I'm listening to the Clash right now, and I think I have to be the only person that finds their voices incredibly sexy. They surely don't have the best voices, but the way they belt out their songs is wonderfully punky, which I find really sexy. Back in high school, I had a friend named Ed, who has been mentioned on this blog before, who was in a punk band that was fairly sucessful. I went to alot of his shows, and, while I didn't like alot of the music, I found the attitude really sexy. They were extremely cynical and uncompromising, nothing was sacred to them. They were very angry, and didn't seem to show a soft side, but you sensed vulnerability in them, and that there was alot behind the anger, a lot of hurt, a lot of being left out. This made them immensely appealing and interesting characters, which of course made the decent looking ones, like my friend Ed, incredibly sexy to me.

Another reason why I've always somewhat admired those "punk" guys was that they have this constant simmering anger at a society that we should be angry about. It is a society that preaches inclusion, but refuses to recognize those out on the margins of society. My favorite example of this is the Columbine Massacres. In the wake of the shootings, the two shooters were crucified by the press and media, they were turned into monsters that were not human like the rest of us were. This really angered me. While what they did was a terrible, aweful, and tragic thing, these kids were not monsters, but living breathing human beings. It was never considered that, while Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were responsible for the shooting, society was responsible for the culture that led to the shooting. If Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are to be demonized then we all ought to be demonized for creating a society where kids are driven to suicide because they are overwieght, unpopular, different, homosexual, or all of the above. The question we all should have been asking in the wake of those shootings was not "did gun laws cause this?" or "did Marilyn Manson cause this?" but rather "what would inspire two 17 year olds in the United States of America to have so much hate built up in side of them that they would shoot at their classmates?" The question isn't an easy one because it indicates that there isn't somethng wrong with the laws or the lawmakers, but, rather, that there is something wrong with ourselves.