Skinhead

I've probably read it a hundred times now.

Patricia Smith has a poem, Skinhead.

And some of the early poems that I wrote for Devil's Backbone, I was trying to emulate that, you know, because she speaks.

That is a persona poem where she's speaking in the voice of a skinhead, right? A white supremacist young man.

And I was like, yeah, I have to realize that the world we're living in, you know, That's not going to be something I can do.

And it didn't feel good doing it anyway.

But like I was trying to emulate Skinhead and I realized, no, that's not something that I can do.

Not for this book and not probably ever in my life.

I think in a lot of ways, the kind of the weirder and kind of more like aloof and obtuse, maybe kind of like getting into, maybe we could shave off half your head.

I think Skinhead could be the next show.

Yeah, I think skinhead, maybe more tattoos.

I think it might be like, you know, like grills.

know which it is.

Skinhead.

Both.

Yeah.

But the songs are so catchy.

It's like Skinhead.

It's like Skinhead.

It's like the evolved...

Not evolved, because Skinhead is what it is, but it's like the melodically evolved Skinhead.

Well, I mean, Skinhead's really melodic.

It's just his vocals are so brutal and his lyrics are brutal.

But this thing that those two bands are doing, I think, is a little similar.

That's also a difference.

You could find that in, I don't know, the radical Skinheads- or Stalin's Russia, or the Soviet Union, perhaps.

Before you came in here, someone on Twitter commented

on one of my elections- It's not anti-Semitism to demonize Israel.

And having that, you know, that Rude Boy influence is fucking sweet.

And that's what, where the look of Skinhead 2, where it branches off, you take aspects of that Rude Boy, you know, style and branch it into...

The mod? Working class fucking...

How do I want to say that there, right? I wrote it down here.

Yeah.

I mean, I think we also got to talk about the different...

Like, Scott has generations, you know, Skinhead has generations too, right? Especially American Skinhead, right? Because in the early 80s, Skinhead fashion was a pair of fucking docs, some ugly-ass bleachers, right? A fucking great...

braces with like no shirt you know what i'm saying like but but that but again that arc is back to what the rude boys because the rude boys were walking around without bleachers right but with fucking no shirt and braces right and just a pork pie hat so um and now how In the year of our Lord, we're going back to more traditional styles and not looking so punk because there was that late 70s, early 80s influence of punk coming into skinhead.

Otherwise known as Edward Cullen.

The skinhead killer.

Skinhead.

No, you did manage to take down Azeroth, luckily, and then ventured further into the ship.

You fought over about which door to enter into a deck cabin on board this massive pirate ship, blood-red sails made out of human flesh, webbed rigging, kind of coating the upper section of the ship.

I remember that.

Hey, Andrew, I was 15, writes Guy Treby, and a co-worker two years older would walk to the bank with Ventures takings past Skinhead sitting outside Box Hill Station.

We were brave, packing it really, but we were brave.

See, you could have just done that in quiet old Tassie.