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You know you’re kinda weird when…
9:20AM ON
03/28/2008
BY
Dave Segal
You leave a College Democrats fundraiser, and find yourself YouTubing Rancid and Op-Ivy songs at 1 AM. And are kind of a yuppie, but also have enough punk-ish sensibilities to realize that Rancid’s not a punk band as such. (They played SNL, after all.)
But also randomly recognize that the opening of the song Warsaw — off their ska album, Life Won’t Wait — consists of words spoken by Dutch politician Frits Bolkestein on the concept of direct democracy, during his 1988 debate with Noam Chomsky about the ‘Manufacture of Consent‘:
“That is the vision of the anarchist. It is also a boy’s dream.”
…And then you go back to flipping between Tucker Carlson and Deep Space Nine.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47nmBSNjkNs]
March 28th, 2008 at 10:22AM
lisa Says:
I could care less about Rancid but just because a band plays SNL doesn’t mean they aren’t “punk”. Unless of course you don’t consider FEAR a punk band…
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