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SLC Punk

Own Agenda
written by James Merendino

What happens when you take a punk named Stevo (Matthew Lillard) out of his natural environment (New York) and put him in Salt Lake City.

Stevo: Sure there's a lot more punks than there was four years earlier, but there was also as many poseurs. Poseurs were people that looked like punks, but they did it for fashion. And they were fools. They would say "anarchy in the UK," you see, poseurs. "anarchy in the UK," what the hell is that? What good is that to those of us in the USA? It was a Sex Pistol thing. They were from England, they were British, that's what they did. They were allowed to go on about anarchy in the UK. You don’t live your life by lyrics.
I mean that's all you ever heard from these trendy asses. Like uh, did you hear the new Smiths album? It's friggin' terif. Kids walkin' around Utah sayin' 'terif' with a stupid little English twang.

See to me, England was nothing more than a big f’ing American state like North Dakota or Canada. Well you know what, I'm not a f'ing hick. I don't wear cowboy boots, I hate the f'ing rodeo, horses smell like crap to me. By definition I am not a redneck and goddammit I ain't no friggin' hick. Oh the sun never sets on the British empire, well the sun never sets on my butthole.
Another thing that pisses me off, talking about who started punk rock music. Was it the Sex Pistols in England, was it the Ramones and the Velvet Underground in New York? It was the Ramones, it was the Sex Pistols. Who cares who started it, it's music. I don't know who started it, I don't give a crap. The one thing I do know is that we did it harder, we did faster, and we definitely did it with more love. You can't take that away from us.