it was they would STARE BLANKLY. at worst
the sharpest might say "please don't tell me they are crucifying Aeon.
They should BURN whoever came up with the idea. No way. if you are
gonna tell me that is supposed to be aeon flux just shut up."
they don't care about fans
or
the genre.
they just want money.
1984 - for the love of big
brother. chilling. what an adaptation.
someone cared about Orwell's
message.and deeply ORWELL HAD NO IMAGES.he tels a NARRATIVE.
do i sound bitter? no?
wait.
let me up it a notch. THEY ARE VAMPIRES SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF
REAL WORK, REAL VISION, GREEDY EGG SUCKING VIPERS WHO ONLY CARE FOR
MONEY AND WHO USE THE WORK of REAL CREATIVE GENIUSES TO SUFFER. there
is no
real venue for me to vent my fury except one.
except one.
well, maybe more than
one.
come ON. Aeon Flux is animpossibly bveautiful yet distorted ly bzzare
death goddess.
(wait i got a new complaint!
Peterchung is KOREAN, not japanese. does that not mean that Aeon
Flux isNOT ANIME? )
YOU'RE NOT AEON
FLUX! YOU'RE ALLY
MCBEAL!
eXHUME DELEUZE and save the endagered
species -- the Artist who seeks inspiration first!
people like...chalize theron, perhaps
who deserves better parts where perhaps
her considerable talents as an actor are
on display and notsimply her good looks...BASTARDS!
Claudia Black Wins --
FATALITY
_-unknown lunatic
fan, fifteen,
random, pa
NO!
it's a choice not to settle
for
sloppy, unorginal greed. (chung created an entire LOOK! Look at
that GUN! what is up with er KNEES? i say -0- sandra
bernhard. or claudia black from farscape.
AEON FLUX IS SUCH A GREAT TRAPPER
that she can catch a fly with her eyelashes and STARE AT
IT .
they won't be doing that witha film.
not becaue it's impossible - they LACK THE VISION.
people with thevision
LOATHE THEIR INDUSTRY.ultimately there is some guy who is getting
richoff this movie...the sort of guy that the real aeon flux is
SWORN to kill.
why? for martha...and serena...and alison and jenny
and FUCKING
KENNEDY fer chrissake and all those cool veejays that they
outlawed
"all YOU taste is the Shit!"
who needs a movie?
greedy
dude somewhere who invests in things he could never draw or
visualize. nameless. not ME.
i bet she COULD POTENTIALLY suck
the chrome off a trailer hitch.
(not that THAT has anything to do with anything.)
they'll wish they had thought harder...
some people are already eroding their future cut
hey congratulate me i am a soon to be major hollywood star.
the assasin tour never
actually ends
http://margaretcho.com/
[Chorus:]
I've got the moves baby, you got the motion
If we got together we'd be causing a commotion
I've got the moves baby, you got the motion
If we got together we'd be causing a commotion
You met your match when you met me
I know that you will disagree it's crazy
But opposites attract you'll see
And I won't let you get away so easy
The love you save may be your own
Can't fight this feeling, aren't you tired of being alone
You won't admit it but you know it's true
It's not a secret how I feel when I stand next to you
[chorus]
Someday you'll see my point of view
You can't keep wishing on the stars baby
What works for me can work for you
You've got to make a compromise and maybe
Then we can keep our love alive
And when it falls we won't let it die
It doesn't matter if you win or lose
It's how you play the game so get into the groove
( what?)