How to be punk [the definitive guide]

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  • Josh said

    Jan 29, 2010 @ 6:06 pm

    lol great site man, funny shit.

  • tasker said

    Jan 25, 2010 @ 5:31 pm

    omg, andrew, ur sooo hawt lol!
    haha
    i enjoy your website it was a great way to pass the time while my tea cooks. i think the hate mail bit's jokes.

  • Joe Green said

    Jan 25, 2010 @ 8:58 am

    This is awesome. Regardless of whether readers ascribe to being called punk or not, anyone who doesn't at the very least chuckle while perusing this site probably lacks a brain. Congrats, you rock!

  • Jon Day said

    Jan 25, 2010 @ 3:15 am

    This site is hilarious.

  • Lynn said

    Jan 25, 2010 @ 3:13 am

    It's the internet. People will always wanna talk shit on here, and do nothing in person. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD.!! This is your site, you can say whatever you want, if you think this is what punk is then HELL YES.! I, for one agree with you, not on everything; but for the most part, yes yess'um(:

  • chainsawsally said

    Jan 25, 2010 @ 3:11 am

    Doood you are onto something here. I went out and bought some sweeeeeeeeet "chucks"and a Nausea tshirt..do you know any of their songs..maybe you can clue me in on one...punkrawk

  • andrew said

    Jan 24, 2010 @ 7:30 am

    abbylute, thanks, i WILL have fun.

  • andrew said

    Jan 24, 2010 @ 7:29 am

    No Doves, FUCK YOU!! just kidding...no need to apologize, and thanks for wondering!! yes im 23, live surprisingly close to the beach, have a wonderful girlfriend (no dog though), a successful business, do listen to punk, i did have a mohawk, etc etc. (do you know me or something??) never went to college though.

    firstly, the reason im fine with all of the above is that i earned it. every last bit. i do have loving parents, they do have money, they sent me to a good high school. after that, i moved from home (in MN) out to santa cruz, got a job and started working. i received no money from my parents and only could afford my life by getting food stamps. this isnt a sob story, just some background. i worked two jobs at one point and worked hard enough to be hired on full-time at one with relatively good pay. from then on i worked by way into the business side of my job and realized i could do it myself. so my brother and i are currently working on our own now.

    the reason i maintain this site is because its a statement against blind acceptance, a statement that i stand behind still. the truth is i barely spend any time on this site. look at the last time i responded to hate mail. in a good year i do it maybe twice, sometimes three times. see, i really dont have time to look down my nose at others. getting idiots all riled up and then making fun of them for it is a pastime, and im good at it, but the truth is i couldnt have known as much as i do about being a "poser" if i wasnt one at some time. save the "hot topic punk" i could have easily been any of the punks i make fun of at different points in my life. im fine with that too. we all grow and change, and hopefully the people who take a satire as a personal blow will realize its not what im saying that offends them, its part of themselves they hate.

    also realize that "overflowing urge to share my wealth of punk knowledge with those not fortunate enough to be as enlightened as me" was in itself sarcastic..."wealth of punk knowledge" being the satirical information on the site.

    so am i a middle class snob? maybe, maybe not. depends who you ask...but i dont really give a fuck. what i have now i earned. i still believe in what i did at earlier stages in my life when i was a "punk" but i just listen to different types of music now and dont have a mohawk. believe me, my standards and beliefs have grown and flourished over the years, and my energies are well spent. i have not forgotten who i am or where im going and i dont intend to.

    theres not a day that goes by where i dont question myself or change for the better...nothing wrong with having a little fun a few times a year though.

  • Lauren said

    Jan 24, 2010 @ 6:18 am

    Awesome site. Nothin' better than seein' some middle school kids who wear $40 (piece of shit)pants from Hottopic, The Used t-shirts, and who constantly talk about how punk they are.

