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okay, kids.

You know, let's cut through

The snivelling, self-Serving, you know,

Lame, cunt bullshit, and let's cut through

All the fucking punk politicking, huh?

Okay, this is kickboy face

Reporting for "slash" magazine.

It's 1979, and clearly,

Darby crash's band, "the germs",

Have emerged as the most unpredictable,

The most chaotic, and the least understood band

In the whole los angeles punk rock scene.

Ah, now, darby... i have so many questions,

But let's start with this

Everybody around you is now wearing these blue circle armbands.

Now, what is this fascination with circles?

everything works in circles.

Like, sometimes, you're doing something, and...

A year later, you're back at the same point.

You understand that?

So, circle one, is what we're doing right now.

Someday, we'll probably do circle two.

now, somebody said you're fascists?

yeah, we're fascists, but we're not nazis.

And there's a difference, you know?

Like, i can respect hitler for being a genius, but...

Not for killing off all those innocent people.

Somebody get me a beer.

A beer, goddamn it! Somebody get me a beer.

I mean, there's films of him giving speeches in germany,

And americans in the audience,

They would start yelling "heil!"

Even though they couldn't even understand

What he was talking about. Huh.

Whoever out there thinks it's cool to spit

Better buy me a beer.

Why don't you get your fucking teeth fixed?

Why don't you get your brain fixed?

fuck you!

All i want is beer,

And damage.

Personal damage.

Well, everybody's talking about politics

And what's going to work and what's not going to work,

But none of it's going to work.

It's why you have to throw it all away and start over.

There's other ways of doing it

Without overthrowing the government all at once.

I mean, you can work from the inside,

And slowly take over, and then throw it all away.

But, i just think it's stupid to relate...

Performing to politics.

'Cause it's never been political to me.

And there's all these bands that came out and said,

"We have to political like the 'sex pistols',"

And... that's not what we did.

We've tried every form of government,

But the only one that will work

Is a complete fascist state.

But you have to have the right person to lead it

'Cause if everyone believes in one person,

Then it'll work.

Communism? Communism can never work.

so who would be your ideal fascist leader?

Me.

so, pat, what was darby's childhood like?

you've got to understand,

He never knew his real dad.

And his mom had a lot of boyfriends.

he talked a lot about this guy, bob baker,

Said they had fun together.

I think he had a heart attack or something.

His mom was like a character out of a john waters film.

Drunk all the time,

Screamed at him.

Just like my mom.

his older brother died, too.

He was killed by some pissed-Off dope dealer.

Gave him an intentional overdose.

He had a lot of bad stuff happen to him.

"It is time for man to mark his goal.

It's time for man to plant the germ..."you little shit.

What did i tell you?

"Of his highest hope..."

"Life is a will to power."

so would you call him brilliant?

Frighteningly intelligent. Absolutely.

There was this whole little gang of us,

And i was like, the head person.

We'd do stuff like carry around "helter skelter"

And put "x"s on our heads,

And the rest of the school would get really scared,

And wanted to have us committed. Huh.

And inserting that type of individual

Into a classroom environment was very...

Challenging.

I wanted to know what it was like

To be the only black kid in a white school. Huh.

So i dyed my hair blue.

And i lost all my friends in one day.

I guess there was a few people out there who were like me

That saw things differently,

But when you do something like that,

You have to expect a reaction.

But, we resolved it,

The best way we knew how.

Gave him all "a"s

If he promised never to come back.

Of course, he hung out anyway.

Then i remember, one day, he came by and...

Said we were going to start a band,

And i was, like, "what?"

How are we going to start a band

If we don't even have instruments?

The same way "the runaways" did.

They just did it.

Only we're going to do it better.

Here, read my songs.

Astrid?

Oh my god.

These are awesome!

I have a five-Year plan.

For me.

For us.

I mean, he said he had this five-Year plan

And that...

That after that, it'd be all over with.

But he said crazy things like that all the time.

so, what is this five-Year plan?

Well, it's like bowie said

"You got five years."

And then what?

You'll see.

So we made a flyer that said "wanted

2 untalented girls who don't know how to play their instruments

To form a band."

And that's how we found terry and belinda...

And becky.

Bored girls from the valley

Who came to hollywood to dirty up.

Then, darby made becky tell her grandmother

That she had leukemia.

And that she needed money for treatment.

What an asshole.

And that's how we bought all of our instruments.

Darby decided we'd call ourselves "the germs"...

Because everything starts with a germ.

Something about the germ of an idea.

We were supposed to be "sophistifuck and the revlon spam queens"

But... we couldn't afford

That many letters on our t-Shirt.

Maybe it's because we played so bad,

We made everyone sick.

this is kickboy face,

Reporting for "slash" magazine.

It's 1977, and the sunset strip

Now belongs to shitty, boring piece of shit disco

And horrifying lame cunt rock and roll bands.

I believe the future belongs to bands

Such as you, "the damned".

Captain?

I want too fuck as many of your women as possible.

"the germs!"

"The germs" are the best band in the world!

Yes, yes, but at a time

When leif fucking garrett

And donna fucking summer

Are at the top of the music charts,

You must have something to say

About the piece of shit music today, no?

Fuck, fuck,

Bollocks, fuck, shit.

Piss off, wanker.

"The germs" rule! You suck.

Poseurs!

you have nothing more to say

About the pathetic state of american music today?

Thank you, captain.

What is this fucking "germs", man?

It's my band.

Here, check it out.

"Sex boy"?

We have other songs, too.

Then what the fuck are you waiting for?

You should play tonight at the orpheum.

Anybody can play. Go, go, come on!

Heh...

Come on, guys.

I think you plug this in here... i can't even play this thing.

It doesn't matter, 'cause you look perfect.

hello, sex boys.

Oh my god, look.

oh fuck...

They're going to abuse the shit out of us.

I can't do this.

You're already doing it, terry!

Oh, ho, ho, ho! Is that a taco?

Oh...

Oh...

Ugh, go away, it's not funny.

This is what you wanted!

This is what i wanted?

Uh-Huh.

™� i take it anywhere

™� any time that i can ♪

™� i'm the fucking son of a superman ♪

™� i've got a weapon that's as deadly as life ♪

Get off the stage, you silly pooftahs!

art fags!

Fuck you!

™� every day is the same wet dream ♪

™� a dozen girls are on my scene ♪

™� say, "hey, sex boy"

™� can give me a hand... that's not punk!

You guys suck!

go fucking suck a cock!

Whoa.

Oh my god.

Hey!

fucking faggot!

Lemme go, you fucking homos!

Give the lil' git the boot!

Oh my god, that was so much fun!

I thought i was going to puke

But i didn't!

I did puke!But you did it.

I want to play again right now!

We will.

