Post #610708 by emspace on Tue, Oct 18, 2011 10:20 PM

Bah! The Clash made a frickin' fortune selling millions of records, WTF are you on about Chuck? Juvenile, hell yes, pseudo-working class Commie bullcrap, knee-jerk European anti-Americanism, whuddevah! I respect Dave Alvin, but how DARE you call the Blasters punk? "Long White Cadillac" is punk? My god, I'm not deaf you know! Anyway I am in midlife, I have a family and a home in the burbs, punk is for children with their sophomoric so-called ideals that I call an unhealthy childhood affliction that mercifully fades when you grow up, I'm not a child any more, end of story.

Who brought up punk/tiki? What the hell would you call the Creepy Creeps? And didn't your name used to be Atomic Tiki Punk? Are we reading the same thread? I never talk out my ass, Chuck. I never play from a position of weakness, unlike some folks who have to resort to name-calling to get their nonexistent point across. Anyway I agree with your final statement if nothing else: we aren't talking about Tiki here - we're talking about "people combining THEIR ROOTS with Tiki", which is pretty much what I've been saying all along. Congrats: collect your Doctor of Smartology degree at the door.