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TRAPPED BY THE MORMONS

No it's this way! Why in the hell do you think everybody else does it exactly alike? What are you, a moron? There's rules for reasons and they're the only way anybody that knows anything does it! So grow up! Be a professional! Look sharp! Get your act together! Shave off all the loose ends! Learn the hairstyle! Fix those nails! Knot that tie right! That's shirt's not Arrow, you're a loser! Mind that blow-dryer! Wrong cologne! You wore WRONG TIPS! Here's that gum that spurts in your mouth! Just grit your teeth, smile, and be polite! Where's your condo? Where's your Trans-Am? Where's your BABIES? Laugh sincerely! He's important! She's got money! There's a good job! Chance of a lifetime! Grab it now, it's never coming back! No you damn fool that electric guitar's not played that way! How I know? I been to school! Do it like this! Practice makes perfect! Over and over! On forever! So what if it's the same solo? Can't you hear those TASTY LICKS! Just like George Benson! You're the greatest! You'll go far! No you can't sing! Don't even try! You'll be a laughingstock! Stick to what you know! What you're good at! Stop playing around with all this nonsense! Some people WORK for a living you know! In fact, everybody does! Only Commies don't have bosses! So what if he's an asshole! I gotta take his shit too! You'll get a pension! Those jeans are OUT this year! You're such a fool! Now THEY all know! Act unconcerned! Don't let her know you like her or you'll lose her! That's just the way it is! Everyone's like that! No exceptions anywhere! Take it, shut up, there's nothing else! You're no artist, that's for queers! You'll never make a living writing books unless you're Harold Robbins! And you're not so give it up! Nobody will publish that! Exhibition? Those'd get you laughed out of every gallery in Soho! Your band can't play and you can't dance like Mick Jagger! Get off the stage! Back to the hardware store! Those clothes don't match! What, no American Express! You're dead buster! Stay with the tour group! Don't wander off alone, you might get lost! That's not the right unreadable magazine to be carrying, sorry! Get a nose job! That'll do it! Your career will zoom! Why are you talking to them, they're not important! Brownnose this one! He can HELP you! You'll thank me for this some day! By the way, you could still stand to lose about three and a half pounds! Then you'd look just like the new girl everyone's talking about! Stop laying around daydreaming! Up an' at 'em! Nice guys finish last! Get the Racer's Edge! Our bank's got Clout! Fly this airline you can board two minutes ahead of the next wrench! You'll be better! Buy this shit too! People will be jealous! They'll envy you and think you're cool! They'll hate you 'cause they didn't buy it first! Do it for the good of the team! We gotta pull together or we lose the damn race! Yeah I know who you are, you're 261! Now move that ass! We got a pyramid to build and here and when it's done you'll get to live inside! No, don't thank us know! You didn't wash your hands after you pissed before you brushed your teeth this morning! That's dangerous! I read it in a magazine! They don't lie! If you don't go to school you'll never learn anything! Bookworm, why doncha get out and learn about REAL LIFE? That's not music! It says so right here! This guy's an expert, he's met lots of rock stars! A Bob Ezrin production would fit you just fine! Put you in the Top Ten! Otherwise you're dead! You'll never work again! But a word to the right people and you're in! Make up your mind! It's not selling out, it's for the good of the band as a whole! Okay, just watch us get famous faster than you! You'll never be anything! Everybody knows it! They're all laughing! Think you're bigshit! This is the only crowd in town, run with us or you don't exist!
See that one? Yeah, that's right that one over there! That's the ass you gotta kiss! But don't worry you'll only ever kiss just this one! From then it's roses! But kiss it good! Like you mean it! They can tell!




RICHARD HELL (FROM A PUNK MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH LEGS McNEIL):
Basically, I have one feeling...the desire to get out of here. And any other feelings I have come from trying to analyze, you know, why I want to go away...See, I always feel uncomfortable and I just want to...walk out of the room. It's not going to any other place or any other sensation, or anything like that, it's just to get out of 'here'.
L.M.: When do you feel comfortable?
R.H.: When I'm asleep...
L.M.: Are you glad you were born?
R.H.: I have my doubts...Did you ever read Nietzsche?
L.M.: Ha ha ha.
R.H.: Legs, listen to me, he said that anything that makes you laugh, anything that's funny indicates an emotion that's died. Every time you laugh that's an emotion, a serious emotion, that doesn't exist with you anymore...and that's why I think you and everything else is so funny.
L.M.: Yeah, I do too, but that's not funny.
R.H.: That's because you don't have any emotions [hysterical laughter]



...Guitars look good. That's all we really care about. They look good, they make good sounds. You don't really need to sit down and learn to play the fuckin' thing. That would be three or four years of your life wasted. You should be doing a gig the day you get your first guitar.




I do find it really irritating that the whole net don't have some of those neat passages to put in the 'about me' space and I get to type them down.

What is this world coming to anyway, y'know what I mean?