... the CJC did not expose the "hatred and violence".
For one thing, Bernie, Warren & Co didn't bother going to the Hamas rallies. Kathy Shaidle did, and Girl on the Right did, and Point de Bascule did, and Kate McMillan and others spread the news about what they saw. Bernie Farber said nothing. Even the great Nazi Hunting Toilet Warrior lui-meme was silent.What's interesting about that group is how many of them - Kate, Kathy, Ezra - are being harrassed by Richard Warman, the guy Bernie Farber thinks is the greatest Nazi hunter of all time. The cardboard hero gets garlanded by the CJC, the real friends of Canadian Jews get sued.
Speaking of guitar heroes...
Once upon a time, I owned a Strat. One of the few tunes I could carry off convincingly was "Submission", (which means I wasn't very good).
I remember the moment I realized I was too old for punk. It happened on a dance floor, in Edmonton, as I took a long, hard look at the kids around me.
I was 23.
Hahahaha, at 23 !
I am actually re-living my youth now having bought my 7 year old daughter (nickname rufas) an amplifier with a wireless microphone, and now I am getting blasted with heavy doses of Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Gretchen Wilson(who I actually like), and then to my surprise a Lil Reba with Kelly Clarkson and even to a major surprise Rufas likes Taylor Dane.
Yea, I know, they are mainly Barbie Songs, but the kid can swing those hips and hit the high notes pretty good and all the while dancing around the microphone stand, seems that ballet, gymnastics, cheernastics and Karate came in handy after all.
Yep, at one time I had an Alverez 12-String and could pick out a some what kacky version of House of the Rising Sun, ;-)
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Survey shows, art-music critics plead, informed sources say, polls indicate:
"Canadians want strings attached" (filched from nnw)
http://tinyurl.com/a74et8
In every society there is people who want to build and people who want to tear things down, right now, in the middle east, there is a growing movement to tear it all apart. Too many people, not enough resources, and the few very rich trying very hard to hold on to their excessive wealth.
The Arab's use the Jews and the Americans as a distraction to their real problems, and all the West wants is their oil, and once that is gone, the middle east will be the next Africa.
You can't blame many of them for wanting out, and I think once they clue in to the game, they will be able to live in the west and adopt many of our values. You can see it already, the parents are still convinced but many of their children in Canada are seeing the advantages to our live style and are imbracing it.
"and played many[citation needed] shows". Too funny! I remember reading a piece about sites written by the guys they are about. William Shatner comes to mind.
It's easy to get too old for punk because it was basically a fashion. You can't get to old for rock and roll though. The "punk" bands were basically just rock and roll bands that for some time were labeled with the punk name. Iggy Pop, MC5, Dictators and Dr Feelgood were all doing punk years before the term punk was coined.
Just my 2 cents for what it's worth.
Probably 2 cents.
"Warren Kinsella a.k.a. winky"
"winky" ?...you gotta love it.....just more proof a benevolent yet prone irony Deity rules over us....
"winky of the weisenthal centre reporting for duty sir...."
i tell you...this guy is a caricature of a doofus...a master of auto-satire and he doesn't know it....
"Warren Kinsella a.k.a. winky"
"winky" ?...you gotta love it.....just more proof a benevolent yet prone to irony Deity rules over us....
"winky of the weisenthal centre reporting for duty sir...."
i tell you...this guy is a caricature of a doofus...a master of auto-satire and he doesn't know it....
Kate - They'll have to pry my strat from my cold dead hands. Sex Pistols though? I'll teach some classic Stones' songs any day.
Matt ... Adoption of or adaptation to modern western mindset is not possible. The West to get to the present went trough series of transformation fruitful with conflicts, revolts, revolutions and wars (including those of intellectual nature). Arab countries are 400 years behind, at best still holding to the glory of Ottoman Empire, missed by Industrial Revolution and backed by conviction of superiority of their religion. Weaponry is the only modern thing they are attached to - loaded and ready to shoot at your noble peaceful infidel perception.
... teach you ... that is. :)
SFH is now probably Constipation from Purgatory. Its that middle age thingy.
Some folks think they are grown up only when the stalk public washrooms with a camera looking for things to photograph.
I went to quite a few Punk shows a couple of years ago(age 50). My sons had a band, and I liked to go and keep an eye on some of the troublemakers. It was right after the Jeremy Steinke murders, and there were lots of altercations between his (goth)supporters, and the regular punks.
I definitely stayed out of the mosh pit(it's not a dance floor, winky). I did get a surge of energy, though. If I wasn't so much bigger than the kids there, I might have jumped in.
My kids went to a "Dropkick Murphys" concert in Calgary, and they said there were some pretty big, tough punks in that pit. They were about as beat up as they were after a boxing tournament, just in different places.
Irish, or Boston punk is worth having a listen.
i've just written an anti-punk anthem.....the title is,"never mind the bollocks winky, get out of my toilet stall."
Kate: Had a Fender Jag for about a year, great guitar. Lesson: Don't leave it on the backseat of your car.
/What a jackass
For me it was when in the midst of a NoFX pit at a Warped tour at 27.
I was in a punk band, and on my strat we played a set of originals, but the two covers we worked in were Blitzkrieg Bop and Unsung.
