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“And because you have not yet developed feelings toward yourself (other than negative feelings about your body), you see yourself only as a reflection of what other people think of you”
― Sounds Like Titanic
― Sounds Like Titanic
“Kids in tje East had also grown up with a genuine sense of fear that the world might actually come to an end during their lifetime. That it probably would in fact. For some this fueled nihilistic feelings - one reason Toster from Die Anderen, for instance, never got deeply political was because he stopped giving a shit.”
― Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
― Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
“The ethos of East Berlin punk infused the city with a radical egalitarianism and a DIY approach to maintaining independence-to conjuring up the world you want to live in regardless of the situation or surroundings.”
― Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
― Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
“She just wanted to be herself, and doing, saying, reading and writing the things that would have made her feel like herself were all verboten.”
― Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
― Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
“In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional success. The nineties were not an age for the aspirant.”
― The Nineties
― The Nineties
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