enjoy this Brian Looney writing
in the Scars Publications free 2011 PDF file chapbook: Punk Show
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
Some Rage
Brian Looney
What a feeling it invokes. It’s unlike any other in the musical or artistic realm. It captures, it animates, it activates. It overwhelms, and the subject basks in the overload. It’s concerned with itself, and all implements are directed toward its output: a seething reaction.
Some rage is mindless and misdirected. Some rage is shredded through a guitar, pointless and sourceless, undefined and misshapen. But punk rage is honed and pure. It knows its origins. It knows its target.
Punk rage is the beginning of the end. We ride its crest, and the drop-off is imminent, but we feel no fear. It is a living maelstrom, a cleansing despair. It wouldn’t exist without us, and our likeness calcifies our emotions.
It starts in the heart and then spreads to the head. The blood excites. The jaw clenches. The pores close. The eyes harden and narrow. The fists pump. The breath dives deep. Then the dance begins, and all souls solidify.
