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Thursday, June 05, 2003
I Don't Know What To Say Except For Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na
I was having a craptacular morning until it was brought to my attention that Dr. Frank linked to me!
Let's see if his Blogspot archive links work... mine never do. (If the above link doesn't work, just click here and scroll down till you see the post about GOPunk. Then scroll up and read more of his stuff.)
That is all.
(Thanks to Ian for pointing this out to me, since I am an unobservant clod, and thanks to Dr. Frank for upholding a high standard of quality in punk rock songwriting. Oh, and for linking to me.)
UPDATE: Will the link really work, no it really will not, and a [file-not-found!] was all I got. You try. You're lucky, aren'cha?
I just stumbled across a discussion about crappy crusty punk band Anti-Flag on a site called GOPunk (not "Go Punk," but "GOP, as in Republican, Punk." Astounding, as I thought I was the only one). A board member named SidHat had this to say about Anti-Flag's brave, well-articulated stance against police brutality:
""Fuck police, fuck police, fuck police brutality." What a profound political statement.
Apparently, the solution, as provided by Anti-flag, to the ever growing problem of police brutality in America, is simple. As a society, we should come together and just "fuck it". Problem solved."
That was just too well-said for me to do anything but post it here. I'll probably end up saying hi at some point in the GOPunk discussion board, even though it appears that not a whole lot has been posted there in recent months, and even though it's already attracted the feverish attention of everyone's favorite Communo-Anarchist Socialist Anti-State Pro-State Anti-Violence Pro-Violence Anti-Capitalist Pro-Capitalist, who shall remain nameless because he sucks bigtime.
This could turn out to be really cool. The film rights to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged have been bought, and James V. Hart, the guy who wrote such films as "Contact," is working on the script. This isn't the first time that steps have been taken in the direction of getting the novel up on the big screen, but these people seem to have their act together, and if done properly, a big-budget, well-scripted Atlas Shrugged movie could be fan-frigging-tastic.
Have you heard of this movie coming out in the fall, "Live Freaky, Die Freaky?" Apparently it's full of crazy puppets that are freaky and who are voiced by such people as BJ from Green Day, Davey Havok from AFI, and the kid from Good Charlotte who according to legend was wearing a Damned pin and a girl came up to him and pointed to his pin and said "Wow, I love Dave Vanian" or something and the kid said "Who?" because he's stupid as hell and also doesn't know anything.
This movie looks, if nothing else, interesting. Like it was inspired visually by the work of people like Edward Gorey and Tim Burton.
Odd.
In other news, I just read someplace that Davey Havok has some kind of business ties with Hot Topic. Then I wonder how serious hardcore kids (the ones whose tongues are perpetually poised in a constant state of alert readiness to unfurl with screams of "SELLOUT!" at anyone or anything that twitches in the direction of a dollar) still take AFI seriously.
