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While ”punk” is a lifestyle stemming from the wild ass music and mohawks from the early 1970s, in the last fifty odd years it has come to mean a lot more than describing a style of dress and music. Punk is an umbrella term for all of the growths sprouting out of ”do it yourself” outsider culture. House shows, stick and poke tattoos, riding freight trains, making zines, building boats to sail down the Mississippi, welding bike frames together, getting scabies from sleeping on a couch on tour.
Our culture is kept alive by the myriad of hustles we’ve cobbled together to avoid commitment to careers allowing for giant swaths of time to travel, make art, fuck around, find out. Punk jobs exist in the yellowy amber goop Venn diagram of craigslist, word of mouth and sheer luck. Sometimes well paid, sometimes not. Disgusting, terrifying, monotonous, or mind boggling but above all, good for stories. So grab your lighter, re-associate with your cat you haven’t seen in 6 months since working on a weed farm and buckle up. It’s time for your punk chores.
Our culture is kept alive by the myriad of hustles we’ve cobbled together to avoid commitment to careers allowing for giant swaths of time to travel, make art, fuck around, find out. Punk jobs exist in the yellowy amber goop Venn diagram of craigslist, word of mouth and sheer luck. Sometimes well paid, sometimes not. Disgusting, terrifying, monotonous, or mind boggling but above all, good for stories. So grab your lighter, re-associate with your cat you haven’t seen in 6 months since working on a weed farm and buckle up. It’s time for your punk chores.
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Cat & Septic are in Pittsburgh chatting about coming from a long line of rascals and sons of guns, nearly getting sucked into a wood chipper as a small boy, tagging the chimney, falling out of trees, off of trucks, and out of windows, being okay with not making the bicycle look like the bicycle, falling in love with spray paint, saying no to the square world, hearing road ghost stories, spotting UFOS, putting yourself where you shouldn't be and seein' what happens, meeting creepy strangers in the woods, causing chaos in China, using your noodle instead of your back, painting a haunted prison schoolbus, being an art handler, and finding the only song you wanna sing.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Zombiewolf
Cat & Chilly are chillin on the Minnie Pearl in Pittsburgh at Diamond Beach chatting about the trappings of punkdom, working at a living history museum, exotic dancing, two stepping in circles, Texians and imaginal realms, moving into a ballpit full of cans, living with mystery dancing lights, learning that community is a long con, creating a road side attraction, the importance of different hats, selling tumbleweeds, being a train friend, learning softness and being down to clown till you're dead in the ground.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Dusty Joy
Cat & Jonah are in the boat office at Diamond Beach chatting about growing up with a history buff father, going to arts highschool, the good old pager days, being a ninja juice commando, being a noisy night owl paper boy, being a suit kid, running away to Europe to escape a charge, creating a funky odd family as an 18 year old in Amsterdam, moving kids summer camp luggage for money, living in Thailand, returning to your root system, becoming engrossed in art and fabrication world, being in the rave scene, making a giant portrait out of used whip-its, partying with endangered cockroaches, becoming a literal tarot wizard, shedding the identity of drug and alcohol use, learning astrology and plugging into our collective story through therapy and astrology work.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Matrix
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Cat & Gerty are on the Mississippi River chatting about being the straight edge roadie in Japan, running away to the big apple with yr skateboard, living under the radar, losing all your filters, going to carpentry school with dumpstered wood, barfing on villagers sandals in southeast Asia, having your motor problems solved through the power of flavor crystals, getting the boathouse for a $2 bill, and being forever grounded by living on the river.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Uke of Phillips
Cat & Jess are in South Minneapolis chatting about playing footsie with Mormon alt boys, discovering punk through Alkaline Trio, being a fellow myspace LoVeR, being an oldies radio dj and xeroxing their boobs, running away to Minneapolis to be a musician, writing a song for Red Bull, going on tour, making top dollar off poppers, accidentally cock blocking, eating too many everclear cherries, moving to LA, doggy daycaring, being an extra in porn, wiping butts and caring for people, being an incredible schmoozer and only indulging in the right kind of cringe.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Yoni Yum
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