Monday, November 29, 2010

Talking Back to Punk Rock #11

"Okay, Henry. I get it. You're Damaged. As in, seriously soul-crushed. Utterly bereft in a way completely different from all other people and their damage. I'm entirely cognizant of the fact that you're spirit is in bound in invisible chains.

[NSFW below. You have been warned.]



"On the other hand, has it ever occurred to you that, to steal from Robin Williams, you're just in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history? And I'm not talking about when you're moving towards home with some chickadee and you decide to shove her head towards your crotch mid-foreplay because you forgot where you put the condoms and you haven't scratched together enough gig money to be able to offer monetary proof that you support a woman's right to choose (if only you'd written yourself a nice protest song on the subject, like 'Waiting Room,' you'd never have to prove your feminist bona fides again. Fucking Ian always gets in first, doesn't he? The whiny little monk), and she goes along with it because she figures you'll at least take a nap afterwards and let her watch Letterman in peace. I'm talking about when a woman, because she likes you, because she wants you to feel good, takes Little Henry and treats it like the apple of her bright eye, and you feel that orgasm in the back of your cerebellum.

"Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that a guy who's had that kind of experience wouldn't feel the need to spice up his spoken word shows with variations on the same tired gag about bodybuilders and cops being closet cases who are always hitting on him. Just sayin'..."

-Black Flag, "Damaged"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You think Waiting Room is about abortion?

Anyway, fuck you, Damaged is the shit, gay man.

Andrew said...

You win, anonymous asshole. I was thinking of "Bed for the Scraping", which is probably about abortion, or maybe "Rend My Body Politic".

And thumbs up on your awesome rhetorical comeback, complete with homophobic slur. Methinks the fanboy doth protest too much.