[Fwd: Re: 70s crap]

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Sat Jul 12 17:53:36 CDT 1997


C'mon, Henry.  Do you mean to tell me that you don't find it to be the
least little bit hypocritical and phoney?

At 05:45 PM 7/11/97 -0500, Henry Musikar wrote:
>On 11 Jul 97 at 15:29, Joe Varo <vjvaro at erie.net> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Mark Smith wrote:
>> 
>> > [...]
>> > Maybe rap is our Punk movement.
>> > [...]
>> 
>> Speaking of which...one thing which irks me to no end is seeing some
>> little caucasian teeny-bopper, dressed in full ghetto regalia,
>> driving around in mommy or daddy's BMW with hardcore rap music
>> blasting out of the stereo.
>> 
>> The only reason for this that I can see would be that perhaps this
>> is the only way they have of pissing of their well-to-do parents.
>> 
>> I just don't get it.
>> 
>> Joe
>
>If this pisses you off, what wouldn't? If they were wearing couture 
>from Paris? As Frank Zappa answered someone in the audience in the 
>very Live at the Filmore, "Everyone in here is wearing a uniform, and 
>don't you forget it." Was the hippy uniform any better? Is silver 
>better than gold? Is the ghetto kid wearing the ghetto uniform any 
>better dressed than the kid in the burbs?
>
>Well, gotta get outta here. Goin out in my jeans and T.
>My name is
>
>AsB4,
>Henry Musikar
>
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>




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