Unpopular opinions
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I always went with my brother and his mates… As a spectator... First skateboarding, then rollerblading... Both in parks and on the streets... I was always disadvantaged when the rozzers arrived and all the lads sped away on their rollerblades...
Anyway: it was a great group to be part of... Positive, helping, caring,... I miss that, no longer being active in the hc/ punk scene... My brother's into scratching (DJ/ vinyl) and has private house sessions with fellow enthousiasts (world and Belgian DJ champions as well though) twice a year, and every time I meet those lads and lasses, it takes me back... Positive, supportive, vehemently anti-racist, accepting...
I will never see the point in being negative, or jaded, or hateful... Someone said it before, but it's true: I owe a lot to the punk/ crust/ hc/ screamo scene... You can never hate the world when you've seen a gay, Dutch mate screaming along to La Quiete playing CMAR-fest in Germany '06 whilst crowd surfing... Memories
@Seul you are so right. sounds like we had very similar formative years. I'll always refer to myself as a hardcore punk 'kid'. Some of the guys that we did bands with went on to big things (Frank Turner for example), others went on to work in music production, charity work, me, social work. Those values stay with you.
speaking of DJ ing, and old school mate of mine Ross (Dj Destruction) battled cutmaster swift and was a finalist in the 90 and 91 UK DMC championships. He was 16! such great times.
I had 13 good years being vegan and sxe. Got to meet amazing people from around the world. Some not so amazing (never meet a hero! they generally don't match your expectations). To this day, despite my sarcastic sense of humour, I am positive and optimistic.
you've made me want to post some vids in the music thread now!
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@Stuart.T @Seul I'm hearing violins… you two are so cute together
We should all stay positive though. That's just good advice. I'm going to tie this post together by way of two pieces of Craig Finn genius:
"Went down with some crust punk junk and woke up with a straight edge band.
That's not how we planned it""No gods no kings let freedom ring
No faith no sin no hymns to sing" -
A lot of folk here come from the same scene/ background… I've been noticing that for years... It's always made me smile... It's also weird how a lot of us got into new niche stuff like coffee, beer, denim/ workwear,...
There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track...
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There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track…
As a mod I'm not even remotely interested in saving it
Thread's fucked in a beautiful way and what's even better is that @Megatron1505 's head must be exploding at all the nostalgic love going on here. Love you Gav 
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ok, here we go…Ian McKaye should have kept his self righteous mouth shut in 1980 and got himself a heroin addiction instead (I don't actually subscribe to the views expressed by the author)
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There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track…
As a mod I'm not even remotely interested in saving it
Thread's fucked in a beautiful way and what's even better is that @Megatron1505 's head must be exploding at all the nostalgic love going on here. Love you Gav I’m all for letting conversation flow, plus i’m at least partially to blame for this nostalgia trip
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I’m all for eating meat and getting loaded you weird clean-living mofos. (I’ve inferred from this conversation that “sXe” is shorthand for some ungodly combination of life choices)
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Straight edge my ass. I bet every one of the SxE people had a vice or an addiction. Unless your a Buddhist monk u ain’t straight edge or hardcore. Peace and love peace and love
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it was a perfect lifestyle choice for a 20 year old lad who until that time had sold drugs with 'mates' in clubs and paid off doormen for the privilege, had hand guns pointed at his head, etc etc. it was also the time in my life that I felt fittest, healthiest, and happiest.
I've eaten meat, been vegan, been rawfood, and now vegetarian. The difference now is I love a real ale and good rum. I've never forgotten the benefits of a vegan and non-alcohol lifestyle though. It feels amazing. Without alcohol you get a different understanding of yourself, you learn a self confidence that is necessarily present when you use alcohol when socialising. Having worked on mental health units I have got to see the devastation that alcohol and substance misuse causes, and the misery that the criminal aspects cause.
To each their own, as long as it is a genuinely informed choice.
weren't Boyzone just the greatest. I miss those guys.
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Straight edge my ass. I bet every one of the SxE people had a vice or an addiction. Unless your a Buddhist monk u ain’t straight edge or hardcore. Peace and love peace and love
Maybe not. I near match them even though I never heard of them. I don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs, extremely rare I take Dr pills, no coffee and could quit tea if I really wanted.
A few of the other bits I think I could do because I have a real taste for fruit these days. -
I shouldn’t have spouted off. I respect whatever anyone wants to do. Youre on your path. I dig it. I just want to fade the shit out of some denim.
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Couldn't care less what others do as long as it doesn't interfere with what others (most especially myself and my loved ones, but ALL others) are doing. I've been "sXe" in a couple of forms throughout my life, and there is no question that there are people who live without vice.
There's also no question that, whether self-righteous or not, MacKaye lived his values. $5 shows, all all-ages, a do-it-yourself record label, never took major label bait, would crusade against violence in the audience, conscious lyrics about societal ills, etc. He made decisions that are easy to ridicule from afar, but would be impossible to make without character and commitment to ideals. It would be one thing if there were evidence of hypocrisy, but until I see it, I'll continue to admire him.
–decidedly NOT sXe-y
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I shouldn’t have spouted off. I respect whatever anyone wants to do. Youre on your path. I dig it. I just want to fade the shit out of some denim.
'And it harm none, do what ye wilt'… @matty123...I am a past master at spouting off mate, no worries. I'm with you, my life now consists of avoiding trouble, having the easiest and happiest day possible, and working on those fades
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Grains and grass beget 2 things: meat and booze. Your binocular vision allows you to hunt down the former and reach for the latter without spilling. Maybe this is an unpop op, but I hope not.
But hey, live and let live. I’m perfectly happy not sharing.
Another unpop op: drinking alone is awesome. I’m convinced there’s a social stigma attached because people don’t want you having so much fun without them.
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Drinking spirits alone conjure two images for me…a troubled beat generation author or poet who's lost their mojo...or someone sitting in a puddle of their own piss eating a maxi bag of Doritos for lunch....doing the job I do I know the later is more of a reality.
That said, I enjoy the odd lonesome rum..while I'm deciding on the title of the 7th chapter and whether or not I can be bothered to get up to take a slash or not