  • abbylute said

    Jan 23, 2010 @ 3:22 am

    Hi,
    Agree with everything no doves had to say. You seem to be bitching about how much
    has changed. When exactly did it change or become shit. If you referring to punk going mainstream or hot topic coming into fashion. Well that was 16 years ago. Were you a punk then? Because I was, and in no way was I ever enticed by that bullshit. There is always going to be mass produced garbage labeled as one thing or another. It is your choice to ignore it or be apart of it. I get the feeling you enjoy getting a rise out of people. So maybe my words are pointless and just inflating your ego a bit more. Have fun pissing off people with your misguided concept of what punk is.

  • No Doves said

    Jan 23, 2010 @ 2:36 am

    Hmmm, for someone who has "moved on" you sure do spend a lot of time and effort on this little site, Andrew. You seem like an intelligent young man. 22 or 23 I'm guessing? Went to college, live by the beach in Santa Cruz? Probably have a girlfriend and maybe a dog, you still listen to some punk, and maybe some garage rock. So why do you spend so much energy condescending down to clueless little cyberpunkees who got they're feelings hurt stumbling on this site, and had the misfortune to think they should share their idiotic, grammatically nauseating opinions in the first place. Excuse my run on sentence.
    Why do you waste so much time responding to emails like "jeEze fuck you man fuck y do u h8 punk so much, ftw punx not dead faggy faggot ur not punk faggity fag fuck"
    With all do respect, it seems as if you are bringing yourself down to the level of the attitudes you are criticizing by maintaining this site. Please don't take this as an attack, its just food for thought, eh? And please forgive me for acting on my "overflowing urge to share my wealth of punk knowledge with those not fortunate enough to be as enlightened as me". Since you are "beyond" punk, it must be immature to still follow Amebix or care about good anarcho punk whatsoever. I apologize.
    I hope our chat has perhaps given you another take on your involvment in this site. And just because you at one point may have sported a lovely mohican at one point, does not necessarily mean you are in the position to look down upon those of us who still like that type of thing, hmm?
    So go back to your comfortable middle class young white life, and if you really do still care about the standards and ideals that attracted you to punk culture in the first place, find a way to live those standards. Put your energies into that instead of taunting these idiots who seem to frequent your site.
    Thanks for the laughs, I hope you find some better way to spend your time, you seem like a bright fellow.

    Sincerely,
    TooBadForMeIStillLikePunk in Portland

  • andrew said

    Jan 22, 2010 @ 9:24 pm

    No Doves, the site came from frustration, not from an overflowing urge to share my wealth of punk knowledge with those unfortunate enough to not be as enlightened as me. And yes, since I started it, one or two people have taken it srsly.

    Sure I still love punk. I wouldn't have made the site if I didn't care. At this point though it's more of a personal thing. It has to be. I see it fouled so much every day that it's hard to take it for anything more than a way to live my own life and ignore what everyone else thinks they know about it.

    In other words, I stopped caring. Feeling anger and frustration hasn't changed a thing, and in the end it was meant to die because human nature inevitably taints everything on our planet. So I took what made sense from it, incorporated it, and moved on.

  • linoleum said

    Jan 22, 2010 @ 4:16 pm

    fuck all of you faggots on this piece of shit waste of life website. nothing on this site even comes close to what punk is. first of all. FUCK YOU! blink 182 is shit. there not punk there a fuckin bot band. rancid afi and fucking nofx are more punk than any of u posers. read the fuckin lyrics, punk is a lifestyle not some fashion game u fuckin retards are making it out to be. punx were the clothes because were either too godam poor to afford new ones or we cant fuckin stand to be seen wearing all your corporate bullshit. or both. you all have the wrong idia of punk and D.I.Y and anarchy. i hope u all die, truelly. the creator of this site can suck shit and lick a trannys hole, your site is a joke. please do everyone a favour and kill yourself, but not b4 deleting this incredibly inacurate site from existence. i hope u reed this shit. but ur probly too busy fuckin the dog. ur all assholes. its u ppl that are givin punk a bad name with ur "hate shit cuz its cool and youll make friends" bullshit. fuck u fuck your site and fuck everybody who likes and or has anything to with this site. go suck some farts out of a dead skunx asshole u emo self destructive piece of flailing shit. shut your mouth. get off the fuckin internet. get some real friends. go to fuckin colledge or sum shit and learn the fucking definition of punk b4 u put shit like this up for ppl to read. your the reason the world is fucked! fuck u. fuck off. fuck everyone here. eat shit and die. please

