Me, rocking out with some of my favorite peeps!
So, I watched a film last night on my computer called “Edge” about the straightedge subculture amongst the punk-rock scene.
Being somewhat of a “rocker girl” myself, I found the film quite interesting, as it seemed to go hand in hand with one of my all-time favorite books, Dharma Punx by Noah Levine. The book is an interesting tale of punk rock and religion, and how the two can truly become one entity. The film I watched last night was very similar. A lot of it was about the drug-free movement amongst certain punk rockers and a sober, yet still totally rock and roll lifestyle. There was also a part in it about animal cruelty, and being completely drug-free and cruelty free, and still being rock and roll. Now, some people may think that you can’t be hardcore and rock and roll without the “extreme” lifestyles of debauchery and drug usage and the biting off of bat heads (I love my Ozzy, but this thought gives me nightmares!). I mean, I’m not saying that you can’t have a good time…I’ve been known to throw down a 5th of Jack before a party has even started, but that’s beside the point! What I’m getting at is, you don’t have to fit into a mold to be who you are. Just because you are vegan doesn’t mean you have to run around smelling like onions because you don’t shower and don’t shave and hug every tree you see. Just as much as being rock and roll or punk rock doesn’t mean you have to live your life in a drug-fueled, hate-fueled haze. Anyway, I think that this is an excellent movie, and everyone should definitely try and watch it, vegan or not. Like I said, it’s just a small part about animal cruelty in it, but I think that it speaks volumes. It was also produced by Compassion Media, which is a great production company to support. Give it a watch, and tell me what you think! And, if you don’t believe you can rock the stage until the sun comes up without animal protein, check out this small compilation of musicians (just that I know of, I’m sure there are more) who go out and do it every night!!
Joan Jett
Prince
Karl Buechner of Earth Crisis/Freya
Ray Cappo of Youth Of Today/Shelter
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat
Bull Gervasi of R.A.M.B.O.
Chrissie Hynde
Quinn Allman of the Used
Fiona Apple
Hunter Burgan of AFI
Davey Havok of AFI
Terence “Geezer” Butler of Black Sabbath
Dave Davies of the Kinks
Boy George
Dave Goodman, original producer of the Sex Pistols
Alanis Morissette
Reggie Riot of Three Man Riot
Pat Thetic of Anti-Flag
Weird Al Yankovic (no, I’m not kidding!)
So there. And like I said, I’m sure that this is not all of them, just ones that I have heard of around the grapevine. So you can have your rock and be cruelty-free, too!!!
7 comments:
This comment made me crack up: "Just because you are vegan doesn’t mean you have to run around smelling like onions because you don’t shower and don’t shave and hug every tree you see."
Awesome post - I definitely agree with what you're saying here. Too many people try to act the way society thinks they should. How exhausting! People should just be who they are and like what they like without having to worry what other people think.
That comment was on an anti-vegetarian blog I saw once, and nearly made me blow a gasket! And yet, supposedly, "we" are the judgmental ones!
Hay Danielle,
You know me from TKL, just wanted to say I like your blog and I am definetaly going to make some of your recipes. Also coming from the Punkscene, yep I was Punk in my days ;) I know all about the straight edgers, in punk aswell in the Ska/skinscene. At that time I was "only" veggy like lots of my die-hard punkfriends! Keep writing and rocking! Love, Axa
<3 Thanks for stopping by, Axa!!
Love the Joan Jett photo! She is so cool! My friend Parvati (singer and song writer) is taking a trip to the North Pole to do the first ever concert there! She is doing this to raise awareness of global warming! How cool is that?
www.parvati.ca
Hi truth belts, that's so cool that Parvati is going to the North Pole. I've been hearing a lot about the melting polar ice caps lately, and then there was all that crazy, devastating weather this summer. People really have to get aware of what we're all doing to the earth. Let's hope Parvati can make a difference. Go Parvati!
That's so great! Thanks for sharing that info!
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