This film is the only thing that makes me feel completely understood within the first 10 minutes. If you haven't watched this film I cannot say it enough, "Watch this movie!!!!" Some of you reading this, weren't old enough to remember this scene and most of you weren't even born when Punk existed. I would also like to quote the founders of the scene by saying that PUNK NO LONGER EXISTS regardless of what MTV and other media whores trick on corners. What you listen to today and what is popular in fashion today are both extremely watered down recipes for corporate America to sell anarchy, teen angst, and individualism...only back then it wasn't pussy sell out hogwash. Fuck all this bullshit in the world today. It wasn't perfect then and that's why I love it! The over gloss, the hot bodies, the studio smoke and mirrors, and echelon pretensions can all GET FUCT. I'm about screaming out that I hate societies expectations, I piss on the white picket fences, I say fuck the overzealous, the corrupt officials, the mascots, and greed mongers.  Show me backbone, heart, creativity, and origination. All of which are flat lined in America today. We have traded it all for grills, rims, fake tits, frosted hair, self proclaimed gangstas, sex tapes, celebrity idols, vocoders, and 3 minutes of shame. I'll take sweaty pissed off masses with heads full of drugs in an abandoned building rioting and starting fires only to wake up in someone else's yard any day of my life. Grow a spine America and find your balls.

This is what we are embracing in LDP. We are doing it ourselves. I thank each and every one of you who supports us and shows interests and most importantly hangs in there while we finalize our debut Salience. We are totally DIY. We have written, recorded, produced, and funded everything from day one. It takes longer but it will be worth it because we make music that matters to us. Music that we can stand by without the expectations or pressures of a label that only sees dollar signs. They aren't for the artist, they are a corporation and the one and only function of a corporation is to generate profits by any means necessary. We understand that you cannot win that war until you are in a power position and if that means never having a major label deal then FUCK IT. This project saved my life, literally. I dedicate everything I am to this and I am most grateful to share it with my fellow members and all of you. Salience is coming in a matter of weeks and regardless of Top 40 radio we did it all OURSELVES and we're just getting started. I'll see you on the road next summer. This is when life's an art, not a commercial.

p.s. Keith Morris is my inner monologue

-Kiss of Judas [ldp]