social distortion is playing in my crappy little town tonight, and i got tickets. i’m so excited i feel like i’m gonna pee myself. walking around work today, i asked a bunch of people if they are going, told them i was going, and the universal response was “who? what’s that?”
i cannot fucking believe none of these people have heard of social distortion. when tickets went on sale, they sold out in about three hours. they have been around for like, 25 years. mike ness is older than i am.
i brought up the show to people who are in their 20s and 30s, they never heard of them. how is it that people who are my age and younger have such a different cultural knowledge than i do? we all grew up at the same time, yet it seems i grew up on a different planet than everyone else. the things i know about and like, things that were part of my childhood and teen years, things that shaped who i am, appear to have only happened to me. i’m the only one who knows about things that were on the radio and television and things that happened when i was growing up. this cannot be true, it’s fucking absurd. and so i wonder where all these people were when they were growing up, what they did.
well fuck em. they can look at me like i’m wearing an impaled puppy for a hat, i’m not the strange one. and even if i am the strange one, at least i’m gonna go see social fucking distortion. rock on.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
social distortion in a cultural void
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