Troma Films
I was 18 years old before I saw my first Troma film. I was in the video whorehouse (the movie rental store) when the idea struck me that I could rent porn flicks. So I picked what I thought would be the most interesting. As it would turn out I didn’t pick a porno. I picked Troma’s “Teenage Cat Girls in Heat”. The next mourning, instead of rushing off to school, I waited for my family to leave. I put in the tape and was immediately horrified by the site of the Toxic Avenger and the trailer for Tromeo and Juliet which featured the three foot penis monster. Seeing that trailor made me instantly desire to vomit. I was completely horrified. I was warped for the rest of my life. I was a Troma fan. As soon as I found out Teenage Cat Girls in Heat was NOT a porno, I spiked my Mohawk and went to school, a changed, and totally disgusted person.
I got to school just in time for the end of class. It didn’t matter…all I could think about was penis monster. Disgusting, hideous Penis monster.
Lunchtime, teenagers are herded like cattle into a feeding area. I had gained barely enough of my stomach to eat. But I HAD to tell EVERYONE at my table about the 3 foot penis monster. I knew they didn’t really understand what I was talking about, but looking back, I think they where more curious than I gave them credit for.
Months went by before I could finally see “Tromeo and Juliet”. Some asshole rented it out for 3 fucking months. Let me tell you, I watched the fuck out of that movie. It was the shit. I showed everyone the penis monster scene.
Since than I’ve scene a lot of good Troma films. But living in an area of such conservative, Christian principles, it’s not easy to come across such fine cinema. There’s a lot of shit out there for me to see. And I always keep my eyes open for anything that will make me want to puke.
Blog Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Added on: 06/02/2007 08:44:53
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Stuff I Did And Stuff I Still Need To Do
Man, I remember the days when I used to pull up into my highschool blasting Manic Hispanic and Nofx. I was new to punk then but in some ways I was more punk than I'd ever be in my life. Everyone else was into the worst radio rock you could imagine...or some of them liked slipknot. I was the only real punk for miles and miles. But I was happy to being different. It made it harder for people to figure me out sometimes.
Today my band, Countless Attempts, is getting back together. We wrote a few new songs and one of them is about cutting the head off this bitch I hate so much named Brooke. I'd like it if we could get a recording and maybe some kid would blast our shit in his car while he's going to school. Maybe the cycle would repeat itself. Carter just wants for us to tour. That would be great. We haven't had a show since we broke up and no one around town really likes punk. We'd HAVE to tour if we wanted to find people who liked garage punk (or whatever this is we play). That's probably part of why I started God Save The Underground. It's just communication. I'm using it to find other bands that we can reach out to. That we can share our shows with. Recording, touring, hanging out with bands, this is stuff I've always wanted to do. Back when I was the kid pulling into my school blasting warped tour comps and Punk In Drublic, and Punk-o-ramas and Rancid's Out Come The Wolves, and my own mixes the whole time I knew that was the life I had to live.
Blog Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
Playing (Music): Warped Tour 2002 Comp.
Current mood: nostalgic
Added on: 09/01/2007 07:17:47
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Nostalgia
Right now I'm sitting here down loading mp3 files off the fat wreck chords website and reading about the 90's on wikipedia. I really miss the 90's. Things where so much simpler. Music was so much better. We had pog and The Simpsons and Snick on saturday nights. Those where the days everybody. Those where the days. I was just a little kid and I had fun but I bet it would have been fun to have been a teenage back then too.
Unfortunately I'll never know...
I say that to say this...IT'S TIME TO DECLARE WAR.....ON TIME!!! Look at what the passing of years has taken away. The greatest decade of American history is gone never to return. LET IT BE AVENGED!!!!!
Johnny Chaos
Blog Category: Life
Playing (Music): fat wreck chords mp3 (www.fatwreckchords. com/audio/)
Current mood: nostalgic
Added on: 29/11/2006 09:27:36
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notfiT to be zine! (coming soon)....(maybe)...
notfiT today. It's the Post-Rumour, Post-Halftime era. Debbo and Nathan are gone. With them are The Rumour's connections. Thus notfiT lacks conection to outside bands such as Our Downfall and Daze. These outside influences are all that remains of what is now a memory of Sunday nite shows. Could this be the end? Or does potential still lie dormant but obtainable through the heart and passion of notfiT's young musicians?
With influences taken from The Rumour and it's brother bands, kids in notfiT are forming post-hardcore bands. The talent of these bands is tremendous. But such talent does not save them from the scourn of a second wave of punks following the example J. Chaos and Crazy Tyler Simmons who acuse these bands of sounding too mainstream. Still it's a start and one that shows greatly talented musicians at that while the scene kids critics also provide encouragement that punk rock may yet thrive in notfiT.
Furthor outside influence is still obtained through the the grabed interest of a former NFR guitarist by the punk/surf/hardcore scene available in Valdosta Georgia. You guest it..Johnny C. has advanced yet one more level deeper into his punk rock roots by discovered bands like the honest a's, pavo and the paperkuts. While this stands as a drastic difference from notfiT's usual interests, Johnny's much improved guitar skills in his new band Countless Attempts have proven the influence to inspire a refreshing contrast to the new post-hardcore bands they plan to humbly open for.
A Day To Die 4 still resides as well but with such little respect from newer bands who see age as more than merely a number, yet see time spent being a band as merely an expression of time passed.
Nevertheless this scene is boring and uneventful. With Carter gone forever Johnny Chaos plans to give up on the revolution as well unless he can suceed in one last final attempt out of countless others......to save the underground.
Johnny C.
Blog Category: Music
Current mood: anxious
Added on: 17/05/2006 10:10:37
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Does Punk Suck?
I'm a reader of The Atlanta Journal Constitution and a listiner of Maximumrocknroll radio.
Today I was listining to some really old recorded broadcasts of mrr from the early 80s (1981 to be exact) and on this particular podcast was the ending of a documentary on punk rock violence. There was an interview with Black Flag (who had recently gotten a bad review from a journalist who said he looked down at the kids "with total disbeleif, shock and horror"). The music in those days was just starting to really sound thrashed out. Not just black flag, The Circle Jerks, Crisis, and countless other bands where full of alternative political concepts, psychotically fast paced punk music, and cult followings of kids wore any style the could find that could seperate them from others. It was definately cooler than being a hippie if you ask me.
Lets fast forward to the Y generations punk scene. A headline in the Atlanta Journal today says "PUNK ROCK NO LONGER NASTY, BUT IT'S NICE". NICE!?
Blog Category: PunkRock.org
Playing (Music): Some obscure podcast from maximumrocknroll.com/radio
Added on: 27/04/2006 11:18:26
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