Hey! That was really hysterical.

When's you guys' next show?

Uh, probably never!

Oh.

I'm michelle.

Darby.

Hey. Pat.

okay, so this was his plan.

Say you're a band, advertise,

Get band members, get instruments,

Get a rehearsal space,

Play a gig,

And then learn how to play.

It's a good plan, right?

okay. Forming, take one.

Go!

™� rip them down, hold me up ♪

™� tell them that i'm your gun ♪

™� pull my trigger, i am bigger than... ♪

™� mr. Prez in his big white house ♪

™� listen, he says, we're coming out ♪

™� infiltration, we're numbing your minds ♪

™� concentration, we've done time ♪

™� rip them down, hold me up ♪

™� tell them that i'm your gun ♪

™� pull my trigger, i am bigger than... ♪

™� over there, the queen she says ♪

™� let's stamp them out, dry those tears ♪

now it's time to reinvent ourselves

As something completely new.

Are we going to learn how to play our instruments?

Paul's dead.

From now on, i'm bobby pyn.

I don't get it.

Bobby pyn, like, a bobby pin.

George's new name is pat smear.

Oh, yeah.

Ugh, that's so gross!

It's good, right? Yeah.

terry, you have the coolest name.

Your new name is lorna doom.

Oh my god. That is really good.

Uh, becky, you're dumbhead.

Stop! I want to come up with my own name.

Belinda, what's yours?

I don't need a name. I'm not going to be in the band.

I actually never joined the band. Uh...

The thought of being on stage

In front of all those people

Was way too terrifying.

™� rip them down, hold me up ♪

™� tell them that i'm your gun ♪

™� pull my trigger

Ugh, it's sand!

Ugh!

This has to be perfect, lorna.

Yeah, it's perfect. I said it's going to be perfect,

So it's going to be perfect.

Jeez!

™� tell them that i'm your gun ♪

™� pull my trigger, i am bigger than... ♪

"Lexicon devil" by darby crash?

Darby crash, that... that's him.

He's darby crash.

"Empty out your pockets,

You don't need the change.

I'm giving you the power to rearrange.

Together, we'll run to the highest prop,

Tear it down, and let it drop."

Darby crash is a genius.

you're playing it all wrong.

Drums are too slow. Bass is too fast.

Chords are all wrong.

You're making the ending too long.

I quit.

First of all, that was so good!

Secondly, i think he just quit.

i did quit, for a week.

We weren't a joke anymore

And our drummer couldn't be either.

so, the germs had a drummer thing.

Always a fucking drummer thing.

The fucking drummer thing.

"What do you mean, uh, a drummer thing?"

With becky, it was just...

Okay, you know...

Well, you know how darby is.

What an asshole.

our next drummer was cliff hanger

Who was quietly dealing out in the parking lot at the rainbow.

But he went to jail.

I heard he got his dick cut off.

Then we got d.J. Bonebreak,

But he was also an "x", and "the eyes"

And darby said our drummer had to be loyal to "the germs".

We had the same problem with nicky beat,

Because he was also in "the weirdos".

Fucking drummers.

Jeez, chris ashford was our first manager.

He worked at a record store called liquorice pizza,

And we were always going in there...

Stealing stuff.

Darby would hand out his lyric sheets,

And when chris read them, well...

He just knew.

knew what?

That he had to be a part of it.

Oh shit.Oh!

chris took the tape,

And got a single pressed.

The first punk-Rock single in l.A. History.

He put the label on the wrong side

And we gave him a tonne of shit.

Watch out, chris!

but he stuck by us.

Chris took us to the masque,

A storage space under a porno theatre

On hollywood boulevard.

Some guy named brendan mullen cleared it out

And started charging people to rehearse there

And it just sort of turned into a club somehow.

Oh man!

Do you guys have to destroy everything?

yeah.

Oh!

You do not want to be on this guy's bad side.

Yeah, what makes you think so?

Because you're not "fleetwood mac", okay?

And you're not "the bee gees".

You're not going to get gigs just anywhere.

Except maybe here.

Yeah, and then you woke up.

Ugh.

I'm going to talk to brendan.

Oh, and darby?

Try not to get into any trouble, okay?

Sure thing, dad.

"screamers!"

"screamers" rule!

We stole this song from "the germs"

Because we like it

And because we do it better than them.

It's called "sex boy".

It's "sex boy"!

™� i can take it anywhere ♪

™� any time that i can

™� i'm the fucking son of a superman ♪

™� i got a weapon that's as deadly as life ♪

™� it's a well-Trained tool of a master guy ♪

Personally, i like our version better.

™� every day, it's the same regime ♪

™� 20 girls are on my scene ♪

Don bolles.

I'm your new drummer.

I don't book bands at the masque.

It's not a club.

It's a cooperative art environment

For alternative expression.

M-A-S-Q-U-E.

That's how you spell it.

As in poe's "masque of the red death"?

Even though, of course,

Punk has nothing to do with poe.

nobody ever understood what the guy said.

We always said he should have, like,

Words underneath him like in one of those foreign films.

Right...

Right, so anyway, brendan...

This is either the best

Or the worst thing that i've ever heard.

But i had to pack up the car and drive right out to be in the band.

Drive out?

From arizona. You drove out

All the way from arizona?

That's weird. Huh.

Well, i could tell you guys like the same stuff i like.

I mean, krautrock.

Avant-Noise.

Oh, like that's real music.

What do you think?

I don't know, don't ask me.

Pretty damn brilliant, if i do say so myself.

I mean, he did drive out from arizona.

And that counts for something.

Okay, don.

You're a germ.

Outstanding!

Now cut your hair, you krautrock hippie.

"The germs".

Hey, brendan,

Because of that show at the orpheum,

They're getting a reputation.

Man, you could even charge people

A couple bucks to watch them play.

Man, the lead singer, he's brilliant.

He's like a jim morrison but for our generation.

Oh my god, you guys.

There's two people fucking over there.

ew, gross.

Where?

Right there.

ugh.

Wait, they're over there!

It kind of smells like butter.

I'm darby crash.

Yeah, yeah, i know who you are.

Muffins.

let's fuck up these art fags.

They ruined my song.

Yeah. Yeah, let's do that.

Not a scratch, man. Promise.

Hey, don't touch me, you fucking jerk!

Hey, leave him alone! He's just having fun.

Ow...

That was awesome, dude.

Yeah.

Wow. Where'd you get that?

I fucking nabbed it off the back of some poseur.

It's for you.

I... i'm rob.

Let's get out of here.

"slash" wouldn't print our ad.

It said, "six million jews can't be wrong."

And there was no picture, just a circle.

our family is a circle.

And it will be, forever.

so it was an anti-Hitler thing?

