Comments | elqahar: Thought for the day.

elqahar

Thought for the day.

Aug 17, 2005 01:00

"I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?...To exist is to stand out, away from the background. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you' ( Read more... )

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deathdolly August 17 2005, 17:29:13 UTC

999! OMG, brother. I effen LUV 999! Hell. I lost some hearing at one of their gigs back in '79.
Good times.

elqahar August 17 2005, 17:35:52 UTC

Was that the show at the Roxy? If so, it was my first punk rock show ever. I was 14 and it changed my life.

deathdolly August 17 2005, 17:45:21 UTC

yes! And then they played again the next night at the Santa Monica Civic with Sham 69 and Stiv Bator's band, post Dead Boys, pre- Lords (or maybe it was the Lords) F*%#, it was a big fzzy time then. But shit I can't for the life of me remember the name. My left ear still rings from those shows.
Indeed, it was a life changer. That entire time of my life was a life changer. We need to discuss it more one of these days. And then, I need to write a book.