They are essentially the same. They both create a fashion statement symbolising teenage rebellion- through radical appearances and outlandish physical decorating of the human body.
Hippies had long hair and existed from the 1960s to the late 1970s. Emos have long coloured fringes, and started around early 2000s to around 2010.
From old pictures still around the house, I can see my father, Bun Heang, was a proud hippy. When I was 16, I grew an emo fringe and dyed my hair red. He was unhappy with my fashion choices, and told me to dye it back to black and get a haircut.
It was an unfair call at the time. He was once a hippy. I was not allowed to look emo, justifiable simply because of the fact that he was my elder, and what he says, goes.
“Youths with long hair could be arrested for no apparent reason except for their appearance. Long hair symbolized all the Khmer Rouge hated most, the corruption of America Imperialist culture and the aimless and unproductive leisure of an exploitative class of urban parasites.
On the Monivong bridge Bun saw one such youth on a motorbike stopped and shot in cold blood. The body was casually dumped over the side of the bridge.”
I cut my fringe the day after he told me to.
I am reading this book at age 21, and went through the emo stage (like most Western Sydney kids) at age 16.
There is always a reason why, even if he doesn’t explain why. There is ALWAYS a reason.
I have not linked you to some cause. Merely a book site. Get the book elsewhere if you can. This purpose of this entry is to show there is more evil in the world, including the remnants of the Khmer Rouge who are still in the Cambodian goverment.
The third edition of that book was published in 1997. To this day, Cambodians in 2012, including my own family fear the Cambodian government because of their leaders. Many of the Khmer leaders in the government still engage in unjust killings, allow underage prostitution, and are corrupt with their financial gains- similar to the crimes committed by the LRA. Unlike the LRA however, they are not a small guerilla group. They are the government. They run the country.
The Murderous Revolution was written by a man Martin Stuart Fox. His co-writer and inspiration was a man named Bun Heang Ung. Mr Ung is currently terminally ill with lung cancer. His wife, Phiny, lost many siblings under the Reign of the Khmer rouge. Most of these officers from the Khmer Rouge reside very close to where Bun and Phiny currently reside in Sydney, Australia.
Imagine that for a minute. Some men responsible for the deaths of your siblings who SHOULD be prosecuted, have not been dealt with. Instead, he owns most of the restaurants in a smaller ethnic based community, just a few streets down from where you live.
Bun and Phiny are my parents. No one has helped them prosecute the men responsible for the men who were part of the Khmer Rouge. My dad does not wish to deploy troops from a country who have no say in Cambodian affairs (ie The US or even Australian Army Corps) in a useless endeavour to kill evil Cambodian leaders. It would be pointless.
Instead, he goes on to his blogs every morning. He reads the news. He educates himself. His condition has not been kind on him, but he’s going strong. He wants to go back to Cambodia one day, and see it like Australia. No corruption, no death, no sexual exploitation involving children. Just smiles and good times.
He gives me hope that there are better ways to fight evil.
“So basically, a bunch of old ‘underground’ musos who were fighting for a cause, what, 30 years before you were even born?”
“Shut up bro. You’re doing it wrong.”
“No. THEY did it ‘wrong’. Otherwise
they’d still be ‘right’.”
“Your music sucks. Why? ‘Cause I’m a Music Critic.”
the first i heard of odd future was when i watched tyler the creator’s “yonkers”. that pretty much did it for me. all that crap about rap and hip hop being “dead” was a flat out lie. these dudes have pretty much kept it alive. i would even go as far as saying they’ve made me look at music another way. i say this as the drummer of a pop punk band, former drummer of 2 metal bands, scott pilgrim (indie rock) covers frontman, and a jazzy/fusion drummer for a blues band. i get around when it comes to genres.
problem is: you probably don’t even know tyler’s works from Goblin or Bastard. if that’s the case, you definitely wouldn’t know anyone else in OF (odd future, shortened from OddFutureWolfGangKillThemAll). if anything, you’ve heard they apparently love satan, swag and rape. and if that’s not what they’re doing, they’re skating and popping zannies. italics are sarcastic.
that’s because we have douchebags on youtube like this talking absolute shit..
if we can all agree he’s an idiot- then stop reading the rest of this blog now. OTHERWISE..
anthony fantano would be the reason why would EVER hate OF. online ‘critics’ like him highlight OF’s overuse of the word “swag” and their ‘“anti-christian” ploys’. exaggerating such facts are irrelevant. they are not musical techniques or creative/expressive points musically. you sir, are not a music critic. i hope you’re reading this, coz i know you’re now crying, with me having to break the news. i’ll do it again though- you’re not a music critic.
if this old, bald hipster with the frame-only specs has somehow convinced you that OF and all the other “fake” rappers out there suck, well then you’re one of his 50 000 subscribers/drones/sheep. imo, he’s an idiot for spending so much time (averaging 10min of crap per vlog) to bag out a whole album in a review. his justification for his arguments -other than he’s “older” and naturally “wiser”- are almost always irrelevant. he’s essentially satan himself.
here’s the process i have to look forward to due to bloggers like him:
if you can see something wrong with the process, i’m starting a new blog to critique music. some of you may be reading this saying, “he’s just gonna write bad reviews on metal/rap/artists that i don’t even like anyway”. this is why my new blog has some ground rules:
1. NEVER LET ME OR ANYONE SWAY YOUR OPINIONS. EVERYTHING SAID IN THE BLOG IS ALL MY OPINION. IF I’VE WRITTEN A REVIEW FOR IT, LISTEN TO THE ALBUM/SONG YOURSELF.
2. POSITIVE REVIEWS ONLY. IF I DON’T LIKE IT, I SIMPLY WILL NOT BLOG ABOUT IT. IMAGINE ME RUNNING INTO YOUR FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS AND TELLING YOU “THE FOOD SUCKS HERE, BUT I’M GONNA BE HERE TO JUDGE IT”. YOU’D FUCK ME OFF OUTTA THE RESTAURANT. IN THAT SENSE, I’LL STAY AWAY FROM YOUR MUSIC.
3. ALL GENRES. ALL BANDS. ANY YEAR/ERA. ALL ARTISTS. ALL THE TIME. (i sound like a bad TV ad).
4. I WANT YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO LISTEN TO. I WILL REVIEW IT ASAP.
i’mma start the ball. reply with bands/albums/songs. and i WILL REVIEW THEM (for free, anthony fantano accepts “donations” to review your album)