No. It can be taken either way.

I've talked to jewish people who would get really upset

Because you can't really figure out what it means.

and if you find yourself in our circle...

But we don't want to be associated

With the whole nazi thing, anyway.

...then you are inside the circle.

We're not doing it on that big of a scale.

Just, like in our circle of friends.

Well, it's easy to be an artistic fascist.

All you have to do is to commit to a certain thing and then you...

No. It's not like that.

It's not like that at all.

I have a very, very set idea

Of what i want to get done

And how i'm going to do it,

And i need people who can help me do it.

h-How are you going to get

Those fucking people?

They'll show up.

They always have before.

for some reason,

If you find yourself outside the circle...

Then you're out for good...

But you, lorna...

Are the most inside.

Ow! What the fuck?

It's a germs' burn.

A circle. Ow!

Stings, huh?

Ow, that stings really fucking bad.

Listen, someday, when you're old,

Like... 40,

You'll be paying for groceries at a grocery store

And you'll see somebody that has one

And you'll know.

Know what?

That they were a part of it too.

That really fucking hurt, darby.

™� sat me on my rotten knee

™� a desperate commodi-Tease ♪

™� make it all into paste... ♪

You fucking sell-Out! What is this?

Fuck you, capitalist!

My god. What's next, a concession stand?

Ready, aim, fire.

™� i'm darby crash

™� a social blast

™� chaotic master

™� i'm darby crash

™� prophetic stature

™� i'm darby crash

™� a one-Way match

™� demonic flasher...

™� come back on this ri-I-Ide ♪

Everyone here came to see them.

What are you going to do?

Refund everyone's money?

™� chaotic master

™� i'm darby crash

™� your mecca's gash

™� prophetic stature

™� i'm darby crash

™� your one-Way match

™� demonic flasher

™� deep, deep in my eyes ♪

™� round, round circle of lives ♪

™� it's a tame, tame sort of world... ♪

we love you, darby!

™� i'm darby crash

™� a social blast

™� prophetic stature

™� i'm darby crash

™� your one-Way match

™� demonic flasher

™� snap, crackle, pop

™� snap, crackle, pop

™� snap, crackle, pop

™� out there

™� i'm darby crash

™� yeah

let's go!

™� i'm a lexicon devil with a battered brain ♪

™� and i'm looking for a future ♪

™� the world is my aim

™� so gimme, gimme your hands ♪

™� gimme, gimme your minds ♪

™� so gimme, gimme your hands ♪

™� gimme, gimme your minds ♪

™� gimme, gimme this

™� gimme, gimme tha-A-A-At ♪

™� i'll give you silver guns that drip old blood ♪

™� let's give this established joke a shove ♪

™� we're going to wreak havoc on this rancid mill ♪

™� gimme, gimme your hands ♪

™� gimme, gimme your minds ♪

™� gimme, gimme your hands ♪

™� gimme, gimme your minds ♪

™� gimme, gimme this

™� gimme, gimme tha-A-A-At ♪

Hey, gimme me a dollar for beer.

prick. What the fuck, dude?

Huh.

He's pretty cute, huh?

Pretty cute.

Hey, give me five dollars for beer.

Why? Are you into him?

No. Are you?

Fuck, dude.

Now, what are you talking about?

so, what did you think of rob?

Oh, that little shit?

Huh.

I didn't like him from the beginning.

I mean, i thought he was cute.

I mean, we all did.

But...

I guess i just don't like to share.

Hey, we're thirsty. Give me some money for beer.

Okay, so what now?

God!

We see how he acts around you, too.

He digs you.

Fuck...

Now my ride fully bailed.

There's no way i'm getting south tonight.

Darby, think i can crash at your place tonight?

Oh, yeah. Sure.

Yeah? Sure.

So where're your parents?

My mom works at a restaurant at l.A.X.

My dad...

He's, uh, gone.

Is he dead?Mmm-Hmm.

Fuck. I wish my dad was dead.

Why's that?

Um...

I don't want to talk about it.

Yeah.

Let's look at that cut.

Oh fuck, man. That's gnarly.

Shit...

I don't think you need stitches, though.

Man, uh...

Why don't you let me clean it out?

Do you have some band-Aids and shit?

Uh, sure...

Hey, darby, are these your songs?

Yeah. Some of 'em.

"I came into this world like a puzzled panther

Awaiting to be caged.

But something stood in the way,

I was never quite tamed.

I crossed the paths of right and wrong,

And i saw them take their toll.

I saw armies that marched

And like animals they crawled.

Evolution is a process too slow to save my soul

But i've got this creature on my back

And it just won't let go."

Wow...

I've never read anything like this before.

What... what the fuck?

What? What?

Uh... i don't know.

It's just weird, you know? Like...

No, it's...

It's just relative.

Yeah, well, that...

That doesn't make it un-Weird.

Forget it.

Look... look man, i'm sorry. I just...

Don't worry about it. Just... just...

Forget it.

You're still bleeding.

Yeah.

You're right.

Get some sleep.

I don't want you to hate me.

there's 43

Of your "closest personal friends"

On this guest list.

43!

I'll never make back my nuts.

Well, that's who i want.

But it's not even a real list!

You put david bowie on here!

I'm taking him off.

Wait, hey, he's our biggest fan, okay?

I sent him a letter telling him so

And he believed us.

If he's not on the list, i won't play.

Put him back.

You lads have completely lost your minds.

Okay, fine.

Bowie can stay.

What the hell do i care?

I just put david bowie

Back on your bloody guest list.

Well, why don't we put people on the guest list

Who are, like, actually going to show up?

That's exactly what i'm talking about!

Bowie stays on the list.

And everybody else stays on the list,

Or "the germs" won't play.

Come on, robbie.

Oh, hey, darby.

I was thinking that we could do that song

I was telling you about

"You make me feel like manson."

Why don't you just play "the germs" songs, donald?

Well, i'm not talking to you.

Yeah, well, i am talking to you.

You're in the coolest fucking band in l.A., Dude.

You're lucky.

Why are you even thinking about playing

Other bands' songs, man?

Just play darby's songs.

obviously,

This is between me and darby.

You're in "the germs", don.

If that's not good enough,

You can find another band.

how do you know what you're doing?

It's not fucking brain surgery.

Come on, darby. Open up. I want to talk about this.

Bathroom's closed.

Shit in the street, cactus head!

come on out.Fucking don.

Ready?

I'm ready.

Give us some.... give us some change.

got change right here, motherfucker.

In small enough denominations.

come on, man!

If somebody throws us any beer,

Make sure it's in a bottle.

why don't you get your fucking teeth fixed?

Why don't you get your brain fixed?

Because all i want...

Is beer and damage.

I want personal damage.

