Christ I hate this fucking holiday. Most every pop pop pop makes me think “gun shots?!” for a sec and the smoke is gross and the noise is distracting and I keep worrying that this shit will catch my building on fire or something. Fuck. I suppose I probably need to calm down, as usual. I’m going to go take a bath and read in the tub with my ears under the water. Take that, fireworks!
Really, I sort of enjoy the Fourth’s bad craziness–it’s ‘Merikan ennui and pseudo-democracy at its best (or worst perhaps). Peoples–certainly not urban peoples–don’t really care for (or understand) the old cracker nationalism; instead the holiday’s merely an excuse to swill beer, bar-be-que, fly sparklers or schlup wifey. The Fourth may be dangerous in some areas (eastside LA gangstas tend to start firin’ their gats along with the fireworks once sun goes down), but taken as a whole it all seems rather surreal and empty, ala Ballard or something.
I like the big displays when I go to them. I lived a lot in a rural area as a kid and liked the 4th then – big family party, awesome fireworks display, lots of running around with the cousins. Now that I live in a city I find the fireworks all over for weeks up to and after the 4th really stressful. Probly just me getting old and curmudgeonly.
jsut want to ask a question. Does blogsome allow those kind of words like “F*ck”, etc. ‘coz i really love to include that words to my posts but I am afraid for that may be a violation of blogsome’s TOS.
Have a nice day!
I’m with you on this one. I never really liked all the false patriotism in the first place, given America ‘s nasty history of slavery and genocide. It’s one of many things I don’t miss since I moved to Glasgow Scotland nearly four years ago.
yes i hate it so much! my parents always make it so fucking lame by not letting us do any fucking thing. im right there with ya man, fuck the fucking fourth of fucking july