Still doesn't stop me from going to shows, but I'm the aging hipster standing in the back now.
Living here in the NYC area, you cannot miss the vociferousness of the American Jewish Committee and their radio and print ads decrying the hatred of Jews and those whom put forth this hatred.
Did the CJC lose their left-appointed "victim" status when they started to truly defend themselves after decades of failed negotiations?
Ratt
One of the best Christmas presents we've purchased for our kids was Nintendo's Karaoke Revolution. There is nothing better than watching and listening to your kids rock!
Who woulda thunk that a (hot) red neck chick from Saskquatchewan has become the watchdog over Jews in the modern world?
Kinsella seems all wrong for punk.He's a conformist and collectivist and there's nothing remotely individualistic about himself.Punk did attract many a poseur, witness The Clash, so WK could have been only following the leader..which he's done his entire career.
Hoy! I'm 54 and the judge for the Punk category for the Canada South Music Award....... I requested the Punk.
Iggy Pop the godfather of punk is a card carrying Republican.
As for Mr.K,this is from a couple of days ago.
"Back in the Big Owe for a couple weeks, so what better way to kick things off than with some BBQ cat and rice at the Yang Sheng, hangout of our youth? Yay!
I was excited, I was happy, I even filmed a little W@AL on the street corner.
Then I walk in.Sitting there, two Conservative guys who I Did Not Want To See. Just seeing them gave me indigestion, and I hadn't even tucked into a bowl of barbecued cat, yet."
Is this not offensive to the resturaunt?
I'm sure if you ask Warren it's all a bit of fun.
Maybe I'll send the link to them,see if they think it's funny.
Indiana Homez - Using the terms karaoke, revolution and rock in the same post gets you a major penalty. Sorry that's just how it goes.
Too old for punk? Joey Shithead is what, 52?, and still making records.
You need a les paul (bonus marks if its a les paul jr.) to play punk rock.
As for the point you are trying to make, actually it was the CJC that "exposed" the material. You see it was their press conference and had it not been for the CJC only those on these blogs would have had the full story. Always amazes me as to how we fight each other whne we ignore the real enemy. Some people really need to get a life!!
Perhaps the point being made is that the CJC was shamed into the press conference?
having spent a decade trying to understand what makes the superduper K dude tick i was given the key today....it was the revelation that his nickname in that badass band SFH was 'Winky' ....
all that adolescent crap he lays out there...adolescent politics...adolescent social and historical understanding .....adolescent music bien sur.....adolescent interaction with his blogging peer group.......adolescent nostalgie de la boue re the chinese restaurant....he literally IS a punk...
the winkster lad is simply a textbook example of arrested development...which in my opinion makes him a mediocrity among Irishman(a beautiful race...and as comely in manner as one could wish for)...i reckon he's as mediocre an adult human being as his hierophant Bono.
I was too old for punk when punk came out. give me some good old rock and roll anytime (including hard rock).
Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.
"Perhaps the point being made is that the CJC was shamed into the press conference?
Posted by: ddt at January 16, 2009 1:53 PM "
You got that right,ddt.The CJC is so far leftard,they think they are right. The "exposure" they did to this is like the flasher in the park!! No wait.Flashers do it without being embarrASSed into it.
"he literally IS a punk..."
or a "wanksta"
LOL Indiana Homes, -
Wee willy winky wankstra
who adores modern ganstas
... but couldn't pull of a swastika pranksta!
Ops, pardon my lack of preview, need a 'g' in my ganstas.
Hey, I bought a Strat for my 60th birthday! The other gitboxes needed something to look down on...
re: Kinsella seems all wrong for [...just insert damn near anything here...]
winky is always about "being something he ain't" and never will be
tipical lieberal wanna be
as far as the CJC is concerned, they are ina quandry, their leftism just blew up in their stupid faces and they don't know how to deal with it. I'm just wondering how they will "dispose" of winky, or can they grow him into a MAN???
My dad gave me his Jimmie Rodgers flat top. Never did learn to play it but still love the old time country music that Dad used to play. I always thought that music stopped being music when hard rock began. Punk etc are just a little farther into that 'noise' category.
"Once owned a Strat ..."
I sure hope it ended up in some deserving hands!
Kate, I'm 45, and I'm not sure if you are in my age bracket, but if so, then my guess is that you are definitely too young for punk.
That stuff was pretty much over around 1978. It seems to me that anyone still espousing the punk esthetic after that year wasn't so much being ironic, as just being a sad tosser who never got the memo, and really didn't get the joke to begin with. And kids nowadays with a mohawk? They might as well be wearing a zoot-suit, and calling everyone "daddy-o".
But credit where credit is due, Kate. You got out just in time(!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SwkApvMBE
Too young for punk?
I'm not sure it works that way. People were saying "rock is dead" in the sixties, but it just wouldn't go away. Saying someone is too young is like admitting punk was a flash in the pan. I think the movement will always have a following, as long as there are kids who feel they're being ignored by the establishment.
My kids are still teenagers, but they went to an Iron Maiden concert last year, in Calgary. I don't think they'd ever listened to the band before. They came away very impressed by the quality of music.