™� it's sunday and the streets aren't clear ♪

™� the traffic's screaming but we can't hear ♪

™� the sounds, the metals driving us mad ♪

™� the sounds, the metals driving us mad ♪

™� the sounds, the metals driving us mad ♪

™� the sounds, the metals driving us mad ♪

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

♪ we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� crash, the bottle breaks ♪

™� flash its will through my veins ♪

™� the pain, the colours making me sane ♪

™� the pain, the colours making me sane ♪

™� the pain, the colours making me sane ♪

™� the pain, the colours making me sane ♪

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� we must bleed

™� i'm not one i'm two

™� i'm not one i'm two

™� i'm not one i'm two

™� i'm not one i'm two

™� i want out now

™� i want out now

™� i want out now

™� i want out now

fuck you, dude.

Party's over with, asshole. You're out of here!

Yeah!

They're kicking us out! Everybody cause damage

And burn this place to the ground!

Hey!

Ow!

here he is.

Hey, pat.

Oh, wow.

They fucked you up!

Are you okay?

Where's my guitar?

Where's my guitar?

Oh, he fucking stole it.

Don't worry about your guitar.

The world is full of guitars.

There's only one pat smear.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So i just borrow guitars now.

every time you play?

Why? You want to buy me one?

All right, here we go.

All right, "gidget goes to hell"

On kroq, pasadena.

This is rodney on the roq and i'm thrilled,

And... a little nervous, huh,

To be sitting here with the most notorious band

In the l.A. Punk scene...

"The germs".

Woo-Hoo! That's us. Yeah!

What do you guys play?

Well, i play hard to get.

All right.

Well, what's your name?

My name's ben wobbles.

You changed your name?

Yeah, we all did.

yeah, uh, um,

Mr. Bingenheimer, i'm, uh...

Don summers.

I'm lorna lisa.Mm-Hmm.

Yeah, and i'm art damage.

No more pat smear?

Are you serious?

Oh, and my name is, uh...

Oh.

All right.

Um, you know, when i told people

You guys were coming to the studio

They almost fainted.

Are you really as... wild

As... yeah we have our axes in the car

And we can get them if you want.

That's okay.

So wh-When can we see you guys play again?

Well, we are playing tonight.

We're, uh, playing at...

All night long.

Seriously.

Oh, uh, probably never.

Nobody wants to book us.

And all the club owners

Think we're going to destroy their clubs.

Well, sounds like you need a good manager.

Oh, well, that's a good idea.

Uh, attention, listeners.

If anyone wants to be our manager,

Please bring a case of beer

Down to the studio immediately.

Yeah, yeah, bring some food too.

And a veggie burger.

Oh, and hard drugs.Yeah,

So that's, uh, food and a tab for rodney,

And hard drugs for us!

And little boys for me.

Yeah, breaded and pan-Fried

With really big...

Wow... okay.

Um... hey, let's take some calls.

Okay.

um...

You're on rodney on the roq with "the germs".

Punk rockers suck my dick!

Oh-H-H.What?

thank you, okay.

Next caller. Huh.

Um... hello?

you guys are really obnoxious.

Well, another satisfied customer.

You don't have to be obnoxious to be punk.

"The plugz" aren't obnoxious.

Yeah, well, they're not punk either.

They're...

fuck off!

look, i actually, um...

punk rockers suck ten-Inch cock!

Oh, you wish, faggot.

D... don't.

You're on rodney on the roq

With "the germs". Who's this?

i want to talk to pat.

Ahh, well, i don't want to talk to you.

Oh, it's that girl with the flat chest.

I don't have a flat chest. Yeah, you do,

I fucked you last night. Twice tomorrow.

Can you say that word on the radio?

Uh, actually, no.

Um, the fg...

Fcc, um...

You know, the communications people,

You can't...they said "fuck" on "the brady bunch".

Um, no, it's the license...

They'll... the government'll take it away from us.

Didn't they say the "c" word on "gilligan's island"?

Wait, don't, don't, don't...

Right, darby?The "c" word?

The "c" word, on "gilligan's island".

Don't say it, please don't.

Oh, cunt?

They said "cunt" on "gilligan's island"?

No way.

God, no.

trouble.

take another call.

i'd like a cunt.

don't. Don't, don't.

let's take another caller, rodney. Stop...

i was born from a cunt. Can you cut!

Well, the bands that we're all supposed to hate

Like... "the who" and the stones

And people like that,

I mean, they went out and they lived on the streets,

And did everything they could to make it.

But all the people that live at the canterbury,

They work at fiorucci's because...

They know they might not make it as a band.

None of them are willing to take the chance

That they're going to be 35 and have done nothing.

None of us work

Because if we don't make it at this...

We know we're not going to make it at anything.

We're not going to have any money to pay our rent.

™� i'm a loner with baloner i'm gonna have to phone her ♪

™� i'm a loner with maloner i'm gonna have to bone 'er ♪

Hitler used to have his architects

Make two models of the same building.

One to see what it would look like

When it was being built,

And the other after it was destroyed.

That's trippy.

We're going to make an album.

A full-Length album.

An album?Mm-Hmm.

Record companies don't want us. They want disco.

Then we'll make it ourselves.

And we'll have "slash magazine" put up the money for it.

Did biggs say he'd do it?

He will.

"The germs" have decided to do their album

On slash records.

Slash records? yeah.

Slash records doesn't even exist.

We want bowie to produce.

That is a fucking great idea!

Or mark lindsay.

Mark lindsay?

From "paul revere and the raiders"?

That guy makes more money in an hour

Than i'll see in a lifetime.

Why don't we just produce it ourselves, you guys?

Shut up, cactus head.

Hey, what about roy thomas baker?

okay,

We want either bowie,

Lindsay, or roy thomas baker

Or we're not going to do it.

Look. I'm, like, a huge "germs" fan, all right?

So i'm just going to be honest with you.

Yeah, i'm thinking of starting a record label.

But if i do, i'd do an album with "x".

Why "x"?

Oh, i don't know, because they have real songs.

real songs?

Bob, you sound exactly like

The fat pig record company conglomerate fucks!

Fuck that capitalist bullshit!

Oh, yeah. Fuck everything until next week

When i have to cut your paycheque.

Yeah, then you'll love the fact that i dumped

All our money down the drain

On an album that won't make any money.

What about joan jett?

She's famous.

Joan jett?

Hello, is anybody here listening to what i'm saying?

This simply isn't going to happen.

