I Enjoy Getting People Angry

I Was Born In The Late '50s, Was A Child Of The '60s, Then The '70s, Then The '80s, Then The '90s, And I Have Mental Fingers In All Those Pies.

I Think One Of The Most Important Things Punk Brought Back Was The Whole Concept Of Staying Independent And Doing Things Yourself. It Made Music A Lot Less Boring In Any Category You Can Name.

When "search And Destroy" By The Stooges Came On As A Nike Shoe Commercial, I Got Physically Sick. That Song Meant The World To Me, And I Didn't Feel This Was The Way It Ought To Be Used.

News Footage Came On The Tv During Dinner Of Bloody Bodies Coming Back From Battle In Vietnam, Or The Race Riots In The South, People Getting Hosed In Selma, Alabama, Or The Biafra War, Where I Got My Name. In My Household, It Was Explained And Discussed With The Children, As A Way Of Educating Us From When We First Started Grade School Why Racism And War Were Wrong, What This All Really Means.

When My Sixth Grade Teacher Opened The Class With Subtle Praise For The Guardsmen Shooting Four People To Death At Kent State, I'd Given Up Arguing With Her By That Point. But I Was Very Riled Up Inside And Vowed That I Would Never Forget That.