go see the cartoon!
I myself have been at least two of the stereotypes. Um, maybe three.
For backstory on Black Earth and Frankie’s, go here.
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“Coloring: it is my enemy.”
Anti-semite.
I LOVE the line-up of stereotypes!!
i’ve never really seen skinheads at a show!
I have. Long story to go with that guy, and his dumb-ass pals . . . the comic was supposed to be called “Black Earth,” after the name of that very first band I watched. The lead singer/bassist would whip the fire out of the skinhead a few months later, ‘cuz he had jammed a razor blade into the toes of his Doc Martens and hopped into the pit—cutting up the ankles and shoes of the people around him. Crazy Nazi bastard.
I don’t think that you linked to the right Penny Arcade comic, Gorjus.
oh mi gawd, i lurve your stereotypes
ok, from left to right:
)nerdy skater boy-foundling who has just finished growing out his beret-do and was excited to pull out his black, leather chain wallet to fish out 3 bills to pay his cover. he’s hoping there will be a pit. he has already bought a t shirt to mark the occasion, and he changed into it in the bathroom of the club. this is his first show, too.
angry slayer/skynnard meathead who just got off work at the pic n’ pak and is looking fuck shit up. that hole in his jeans was slashed with a pocket-knife, not grown emo-style. he also digs the chili peppers.
3)LA wanna be’s, sporting the darby crash. the girl even has the circle cult symbol on her shirt. but, is she licensed to give “the burn”?
4)gamer nerd in a leather semi-blazer. his jeans are up to his nipples, and his t-shirt has the mortal combat logo. also unseen are his tight rolls and american flag converse high tops (or black reeboks).
5)white-trash girl who wanted to be lita ford last year and has no idea who’s playing. she just got her cousin to drop her off.
how’d i do???
Close…but #4 (actually fifth guy in the line-up, you skipped the skinhead) is Future-Gorjus circa 1998 come back to warn himself about silly drunken mistakes he will make. Future G even wore the same Led Zeppelin shirt to prove his identity to his younger counter-part, but in a blur of guitars and mosh-pits the poor starry-eyed younger G is unable to comprehend the severity of the warning. The tales of girls, booze, and rock n’ roll only sound exotic and glamorous to young innocent G. So then future G spends the rest of his time hitting on high school girls in Replacements T-shirts.
i was addressing the skinheads as a couple. but you are totally on about #5 guy. ya know, he looks an awful lot like a guy i dated in college.
Now that is definitely one of you rbest comics!! And JasN pegged line up to a tee.
oddly the Gorj of futures past that JasN describes is much like the Gorj of today (hitting on HS girls in replacements t-shirts). haw!
this lineups looks remarkably like the one at WHST in hattiesburg circa ‘88.
(l to r)
me – except my bangs were never quite that cool. it’s hard to get good skater hair with fluffy curls. i’m hoping that beagle voyage will play that awesome song “stick”. and if they do, i will smoke a cigarette to mark the poignancy of the moment.
mike griffith. he broke yancy porter’s nose in jr. high and everybody’s been too scared to fight him ever since. but one time he snapped me in the tighty whities with a locker room towel and i shoved him back into the wall. luckily the coach walked in before my nose was broken. but that was two years ago, and now we bum marlboros off each other in the smoking section at HHS.
apple. last i heard, he was on the run after shooting a black guy in laurel.
karen bodenhammer. really a nice girl underneath the mascara. last i heard, she had a child named raven.
gorjus. but since this is hattiesburg, i guess it’s some guy from USM that will make out with all the girls i have crushes on.
dana burdine.
Oh god how I love “Stick.” What a brilliant song.
It IS a brilliant song.
Black Earth was a power trio that played riff-heavy rock and roll; a song that the kidz dug was “Between Two Thieves,” a little ditty about the Jesus.
All of the descriptions are exactly right, by the way!