At 04:38 PM 7/26/2007, you wrote:
>Yeah, they have been, but it's what's getting big
>time, and where it's popping up, that is so weird. The
>Misfits at an Exxon Mobil TigerMart.
>
>This was an obscure underground punk band who wrote
>songs like "Devil's Whorehouse" and who had lyrics in
>songs like "Teenagers From Mars" that go: "We land in
>barren fields, on the Arizona plains / The
>insemination of little girls in the middle of wet
>dreams / We are the ancient mutants" etc., etc --
>just weird, b-movie, sick lyrics. So obscure they were
>way below the PMRC's radar, even. But now that
>everyone seems to have really retroactively been into
>punk all along -- I guess? where were they then, in
>that case? -- it's all good now. Can I be allowed to
>be bugged out by it?
>
>"Hey, clerk, fill up the Jetta on Pump 9 and I'll take
>that Misfits cigarette lighter, too!"
>
>-B.
>
>
>
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>"Isn't this classic Baffler territory? Haven't they
>been doing this for ages?"
>
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