The Other F Word

It was just about two weeks ago that I wrote about the dilema of raising Reese for an appreciation of punk rock music and the ethos of "Fuck Authority." (Click here to re-visit that amazing piece of writing)

Well, it turns out there is going to be a documentary coving that exact topic. Instead of interviewing boring subjects like myself, the movie asks how it feels to move from punk rocker to dad for actual punk rockers. (The movie's website says people interviewed played: Black Flag, Pennywise, NoFX, Bad Religion, The Vandals, Rancid, DEVO, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adolescents, Everclear, Total Chaos, T.S.O.L., Circle Jerks, blink 182, Bouncing Souls, Rise Against, and US Bombs, along with professional skateboarding icon Tony Hawk and professional BMX rider Rick Thorne.)

I was super excited to see this movie, but now I see that it is in limited release (VERY limited release, as in, like 17 theaters). I guess the only way I get to see it is take a vacation to one of the cities the weekend it's playing (San Francisco? Seattle? San Diego? Berkeley? Los Angeles?) or sign up for NetFlix and wait for it to come out on DVD.

You would think there would be a pretty sizable audience for a movie like this in the greater Portland area. Portland does have a pretty big anti-authoritarian groove to it. But that groove is more geared toward hippies than punkers. And about the only thing punkers dislike more than being told what to do is smelly hippies. (Seriously. It's called soap and water, hippy. Use it!)

But if you do live in one of the select cities where this is showing, go see it and tell me how it is. Also, it has a pretty cool title: The Other F Word.