™� i'm richie dagger i can stomp and swagger ♪

™� i can take on all of your hero-Oh-Oes ♪

™� i'm richie dagger i'm young and haggard ♪

™� the boy that nobody oh-Oh-Owns ♪

™� he sits in his corner like a child despised ♪

™� a crazy sort of cast comes over his eyes ♪

™� that's richie dagger's crime ♪

™� the sort of boy that was never much loved ♪

™� his idea of fun was society's grudge ♪

™� that's richie dagger's crime ♪

™� his life was such a mess

™� and his friends weren't quite the best ♪

™� but he was satisfied

™� that's richie dagger's crime ♪

™� suck me in and spit me out ♪

™� devour me in haste

™� i'm richie dagger i can stomp and swagger ♪

™� i can take on all of your hero-Oh-Oes ♪

™� i'm richie dagger i'm young and haggard ♪

™� the boy that nobody oh-Oh-Owns ♪

™� he could set your mind ablaze ♪

™� sparkling eyes and visionary gaze ♪

™� he stood like a remnant from an outbreak past ♪

™� wore something in his ear and boy was he sass ♪

™� i'm richie dagger i can stomp and swagger ♪

™� i can take on all of your hero-Oh-Oes ♪

™� i'm richie dagger i'm young and haggard ♪

™� the boy that nobody oh-Oh-Owns ♪

That take sounds awesome.

I still think don's drums are too slow.

hey!

Fuck off, bobert.

I played it the way we always play it.

Have you been to the fleetwood?

The new bands play louder, harder, faster.

Yeah, well, that's because they're cheating.

They play oompa-Loompa polka beats!

They suck!

I don't know.

What do you think, darby?

Maybe we should have don re-Do the drums.

Well, i guess i know who's wearing

The pink hanky in this family.

Shut the fuck up, don.

Was i playing too slow?

No, you were perfect. Theatre of the absurd.

Um...

Uh, d... don was right on.

I mean... i know whether or not it was right!

We're doing it again.

Okay. We'll do it again.

Fuck.

from the moment i first saw "the germs"

I said to myself, "biggs...

You've got to make an album with these guys."

Yeah. ah? Ha-Ha.

yeah, i was there. I heard it.

All right, now that it's done...

I've got to tell you.

I'm more proud of this

Than anything i've ever done in my entire life!

that's not saying much!

hold on, hold on.

I've got a review here by richard meltzer.

Listen.

This is coming out in the "l.A. Times" tomorrow.

"This valuable piece of vinyl

The album of the year,

The most staggering recorded statement so far

From the american branch of new wave...

The most remarkable l.A. Studio achievement

At least since 'the doors' 'l.A. Woman'!"

I hate "the doors".

They suck.

all right, you guys. Come on,

There's food. There's beer.

Everyone, eat up. Drink up.

It's a party, enjoy yourselves, come on.

near beer? Fuck that!

Come on, you cheap motherfucker.

You could have at least bought them

Some real fucking beer.

And encourage these people to stick around and get drunk?

What are you, mad?

I fear so, yes.

My mother was mad.

My grandfather, my great-Grandfather.

But you know, it's all in the family.

It's okay, it's uh... you know, it's regular mad.

It's not crazy-Mad, but it's... nearly mad.

Explain the difference.

Slash didn't buy food?

This is the worst thing i've ever seen.

Yeah, well, they're practically broke

And they only have, like, 37 cents in their account. So...

Well, i can buy you food, darby.

And beer, and hard drugs.

Sure, darby.

Anything else?

that's when the march started.

what fucking march?

The march of the creeps.

He grew up with a very...

Narrow world view.

And i'm opening up his mind.

I took him to the opera, which... i hated,

But he loved.

Fuck amber. She buys whatever he wants.

Most of it with bad cheques.

we'll go to stores,

And they'll see her coming and they'll lock the door.

I bought him a huge $750 thesaurus

Because he loves words so much.

Ugh, fucking gross. She's a sociopath.

And a bitch.

Gimme an oki-Dog, amber.

Get robbie one, too.

Okay.

Ooh, yeah.

gimme, gimme, gimme.

Who else wants an oki-Dog?

Oh, me and jena.

Yeah, oki-Dog,

Hold the cat.

Lorna? Michelle? Meliss?

Two each. two each.

Yeah.Two each.

What?

Amber, none of us have any money

And we're all hungry,

And robbie here... he hasn't eaten in like, two days.

It's been longer than that.

Okay, who wants chilli and cheese?

i do.

What about fries? Who wants fries?

i do!

me, me, me!

A veggie burger as well.

Okay.

Oh my god. She's so gross.

Fat cow.

Fat cow with a trust fund.

well, hurry your shit up, amber.

you have been accused of having groupies.

well, they call them groupies.

They're not groupies.

I mean, once you've talked to somebody for, like, three weeks

Then they cease to be a groupie. They become your friend.

And i guess if somebody comes up to you and...

And says, "hey, you're great."

And you talk to them and stuff, and then you go home with them,

Well then, okay, then they're a groupie.

But, you know, once you drive around with them

And you go here and there, and...

They're a friend.

So we don't have any groupies

Because they all become our friends.

Are you sure you want to do this?

I don't want to be a junkie, darby.

You can be what you want to be.

You know what i really want to be?

More than anything?

What?

Drummer for "the germs".

Dude, that would fucking rule.

Intense, huh?

That's really intense.

™� let me touch the tips

™� of inculcated

™� desire

™� and brush the fettered

™� veils away

™� veils away

™� shut down

™� in the depths i lay

how would you like the wrong end

Of this rifle up your ass?

™� i...

Personal damage!

™� annhi-I-I-I-

™� hila-A-A-Tion

™� if you want something then i've got something ♪

Hey, cut yourself!

Yeah, cut yourself!

™� ..Set you free

hey, cut yourself!

That was worse than scary. It was like a riot.

Baby monsters, that's all they are.

It's my people.

It's not funny, it's ugly.

Is this what we've wanted?

Is it?

Ow.

We're going to get banned everywhere.

We're not going to be able to play anywhere.

No wonder don started another band.

What band?

Oh shit, you didn't hear?

Well, it's a joke band. It's stupid.

It's called "vox pops".

When he sings, he plays guitar...

He wears a dress.

It's stupid.

He wears a dress?

™� well, i got a love for you ♪

™� i don't wanna talk or screw ♪

™� i wanna love you like your mom and dad ♪

™� give you love like you've never had ♪

I can't believe that's the drummer for "the germs".

What a fag!

™� mom

™� mom

™� love like your mom

What a fag!

Fuck you, robbie.

Fuck me?

I'm not the one who just flashed the audience.

hey, darby.

Hi. I'm, uh, penelope spheeris.

I'm doing a documentary on the scene.

It's called "the decline of western civilization",

And i really want to film one of your performances.

When are you playing again?

Uh, never.

We've been... banned from every club in l.A.

Every club in l.A.?

Mm-Hmm. Pretty much.

Then i'll rent a place.

which clubs have you been banned from so far?

