Hey all,
Ok. So this isn’t a big topic, but perhaps worthy of punksinscience in that it deals with extremes, in a way. What do all you linguists out there think of single morpheme cycles/phases/spellout domains/command units? Anyone know anyone if anyone has discussed this?
-H
“Everything gets speeded up in our memories, so it winds up going through some kind of contemporary, like, slightly punk-rock filter.”(Ruyter Suys - Nashville Pussy. Just saw them here in Montreal. It was a great show, with wonderful peoplewatchability. Too lazy to comment in the music section!)

Hello everybody,

the new punksinscience-calendar is online. From now on, you can let everybody know, what’s up - and when/where.
To publish information about an upcoming event, just start a new post. In “Categories”, set the category-type to “Events” (uncheck the remaining categories) and set the start- and end-date in the Schedule Editor at the bottom of the page of your event.

Have fun!

Planned for June 1-3, 2007.

Hello from Cambridge, MA. I’m here to give a couple talks at Harvard and MIT. I’ll post the handout here next week for those interested. As it turns out, this is a funny time to be in the Boston area, where our favorite anarcholinguist Noam Chomsky is buried…in work.

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A new documentary entitled “American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock 1980 - 1986” was shown at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, and will have a limited theatrical release this fall. The movie is based on the book “American Hardcore: A Tribal History” by Steven Blush (which I’ve been meaning to read for a long time). Both book and film document U.S. hardcore punk scenes during the 1980s and feature lots of famous bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, et al. “American Hardcore” looks like a pretty good flick judging from the trailer. I definitely want to see it as soon as possible. Maybe the eventual DVD will join my punk-rock movie collection. (I’m still waiting for “The Decline of Western Civilization” to finally come out.)

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Hi,

I haven’t posted before, and I’m half convinced that I’m doing it all wrong or that it’s not appropriately categorized, but bear with me. It’s at least punk-related (due to the punk activist kids that were involved) or tenuously political.
I’m researching an article on an old 90s activism side-issue (I suppose that’s the best way to describe it).

Chris Plummer claimed he was put in prison in the 90s due to his part in vandalizing a neo-Nazi organizing house in Houston, but stuff I’ve uncovered on the web and the TX Dept. of Correx folks say he was in there for far more mundane crimes. If that’s true, then he successfully hoodwinked a lot of well-meaning activist kids in the 90s and early 00s, which I suppose should be no huge surprise — but it might make for an interesting article.

Please, if you have any familiarity with Chris Plummer, his case, or even just the lore around it, I’d love to hear from you!

Chris (no relation to Plummer)

PS How’s it going Jeff?

Legendary Portland, Oregon punk band Poison Idea had just finished recording a new album when guitarist Tom “Pig Champion” Roberts died of apparent kidney failure in January 2006.

Entitled “Latest Will and Testament” at Pig’s suggestion, the album is probably their last. Poison Idea has performed live without Pig before, and may continue, but it seems doubtful that the band will write any more original material. LWT is a solid late-period recording with great mid-tempo punk-rock songs, and is certainly required listening for PI fans. LWT was released by the German label Farewell Records and can be had in the Amerikan Homeland through Profane Existence.

Beginners should start at the beginning with PI’s incredible 1983 (!!) “Pick Your King” 7 inch and then work through their entire catalog. PI is one of those rare bands who’ve never put out a bad record.