Didn't i vow to never get too comfortable, too satisfied, too complacent?
i was feeling the vibe from seeing all these ppl who grew up like me in the audience, all these similar experiences, seeing them there and on the screen was so like, yeah, rawk on! that's what i'm talking about. i turned to lyric and said to him, "this is my life up on the screen; that was me at fucking sixteen." the fear of going to shows back in those days (my 'days' would have been the very early nineties), the isolation, the experiences of being the one 'safe' black person your white friends knew (the whole "you're okay cuz you're not really black, you're jennifer" thing).
| Continue culludgal's "and me still only fifteen," brought on by a screening of James Spooner's "Afro-Punk"
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