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-Being that the other two bands were from San Francisco, X got a massive round of applause when they hit the stage. I actually thought the Dead Kennedy’s were always a much more interesting band in their time, but since X managed to wash a lot of the politics over with their prose, their work is a lot more complicated in its lyrical styling and structure, and perhaps more resilient when presented in this particular context.

-John Doe, after a few songs, began chastising some moshers in the front row for being a bit too eager and thereby endangering the group of reporters and photogs in the front row. It seemed like a good idea in the name of safety, but I imagine he lost some “punk points” for the move.

-At some point in the evening my ears stopped picking up on the treble of Zoom’s guitar and the evening went from warm nostalgia to the thought that perhaps today’s youth are past communicating a cultural resistance through music. The evenings nostalgic redux and cross-section of California’s top punk acts was a living history and one that left no messages beyond being reduced to plain kitsch. The “kids” up on stage were alright, but the revolution they once cultivated has been re-fabricated in its artificial form via media, commerce, and even literature ten times over. No revolutions were borne out of music after punk. Even if Grunge manifested itself as a kind of harbinger of change, it was the opening of a door to a music style and youth culture that is forever tied to passive nihilism, or blissful consumption- anything but revolt.

-At one point mid-way through X’s set, I looked over and upward into the VIP Section and noticed that the plaid-suited Jeffrey Dietch was chatting with some gal in a fluorescent yellow windbreaker.

Terminal preppies? I think so.

-We left early to beat the crowds.

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“Perhaps ours is simply not an era for grand designs and revolutionary ambitions, yet we ought to think twice before dismissing with such self-satisfaction those, like Stockhausen, who remind us that such transformations are still possible---and that they may not always be.”

It is generally agreed that critical urban theory, or any kind of critical theory for that matter, has declined in influence since the late 90’s, and most notably within design circles. Some would suggest it’s voice has been muted by the cacophonous din of pro-capitalist forces who have gleefully borne architecture up and onto the podium of the world stage, first as a dewy-eyed debutante to be debauched, and presently as a seasoned prostitute, whose sexual powers seduce even the most provincial locale into a spending its way out of post-industrial degradation, and into a global destination, developed solely for those who can afford the plane fare. Others would say that Theory is useless beyond its application as a post-critical strategy for assigning ideology to a project (since buildings in and of themselves make for poor stories). For those who still believe though, Theory- architecture’s recalcitrant sibling, still shadows the discipline, if not to govern (for now), to at least keep pragmatism in check by angrily raising its voice from time to time, so as to remind designers that beyond the seductive geometries and vivid sensorial environments made possible by the last twenty years of economic prosperity and technological innovation, the semblance of a cultural narrative is still desired for moral stability. However, this is not to add relevancy to building, but rather to ask the important “why?”, so that we as professionals understand the social and cultural ramifications of a project beyond its aesthetic effect on the city itself.

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