Punk’s Not Grief at All (apologies to The Exploited)

Oh somehow, in some alternate universe, that blog title makes sense. I was looking for today’s video selection on the YouTubes and I wanted to find Canadian punk legends, The Demics, doing their ode to the source of all Torontonian street angst entitled “New York City” (as in, I wanna go to) and instead found an old CBC piece dated 1977 on the subject of this “new fangled Punk Rock stuff” done by none other than the lugubrious Hana Gartner. You might remember her from that atrocious piece of reportage on Second Life she did a few months back for the CBC’s Fifth Estate. It seems Hana’s approach to things she doesn’t understand (i.e. refuse to try) hasn’t changed much in 32 years. Here it is, in all its awfulness:

Frankie Venom R.I.P.