Ugh… I NEED A HOOK to start off this dissertation!
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NOT PUNK ENOUGH!
Actually I’m thinking about something related to Johnny Lydon’s letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of fame? Though I think I mention that later on in the diss? But could work.
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Pity hook always puts on a good show.
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Lydon calls the R-n-R HOF a piss stain…
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Lydon’s always struck me as a bit of a wanker, but he ain’t wrong there. That whole Hall of Fame rubbish is about as anti-Rock-n-Roll as it gets.
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I don’t know… I’ve never felt that way about him, actually. I think if he’s a wanker, he gets it from his life experiences. He’s sort of a working class, weird kid, who stumbled into a music career. I personally find him endearing, but I can see how some would find him off-putting.
Agreed about the R-n-R HOF. Very much about self-congratulatory record industry wanking… But rock in the 1960s became the industry standard of popular music.
The letter he wrote, in case you’ve never seen it:
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Umm. Not quite a character judgement, more about some of the stuff he comes out with.
It’s like there’s a role he’s playing, a character he’s slipping in to, sort of thing but the kayfabe line is really blurred in places. Away from that, I’d quite like to go for a beer with him. But listening to him making pronouncements on a grand stage… nah.
So OK, maybe I’m being worked here. And for all their place in music history, they weren’t ever my fave punk band, so maybe some bias too.
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Fair enough… I guess I didn’t read it that way?
I think what makes him important was more about what happened at the end of their American tour, when the band fell apart? I think the whole situation really revealed the exploitative nature of the industry for lots of younger punks.
I can see that. But yeah, he’d be fun to hang with.
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Probably me, TBH. The Aussie use of wanker seems less, I dunno, damning? harsh? more about pretence than the Brit use. And I’m not always so good at using the right words.
I’m no music historian and it was a long time back for me. But yeah, I can really see that. Not something I’d thought all that much about. Cool.
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I’m use to wanker in the British sense, I think. I suppose I didn’t realize the Aussie sense was kind of different? Good to know!
I don’t think it was the only thing, but the show in San Fran was a big deal for West Coast punks and the “ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated” was something they seemed to have talked about in terms of how the industry was sort of ignoring punk out in Cali. I’m sure there are others who disagree with my assessment, but it think it sort of encapsulated a lot of the tensions between punks and the music industry at the time.
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I feel for you. Been so often at that point it was… Yeh, what? Tyering?
I wish you good luck and drink that wine when it’s time.
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Not really a fuck today, but yesterday I accidentally shoplifted. I did take it back and pay for it later, but I hope I don’t start to make a habit out of it.
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I had plans for this to be a great summer, progress was supposed to be made on all sorts of things I had been putting off, none of those plans came through. The following is also why I have been particularly quiet on the BBS over the last few months.
In July my father was diagnosed with Stage 3 bladder cancer, the staging was quickly changed to stage 4 a few days later when a spot was found on his liver during more indepth scanning and diagnoses. All this was preempted by the failure of his left kidney, which it turns out had been degrading over the last 6 months as the tumor in the bladder blocked the kidney’s ureter, the kidneys failure in itself was also diagnosed at the same time the stage 3 bladder cancer was.
There was no communication or interaction between multiple doctors treating him over the preceding year over concerning symptoms, and more importantly, their undiagnosed cause (the cancer).
- A out of the blue and surprisingly high hike in blood pressure for a man in his mid 60’s who eats well, exercises every day, and does not have a family history of high blood pressure.
- Blood in the urine for at least 5 or 6 months preceding the diagnoses.
- Problems passing and holding urine, uncharacteristic exhaustion, and periodic lower back pain.
All that ever occurred was treating the symptoms, we were told not to worry about the high blood pressure and to just treat it with pharmaceuticals instead of worrying about finding its root cause. A independently facilitated visit to a cardiologist also eliminated any cardiovascular causes of high blood pressure months before cancer diagnoses.
While usually Stage 4 bladder cancer is considered a target for palliative care, due to a lack of cancer in his lymphnodes his doctors are currently proceeding with treatment with a goal to cure. This includes a full open abdominal surgery which includes removal of the bladder, the spot on the liver, the prostate, and possibly his left kidney depending on whether or not function returns (he currently has a stint).
Am I bitter and angry? I hope not. Am I frustrated, sad, and more than a little defeated? Most definitely. Am I being hopeful? I’m really fucking trying. Basically what I’m trying to say is:
Fuck cancer.
Fuck our medical system.
Fuck this year.
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We are more than willing to be angry for you. And by ‘more than willing’ I mean we already are.
Before I go into a tirade, I must ask: who assessed your father when he initially presented these signs of high BP, hematuria, and urinary hesitancy?
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That is a downright brutal diagnosis. I have empathy and and open ear for you and yours. It hurts on so many levels, and you have permission to express what you feel.
I’m just so fucking sorry.
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Strength to those facing such trials 
Fuck cancer and other serious medical maladies.
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one lousy reboot in the wrong ssh session and everyone gets agitated…
oops.
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Servers you right.
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