Word: punks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowded punk clubs in Dogs in Space, a band plays in front of a sign which reads: "Boredom is counterrevolutionary." This movie amply demonstrates, however, that boredom is anything but. It's just boring...
Dogs focuses on a bunch of punk rockers, students and hangers-on living together in slovenly chaos in Melbourne's post-punk scene of the late '70s. Their life is a constant decadent merry-go-round of clubs and convenience stores, drugs and drugged-out sex. The characters are bored enough to watch static on TV, as they do in one scene. You can imagine how the audience feels...
...toting an accordion and wearing a tatty Grecian-style gown -- a fairy-tale princess dressed by Woolworth's. Her monologues alternate between airy twittering (she refers to herself as the "goddess" and the "petite flower") and truck-stop sarcasm. To the guy who comes on to her in a punk-rock bar, she growls, "I was lookin' for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain." Feminist frustration is mixed with existential nuttiness: "You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic . . . just because she lives in your body." Redeeming...
Bragg was also mightily affected by "the whole punk thing" that started in 1977, and especially by people like Elvis Costello and The Clash. Their inspiration started him off writing and performing...
...short while, Bragg had a punk band of his own called Riff-Raff. But the most influential individual in his life probably has been Margaret Thatcher, whose divisive social policies and battles with coalminers have given him something to sing out against...