Now, straight edge bands may have members who don't even identify as straight edge, and bands of different styles can share bills.
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Fights between crews, and between straight edge kids and kids who weren't straight edge, became so routine that no one outside the scene wanted anything to do with hardcore bands.
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" Colleen has also noticed that the straight edge scene is dominated by men, even though she says the gender breakdown in her own straight edge friendship group is "very balanced.
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I used to have more friends in the straight edge world—mostly in the music world—but of all my friends who were once straight edge, probably only 25 percent still are.
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I know more men than women who are straight edge.
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The uptrend was defined with a straight edge trend line.
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Already straight edge, in his freshman year, he went vegan.
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Of course, drawing along the line produces a perfect straight edge.
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" For Kat, being straight edge means "sober living for the revolution.
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You most definitely have to be straight edge to enjoy this.
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And the straight-edge community has been really positive for me.
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It helps me to live vicariously as I am straight edge.
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I live straight edge because I want my senses to be sharp.
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This is clearly when straight edge took a much more drastic turn.
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I was in a band with two guys who were straight edge.
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Sure, teenagers might be turning into lame, straight-edge, celibate poster-children.
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I'm vegan, I'm a straight-edge, and I like being home alone.
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Toma El Riesgo adapts the straight-edge sound and attitude to this environment.
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"I was pretty straight-edge throughout high school," YS tells The Creators Project.
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My first-ever tattoo, when I was 17, was the straight edge one.
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Unfortunately, my carpentry skills did not involve a level or a straight edge.
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I could be at the club but be a straight edge guy on Monday.
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Hardcore and straight-edge cleaned me up and put me on the right path.
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He probably did use a compass and a straight edge, at least on occasion.
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People often only attribute hardcore and straight edge to beefed-up, testosterone driven men.
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How did you navigate the extremity of the straight-edge fascism in the scene?
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That's actually this essential Boston straight-edge band/youth crew that was named after them.
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Nevertheless, the 24 year old doesn't mention right off the bat that she's straight edge.
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Start with the tip of the decorating bag on a straight edge of the cookie.
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They were talented painters or members of the drama club; they were proudly straight-edge.
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In this race it's more a straight edge: Can you run the ground game efficiently?
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Back then I would say, 'No thank you, I'm straight edge,' when people offered me alcohol.
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Lawrence Burney will probably never listen to straight edge again but follow him on Twitter anyway.
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He said he wanted to appeal to the straight-edge punk crowd, which abstains from drugs and alcohol.
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Less cool if you're a straight edge wanker looking to stay on the right side of the law.
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He listened to a bunch of straight edge hardcore, got high as hell, and wrote out his thoughts.
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Musically, this isn't much different than the straight edge stuff that came out in the 80s and 90s.
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I looked up the lyrics to the actual song called "Straight Edge," which apparently started this whole movement.
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I didn't ditch drugs for philosophical reasons—I think that 'straight edge' as an ethos is quite stupid.
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Plus I've always had a rebellious streak, and in some ways straight edge is a really rebellious thing.
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And, fittingly, he talks about straight-edge, and the need for people to grow and change over time.
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Ecostrike centralizes around veganism and straight-edge, with lyrics driven by dedication and unwillingness to compromise ethics and ideals.
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Unloved, unwanted, soon to be unemployed, Barrow draws himself a bath and takes a straight edge to his wrists.
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We get it, but in the end even the most militant straight edge videos were rarely staged this stupidly.
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My parents were positive I would turn into a junkie, a skinhead, or worse—a rightwing straight-edge skinhead.
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Punk took his very real straight-edge lifestyle and turned it up to a quasi-messianic, moralizing-asshole crescendo.
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But after eighth grade, when I heard of straight edge for the first time, I immediately felt: that's me.
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I'm still straight edge off booze and drugs—I've been so for so long, it's just what is 'normal'.
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This movie's not for everybody, but it's worth it just for Josh Brolin's terrific portrayal of a straight-edge cop.
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Get a traditional straight-edge bullet, a curved G-spot vibe, or one that has rabbit ears for clitoral stimulation.