The whisky.

The fleetwood.

Club 88.

The hong kong.

The hong kong.

The rock corporation.

The rock corporation.

Yeah, them too.

Every club, really.

Out.

Everyone loves the album,

Thinks it's great, wants to see us,

But we can't book shows.

It's so us.

It fucking sucks.

It's so us.

Dude, i thought we agreed we weren't going to get high.

Wearen't getting high, pat, i am.

So, is that what we're doing now?

It's what people expect.

It's what they want.

Should i get high too?

No. Just...

Huh... go away.

Go away?

Now.

Now!

Where the hell did i put my drumsticks?

Probably next to your dress, don.

It's just a joke band, darby.

No big deal, right?

Hey, is that speed?

Go, don!

why the fuck do you get so loaded when you perform?

That way i don't feel myself getting hurt.

™� i came into this

™� world

™� a puzzled

™� panther

™� waiting

™� to be caged

™� but something

™� stood in the way

™� i was never

™� qui-I-I-Ite

™� tamed

™� crossed the paths of right and wrong ♪

™� saw them take a toll

™� saw armies that marched

™� like animals they crawled ♪

™� i came into this

™� world

™� a puzzled

™� panther

™� waiting

™� to be caged

™� but something stood in the way ♪

™� i was never

™� qui-I-I-Ite

™� tamed

™� evolution's a process

™� too slow to save my soul ♪

™� i've got this creature on my back ♪

™� and it just won't let go ♪

™� if i...

what now, darby?

You've been banned from, uh, every club in l.A.

We got a gig as g.I.

It stands for "germs incognito".

But don't tell anybody it's us.

You don't think everybody is going to fucking figure it out?

Hopefully we'll be done playing before anybody figures it out.

Germs! Germs! Germs! Germs!...

Sure, you booked a few gigs.

That's the agent's job.

But as of right now,

I'm darby's manager.

And that means that i handle all the business affairs.

And that means that you work for me.

Work for you?

All you do is buy darby's dope!

Look, if it wasn't for me,

He'd buy it off the street and pass out

And get hit by a car or something.

"Hit by a car." My god.

Do you have any idea of the hoops

That i had to jump through just to get them this gig?

Hey, has anybody seen geza?

He said he was going to loan me his guitar,

But i can't find him anywhere.

What about don? Don's not here?

All right, i'll keep looking.

Well, if you are the manager,

You are doing one hell of a job!

This band... this band is in a total disarray!

I'm doing a hell of a job?

You've been managing the band!Yes,

I have been managing...male voice he has to go on now,

Drummer or no drummer.

Excuse me. Yes, i have been managing the band,

And i'm going to continue managing this band,

And i don't need any help managing this band!

Everybody here knows that you're not the manager

Except you!

What is wrong with you?

"g.I." Has to go on now.

We need more time.

You don't understand.

But our drummer's not here yet.

Those kids out there are going to riot

If somebody doesn't go on.

We can't play without a drummer.

We want "the germs"! We want "the germs"!

Five more minutes, then i'm pulling the plug.

I'll play drums.

You don't know how to play drums.

Yes i do. I've been practicing.

Darby, look at me.

You know i want this.

I've always wanted this.

Then maybe you should play the drums.

I won't let you down, darby.Huh.

hey, i found one.

Where's don?

Doesn't matter.

Don's out. Robbie's in.

Let's go, robbie.

fuck yeah, dude.

all right. Rodney bingenheimer,

Rodney on the roq.

And now from the garages of west l.A.,

Fucking drummers.The world-Famous sunset trip,

It's "the germs"!

Yeah! Yeah!

Waitress...

We're "the germs"

And we need beer.

Good to see you. How are you? Hi.

I'm "the germs'" drummer.

The drummer's on stage. Fuck off.

count it off, robbie.

Count what off?

that's not "the germs'" drummer. It's fucking rob.

I'm "the germs'" drummer and i'm late.

Hey, go get a pass or wait outside.

I'm not going to wait outside.

Count it off so we can start the song together.

Uh, excuse me. What's going on here?

I'm playing the drums tonight.

Isn't that right, darby?

Get off the stage, robbie.

Fine.

Get him out of here.

Get off the stage, asshole.

Get off the stage, asshole.

whoa!

Oh, no, no, no! Not the drums!

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

oh, not my hi-Hat!

"Tell me, my brethren,

If the goal be lacking to humanity,

Is not humanity itself lacking?

It is time for man to mark his goal.

It is time for man to plant the germ

Of his highest hope."

Uh, yeah, oh...

Oh god!

Oh, yeah, that's good.

yeah, oh, oh, oh.

Hey, darby. Hey, darby.

Oh, come on, darby.

Oh.

Fuck you, asshole!

So you really want to be a germ, huh?

Huh, you fucking know i do, man.

Well, great.

You're a germ.

Have fun.

Darby.

I went over to lucky's house to get some speed

And he wasn't there, so i broke in.

But i found these.

This here is crystal meth.

And this one here is...

M.D.M.A.

But this one, i don't know, there's no fucking label

So... wait a second.

No label?

Huh.

There's only one way to find out.

Oh, yeah.

Darby, no.

No, no, no, you don't even know what this shit is.

Get up!

Are you serious?

You want to fucking kill yourself, huh?

Darby, hey!

Darby, hey. Hey. Darby.

Darby, hey.

Hey, darby.

Oh, come on, you gotta be...

Hey, darby.

Darby. Darby, hey.

What's so fucking funny?

It's just ketamine!

Faggots use this stuff when they get fist-Fucked

To make their assholes open.

No one's going to die from a loose ass.

Don't fucking laugh, darby.

I'm not going to stand by here and watch you kill yourself.

Huh!Is this the big plan?

The big five-Year plan?

Right here, right now?

Well, i'm not going to let that happen.

I just made robbie the drummer for "the germs".

We can't play with rob.

I know.

Oh, so you're not just killing yourself,

You're killing our band.

Darby, "the germs" are the only thing any of us

Have ever really cared about. "The germs" are dead, pat,

And you know that.

I mean, we can't even get any gigs anymore.

We... we can't even go on stage without starting a riot.

So?

So, what are we supposed to do now?

I'm going to london...

With amber.

London with amber?

And when i get back...

Everything's going to be different...

'Cause i know what i'm doing, pat.

™� dementia of a higher order ♪

™� what we do is secret

™� secret

"The germs" on kroq.

And now i am really excited

Because i have darby crash on the phone,

Calling from england. What's going on, darby?

it's 6.00 in the morning out here.

Well, that's pretty cool.

So, you seen lots of shows?

Well, i saw "the go-Go's" the other night.

Oh yeah? And "the blackhearts",

And i went and saw "the body snatchers".

