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(column)Has punk become too sensitive?

I am writing this rantings in the year 2019., so punk is officially over 40 years old now. From old school Sex Pistols and 70-ies chaos years, over the 80-ies and Ron and Maggie fear of nuclear war years, to 90-ies and appearance of scene polluting bands like Green Day, Blink 182 and similar shitty bands claiming to be punk and taking our beloved scene mainstream to the masses where we never wanted it to be, to 21st century and new millenia, punk endured it all.

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But, one thing I ask myself too often is, have the people in the scene become too sensitive, too afraid to express their thoughts and opinions, too much in the comfort political correct zone? Sometimes at the gigs, I get the feeling more and more, like there is not a thing you can say and you are immediately proclaimed to be fascist, anti this, anti that, homophobe, xenophobe and similar nice names. I mean, I hate those politically correct punk police in the scene, that watch your every move. They watch what bands you listen, what jokes you tell, what t-shirts you are wearing and so on, so on.

7 or 8 years ago, I sang for the band Kraykulla And The Gypsyfuckers. We were punk band from our hometown and the name of the band was our intern joke regarding our county in the north of Croatia. When we played gigs here in the northern parts of the country and there were never problems. Also, Slovenia was never problem, or Hungary for that case. But, in some larger towns in Croatia, we were branded nazis, racists, biggots and shit. One time at the club where we played, the girl at the bar didn´t want to give me my drink saying she doesn´t serve nazis?! I was wtf! We changed our name to KGF then, only to avoid the arguments with those narrow minded anarchoid empty headed bastards, pc punk police, who are often bigger fascists than the nazi boneheads themselves. If you are not agreeing totally with their opinions about veganism, squatting, music, bla bla, you are immediately against them, so who is the fascist now, you bastards?

After all, it is easy living in squat and being a jerk and showing off when you don´t have to work because your rich Mommy and Daddy have enough money to support you until the day they die. Some say they want to make punk a threat again. Punk was never a threat, punk was music and being creative, anything goes, remember? Unfortunately with anything goes, we got empty headed punk pc police too. 21st century, but no brain at all.

(column)Michael Myers-The phenomena of The Shape

Being avid horror fans, when we were kids we used to argue who is stronger and harder killer, Jason Vorhees, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger or Michael Myers. I always somehow went for Myers, him being silent, personification of evil and darkness, character created by the legendary John Carpenter in the first Halloween movie back in 1978.

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That movie and music scared the shit out of me as a little kid and still creeps me till this day. Why? Because of the relentless, merciless nature of Michael˙s pursue for his cause, killing his victims. We all know his history, I don˙t want to go into those later movies in which that cult made him as a killing machine, but in my opinion the true Halloween bloodline made of the first two movies, H:20 and the newest one, maybe including those two Rob Zombie˙s flicks which I love, despite many who don˙t. Michael is pure evil, but sometimes he brings out pity in me, disgust and pity mixing in me in some movie scenes. I never approve and never will his murder work, but I can somewhat understand him, his mask, his lonely darkened path. Being depressive and dark natured geek I am, I love Michael Myers, I love all Halloween movies, event that one, the third without Michael. I have a theory that Michael Myers somehow represents the darkness and evil in all of us, there is a little of Michael Myers˙darkness lurking in each and every one of us, denizens of this pitiful  planet.