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You could argue that the similar looking design/font of shirts could reflect straight edge youth crew music in general.
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She was more straight-edge than her fellow pop stars, not singing about sexuality or wrestling a python on stage.
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At 15, I came to the realization that I didn't like alcohol or drugs period and declared myself straight edge.
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But in terms of the people I hang out with, I don't discriminate; my wife, for example, isn't straight edge.
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It positions Jud Jud as having been an active participant in the development of straight-edge hardcore in the 80s.
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Cut a flat copper sheet into a half-oval, and take a triangle out of the center of its straight edge.
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Social awareness had become something of a tired shtick in hardcore by the late 80s, when straight edge culture ran rampant.
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The band Minor Threat coined the flagship label with their 1981 song "Straight Edge," and the movement took off from there.
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He got into punk rock, particularly the D.C. hardcore scene—straight-edge, earnest punk, not the nihilistic New York seventies stuff.
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I've also been raised by my parents that I should not smoke or drink, so I'm basically straight edge at the moment.
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A bunch of pot-smoking metal-heads or hard Christians or vegan kids who are straight edge didn't quite fit the bill.
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Ahead of the album's release, Mykki dropped "The Plug Won't," a slow-burning rap track about being straight edge and staying savage.
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In El Salvador the hardcore scene is concentrated in San Salvador where straight edge and youth crew hardcore is a major touchstone.
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"If I had a partner who didn't live vegan and straight edge, then smoking would be a big no go," Melixxx explains.
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" After high school, Shogun's obsession with punk evolved into hardcore, which became straight-edge, which became what he describes as "gang shit.
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Christian, straight-edge metalcore was the best mid-aughts Mississippi had to offer, dubiously "brutal" as it was, and I loathed it.
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Minor Threat may have put the whole straight-edge fetish on the map, however inadvertently, but Boston punks took it to new heights.
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We partied hard, but then having met musicians like Dennis Lyxzén from Refused, who's vegan straight-edge, you see that he really delivers.
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With enough advanced notice, there might be several ways you could go—quitting outright, subbing your dirty pee with a straight edge friend's.
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"The fluidity of the forms tends to lean towards the idea that nothing in nature has a harsh straight edge," Mertz tells Creators.
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B.'s band is Jud Jud, an a capella straight-edge hardcore band that, in 1997, released The Demos on No Idea Records.
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At the same time that Jud Jud was lampooning straight-edge hardcore, Victory Records was building an empire on the back of it.
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A punk generation is like two years, that's how long kids go to straight-edge shows before they smoke weed and go to college.
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Working with the straight edge of the circle closest to you, fold the left half of the curve inwards, sealing, then the right side.
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And me being straight-edge, I've never had any wine or beer or anything, so it's been exciting to explore this whole new world.
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Straight-edge positive hardcore with offensively dull messages is always timely, especially when it comes in the scandalous form of a staged music video.
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This isn't about a straight edge movement or any kind of religion, this is just about being self sufficient and taking care of ourselves.
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I think straight edge is more about who you are and what you want to identify as than just describing somebody that doesn't drink.
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The change came after 45 years of its previous logo, a straight-edge version of its iconic eagle placed above two Helvetica "A"s.
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You could use a straight edge to trace the path from one foot to the opposite outstretched hand, at roughly a 65 degree angle.
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White Rex rejects modern society — its relativism, consumerism, hedonism — in favor of militantly reviving its vision of traditional masculinity: conservative, straight-edge, and unapologetically racist.
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The geometric wonders are by Kerby Rosanes, an illustrator from the Philippines, who wields an ink pen and plastic compass like a straight-edge wizard.
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Well thanks to the DIY gurus at MrGear, you can make your own grater using only a tin can, a straight edge, and a drill.
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Yardsticks are essentially for measuring what you need from your cloth and as a straight-edge for your fabric marker to keep your cuts straight.
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She considered herself asexual for a long time, before realizing she was gay—which makes looking for a partner in the straight edge scene difficult.
