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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA
Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Alternative Tentacles : 1980
Reissued: Manifesto Records : 2005
[Buy It]
I KNOW IT'S TRUE BUT I'M SORRY TO SAY
Violent Femmes
Hallowed Ground
Slash : 1984
[Buy It]
DISNEY'S DREAM DEBASED
The Fall
The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall
Beggars Banquet : 1984
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TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG
The Specials
The Specials
Capitol : 1979
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THE BABY SCREAMS
The Cure
The Head on the Door
Elektra : 1985
[Buy It]
Nostalgia is a regressive emotion, it's true. It's not the team I usually play for. But on a Saturday afternoon of a certain laziness, driving with your friend in her gas-guzzling SUV, cruising through the suburbs on your way to the mall so you can dress for success at less-than-department-store-prices - in that moment, allowances must be made. Because I wasn't going to be this way. I wasn't going to have this life. I was cool, dammit, cool smoothed out on the intellectual tip with a punk rock feel to it. I played bass. I read Marx. I had scary hairy armpits and a severe expression.
It was the 80s and rebellion meant something. Which is why, in 1985, when I was going on 15 and had finally figured out the vital importance of being cool, I took $50 of my hard-earned violin teaching money and bought 5 cassettes by bands I'd never heard. Oh, I'd done my research. I'd watched all the hot girls with weird eye makeup for clues. What was doodled on their notebooks? What stickers were posted in their lockers? I packed up the embarrassing residue of the past: Diana Ross, Teena Marie, The Commodores. I took the bus to the Mazza Gallerie and selected the emblematic goods of the new me.
So there we are, my friend and I, blasting DK as loud as we can stand it, shouting along with "Holiday in Cambodia" as we venture west to discount shopping. Youth. Enjoy it while you can. The clock's ticking on your juvenile ass.
- by Megan MatthewsLabels: megan, memoir
posted by Alex
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