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Local News: A Word on the Home Front
A Dated Event is Still a Current Issue At the Halloween punk show held at Castaways on October 31, 2000, a local band "Psycho Kraft" performed. During their performance they produced a blowup doll (inflated with air) and hailed it to be representative of all the ex-girlfriends and instructed the crowd to rip her up - that is not a quote. They then went in to a song in which they poetically described their dismay for the "bitch", the "ho". They threw the doll out into the audience, who proceeded to heat it up. I was not there when this happened or believe you me-it wouldn't have. So all my information up until this point in the article is from the mouths of others. Well some folks may think this happened too long ago to still be talking about it, and some might think it not even important enough to write about let alone publish it. But guess what. I do. Shortly after I had found out that this had happened, which wasn't until some weeks later, I received an email from a member of another local punk hand-a band that had opened the show that night. The email asked if any one in the wemoon's army did spoken word and if so would any of us like to perform at one of their shows sometime? So here is the actual online conversation we began, beginning with my response to his email:
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> the disgusting display of ignorance with the beating
> of a female blow up > doll > which comes to me as hearsay mind you > for if i had been witness to such things, surely i > would have had to express > similar rage about ex boyfriends and take it out on > some equipment > any hoo seeing as though we very rarely see each > other, and it is always so > brief, i hope you will write back > sincerely > ms.byrd > ms.byrd, well .... as to the (at this point) HIGHLY controversial psycho kraft stage show: I )i didn't actually see the incident in question, i was trying to stop a fight. 2) i think that the psycho kraft p.r.division (matt) is in many ways an ignorant kid from the middle of nowhere. 3) everyone has been hurt by someone in the past, and they deal with it in different ways. the girl in question is an ex- of mark's 4)everyone with even remotely feminist leanings is completely up in arms about this EXCEPT those who have met mark or spent any time with psycho kraft. seriously, mark is one of the most harmless people i've ever met, and that makes a world of difference. the interpretation is not the complete fault of the expressor (in this case psycho kraft), it is also in part the responsibility of the people who choose to take the expression (in this case destroying a inflatable doll) to a level of extreme rage. to oversimplify the point: somebody got mad and yelled. into a microphone. with the |
