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---------------------------- I Bleed for This? ------------------------------
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------04.07.96-----------------------------------------------------#053------
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Please Don't Write to Us
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by Lost Suburban Children
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[1/1] [Private]
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>From : Lois Lane
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To : Jason Farnon
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Subject: IBFT
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Date : 01 Dec 95 18:08
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Hello,
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I have no idea if you'll be flattered or annoyed by this short note so
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take it as you will. I recently came across issue #22 ("Stupid Townie
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Fucks"), written by your partner Snarfblat. That's got to be the best
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piece of writing I've ever seen circulated through these boards. I
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printed out several copies and gave them to friends. Okay, well, I
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know that was random and seeing the venom you've spewed before I'll
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probably get flamed for it. Whatever. Keep up the cool Zine.
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--- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard
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* Origin: the purple cowz hideout/2 (node 1) (1:101/200)
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[private messages.. #0]
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[1/1] read messages?
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ok, well let's begin with an intro... i got IBFT # something from a
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friend and decided to check out some of your other stuff. Pretty good.
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Now since I'm assuming you don't want someone fawning all over you saying
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"you guys are great, i love you, if you were a girl i'd fuck the hell out
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of you, etc..." and all that other fan club shit I'll give it to you
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straight.
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Like I said before I read something like 38 issues of IBFT last night and
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was impressed. And since you said that you wanted to know if anyone
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could relate, I'll tell you that you're not alone. But since my best
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friend doesn't really know the extent of my pain, I'm not going to blab
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it to you. Basically she tore out my heart and then gave me the "polite"
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but still very cold shoulder. Anyways enough about me.
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I read at the bottom of one of the files that you have a subscription, so
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sign me up. That's about all. Keep it going. and if you ever find
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yourself short of quotations just ask... i've been keeping a file of
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quotes for the last 6 years that about sums up my entire life (kind of
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sad actually). If you want it just ask.
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This message is from Random Tox on the Eleventh Hour BBS:
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Because he read and loved IBFT, a fucked up 14 year old wanna-be neo-nazi
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skinhead is calling my BBS long distance from Minnesota.
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His New User message ended with "Any skins here?"
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I told him that because potato skins contain the most vitamins, I had
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probably eaten all of them, but I would check anyway.
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He is an interesting boy.
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>
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> In article <falafel-1102961758490001@nscs23p9.remote.umass.edu> you write:
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> >
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> >We are the following people: 2 married punks, one other guy, ranging in
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> >age from 21-27. We respect alternative lifestyles; require smoke-free
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> >living; occasional social drinkers; no drug users; love IBFT; no
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> >frat-boy-date-raping-warmongering-asshole types or spritz hair girls.
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>
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> I'm sorry, but this is the second message I've seen you post to
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> 5col.housing and for some reason you piss me off. You're not punks
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> (save your breath, I never was one), you're PC rainbow G-rated
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> twat-licking cunts. So tell me, are you the "other guy" or one of the
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> married punks? I've never seen your band, but if I do by accident,
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> I'll pull the fire alarm.
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>
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> -Snarfblat
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>
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Gee, thanks. Please pull the fire alarm.
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I'm the other guy. In fact, I'm probably more punk than the woman I live
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with who claims to be punk. Believe me, I hate the "new" punk of today.
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There are plenty of people who think they are punk that don't know what
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the hell that means. My female roomate included. Her husband on the
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other hand, who does not claim to be punk, is probably legitimately
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punk.
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I also assure you, I am not a G-rated twat licking cunt. (although I am
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pretty good at eating pussy, if you must know). The fact that we are
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drug free and against the frat-boy mentality does not make us G-rated PC
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rainbow whatever. In fact, I hate the whole PC movement. Having respect
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for alternative lifestyles (we have 2 active bi-sexuals living here) does
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not mean we are part of todays PC.
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I am the 27 year old. My band is very into doing what we do because we
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love it. We have been doing it for almost 4 years, and we are pretty
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much hated in the valley. We have turned down offers from record
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companies because they sucked, and we have accepted others because they
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were potentially lucrative and allow us to do our thing. We want to make
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music for a living. We don't necesarrily want to be rock stars, but we
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do not condemn the music industry, and we aren't about fucking the man
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(although I do tend to fuck the man on a day to day level). Our CD has
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gotten some great reviews. Even from reputable trade papers, but despite
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that, no one wants to touch it. We could become the next modern rock
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band tomorrow, but we aren't into selling out in that way. We write the
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music that we like.
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Look, if you want to hate me, go ahead. If you want to find out that I
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am a person with a brain, and a lot more going on for myself than your
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e-mail gives me credit for, than that's fine too.
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I didn't agree with everyting in the roommate wanted post, but that's
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what living with other people can be about sometimes: compromise. I
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don't care enough about telling my female roomate that she is the epitomy
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of poser. I need to live here 'till the end of may, finish my degree,
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and then try to make a living playing music.
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BTW - the part of today's punk movement that I do respect is the DIY
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thing. I know some kids out there who are really in it for the right
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reasons, doing the right things, and don't use punk-rock as a fashion
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statement.
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I've also been in a band when the fire alarm was pulled. It makes for
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good stories.
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without wax,
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rob
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PS - if you have any interest in checking out the band, our web page is:
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http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~bdic/Falafel_Boy.html
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and if you'd like, I'll put you on the guestlist if we actually play in
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the area during the semester. Then you can decide to pull the fire alarm
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based on the music at least.
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IBFT: No matter how hard you laugh with or at it, you'll NEVER get it.
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http://www.amherst.edu/~mcspinks/ibft/ibfthome.html
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email: mcspinks@unix.amherst.edu
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ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/IBFT The Eleventh Hour (617)696-3146
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