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i just watched "pump up the volume" for the first time since high school. it'd be a lie to say it made me feel the same way, because i don't remember it making me feel anything the first time. but it probably did. feel the same, i mean. the movie brings out some sort of feeling that i can only compare to billy mumphrey's unbridled enthusiasm. it's one of those movies that makes you wish you were there or doing it, you know, like how everybody feels when they watch decline of western civ. shit, i wish i was watching that right now. but it's like whenever i think i've moved past feeling emotion about how everybody gets butt-served by the system, just accept it as a fact, you know, and only think about it rationally, and put quotes around system and fact, something pulls me back in. i mean out of thinking i'm disapproving strongly enough by doing a cost-benefit analysis or looking at the alignment of incentives and seeing that my side, people i know's side, the radical side (jesus, it was hard not to put quotes around that) comes out on top, that we're right. (not about free trade, though.) stupid fucking pump up the volume, making me sound all emotional and impassioned and shit. just when i thought i'd moved past that, too.
in other news, a few years ago when i bought the mc5 cd i'm listening to right now, i knew the sound wasn't that great. but everytime i listen to it, i realize again how truly horrible it is - the worst i've ever heard on cd. it's bad enough to have really limited those listens, which is a shame because i also always realize that apart from that, it's a fucking great record.
in other news, a few years ago when i bought the mc5 cd i'm listening to right now, i knew the sound wasn't that great. but everytime i listen to it, i realize again how truly horrible it is - the worst i've ever heard on cd. it's bad enough to have really limited those listens, which is a shame because i also always realize that apart from that, it's a fucking great record.