Punk Rock Academy Fight Song – We were all just money making
February 13, 2011
Lately I’ve been struck by a crisis of faith. It usually happens around 745 am when I make it in to work. I hustle up to the walk way to the glass doors of my school and I catch my reflection-who is that guy in the shirt and tie (well at least Monday through Thursday it’s a shirt and tie, Fridays I can wear a hoodie with the school logo or a flannel) and what’s he doing here. I have an office, a desk and I’m some what of an authority figure. These are three things i never really foresaw back and the day and they lead me to my gnawing question. Did I, Have I Could I have …sold out. Read more
Punk Rock Academy Fight Song – Know The Enemy
December 22, 2010
Christmas time always makes me think of Communists. No this has nothing to do with Santa Claus wearing a red suit and the oppressed working class elves stuck in the gulag that his Saint Nick’s North Pole work shop. I actually kind of enjoy going Christmas shopping and watching "Its a Wonderful Life" 27 times -I'm not gonna rail about the commercialization of the day especially not after consuming a certain coffee chains egg nog latte. I was born in 1975 which means I grew up in the 80’s Read more
Punk Rock Academy Fight Song – Mohawk Town
October 19, 2010
When you’re 19 and 20 and you’re too young to get into any decent bars and there's no parties going on you’ll find all sorts of ways to entertain yourself and waste a perfectly good Friday night. One of the best ways me and my friends had was to buy enough cheap beer to stop a rhino and play drinking games at Mikeys House-yup its a landmark, ask anyone that went to our high school. At the top of our list was a brilliant intellectual endeavor we called categories -someone named a category like baseball teams and you’d go around the table Read more
Punk Rock Academy Fight Song – Gimme Gimme Gimme
September 24, 2010
I blame cheat codes. I blame the internet and all of its damn convenience. Everything is just too fast and easily attainable. Everyone is too caught up in the pursuit of instant gratification. I want it and I want it yesterday seems to be the mantra of choice lately. Now the irony of this rant taking place on the pages of an online magazine is not lost on me one bit. However even though this might seem like another one of those run of the mill pissed off old guy rants its really a reflection on one of the coolest experiences ever-the opening of a new album. Read more
Punk Rock Academy Fight Song – Dinosaurs Must Die
August 27, 2010
So it finally happened this summer, actually it happened a couple of times much to my shock and dismay. As I was driving home from work I decided to take a break from my alternating CD rotation of the Queers and the Hold Steady and flipped over to the radio and that’s when it happened- I heard the Ramones and The Clash on the radio. What’s the big deal with this? The Ramones and the Clash have been on the radio for ever they’re not exactly an underground phenomena anymore. Read more
Punk Rock Academy Fight Song – They have come for your uncool niece
July 25, 2010
Arrgh, This one hurts. There goes my street cred. Call the scene police. Forgive me Jello for I have Sinned. As much as this column is a portal into the things that made me a punk it is also as you may have picked up on by now a confessional of some decidedly un-Punk moments but those are really the important ones aren’t they? So what is my big transgression this time? I sang out loud to a Journey song-in a bar. And damn it I will do it again. And so would a lot of you out there and guess what there’s nothing wrong Read more
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