Punks, greeks have similarities
ou’rc so different.
You with your Doc Mar
tens and jet-black hair. You
listen to Helmet and L7.
You sel 1 your plasma to buy smokes
or the new Jesus Lizard CD.
You drop acid. Yougetdrunk. You
get stoned.
You learn to play bass
guitar.
You work when you
feel like it. You parly
when you feel like it.
You go to class when
you feel like it.
You’re a slacker.
You hang out in coffee
houses blasting Bush’s
domestic policy and trying to save the
-rain forests.
You recycle all the leftovers from
your post-bar parlies. You read the
newspapers.
You’re politically correct.
You’re anti-media, anti
homophobic, anti-racist, anti
Styrofoam, an li-Rcpublican, anti-po
lice and anti-anti-abortion.
You’re so alternative. ■
The local punk-rock scene seems
to think it has separated itself from the
rest of the world.
Our hippies and punkers scoff at
cliques of yuppies and grccks.
Really, Lincoln’s uprising of the
alternative generation is as big of a
clique as any group of sorority sisters.
Members of this psychedelic cul
ture pride themselves on being unlike
anyone else. »,
Trendy is their No. 1 enemy.
. Thisgcncration’smcmbcrsshould
realize that they themselves are the
biggest violators of their own rules.
Just mentioning “punk rocker” in
stantly conjures up images of
dreadlocks dangling onto plaid, flan
nel shirts half-lucked into torn jeans
rolled over black Chuck Taylors.
Trend with a capital T, if you ask
me.
How much different is the crowd
lhat hangs outside the Brass Rail on
Thursday nights from the crowd that
checks out the band scene at Duffy’s
on Wednesdays?
Thcrc’sa fine line thaldistinguishcs
an alternative groupie tracking down
army boots at local thrift stores from
a frat rat checking out the latest Ralph
Lauren styles.
In every attempt to avoid society’s
dictates, be it clothes, music or even
religion, factional groups create their
own leaders who decide their own
dictates.
Just look at the freaked-out crowd.
They claim to be anti-religious,
yet they Hock to music festivals like
Lollapaloo/.aas though they were re
vivals of their souls.
And hordes of local hippies arc
moving to Seattle or Minneapolis, the
new punk-rock capitals of the world.
They’re in search of a place to be with
those they can relate to.
Their quest could be fulfilled any
where.
The gap between punkcr and pledge
is narrower than both groups feel com
fortable admitting.
OK, not everyone skips showers
and shaves carefully selected areas of
their heads. Members of the altcrna
tive scene obviously stray, from the
mainstream.
But in their drive to be different,
they’ve formed their own stereotypes.
They pass judgment on people who
they feel lack originality and social
direction, yet the psychedelic scene
fails to see how much the two worlds
have in common.
They’re both out to understand the
world around them, make friends and
most importantly — have fun.
I’m guilty of being blind to the
sameness shared by the two groups.
1 lend to distance m yscl f from those
members of the anti-alternative scene
a little more than others.
I’ve looked in disguslat fake-baked
women with permed-oul hair. I’ve
never even been to a fral parly, really.
I feel more at home with a bunch of
long-haired guys jamming on their
guitars than anywhere else in the
world.
I prefer a group of smelly punk
rockcrs to squeaky-clean grccks any
day..
But we all need to realize the two
groups aren’t so very contrary.
They’re more like counterparts.
When the alternative generation
takes a good look at itself, it will
realize how much the group mirrors
the rest of society.
Maybe we all need to take time to
broaden our horizons and cross over
the imaginary line we’ve drawn be
tween the two groups.
Scarcey is a junior news-editorial and
French major, the Daily Nebraskan opinion
page editor and columnist
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