Oh, "the go-Go's", yeah.

Hey, remember when belinda was in "the germs"?

Yeah, it's kind of weird coming all the way to england

And seeing hollywood bands.

You know, everybody says punk is dead,

But it's bigger than ever.

The only band that i've seen

That's any good though is "adam and the ants".

Everybody here is really into "the ants".

"Adam and the ants", wow. Weird.

When are you coming home?

Well, it depends on how long i can get by

With the money we've got.

If anybody wants to send any money,

They can do it through lorna or michelle.

ah, good idea.

All right, well, thanks for calling

All the way from england. Bye, darby.

Bye, rodney. Yeah, call again.

Bye, everybody. All right...

bye, darby. That was darby crash

On the world-Famous kroq, rock of the '80s.

Now we're going to play a song called "world up my ass"

By the "circle jerks".

Hey, i heard darby's back.

Yeah.

Oh, hey. Hey.

Come on in.Thanks.

We made him move into our apartment

So we could take care of him.

Oh, we had so much fun.Mm-Hm.

We would have these dinner parties.

He was really into wine-Tasting.Hmm.

He was into wine- Tasting and dope.

I was into butt-Fucking...

And dope.

You're such a romantic.Well, it's true!

this is the new place, huh?

Oh my god!

Oh my god.

Look at that mohawk.

Mohican.

Wow. What's the difference?

Huh...

I'm starting a new band, pat.

And i've...

Auditioned, i-I don't know, over...

What, 30 guitar players and they...

They all pretend to be you, so i just...

I don't know, i figured i might as well have you.

Gee, thanks.

It's really important to me, pat.

Can lorna play?No.

Well, what about don?

I mean, don was a perfect fit for us.

I don't know, darby. Hey, i don't know.

I mean, we were good.

We got really good.

Don't you want to play with me, pat?

Of course! You know that.

Of course i do.

Hmm.

Good.

Let's start practicing immediately.

We have a gig next week.

Next week?

We'll pull it off.

We always pull it off.

So, amber, nobody understands why "the...

Why "the germs" broke up.

Well, kickboy, they couldn't get shows anymore.

It's pat's fault, basically.

Pat has a problem with violence,

And darby simply got fed up.

But... but... but pat is in the new band!

Uh, why would darby be fed up with pat?

And what about lorna?

Where is...?I'm not at liberty to discuss

Internal band policy.

Oh, you're not at liberty.

Well, then maybe i'll ask darby.

Darby's not speaking with the press right now.

The press? I'm not the fucking press.

I'm fucking kickboy, you cunt!

No press. No pictures.

No interviews. Oh, fuck you.

Now, i've imposed a strict clampdown on all media.

Well, i've imposed a strict clampdown on your fucking mouth.

Okay?Okay, bring it on.

Yeah, you'll never be in "slash" fucking magazine, amber.

This is going to be up your fucking ass.Oh, good!

And i'm going to be recording it, you know what?

I'm going to like it. And shoving it up... down your throat.

Oh, good, you know what i like? Fuck you!

We've got all our instruments,

And they work.

We're at the starwood...

And darby's not wasted.

we have a new policy.

We only take drugs under thinking conditions.

Okay.

You're obviously not used to professional management.

™� all he sees are death masked stars ♪

™� the lion's world is cold and sharp ♪

™� all he wants is much too far ♪

™� he stalks the roads of token cars ♪

™� he snarls at winds that mean no harm ♪

™� and takes the thorns in perfect form ♪

™� a broken ideal rides inside ♪

™� the tortured lion's denim hide ♪

™� i want the lion's share

™� gather round the broken chairs ♪

™� feed my mind unholy tests ♪

™� do me in i need to rest ♪

™� he sleeps when nothing's in the air ♪

™� eats the scraps of some who care ♪

™� all he wants is much too far ♪

™� he stalks the roads of token cars ♪

™� he snarls at winds that mean no harm ♪

™� and takes the thorns in perfect form ♪

™� a broken ideal rides inside ♪

™� the tortured lion's denim hide ♪

Cut yourself!

™� i want the lion's share

™� gather round the broken chairs ♪

™� feed my mind unholy tests ♪

™� do me in i need to rest ♪

you suck!

wooo-Hooo!

Thanks, lorna.

Whatever.

withouta doubt,

That was the best show ever, darby.

Much better than any "germs" show.

hey, nice outfit, darby.

Yeah?

How'd it feel to be the drummer for "the germs"?

Fuck "the germs".

Have some feathers.

Fuck your feathers, man.

And fuck you!Stop it, robbie.

Robbie!

You want to fuck with someone?

Come on, fight with me! Lorna!

Come on, fuck with me.Stop it!

Yeah?You want to fight?

Come on.

Come on.

just walk away, robbie.

Walk away.

shine, dude.

Come on. Let's get out of here.

are you all right, darby?

I can't believe i just did that.

Don't fuck with lorna doom.

Dude, don't worry about it.

We'll work it out. We'll get it right.

We just need some time to write new songs.

I'm out of time, pat.

I want to have a "germs" farewell show...

With all of us.

Everybody, including don.

I love "the germs", you know that.

Lorna?

He just knew i'd say yes.

I always say yes.

Uh, everybody always said yes.

How could i say no to him?

Oh my god!

It's a hagstrom.

It's brand new.

Cost 125 bucks at guitar center.

I can't believe you bought a new guitar.

I've been saving.

It even has that new guitar smell.

I figure since it's our last "germs" show,

I might as well buy a new guitar.

Amazing.

Listen. Listen.

This is for the people who wanted to know what it was like

When we were around.

But this is the only one.

You're not going to see this again.

So i want the people that care...

That care what it was like...

That it meant something to be inside of here...

And we'll play for you.

And you can come up here a-And you can play with us.

We will make it like it was.

So let's do it. Let's go.

Yeah!

™� through my tunnel

™� everyone i see

™� is everyone i know

™� i'm walking

™� in my tunnel

™� i don't want to talk to you ♪

™� because you don't listen ♪

™� i don't want no junkie ♪

™� i'm walking

™� in my tunnel

™� what are you doing

™� in my tunnel

™� out, out of the tunnel ♪

™� take me back to my jungle ♪

™� out, out of the tunnel ♪

™� take me back to my jungle ♪

They'll charge you on the way out for that.

Yeah, pat, pick it up!

Yeah, you sexy fuck!

Darby! Darby!

™� i'm walking

™� through my tunnel

™� i don't want to talk to you ♪

™� 'cause you never listen ♪

™� you paint your faces

™� you wear my clothes

™� but you don't know

™� you don't know

™� through my tunnel

™� out of the tunnel

™� take me back to my jungle ♪

™� o-O-Out of the jungle ♪

♪ take me back to my tunnel ♪

™� my tunnel

I'll see you all at oki-Dog.

