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Alternative Boston radio station WFNX (101.7 FM) proclaimed April 8th a day of "mourning" and arranged a Nirvana "A" to "Z" memorial to the punk cult hero. As over-kill, so to speak, they also promised to play a medley of songs by bands that Kurt thought were cool, including the Melvins and the Meat Puppets...
...willingness to pound his chest, Randy is utterly unable to articulate his political purpose. Josh Anderson at least has a cause. He says he drifted to Straight Edge, and the hard-core, punk rock-like music that is part of the scene, after his mother was ostracized by the Mormon church for coming out as a lesbian. He listened to a band named Earth Crisis, read books on animal liberation and became a vegan. One night in 1996, he and some Straight Edge mates drove by a McDonald's still under construction. "We joked and said it would be neat...
Tigermilk also references quite a bit of musical history, one of the strongest shaping factors of a post-punk generation. On "I Don't Love Anyone," in a sense speaking to Lou Reed, Murdoch tells of meeting a strange man who told him, "The world is soft as lace." The singer replies, "There's always somebody saying something." Herein lies the obligatory generational angst: a reversal of "Sweet Jane." Of course, there is also "Expectations," a song about a woman in a dead-end job; she is said to have a hobby of making life-size statues of the Velvet...
...boys in this hood hang out under a big sign reading DEAD END. Vinny the hairdresser (John Leguizamo) cheats on his wife (Mira Sorvino), then takes her to Plato's Retreat for a disastrous evening of group sex. His best friend, Ritchie (valiant Adrien Brody), is a newborn punk who moonlights as a dancer-stud in a gay porno house. The local lowlifes think Ritchie is weird; he's not neighborhood. So he must...
...meantime, their bosses continue to cheer them on. "They're like the Sex Pistols," says Doug Herzog, the president of Fox, who used to run Comedy Central. "They're the closest thing to rock stars I've encountered in the television business." Perhaps their ultimate punk statement is their next project: the prequel to Dumb and Dumber. "That," says Parker, "was pretty much just for the money...