I'm sorry, you can't do it. There's no way that you can rebel rebut or, otherwise do anything to shock Gen X. Go ahead, try. Our parents smoked pot and had free sex, our uncles and aunts got into riots and busted heads. Our childhood friends were either skinhead rockers who thrived on the ultra-violence or snotty boys with lipstick on.
Think you're all that and then some because you've got the cyberworld? The Boomers invented the cyberworld and Gen X made it cool. Do you think you're all together because you're in on facebook or twitter? I'm sorry to say, that before you were square we were singing that it was hip to be square.
So what can you do to rebel? Don't even try. At best you'll show the world that you're simply mimicking what has already been done and at worst you're showing that you're a complete asshole.
But then, as Sid (and Frank) says:
What a pisser Sid's dead, so we can't ask for his endorsement.
I wonder how many times Mark Mothersbaugh has had his nose rubbed in his abject ignorance of his statement that the flagship line "Are we not men" from his band Devo's song "Jocko Homo" comes, as he describes it:
directly from the very first Island Of Lost Souls (1933)
Fair enough, Mark. Rex has no problems with that, but how about this later statement:
There were like, watered down, wussy versions of it in the later Islands Of Dr. Moreau
Life imitating art? Mark, are you devolving? For the uninitiated, "Island of Lost Souls" is a 1932 adaptation of the 1892 H.G. Wells novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau." from which the line "Are we not men" originally featured. It was not, a "later" version or versions. It was the original.
But, still, Jocko Homo is a cool song, and here it is (although this isn't the uber-cool version - it's a live concert version...kinda sucky, in Rex's opinion):
(but, Mark, if you'd like us to run a better version, then just send an autographed copy to Rex)
