This is just Rotten

I am a romantic. I romanticize. Especially when it comes to the icons who were once cool. I like to think that these people are able to grow up and only become more cool as adults who may be part of the system, but at least it is a system that they seemed to have always been associated with. This is why I like Rush (beyond the music). They were basically nerds who tried to be like Led Zepplin with slightly more competent drummer. This has been their MO from day one and has matured tastefully like wine.

I just don't think of punk when I see this:




Maybe my vision of punk is too much Sid & Nancy and not enough just making a buck. Maybe this is punk and I am just missing it. Maybe if California has happy cows the UK has anarchist cows. Maybe, just maybe, punk was never what I like to dream of it as and Mr. Lydon is determined to tell me this.