The Decline of Western Civilization Page #4

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and attached themselves

to my bumper.

They continued to hang on

while! drove away

"and seemed to be enjoying

themselves.

"Is it the music they listen to

"that causes them

to act this way?

"Sincerely, Confused."

KICKBOY FACE:

We get letters, right?

But we get letters

from the hardcore,

from the fanatics, you know?

And the letters we get,

it's either, "We love you.

You're great. You're fantastic.

You saved my life!

Or you know, "Suck my dick!"

You know, "You pieces of sh*t!"

"Go back to France,

go back to England.

"Go back to Missouri."

I mean, whatever.

And you know, "Shut up!"

"You're horrible."

"You're a bunch of faggots."

"You're a bunch of communists."

"You're a bunch of fascists."

"You're a bunch of sexists."

"We don't like you."

Personally, I've been through

one too many youth movements.

[LAUGHING]

- PENELOPE:
What are you doing?

- Proofreading.

Are there mistakes in the paper?

Yeah, our typist makes

too many mistakes.

Why?

She's a little stoned

most of the time.

You'll find little cigarette

burns and stuff like that.

[PHONE RINGING]

Yes, Slash Magazine?

There was a riot

at the Hong Kong last night?

God, what happened?

Hold on a second.

The firemen got a report

saying there were

too many people inside?

Uh-huh. And then

what did they do?

You mean people thought that

the firemen were part of a band?

Why? Because they came

out on the stage?

Oh, there were five of them?

[LAUGHS HEARTILY]

Yes. And uh...

And when did everybody find out

they were not pan of a band

but they were the real thing?

Oh, nobody ever found out?

[LAUGHING]

PENELOPE:
Does Kickboy have

a lot of enemies?

Uh, I should hope so otherwise

I'm wasting my f***ing time.

I mean, I'm not writing,

you know, to be pleasant

and just have

everybody say,

"What a pal!

What a great guy!" You know?

I mean, I'm not using all these

f***ing hatred and contempt,

you know, as a style 'cause

I don't have a style, you know?

I mean, you pick up one article,

you pick another article next

month and there's no style.

Except it's always overkill so

if that's a style, you know...

- The intent is...

- But the intent is to really

piss off people that you know,

I really hate

and I want to see them dead.

And I really despise everything

they stand for,

every word they say,

the way they live.

And I really want them

to hate me.

It makes me feel good.

[CHUCKLES]

CLAUDE:

This is a trendy one here!

[UNDERGROUND BABYLON PLAYING]

Sitting in a room

Surrounded by bottles

My friends have all left

But my head is on fire

it's already morning

But pieces of the night

Are still stuck to my hair

What we did is fading

In the light of the day

What we say is bullshit

We live the modem way

And I guess HI never find out

Which one of you wrote

With a greasy lipstick

Babylon must fall

Babylon must fall

Babylon must fall

on the bathroom mirror

on a spotty mattress

I will lay for hours

Adding up all my sins

And inventing new ones

I'm proud of my life

And I stand by my doom

I can't tel! right from wrong

And ifs never stopped me

AH the prophets have died

The books have been written

Salvation in a jar

We'll laugh so hard it hurts

And I guess HI never find out

Which one of you wrote

With a greasy lipstick

Babylon must fall

Babylon must fall

Babylon must fall

on the bathroom mirror

I like the taste of guilt

8 know the taste of death

It makes me want to sing

it makes me want to bite

When all the dumbfucks sleep

With their bland little brains

Full of bland little dreams

We try our new curses

Experiment with fear

Experiment with fear

Sit in each others soul

And rehearse our downfall

Catholic Discipline.

It's, uh, a graffiti

that a couple of years ago

when I was...

working at the Masque

uh, pan time,

I was cleaning up this sh*t

on Monday mornings.

Uh, it's the graffiti that

I found on the mens' room wall

in big dripping red letters.

[PEOPLE CLAPPING]

PENELOPE:
How do you feel

when you're performing?

I feel powerful.

I feel like I'm making

an ass out of myself

but I'm getting away with it.

That's what I feel like.

There used to be a punk club

in Warsaw, Poland.

And they used to send us

letters all the time,

um, real stilted English

and everything.

And then we'd get letters

from Madrid,

and Tokyo, Sweden,

all over the place...

about Punk!

[LAUGHING]

PENELOPE:
Why do they

like it so much?

It's... It's... They gotta

do something with their time

and it's the most fun so...

Nothing else is going on.

It's the only form

of revolution left, I think.

In the 1980s, you know?

KICKBOY:
"I felt compelled

to speak out against

all the sniveling, blithering

idiots to you.

"Sniveling, bleeding

heart liberals,

"who want to shut down

nuclear plants in California."

Right.

"I lay odds that the same entire

technology of freaks and hippies

"whining about reducing

this and waste that

"will be the first

on their knees begging

"for nuclear power

at the first sign of a blackout

"when their f***ing stereos

won't come on.

"I say lets get these plants

on their feet

and cranking out some

real power. Yeah.

As far as waste goes,

there are thousands

and thousands of miles of ocean

just sitting there

doing nothing.

So what are we waiting for?

Throw the plutonium

or strutonium 90

or whatever the hell

it is in there,

along with all the blubbering

idiots who can't accept the fact

that the future is here

and they goddamn well

ought to try

and be a pan of it.

"And as far as the animals

on the extinct list go,

"they obviously don't have

what it takes to make it."

Yeah.

"Survival of the fittest

and we are winning. [LAUGHING]

"I say kill them all off.

"And let's start worrying about

some real problems instead.

Now don't get me wrong.

"I love nature

as much as the next guy

but enough is enough.

" And I, for one,

have had enough.

Anyway this is, uh...

This is the way

young people feel.

This is a f***ing off song so

you better be f***ing respectful

because it's not about

much love,

it's about a handful of love.

But a handful of love is better

than no love at all.

I mean, there's no more

brotherhood sh*t, you know?

PENELOPE:
[LAUGHING]

Why not?

It's not like, uh, you know,

we're not all grooving

on the same vibes any more.

Everybody's grooving on

different vibes.

Ugly vibes.

[SINGING] You're so pink

You're so smooth

My Barbie Doll mistress

You're so clean

You're so small

You live in my pocket

We take the bus together

But I just pay for one

We sit by a window

Away from the black kids

I wait a little bit

Then I stick a finger inside

Of my pocket

I rub for your blond hair

And you try to bite me

Tiny bits of plastic

Tiny bits of plastic

Tiny bits of fantastic

Uncontrolled, pressed for more

Barbie doll lust

R's not normal

Barbie doll lust

R's not normal

Barbie doll lust

R's not normal

When no one is looking

I gently pull you out

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