What is a punk?
When school started up this year, of course it brought
in a huge new batch of freshmen. Several of them were the sort-of "gothic" type
people, but not even gothic, just people who listen to Korn and Limp Bizkit, whom I do not
wish to associate with because of their lack of musical knowlege and stuff. Of course,
those people are rather stupid musically and were drawn to me because I look different
than most people. Some girl asked me if I had a cigarette, to try to sound cool.
Of course I didn't. I just said "No, I don't smoke. I hate
smoking." Which is true. People only do it to look cool... Have you noticed that?
Most younger people who smoke only smoke in public places... in front of lots of people.
And ask people for cigarettes to sound cool, or say " Man, I need a
cigarette..." It is such a cliché.
Back to those types of people...
I may be a punk, but I'm not a social outcast. I have many friends from
many different cliques, and I don't let it phase me one bit that I'm different. Some
new people to my school this year didn't realize that.
A friend of mine, Robby Miller, is a big prep. But he is a nice person,
and treats me nice... we get along quite well. Kristen and call him " the
Hippie" because he wore a Grateful Dead shirt once or something. He was in our
Spanish class awhile ago, and we all got along well, despite our.. umm... "cultural
differences."
Anyway, Robby and I had Spanish together again. We always talk(ed) in
class to each other, like I said, we are friends. One day Robby came into class saying
"We were talking about you in my English class." "Oh?," I said.
"Yes, some people were saying you were gothic and stuff. And I told them, 'No, Lacy's
cool, she's a punk."
So people think I'm gothic? I hardly ever wear black. Oh well... And
that brings me to my point.
Kristen and I single handedly revolutionalized my school's dress code
it's first year open. We would write obscure messages on t-shirts (" I am Axl
Rose!" "Say no to Commies!" etc... etc...), wear mismatched clothing, wear
trashbag skirts, wear paper skirts... paper shirts... etc.. etc...
And I revolutionalized the hair dress code... by... oh my.. dying my
hair. First I wasn't sure what the dresscode was, so I kept in the basically natural
colors, blondes, oranges, and black. But the second year our school was open, I decided I
was tired of that, bleached my hair, and dyed it pink. Then Purple. It was purple at
registration. Many of the new "other types" of people saw it....
I dyed it blue by the time school started. The second day of school...
EVERYONe of those "other" people copied off of me! Several boys had blue hair
and some nasty girls that asked for the cigarette had pink hair.
That didn't bother me, but it did, because you know, they stole my
thing. They copied off of me, it was like plagarism almost! I wasn't as different
because everyone copied off of me. But I must say, I do a much better job dying my hair
and it looks so much better on me than them (several people told me that).
But that takes me back to my primary question. What is a punk?
Those people don't call themselves punks or anything, but one boy had an anarchy sign on
his shirt. I felt like stopping him in the hall and asking him if he knew what anarchy
was. But..
I didn't want to start a fight . : ) I knew he would have said
"Blowing stuff up..." or something like that... And I would have told him what
it really was, he would have probably hit me or something like that, and it'd be the Preston incident all
over again.
John Lydon once said "Punks in their silly leather jackets and
chains are a cliché." Which is true. I mean, yes, I wear chains... but... punk is an
attitude, a culture, a music, not just the color of your hair.
Back to what is a punk. People that I'm close to even think that I
listen to Manson and Korn and stuff! This girl, I will not name names, to protect the
guilty... said I was a freak once. I never considered her my good friend ever, I never
ever liked her, but I spend a lot of time with her doing drama stuff (bleh!) and
yet... she still told people I was a freak!
Oh well, I know I'm a punk girl, and that's that.