Go to oki-Dog.

we love you, darby.

that was our best show ever.

absolutely.

I want to play again right now.

You're lorna doom.

So whatever happens,

No one can take that away from you.

I know that.

Everybody's going to oki-Dog.

Come to oki-Dog.

Tonight, darby?

It's freezing and i'm tired,

And you know i don't go out anymore so...

I'm not going.Take it.

I don't need it anymore.

What are you doing?

Take it.

Okay. Goodbye.

Mr. Crash.

Great show. Best one yet.

I mean, no darby crash band but, you know... don.

It wouldn't have been "the germs" without you.

Oh...

Thanks.

That was awesome.Yeah.

I'm going to oki-Dog.

There's a big party there.

Please come, pat.

Oh...

Me and jena, we're going to go home and watch tv.

We're tired.

Oh, okay.

Cool. We'll... do it next time.

Bye.

Okay.

"I love those who do not know how to live

Except in perishing

For they are those that go beyond.

I love the great despisers

Because they are the great adorers.

They are arrows longing for the other shore.

I love those who do not seek beyond the stars

For a reason to perish and be sacrificed,

But who sacrifice themselves to earth in order

That earth may someday become superman's.

Tell me, my brethren,

If the goal be lacking to humanity,

Is not humanity itself lacking?

It is time for man to mark his goal.

It is time for man to plant the germ of his highest hope."

Hey, darby.

This is beat, isn't it?

Oh, you know what? There's this huge party

Up on mullholland. Some rich chick.

Her dad's an actor or something.

You should go.

I'm going to kill myself tonight.

You know...

I've been trying to do stuff, like...

For a really long time.

Like, um...

Oh, 15, 20 years.

But, um...

I keep fucking up.

And things don't get any better.

Let's do it.

Hmm? In my parents' pool house.

No one will know we're there.

Yeah?

™� pushing through the market square ♪

How do you know how much to use?

™� so many mothers sighing

news spread quickly. Within minutes,

Fans, the curious and reporters...

This is... this is unbelievable.

™� the news guy wept and told us ♪

™� earth was really dying

™� he cried so much his face was wet ♪

™� then i knew he was not lying... ♪

John lennon...

Was brought to the emergency room...

Why... why would they do such a thing?

Like, i don't even see... it's, like, so random.

™� ...electric irons and tvs ♪

™� my brain hurt like a warehouse... ♪

He was dead on arrival.

Are you sure that's the right amount?

™� and all the fat-Skinny people ♪

™� and all the tall-Short people ♪

™� and all the nobody people ♪

™� and all the somebody people ♪

™� i never thought i'd need ♪

™� so many people

™� a girl my age went off her head ♪

™� hit some tiny children

™� if the black hadn't-A pulled her off ♪

™� i think she would have killed them ♪

™� a soldier with a broken arm ♪

™� fixed his stare to the wheels of a cadillac ♪

Hey.

Did you hear?

Yeah, i'm wa... i'm watching it right now.

Yeah, i want to know what darby thinks.

™� i think i saw you in an ice cream parlour ♪

™� drinking milkshakes cold and long ♪

™� smiling and waving and looking so fine... ♪

Darby, i think i'm still alive.

You know, he once told me

That we were going to be more important than "the beatles".

™� and i thought of ma

™� and i wanted to get back there ♪

™� your face, your race ♪

He did it. ™� the way that you talk

™� i kiss you you're beautiful ♪

™� i want you to walk

™� we've got five years

™� stuck on my eyes

™� five years what a surprise ♪

™� we've got five years

™� my brain hurts a lot...

Darby fucking did it.

What?

™� we've got five years

™� what a surprise

™� five years stuck on my eyes ♪

™� we've got five years

™� my brain hurts a lot

™� five years... he really fucking did it.

™� that's all we've got

™� we've got five years stuck on my eyes ♪

™� five years i'm so sorry.

™� what a surprise

™� we've got five...

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Why would someone stalk and kill john lennon?

And why now, when lennon was just coming out of five years of seclusion?

Almost immediately, a vigil of stunned fans...

...and singing songs in lennon's memory.

I was telling these people here, i feel like the '80s have begun.

it was at the dakota

That the lennons decided to break their silence

And record their new album, "double fantasy".

The fantasy, and the peace,

Ended violently at the dako...

"Astrid was from a planet blue.

He spoke of love for me and you.

He could set your mind ablaze

With sparkling eyes and visionary gaze.

He stood like a remnant from outbreak past,

Wore something in his ear and boy, he was sass.

Had hair like a rocket's nest,

But when he cheered, he gave his best.

He made a noise that stirred our souls,

Got us moving out of control.

When astrid moved,

We changed our tunes.

They filled his arms with needles bare,

Shot him up and cut his hair,

Tied him to an evil plot,

Told the kids that he was not their man.

He gave us life and dealt us love,

Sold us out for the great above.

On a starry night in mid-December,

Astrid died. You might remember.

Live it to the end.

Share it with a friend. Deny me not.

I'll be with you in your thoughts...

Beyond."

everything works in circles,

Like, sometimes you're doing something,

And, a year later,

You're back at the same point.

You understand that?

So circle one is what we're doing right now.

Someday we'll probably do circle two.

™� time takes a cigarette

™� puts it in your mouth

™� you pull on your finger

™� then another finger

™� then your cigarette

™� the wall-To-Wall is calling ♪

™� it lingers then you forget ♪

™� oh-Ho-Ho-Ho

™� you're a rock 'n' roll suicide ♪

™� you're too old to lose it ♪

™� too young to choose it

™� and the clock waits so patiently ♪

™� on your song

™� you walk past the cafe

™� but you don't eat when you've lived too long ♪

™� oh no, no, no

™� you're a rock 'n' roll suicide ♪

™� chev brakes are snarling ♪

™� as you stumble across the road ♪

™� but the day breaks instead ♪

™� so you hurry home

™� don't let the sun blast your shadow ♪

™� don't let the milk float ride your mind ♪

™� you're so naturally religiously unkind ♪

™� oh no, love, you're not alone ♪

™� you're watching yourself but you're too unfair ♪

™� you've got your head all tangled up ♪

™� but if i could only make you care ♪

™� oh no, love, you're not alone ♪

™� no matter what or who you've been ♪

™� no matter when or where you've seen ♪

™� all the knives seem to lacerate your brain ♪

™� i've had my share

™� i'll help you with the pain ♪

™� you're not alone

™� just turn on with me

™� and you're not alone

™� let's turn on and be

™� not alone

™� give me your hands

™� you're wonderful

™� give me your hands

™� 'cause you're wonderful

™� oh, give me your hands