Fallout Kid (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} falloutkid) wrote,@ 2008-03-24 17:44:00 |
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Punk!!!
Sojourner and Marrow last night, folks I know from Tacoma. Great kids, good music.
Lyrics from the Marrow Demo:
"Nourished by movement, yet manifesting stillness
Though sometimes I wish to just remain still
and try to piece back together what I've moved on from
(and what's moved on from me)"
and....
"Restless for a new timeless arc
To thaw the core To nourish the root
To succor the past To give home to hurt"
That's damn near as good as anything that Greyskull had, and Marrow is just getting started. I remember well the song Rainbow Glitter Unicorn vs. Rambo Nuclear Uniform:
"Awake, alive, clear-eyed but cold, your death seeps in and I am not carved of stone."
All of these lyrics are accompanied by some amazing Tony Wolfe riffs, and few things have ever been dynamic enough to cut through the fluidity of the moment and pierce directly through time, space, and my exterior, tying it all together. It is hard to say what music can be like when it truly works. It has made such an impact on my life.
I think I am coming to terms with the fact that what I miss the most during melancholy is not a place on a map, and it is not even the way things used to be, but it is a time itself, which after all, is mostly a place in the mind. It was good to see Adam singing again, and Brian singing for the first time (for me). Punk is really great. It's hard to call it a youth culture when you start feeling old. Better still to enjoy it and just enjoy each other's presence. We don't want each other as entertainment, for we have a little bit of money, and we have American life and all those plastic solutions. We seem to need something more from each other, substance, soul, and anchor. We seek each other out as illuminating presences. I am one in favor of keeping pushing punk rock dreams, inhaling sweat and bleeding tears. Bridges burned, or lessons learned, and everything earned.
Sojourner and Marrow last night, folks I know from Tacoma. Great kids, good music.
Lyrics from the Marrow Demo:
"Nourished by movement, yet manifesting stillness
Though sometimes I wish to just remain still
and try to piece back together what I've moved on from
(and what's moved on from me)"
and....
"Restless for a new timeless arc
To thaw the core To nourish the root
To succor the past To give home to hurt"
That's damn near as good as anything that Greyskull had, and Marrow is just getting started. I remember well the song Rainbow Glitter Unicorn vs. Rambo Nuclear Uniform:
"Awake, alive, clear-eyed but cold, your death seeps in and I am not carved of stone."
All of these lyrics are accompanied by some amazing Tony Wolfe riffs, and few things have ever been dynamic enough to cut through the fluidity of the moment and pierce directly through time, space, and my exterior, tying it all together. It is hard to say what music can be like when it truly works. It has made such an impact on my life.
I think I am coming to terms with the fact that what I miss the most during melancholy is not a place on a map, and it is not even the way things used to be, but it is a time itself, which after all, is mostly a place in the mind. It was good to see Adam singing again, and Brian singing for the first time (for me). Punk is really great. It's hard to call it a youth culture when you start feeling old. Better still to enjoy it and just enjoy each other's presence. We don't want each other as entertainment, for we have a little bit of money, and we have American life and all those plastic solutions. We seem to need something more from each other, substance, soul, and anchor. We seek each other out as illuminating presences. I am one in favor of keeping pushing punk rock dreams, inhaling sweat and bleeding tears. Bridges burned, or lessons learned, and everything earned.
