you are being lied to

i still can't believe it. disillusionment. i wonder if this is what people who wholeheartedly believed in tammy fay and jim bakker's promise of heavenly tribute and godly salvation when it was discovered they were hoarding the cash for themselves? maybe they just turned a blind eye and kept believing. maybe that's all they could do. should i do that? or maybe i'm just a hypersensitive pc-nazi-bitch? i don't consider myself one, but there are certian people/groups that are held to a higher standard, right? it is amazing how just a few (misplaced?) words can have such a strong effect.

who can you trust?

a 12 hour (i can't believe that i didn't realize i was signing up for a 12 hour journey when i booked the damn thing) bus ride down to london put me about a mile away from astoria where my possibly fake (purchased on ebay for considerably less than face value) tickets were to let me in for what is probably my favorite band. i didn't even get lost on the way over and the venue had a bag check for my post office bag-come travel sack. while finishing up the 2L (!) of pre-show beer i chatted with some english people and enjoyed the incredible warmth of the heatwave england was experiencing (thank you global warming?).

following in the tradition of the HoB LA show a few years back i missed the opening band and headed in with about 15 minutes to kill (more beer, a piss, a chat with a drunk aussie). Bad Religion comes out to much fanfare and start pounding. they were pretty spot on, but until hearing their latest offerings through 2 celing high speaker setups i forgot how reliant on lyrics/words BR is. although musically they are usually decent, alot of songs are, well, flat. really though, this isn't about the music, they did put on a good show - not great, but good - and i did (for the most part) have fun. THIS is about a side (snide) comment made by BR's kilted guitarist (bassist? - gotta look it up); a simple comment, made all the time and normally it doesnt' bug me - okay, that is a lie, it always bugs me, but it depends on who is doing the commenting. halfway through the gig kiltman proceeds to say soemthing along the lines of 'that opening band was sooooooo gay'.

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what
the
fuck

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again, you hear this glib statement all the time. you learn to let it wash over you or you confront your friends and the people you spend alot of time with or you get pissed off and let it fester or you throw the speaker dirty looks or blahblahblah. i really don't think i'm a pc nazi, but am i allowed to hold BR up to a set of higher standards? i'm sure i'd be more forgiving had it been say blink or some other adolescent-ish punky band, but BR is the bastion of popular political lefty american punk. they should know better. right? am i asking too much? i am pretty sure that no harm was meant towards the lbgt(etc) community and that it was the typical "no no no, i just mean gay like lame duuude, you know what i mean maaaaaan?"

in my ears it is as though he said, 'man, that last band played like a bunch of niggers'

but maybe i'm just sensitive