Baby Boys

Just received gigantic package of Dischord reissues–Minor Threat DVD, Shudder to Think, Soulside, Don Zientara from the incredibly futuristic 2002–the pictures of MT in the liner notes of the DVD floor me, how they were just five tiny tiny boys with their baby bald heads–they are pure embodied potential. Imagine being 15, and putting into action your every prescient thought, every sugarsnap pea of an idea, with the horizon of possibility unfurled and gleaming or, even more likely, not even envisioned because projection often has little to do with raw action– this is the real possibility of change, ideas bigger than people, but people are the ideas. Even still, 23 years later.