Youth Gone Wild...where did it all go...

I grew up in the eighties. It was a time of some fucking awesome shit. It was the world at its craziest from movies, to fashion, but nothing beats its music. Maybe it was a collective stemming from the sixties and Vietnam era. I could also say that it was a planetary alignment that created it. Starting with Kiss who influenced many bands.

People had been influenced by Black Sabbath, Stones, and Led Zeppelin. When I was a kid my friend James would always wear either a Black Sabbath, Rush, or Led Zeppelin shirt. Either way the eighties did something to people's brains it blew them out like a pair of underwear that just won't fit right again because the elastic has been stretched. I find myself bored with the shit that comes out of Hollywood, on the radio, even the internet and you tube. There is just so much shit and let's really really CALL IT SHIT. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS SHIT. There is too much of it. Every guy and their brother has a band and they're on You tube but they suck according the the 80's standards but these days who cares right. There is no sense of anything real anymore its all companies making shit happen putting things together and everyone wants to be a rock star or a movie star or a porn star or famous or a superstar but the sad thing is they don't have any talent.

The 80'S music in particular was so wild and radical and rebellious with bands like Skid Row, Guns and Roses, and Motley Crue who lived the whole wild excessive life style. We as their fans lived vicariously through them. But when I look at the energy these bands had I wonder where it all went. I know these guys got older but I'm looking at the youth now, the music now, the movies and tv now, everything is lame, boring, nice, and gay (not in the sexual way). Everyone seems to lack fire in their bellies. Everyone is so sadly EMO.

After the eighties came the nineties with Nirvana and pearl jam which were fine bands but a total opposite of the eighties kings of rock. The late eighties, it was apparent the pool of talent had been exhausted as so many Poser bands turned up just to collect a paycheck. The ones that had had talent had exhausted theirs and their music suffered, they grew up, got married, had kids, went on with life. The nineties was a period of depressive music with so many people it seems were hooked on heroin. Nirvana was on heroin, Cobain died from a heroin addiction. The pre singer to pearl jam from died of heroin, Scott Wieland the singer for STP hooked on heroin, Lane Stayley the singer of Alice in Chains died of heroin. I'm sure there were other bands there and they were hooked on heroin too. It was almost as if the 80's was all about cocaine and the 90's were all about heroin. Maybe the world needs to get back on coke...just kidding. But I still wonder where did all the energy go.

Aren't people fired about anything anymore. Or have we just become a scared nation to really speak out. I think the only person i see who has any fire in his belly is Gordon Ramsey about his cooking. I don't know. But its not like aggression has left but it just seems like there is new crop of people they just arrived on the planet and they have no idea what went on. Everything is new to them but they have such a cold and watery sense to everything. There is no fire. Have someone try to sing Monkey Business by Skid Row and they couldn't do it cause everything is so restrained. Wanna hear it ...well okay




Or maybe we as people evolved from that time. We as a people don't feel and believe as we did back then. I think we owe to technology. Boredom is the necessary element to art, Good art and insanity and boredom is the recipe for great art. Ask Salvador Dali. I think if Dali had been alive now he would not have painted so much, he'd be hooked to facebook, or myspace, or flickr, or chat rooms or some fucking weird art site.

THE RAMONES SAID IT BEST I WANNA BE SEDATED. WE ARE A SEDATED CIVILIZATION, A SEDATED NATION. A SEDATED WORLD. While Cocaine was the drug of the 80's, Heroin the drug of the 90's, technology has become the drug of the millennium. 2010 has just started what will be the new drug. Maybe virtual food...

I don't think people get bored enough these days because there is always something to get plugged into. The internet, cellphones, Ipods, i phones, chat rooms, porn rooms, video games, the Wii, heck i was walking through the store today and saw a skateboard that looked so much like the hover board from the back to the future movies...it was for the Nintendo Wii and you could play a game on the computer as if you were skate boarding...instead of actually going on and doing the shit real time, live. They also have this for tennis, bowling, and darts. and if you want to be a rock star JUST LOAD UP ROCK BAND ON THE WII OR PLAYSTATION. Sure its fun but it keeps you from the real thing. You don't' have to go fishing at a lake just do it in a virtual game. You don't have to date just have a virtual relationship, virtual sex, virtual life, virtual emotions. :)

Nothing is real anymore. Kids don't go play outside, run around block, play kick ball, or climb trees they sit in front of the computer doing all this shit in their brains. We've lost touch with reality. We can't wait for the next tech thing, we can't wait for the next software update for this or that, we got to have it now. if you feel Feel happy, text someone about it, feel sad go on you-tube and listen to a song, feel angry go on facebook and rant.

I think this age Aquarius people are living more and more in their heads. The eighties was all carnal, rough, real, sex, angry, loud, there was cold war around, Ronald Reagan was in office, we hated the Soviet Union, our technology was weak. But now our technology is taking over our lives, our minds, it has become our new god, and well we've lost something really really important that we will never get back...

i'm on a quest to get bored again. So i can actually do some awesome creating. I've unplugged from the net. Not hitting my usual joints that suck up my time. I find myself with a lot of time now that i don't know what to do with. Well that's just what I need. When i was plugged in I was always out of time always feeling tired. Tomorrow i think i'll go for long walk.
PS...none of the pictures for this post were taken by me but it does lead me in a direction i want to go