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Some entertainers don’t pay attention to what’s going on around them. They just go, “Oh, cool, I’m playing this place.” They just do it, and they take the money. But if you pay attention, you find out that the economics are very simple. If you want more money, the fans pay for it. They just pay. And so I decided, “Okay, I’m making enough. Let’s drive the ticket prices down a bit.” I decided to do that a couple years ago, especially because the economy was shitty.
Louis C.K. So fucking punk he doesn’t even know it.
Posted on July 22, 2012 with 2 notes
Source: The A.V. Club
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Jay Reatard covering Deerhunter’s “Fluorescent Grey.”
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Myanmar punks.
(Photo by Soe Zeya Tun via Reuters)
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Punk guy in Myanmar with Aung San Suu Kyi on his jacket.
(Photo by Soe Zeya Tun via Reuters)
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I haven’t looked like a committed punk in a long time—no shaved head, no dyed hair, no spikes. I came up in punk in America where it was considered non-mainstream, but it wasn’t dangerous to look or think differently. For someone like me to hold up a photo, like this one, of Myanmar punks and tout how they rouse the punk in me seems so facetious and patronizing.
But, man, look at these punks from Myanmar. Look at them!! They are so fucking…I don’t know! Just look at them!!
(Photo by Soe Zeya Tun via Reuters)
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you see Smith spitting, cursing, and telling an early audience: “Don’t be afraid of me. I’m just a nice little girl.
The Mother Courage of Rock by Luc Sante | The New York Review of Books
An overview of Patti Smith’s career as poet, musician and irresistible animal of a woman.
Posted on January 24, 2012 with 3 notes
Source: nybooks.com
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“We’re the Stains and we don’t put out.” Back then, they didn’t make red eyeliner. They still don’t. I guess I gotta grease up my eyelids with lip pencil once again.
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BEING HARDCORE CAN BE A VIRTUE in the culinary world. “[Punk] kept me from being intimidated by people who were trying to close doors, in terms of who could be a cheese expert,” says Gordon Edgar, who sometimes goes by his “cheese name,” Gordon Zola. “That just rolled off my back.” It also provided another apt skill for a self-taught cheesemonger, who prides himself on having “a low tolerance for bullshit, which is a prized trait in the punk scene.
How come I didn’t know the drummer from Born Against was a pastry chef at Del Posto? Even though I never went into the food biz, I absolutely feel this piece about going from punk to food.
At a certain point as a punk, you get tired of “the scene” posturing and standing around forever for the headliner. Food is easier. Being on my feet in the kitchen for hours chopping and cooking doesn’t seem as bad as standing, waiting for shitty opening bands to finish their sets. Instead of cigarette smoke, scent of hardwood charcoal and smoked meat wafts from your locks. At some point, expressing my beliefs with blue hair and painted leather jackets got replaced by shopping at farmers markets and making as many food items from scratch as possible. It’s all in the same spirit, just better hours and aromas.
But the best is having both punk and food. My favorite thing ever is a lazy Sunday morning, playing records (yes, vinyl) and making a fat-ass brunch.
Source: saveur.com
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“So how can I undo the tangle of these webs I keep weaving. I don’t know if I should be believing, deceptive perceiving. But if you don’t mind, I don’t mind.”
Do you mind? I don’t mind. I’m not sure if I’m made of Buzzcocks songs, or if they pulled out my insides and made it into their songs. Either way, when I die, I want to be reincarnated into a Buzzcocks record to be worn out on someone’s turntable.
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The first thing we noticed about Keith’s results was that there’s a ton of uranium in his hair. The report said that this isn’t the type of uranium that turns people into superheroes or kills them, but we’re still a little worried for him because it’s fucking uranium.
WE ANALYZED KEITH MORRIS’S DREADLOCK - It Contained Uranium and Arsenic - Vice Magazine
Vice sent Keith Morris’s hair to a lab and had it analyzed. Apparently, he’s full of uranium? Being Japanese, this makes me feel closer to him.
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