In the long-ago, when I used to haunt Chicago’s punk clubs and dive bars, we used to call the Wednesday before Thanksgiving “amateur night” because all the suburban college kids would show up and get wasted and it was all a madhouse everywhere. Their plump fresh faces and the certainty that no matter what they did tonight they would still be embraced into the bosoms of their families tomorrow made for an energy that us city-kid regulars found both enthralling and repulsive at the same time. But we macked on their girlfriends and shook our butts like burlesque queens just the same.
I don’t know what made me think of all this. Maybe it’s my upcoming Christmas trip to Chicago or the reflective nature of my advanced age. Anyway, let’s get a little wild tonight.
Switchfoot – Amateur Lovers
Sparks – Amateur Hour
The Suburbs – Macho Drunk
That Petrol Emotion – Split!
(Drove my college roommates nuts putting this song on repeat.)
Fake Punk
going by the elections i suspect the exploited are going to be in heavier than average rotation at case di farscy for a minute
Yeah, that’s not a great outcome. I’m sorry. Hang in there.
not worried yet tbh…the nature of our gubment means in all likelyhood wilders aint going nowhere
especially as almost no one wants to work with him again…and the right alone doesnt have the numbers for a majority
what does concern me is just how many dumb angry white people we have nowadays
(which is partially to blame on the last gubment…i mean..not the dumb part….but they sure fed the angry)
so whilst i doubt our politics are going to take a hard swing to the right…this country is not going to be as safe a place for minorities as it should be for a few years…i expect shit like arson at refugee camps and what not to ramp up