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Non-Music Shit / Re: Ever Never Have I Ever
« on: December 09, 2020, 04:42:54 PM »you lost me buddyC'mon! I gave you a goddamned syllabus at the beginning of class!
Hannah played in DOA and put talk - action = 0 into, well, action!
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you lost me buddyC'mon! I gave you a goddamned syllabus at the beginning of class!
No questioning Gerry Hannah's sincerity, though; in Vancouver, no one took it farther than he did, "walking the talk" of punk until he ended up in prison, serving five years of a ten year sentence, imprisoned with his compatriots in the group Direct Action - better known in the mainstream media as "the Squamish Five," after their 1983 takedown on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, just south of Squamish, BC. That's where the group had been training with weapons and planning to rob a Brinks truck, to help finance their life underground, while the RCMP built a case against them.
The story is disturbing precisely because the Five - also including Hannah's then-girlfriend, Julie Belmas, who had briefly played in the Vancouver punk band No Exit - took it so far. A security guard, TerryChikowski, was nearly killed by a bomb set off by Belmas, Ann Hansen, and Brent Taylor, as an unintended result of their blowing up a building at Toronto's Litton Industries, where guidance systems for US Cruise Missiles were being manufactured.
Hannah was not charged with involvement in that particular action, but he still catches heat for it - most notoriously from Canadian political pundit, speechwriter, and former Hot Nasties member Warren Kinsella, who rather viciously smears Hannah in his 2005 book, Fury's Hour. But Kinsella is not the only person who questions the Five's methods. Even Hannah himself, in Susanne Tabata's documentary about the Vancouver punk scene, Bloodied But Unbowed, says pretty decisively that their actions were misguided, reasoning that if one group on the radical left claims the right to break the law and blow things up in response to sincere political commitments, surely equally sincere groups on the right - anti-abortion activists, say - can also claim that right? And nobody wants that…
https://alienatedinvancouver.blogspot.com/2016/05/gerry-hannah-of-punk-pornography.html
Red Hot Video is part of a multi-billion dollar pornography industry that teaches men to equate sexuality with violence. Although these tapes violate the Criminal Code of Canada and the B.C. guidelines on pornography,all awful attempts to shutdown Red Hot Video have failed because the justice system was created and is controlled by rich men to protect their profits and property. As a result, we are left no viable alternative but to change the situation ourselves through illegal means. This is an act of self-defence against hate propaganda. We will continue to defend ourselves
Wimmin's Fire Brigade, Press Release, November 22, 1982
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_Five
In one study of New York City that looked at the period spanning January 1969 to October 1970, the authors found there were “about 370 bombings — most of them minor,” which averages to more than one bombing every two days. It was a common thing. In a blog post from 2009, The New York Times looked back on the political tumult of 1969: one of the historians they spoke to, Jeremy Varon, said young people believed “they could bomb old ideologies out of existence.” Another historian the Times quoted, Beverly Gage, said adults were focused on the youth, asking, “Why are our children doing this to us?”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18020564/mail-bomb-soros-clinton-obama-biden-de-niro-democrat-conspiracy
Also, the upcoming Shane White book on Budget Rock through the Hozac books imprint has had me thinking about this ("genre?").
The "Budget Rock" FB lets people post The Fall all the time but holy shit just try to post Thee Mooney Suzuki and all hell breaks loose...Looking forward to the book but hopefully it won't try to define the "genre"...
I only recall deleting a NIRVANA post
Im not really fund of the group name myself, but it was the only thing I could come up with a the time, and yeah, the name might limited people in posting more wider a la termbo.
really looking forward to that shane white book. any idea when its supposed to be out?




quick lets revive that the fall thread
Also, the upcoming Shane White book on Budget Rock through the Hozac books imprint has had me thinking about this ("genre?").
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:
But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
(Act 3, scene 3, 165–171)”
― William Shakespeare, Othello
I was dissing me some Big Chief on FB the other day, and then realized that a former member might be privy to my comments (and many moons ago a former member briefly popped in here...)...But yeah, they were well-helped by Mark D's great graphics and general attributed "coolness"...
Not sure we can really characterize TB as a "punk" board though and really, one could ask, where are the spiritual inheritors of naughts' board darlings like Psychedelic Horseshit and Black Lips??
But then again, I hate lists...soldiers have ranks, not artistic endeavours, maaaaannnnn....
Motorbooty goofed on ICP for being whiteboy frauds, but then BC released Mack Ave Skullgame. ICP are some downtrodden dudes who actually lived in Southwest Detraha... say what you want, but ICP has more salt-of-the-earth cred than Ann Arbor's bad boy's of funky grunge.
I have never once listened to ICP nor any band that has appeared at their annual fest. Yet I consider the fest to be the last true outsider rock and roll thing.
Maybe I missed something this last decade, but have no idea why BC is part of this conversation. Saw them and saw The Necros a few years before that. Perplexed why anyone mentions BC in relation to this decade.
You say you feel close to death
It seems like nothing is left
You think the end is near
That's why we're here, have a beer
With fear can't wait till Friday night
It's time to f*** or fight
We'll get a gut full of suds
We'll go hammer some cruds
Have a beer with fear cold ones
On my mind oceans of buds
It's a crime, so much beer so little time
We get right Friday night it's time to f*** or fight
We'll get a gut full of suds and slam into some sluts have a beer with fear
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I'm a punk and I love Refused