<![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> hey dudes, my house was in this book, and say what you like about the the deadness of punk, but we own the house outright, cook dinner for each other every night, make all our decisions by consensus, have a huge garden, stay warm in the winter, and have fun all the time. hate on it, haters!

GISM

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> JesusKong: Good reference. Punk houses are an exception though. Also, they often have hilarious names. Some of the ones in Boston right now: Castle Pikachu, Platonic Sleepover House, The Thunderdome.

kthnx

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @PimpMyCouch: You know who's gonna be there? My favorite cover band, Crystal Shit!

katieee

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @tewkesbury: Infinite Nest

britneyspearstears

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> there goes my gag reflex again...

appliance

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @City_Dater:
wow, flashback. it was like, a blog, but with paper and stuff. you kids these days!

dcd829

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @soybomb: Those weren't the 911 house schizos, were they?

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Furious_George: Twas Stevie Nicks, unless Lohan decided to ressurect the Fleetwood Mac blow ouvre.

bombed_pop

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Furious_George: Must have been notorious cheapskate Sarah Jessica Parker

JudithButler

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @soybomb: See tub girl, however

JudithButler

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @judithbutler: Yeah, wasn't there a story about a year ago involving some female celebrity who forced her assistant to blow coke up her ass with a straw? I want to say this was Gwyneth Paltrow, but seeing as how my fantasies almost never work out the way they were intended, I'm gonna say it was Courtney Love.

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @judithbutler: also no worrys about stained shirts.

debord at work

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Furious_George: More bang for your buck to take it via enema, no liquor loss to tummy acid or something like that. Works with blow too.

JudithButler

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @soybomb: Or, you know, you could always just drink it. The lengths some people will go to...

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @aisatsana: that's a simile, baby!

debord at work

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> "What a dump." Also, a dog walker for David Foster Wallace, essays and publisher intros by Sonic Youth band members? It's not punk when you can crash at mummy's mansion. What a crock of shit, she should be burned alive. Oh, and she looks like a mutt.

JudithButler

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @KimGordonsPanties: when i lived in gainesville, i was casual acquaintances with some train hoppers who would get fucked up by putting cheap red wine/cooking wine in a turkey baster, injecting it into their asses, and holding it in as long as they could. you can't by that sort of terrible punk cred at hot topic!

debord at work

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> For a long time I regretted never having lived in a group house.

Until this post.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> What it says on that stove is what I want to do that house.

HiredGoons

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Come on, admit it. You are all at least slightly jealous that the photographer is still living the life at 29 that we maybe thought was sorta cool when we were 13. Just wow, these people still exist?

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I remember when me and like-minded males would sit in the basement, burning things, listening to thrash-hardcore anti-agribusiness songs, and making photocopies of our zine... then we would take our zines and go and drop them off of interstate overpasses. Then we would go back home and vomit all night long. Listening to thrash-hardcore. Always always to thrash-hardcore.

hageesheart

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> the word punk was used only 7 times in that pointless description.

that in itself is, in fact, not punk.

andheartss

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> When I lived in the same house as my bandmates (and assorted girlfriends and/or boyfriends), we had a strict policy of not allowing in anyone who used the following terms in description of their own houses:
-Cooperative
-Collective
-Non-profit
-Organic

But then again, we mostly just lived together so we'd be able to pool our money for beer, steak and drugs. Then, we'd beat the crap out of each other.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> punkz a funny word

nikaoh

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Looks like a wonderful place to throw a New Years Eve party.

Soup

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> fucking brainless idiots

Bigggnasty

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @JesusKong: ExACTly: youtube

JojoSaysNo

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @hiredgoons: and to be fair, perhaps he needed the puffy jacket to protect him from the sting of all that deliberate irony inherent in a snotty vegan wearing a leather jacket with a Dead Kennedys logo.

tewkesbury

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Tammany_Fall: Apparently, the Common Ground, a collective restaurant in Brattleboro and pretty much the epicenter of Crunchy Purple Hippiedom, had a cockroach infestation a few years ago. A proposed solution was that there would be a talking circle, in which the worker-owners would gently and non-judgmentally urge the roaches to move elsewhere.

tammyfey

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Thurston Moore is a nice and modest person; f*ck those brats and their pretentious dwellings. Although I will say punk houses do keep squatters out of your own house (at least I wish they had for the winter of 2005). Angry muttered cursing (I wonder where they bought that stove).

HiredGoons

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I liked this tortured metaphor: "And despite the profound grunge of the punk-house milieu, her photos are never tragic: they reveal a focused, almost manic energy, like a straight-edge song." straight edge is not a genre.

aisatsana

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I gift wrapped a bottle of Boone's Farm Apple Wine once, but the recipient was a jazz singer who lived on fillet of iceberg lettuce and salt & pepper soup.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @JesusKong:
or "punk rockers."

@Hez:
A true punk house really is a squat and even in my most fucked up years, you still couldn't pay me to sleep or bathroom in one of them.

Guess I sold out to the Tidy Bowl Man.

kathotdog

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @KimGordonsPanties: You have to puke ON the person interviewing you for the Home & Garden section.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Michael Jahn: All I can say is that my squatter/punk friends have better taste than to approve of Two Buck Chuck as a hostess gift. Maybe they're part of some foodie-punk sub-subculture, or maybe. . . punk's dead.

