So out of boredom and nothing to do today I watched "The Punk Years." It was pretty enjoyable (i admit i did skip some parts). One of my least favorite parts aside from the constant images repeated over and over in the background along with the same like 5 clips of live shows being shown repeatedly was John Lydon. He doesn't say anything good about any band. Otherwise there were lots of interesting people interviewed. They seem to have a weird obsession with Atari Teenage Riot though, and Chumbawumba. They brought up some interesting bands that rarely get the light of a documentary. What was kind of weird was the lack of pre-punk influences who are still alive not being on there to speak. They talk about Iggy Pop and David Bowie and many other iconic figures of the time and yet have none of them on to speak of what they were doing. The look at zines and the record companies is great too. I'd say it is for the most part a good watch. Nothing in it is too amazingly great, like no amazing live footage (and if there is it's only seconds of it) but it is inspirational in a way. The power the sex pistols had to play a show and then inspire people to the next day go out and form a band is amazing to me. I feel like there's people in the area who have the ability to play music but don't take that and apply it. I'm hoping within the next couple of months there will be some more bands coming together. It would be awesome to have more locals only shows and have them be awesome and not the same bands over and over.
Speaking of mostly local shows come out monday to Bull City HQ in Durham to see DEVOUR with Sex/Vid and my band logic problem.
Expect a more informative post tomorrow, I'll probably try to write reviews of some of the records I've picked up lately.
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