[kj] OT: "Punk's Not Dead" documentary

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Wow, what a lot of spelling errors.

Not = now
2nd book = punk

etc

-Oliver



B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

> I think you are right.

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> I'm not old enough to have participated in the original '77 explosion 

> of punk, but am old to at least claimed I was into it before the punk 

> cultural 9/11 that was the release of Nirvana's _Neverind_, when 

> suddenly everyone had retroactively been into punk all along and loved 

> it, really, it suddenly seemed like. Radio station formats changed 

> overnight and the same DJs that just weeks earlier had been spinning 

> New Kids on the Block and The Escape Club were not switching to 

> alt-rock, acting like they'd always been into it, hoping no one would 

> notice.

>

> Now it's more punk to write books about book or make documentaries 

> about it than it is to actually make punk rock music, it seems like. 

> There are shitloads of new documentaries every month. The implication 

> in a lot of it, by older 30-somethings and 40 something who make it, 

> is "Boy did you youngsters really miss out! Too bad..."

>

> Fuck Against Me! too.

>

> Kicked out of school in the 80s for wearing Pushead/Misfits & Septic 

> Death shirts in Tipper Gore/PMRC Amerikkka,

>

> -Oliver

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