i didn't exactly grow up listening to punk rock, but from about twelve on, that was what i was into. i still remember my brother putting on a cassette tape in his car of the sex pistols. "anarchy in the uk" came blasting through the mediocre speakers and i was hooked. i gobbled it up from that point, getting my hands on his misfits and dead kennedys tapes that his friends made for him, a decent descendents mixtape, listening to rancid and remembering the first time i saw the video for "ruby soho" on mtv when i was even younger. and that was back when mtv actually showed videos--remember then? like decades ago? yeah.
i never quite grew out of it. yes, i had to grow up visibly when i went corporate, but i still love it. lucky for me i have a husband in a punk rock band. i wish they would write their own songs but then again, i'm perfectly happy singing along to pennywise and all my old favorites on the weekends. loud, fast, and sloppy.
after not seeing them play since labor day weekend, i was pretty jazzed to see them. and while i realized that i really had gotten old when i couldn't stay awake through the entire set, it was still fantastic. happy punk rock weekend. glad there will be many more.
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