ButchCrassidy

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Once again, David Foster Wallace's dog's loss is the world's gain.

tewkesbury

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Michael Jahn: Wine is totally punk if you drink enough of it and then puke. But gift-wrapping I guess isn't all that punk.

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Rent? Pfft. A true punk house is a squat.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Michael Jahn: Yes, luckily we can always blame hippies. I'm sure some stinky fucker with polenta crumbs in his beard and Rusted Root vinyl in his homemade messenger bag is responsible in some way for any ill you can name.

JojoSaysNo

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I just bought a late-90s boy band house, and my pubic region has never been smoother!

Nard

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Looking more carefully at that picture, the "burn burn burn" looks PhotoShopped and there's an impressive, neatly arranged spice shelf in the background. Oh, and in the center there, is that a nice gift-wrapped bottle of wine or is that part of the window treatment?

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @tammyfey: even more evidence... profitability stemming from artistry. these people aren't punk, they're whores. cheap whores, but whores nonetheless.

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> "You know what punkers don't do? Call themselves 'punkers.'"

JesusKong

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @tammyfey: Ha. I'm sorry, but these "punks" are one Bennington degree away from "Performance Art House."

Tammany_Fall

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I just loved this: "The rent is $1,000, which Ms. Banks collects from her studio mates (there are about 20, living and working in rooms called Shantytown and Vegetable Street). When the rent collection comes up short, they have a show, Ms. Banks said, or sell T-shirts."

Uh, I don't have my 40 bucks this month either, but I've been working on my navel lint dream catcher and it's sorta ready so we could try to sell it or something...

tammyfey

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> So that's Fall Out Boy's native habitat. With a little wainscoting, it would be downright charming!

ascot-revival

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Itsjustcatnip: Learn how to type- twat.

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Punk rock died when the first kid said, "Punk's not dead. Punk's not dead."

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I, myself, live in an Oom-pah-pah house.

Chryss

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @KimGordonsPanties: printed on human flesh. That's punk!

FracturedAcetabulum

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> It's encouraging to think that if I ever followed through on any of my seemingly useless project ideas, perhaps I too could make the pages of The Times. I can't decide whether to apply my energies to (1) a coffee table book documenting the paper's periodic use of the word "scurf" or (2) a lending institution inspired by the curious phrase "art-house alt-punk bank Sonic Youth."

ButchCrassidy

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Did the article mention anything about Ragtime? Has Ragtime sold out too? Because I live in a Ragtime house and I can't believe it would no longer be considered stylish.

Screen Name

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Emily and Michelle are offended by this misogeny.

And we want to know what Douglas thinks as well.

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> If he printed and bound the books himself, that would be pretty punk.

Mr. Kim Gordons Panties

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @SarahHeartburn: It's just one word away from "Disco Inferno," and thus highly suspect.

Tammany_Fall

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Hope we can rely on you not to use shower
you're not keeping tub caulked
caused both downstairs bath ceilings and
walls to be soggy -Take Five, D, Minutemen

BinkysDream

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Scribbling "burn burn burn" on the stove reminds of Jeffrey McDonald's scribbling "acid is groovy. Kill the pigs" on the wall of the apartment where he just slaughtered his family, the idea being to blame hippies.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @Tammany_Fall: No, it screams a warning from the previous owner.

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> @mathnet: I think it's a Casual Encounters reference?

Moff

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Saw a stop on her book tour. Pretty uncomfortable...

of_clem

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> No punk house is complete without a bitchin' Camaro.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Back in the day we used to just call it a 'band house' and they were usually totally depressing vortexes of shit and failure...although much like everything ungerground in the past 30 years, this aesthetic will soon be sterilized, packaged and sold at your local Urban Outfitters when they turn in to the Home Depot for the new breed of consumhipsters. Pre-graffiti'd vintage diswashers are on aisle 8 next to the pre-scruffed 70's style linoleum. Punk is whatever it is sold to be.

pepelicious

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> "As with punk itself, the punk house eludes a tidy definition."
What a clunker of a sentence. Dear God, I miss Johnny Apple.

TheBigDoggy

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Writing "burn" on the stove screams "hipster irony," not "punk." Nice try, though.

Tammany_Fall

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Difference between this and Freegans?

Metcalf

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Yet they haven't run a single word on Emily and Michelle.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I am available later to explain the phrase "photocopied zine" to everyone born in the '80s.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> norpunk

La Cieca

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> I went on a Punk Safari once and it was just so great to see them running wild in their natural habitat.

Colonel Mustard

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> do people who live the punk lifestyle still use the word 'punk'? it seems a little too mainstream.

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Oh, Gerald, look at the darling little man in the corner with the needle up his arm trying to tune his guitar in the buff! That's it--I am sold. We MUST buy this house.

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> So, then, the bum-infested entrance to the abandoned porn theater near my house is a "punk campground"?

Sarcastro

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> So that's what they're calling "shitholes" these days. Crazy kids.

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> "Apartment full of professionals found on Craigslist" what?

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Fookin' hell. Who ate all my Easy-Off?

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA['Punk Houses' For Yuppies]]> Harder core than thou for a year or two, then it's time to get a real job.

- J. Biafra

Sarcastro

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