Stray Observations – #3
Written & Illustrated by Paul Rebar (Halifax, NS)
Written & Illustrated by Paul Rebar (Halifax, NS)
Written & Illustrated by Paul Rebar (Halifax, NS)
B.A. Johnston Live @ The Rockhouse in St. John’s, NL – October 10th, 2014
All Photos by Mike Heffernan
On BlueKaffee, people were sharing their innermost experiences, like the trauma of being a teenager, or the excitement of seeing a new girlfriend or boyfriend, with people that they ran into in math class every day […] That just wasn’t a thing then. So for a lot of us it was an exposure to social networking with peers that they knew in real life before that was a common experience.
Written & Illustrated by Paul Rebar
1) Television.
2) Girlfriend.
3) Quitting a job.
These three pop punk tropes are examples of why pop punk can be the greatest genre or the absolute worse. Tropes #1 and #3 aren’t so much troublesome as they are tired; it’s #2 that is the problem child. This is where pop punk straddles the line of being charming & romantic and creepy & sexist. You show me Jawbreaker’s “Want” and I’ll flash Screeching Weasel’s “I Don’t Wanna Be Friends.”
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