Just watched this. Surprisingly it was relatively enjoyable.
Joleesa: currently watching.
“Psycho Therapy” by Ramones
(Words/Music: Dee Dee Ramone and Joey Ramone, Album: Subterranean Jungle, Sire Records 1983)
themesong: voices in my head
Of the many songs which in some way present mental illness, The Ramones seem to have recorded a disproportionate number. Perhaps more than any other band, they have tapped into the teenage feeling that “there’s something wrong with me” and made it okay to be a bit messed up. Which isn’t actually the case anyway, it’s just that teens experience so many new things at such a rapid pace and are so poor at communicating with each other, that they think these things are happening to them and no one else. Once they actually encounter peers they can talk to, they realize that they’re all going through the same things at roughly the same time but they just didn’t realize it at the time they were going through it so they felt that they must be going crazy. Luckily, we had bands like the Ramones to get them through those times and make us feel like they weren’t all so alone. And because the kids today have Coldplay and Nickelback, I fear for their mental health.
(This rambling post was written from the confines of my sophomore (not soft more as one student put it) study hall as students did their best to get their work done or catch up on some sleep after staying up all night playing Gears of War 3. I bet they thought I was devising some new and insidious way to somehow ask the one question they don’t know so they appear to be some bumbling fool in front of the girl or boy they are trying so hard to impress. Little do they know…).