  • fucker said

    Jan 21, 2010 @ 7:03 pm

    yah dude ur a fuckin poser man like no one goes to hot topic thats fuckin gay man and blink 182 and sum 41 suck dick they didnt start shit except pussy punk ha poser bitch if ur into real fucking punk go back to the 80s ..if youve ever seen snl punk it explains ppl like you that do it for the fashion fuckin poser..you sound like a punk poser/emo cock sucker

  • No doves said

    Jan 21, 2010 @ 1:58 am

    Hmmm, you sound a little fed up. Today, I realized that you can find step by step instructions on how to make a "punk vest" online, or buy them for just a few hundred bucks! Wonderful, when I started in on that stuff as a wee tot I had to figure it out myself! Luckily, now every little suburban shit can be a certified little punkerino without even having to drop his cheeseburger!
    It just goes to show that anything good and well meant in the world will soon be discovered by opportunists and will be turned into a profitable capitalist endeavor. How wonderful to know that the shitbags who beat me up for wearing tight jeans in high school now have the opportunity to buy into my "sub" culture, after all, they just wanted some acceptance, right!
    If you were wondering if im feeling a little irked about the loss of something I really believed in at one point, don't fret, it was already ruined by the time Penny Rimbaud was kicking bands off of Crass records for not compressing their guitars. And it was lovely to know that upon Amebix's regrouping, they got ex Nausea, ex SOULFLY drummer to hook up with them! It's a beautiful thing, ladies and gentleman.
    Well I found your satire amusing, and feel your frustration (I feel safe to assume this site was not meant to be taken seriously, although I'm sure it has been.) But after all this I do feel there are some individuals who still love punk for what it was supposed to be.

    Sincerely,
    Disillusioned in Portland

    (ps. Do you think there's a way i could sell some Omega Tribe or Antisect or maybe some Exit Stance to Hot Topic? I hear the "rebellion" and "Anti-war/Animal Cruelty" market is REAL hot these days!)

  • Dieanna said

    Jan 19, 2010 @ 9:40 pm

    OMG i fuckin love this site 4 no fuckin rezin. i just do. but anyway. ur awshum andrew!!!!

  • awwwyeah said

    Jan 18, 2010 @ 11:59 am

    omg, andrew, ur sooo hawt lol!

    also, the site is hilarious. I wonder if the people who send hate mail feel dumb later. add more genres of tru punx.

  • qwerty said

    Jan 18, 2010 @ 7:21 am

    Haha, this site was a good laugh. I hope your not serious though.

  • andrew said

    Jan 14, 2010 @ 11:41 pm

    1 yes skinheads must be stopped becuz they r all racist!!
    2 nuh uh
    3 real punks are anarchists, no exceptions
    4 yes it is. i want to remind all my fans to go out, spraypaint walls, turn over cars, blow things up... you arent punk unless you do.
    5 actually there are five genres (see my "types of punk" page and learn to count)
    4 yes you do
    6 who doesnt moron. blink started punk. have you even read my site?

  • mike said

    Jan 14, 2010 @ 6:58 pm

    for 1 i want say fuck skin head punks you close minded fucks 2 your stupid ass site is a lot of bullshit. 3 not every punk is a anarchist 4 you like listen to these bands and calling your self punk well punk is not all about spary painting walls get arrested 5 there different genres of punk 4 dont need to stud every thing to be punk 6 you probably listen to blink 182 to you fucking poser


    well fuck your gay ass shit you piss a shit fucking poser poser poser thats all you will be

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