Anti-Authoritarian Authoritarians:The Other F Word
Watching the trailer reminded me very much of that scene in American Hardcore where Steve “Mugger” Corbin, a former Black Flag roadie, sips a glass of wine and talks about having invested his Black Flag and SST money into tech stocks. He’s now an “independently wealthy” CPA. Either
Though South by Southwest has earned the reputation of being more of a see-and-be-seen drunkfest than a legitimate week of panels and conferences, it actually has a pretty robust film festival. This year, SXSW Film will be premiering The Other F Word, a documentary that aims to explore “what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians—punk rockers—become society’s ultimate authorities—dads.” Directed by Andrea Blaugrand Nevins and featuring a handful of seminal punk and rock figures in their later years, the film takes a look at what happens when punk rockers have to, essentially, grow up.
Watching the trailer reminded me very much of that scene in American Hardcore where Steve “Mugger” Corbin, a former Black Flag roadie, sips a glass of wine and talks about having invested his Black Flag and SST money into tech stocks. He’s now an “independently wealthy” CPA. Either way, The Other F Word seems to touch on, among other things, a fundamental issue that many of us will struggle with, punks or not: how to find happiness and success without becoming the Man. 
