Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Punks 4 Life

I don't know if you watched the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. I watched some of it because I have a severe lack of a life right now. Most of what I saw was pretty typical awards show, pretty much exactly what would be expected...a like 25 minute rendition of Freebird by the surviving members of Lynard Skynard plus Kid Rock...shots of Ozzy in the audience looking lost and confused. But then, something awesome and, in my opinion, historic. Some guy I didn't recognize got up to the podium. They flashed...very quickly...a messily handwritten letter. And then the man began to read it, with the expletives censored and with shots of individual (misspelled) words coming up every now and then. It was from the Sex Pistols, and it was basically like: we're not coming you bunch of bloody wankers. And I was so proud. What a sad day it would have been if the writers of "Anarchy in the UK" had stood up in front of a bunch of douches in suits and accepted a shiny award with a nice little speech thanking their mums. No F'in way. They're punks to the end and they are awesome.

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