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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
The point is that, like Richard Hell says, rock 'n' roll is an arena in which you recreate yourself, and all this blathering about authenticity is just a bunch of crap. The Clash are authentic because their music carries such brutal conviction, not because they're Noble Savages.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman — I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
The top rockers have a mythic aura about them, the "superstar," and that's a basically unhealthy state of things, in fact it's the very virus that's fucking up rock, a subspecies of the virus I spoke of earlier that infests our culture from popstars to politics.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)
You see, dear reader, so much of what's doled out as punk merely amounts to saying I suck, you suck, the world sucks, and who gives a damn — which is, er, ah, somehow insufficient.Don't ask me why; I'm just an observer, really. But any observer could tell that, to put in in terms of Us vs. Them, saying the above is exactly what They would want you to do, because it amounts to capitulation.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)