Funny Freeky Frieda

[zoobie]

I just remember this freeeeeeeky story...

My wife and I were walking down the mall with my camera rig when I spotted this punker girl playing guitar and singing.

Dressed head to toe in black with a powdered face and black lipstick, she was playing a cheapo Yamaha guitar.

I strolled up and about 10 feet away, realized I didn't have my wallet with me. Instead of the usual 'photo op' appreciation of $1 or $2, all I found myself with was some pocket change. My wife had continued down the mall.

Anyway, I threw the change in her case which I thought would be appreciated. Instead, the girl freeked. She stopped her song and decided to make an example of 'evil' me for evidently throwing in change.

She had a small crowd around her listening to her songs...but now, the songs had suddenly stopped and she was about to take the podium with her speech.

She had decided long ago evidently that she was an undiscovered superstar dealt a bad hand and that, somehow, I was to blame for all her troubles.

Although at first I was a little surprised, I soon realized what had happened and that she had flipped her haystack.

"I'm going to be a fuckin star someday!" she yelled
"Take your fuckin change and get outta here!"
"I don't need the likes of you with your fancy camera!"
"Throwing me change...change!"
"One day, I'll buy this whole fuckin' place!"
"Get the fuck outta here!"...etc...

By now, this was too good to be true and I was lmao inside yet trying to look concerned. Everybody was just kinda freeking at her freeking on me.

I had just retired from busking for 20 years and, somehow, she thought she was going to rattle me. My nerves were shot after year 1 so I just stood there and watched her rant.

Anyway, she went on and on about how she was gonna come back someday famous....blah blah blah...and threw my change back at me.

I'm still lmao inside and just stood there absorbing everything she could throw at me...never saying a word. By now, people were freeking big time. They couldn't imagine anyone actually refusing money while busking. One by one, they kinda slid away from the loud confrontation.

After about 3 minutes of her freeking, I decided I was gonna shoot her anyway (with my camera of course) since this was a public place so I started setting up.

Freeky Frieda had just begun to freek. As I looked through the viewfinder, all I saw was people leaving and her hand coming up to cover my lens.

I just left the camera on figuring she'd have to stand there for an hour if she wanted to stop my shoot. She went back to her spot and I got my shots.

By the time this was all over, everyone had left...even her friends. The beauty of it all was...I never said a single word.

I truely enjoyed this wonderful show and will get her autograph once she becomes famous...on the 12th of never.

[Peter Voice]

I'm not at all sure where you're coming from, Zoobie.

What the #$%^ is a "lmao" (or is that an "lmao")????

[gav]

Laughing My Ass Off- lmao
I had to google to find out myself.

That poor tormented girl probably never performed again.

[zoobie]

This demonstrates what can happen when you start out busking expecting to much. I guess she was just frustrated and 'kicking the dog'. I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The end

PS - Watch her actually get famous...ha ha on me

[Spike McGuire]

I think you meant goth as opposed to "punker". That’s about as offensive as calling a Puerto Rican a Mexican.

[zoobie]

That poor tormented girl....exposed to a zoobie at such a tender young age...
I wonder if she's out of the asylum yet?

[Doctor Eric]

"I think you meant goth as opposed to "punker". That’s about as offensive as calling a Puerto Rican a Mexican."

Back when these things were actually current, and not some outdated costume party, they were pretty much the same thing.

[gav]

goth and punk were never the same thing !
Maybe they appeared that way in America, but in the real world they were quite far apart. For a start, punks actually would wear some colours, and quite often blue denim in some form. A goth wouldn't be seen dead in blue denim, or with a coloured mohawk. Punks generaly don't admit to liking sisters of mercy either, or the cure for that matter.
stereo types, why am I even bothering?
The answer is boredom.

[jester]

When the "Punks" came - It's an american word dubbed to an originally English subculture around a wonderfully pure and aggressive music which was the antithesis of progressive rock - the threat disorder they brought with them shocked the English and their tea driven lifestyle.

They walked around in colourful shocking costumes making a visual statement: "Look! We are a danger to life as you know it."

Our parents were scared for themselves.

When the "Goths" came (5 years later) with their morose introspective teenage mutually whining subculture with so little intellectual ability, so little to offer, our parents were scared for the kids.

The Goths would walk around in black bemoaning life, reminding us they never asked to be born and in the best examples locking themselves in their bedrooms (which were painted with cheap black vynyl emulsion) for weeks at a time, only coming out in the dead of night to eat the more expensive food their parents may have in the larder.

A good goth could live on lobster if she had the right parents.

Sociologists were at first concerned. They were driving themselves into depression and it would be only a matter of time before they were committing suicide while listening to The Smiths.

Then somebody blew the whistle. "Leave them alone. Let em rot. It's natures way of weaning out the lame!"

Since then goths have wondered around society in a moronic gaze, trying to get our attention as if to say "Look! I'm a danger to myself."

One of my favorite pastimes is to engage them on the subject of religeon in a constructive way and discuss with them exactly who this Lucifer/Satan guy is. It normally freaks the fuck out of them.

[Spike McGuire]

The problem with that post is that you started with a statment including "an originally English subculture", and then no one could take you seriouly because you made it so abundantly clear you had no idea what you are talking about.

[jester]

I don't think I intended to be taken seriously.

Sorry if I have offended your sense of history - but I was there at the time - that's why I'm such an old fart now.

However, the word punk is an american one yet the original "punk rockers" as we know it were based in UK. What isn't there to know - do put me right on this one.

[gav]

you will see at this site, that punk was not originaly British

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock

ps. I don't think anybody would realy take you seriously.

[Doctor Eric]

Siouxsie Sue was one of the the original goths. She was in a punk band called "Siouxsie and the Banshees" other "goth" bands started appearing at the time, no one had come up with the name "gothic" yet, they were just punk bands. This whole bullshit conter-culture classism came later. After punk died. New Wave, same bullshit argument. Punk was never a specific genre of music, it was pure rebellion. And there are plenty of punks that listen to "Sister's of Mercy". And punks suck just as bad as Gothics.

[Doctor Eric]

p.s.
Don't trust wikipedias. They're written by idiots for idiots. That page doesn't even mention "Blue Cheer"

[Doctor Eric]

"goth and punk were never the same thing !
Maybe they appeared that way in America, but in the real world they were quite far apart. For a start, punks actually would wear some colours, and quite often blue denim in some form. A goth wouldn't be seen dead in blue denim, or with a coloured mohawk. Punks generaly don't admit to liking sisters of mercy either, or the cure for that matter.
stereo types, why am I even bothering?
The answer is boredom."

I meant BEFORE all that shit. As in long before you died your hair leopard print.