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He was dismissive of the straight edge lifestyle many of the younger MMA fighters advocated, and said he found their obsession with their physiques narcissistic.
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You just need to hammer down the curved end of the crowbar to create a hilt and then sharpen the straight edge to create the blade.
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But maybe like if you were to make a graph by hand you would probably have to use a straight edge ruler to draw the lines?
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To find out why—and how—people choose to give up drinking, smoking, and doing drugs, we spoke to five women in the straight edge scene.
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I don't have a crystal ball to see the future in, but right now... it feels like being straight edge is a lifetime commitment for me.
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After reconciling the need to be on a long-term drug regimen with the values I ascribed to being straight edge, I began taking the medication.
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Minor Threat's unbridled anger and anti-drug ethos would inform the straight edge and youth crew movements that would come into vogue over the next decade.
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What's not so sexy is the long camera bump on the back — the straight edge is sharper than it looks in photos and easily collects dust.
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Their presence helped me feel less isolated at those shows, even when random straight-edge kids would point out that I was the only black male there.
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Instead of falling in line with the trends of the day, such as straight-edge, veganism, or Hare Krishna, the pair opted for vampirism as their inspiration.
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Being a straight edge vegan for me is the consequence of me wanting a better world for everyone and me trying to do my part for that.
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By 213-25, Scared Straight had been redubbed Ten Foot Pole—the band was skewing closer to pop-punk and wanted to distance themselves from straight edge.
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"We had friends who were vegan, we had friends who were straight edge, and they were bored out of their skulls when we went out," says Gretchen.
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Its more recent history has roots in the straight-edge punk rock music scene, the anti-globalization protests of the 1990s and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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There's something about this album that leads me to ask: How many of these straight edge bands were made up of people who once did drugs and quit?
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While initially I had some negative feelings about-edge kids, based on some past experiences, they showed me the positive side of straight edge that I never knew.
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Except for one: straight edge, a fringe phenomenon of the punk scene spawned in the early 173s as a reaction to out-of-control cocaine and heroin abuse.
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So, knowing he'd done a lot of drugs in the past and was now completely straight edge, I told him how badly I wanted to get high that night.
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The next generation of barbershops, though, are a little more progressive — serving up straight-edge shaves and precision cuts to men and women with a side of social responsibility.
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Place another piece of parchment paper on top and use a straight edge or rolling pin to smooth out the seeds in a single layer one-eighth-inch thick.
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And ever since Minor Threat sang about having better things to do than snorting white shit up their noses in 1981, that's exactly what straight edge people have been doing.
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Photo by Wayne Valdez, courtesy of S.S. Records Boston hardcore in the early 80s was synonymous with intense violence, extreme straight-edge fanaticism, and, to some extent, right wing politics.
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Occupation: Freelance creative director and motion designer Straight edge: 22 yearsIn junior high, I tried drinking a couple of times, got drunkish but not shit-faced, and smoked cigarettes regularly.
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Like Ecostrike, the band was formed with the intent of spreading a positive message about veganism and straight-edge, which a quick glance at their lyrics or shirt designs clearly reflects.
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While straight-edge puffys will be content with a suggestion of flesh under a down coat, more hardcore devotees will seek the pillowy pleasures of specialist porn sites like Down Girlz.
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I did a straight-edge, pop-up concept where I picked an off-night at a local club, and had fellow teenagers over to enjoy cocktails without alcohol and Red Bull.
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If you must use measuring cups, spoon ingredients into the cup and then remove excess by scraping across the top with the back of a butter knife or another straight edge.
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While it's easy to assume the "parties" are a ploy to promote a straight-edge lifestyle, Straight Up founder Katherine Kasmir is quick to clarify that they're not all about abstinence.
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And as much as I pride myself on being knowledgeable on everything that's come out of Baltimore and its surrounding areas, I was, until recently, completely unaware of straight edge, a genre born an hour away in Washington, DC. Straight edge is a derivative of punk that advocates for a completely sober (sometimes vegan) lifestyle that was started in the DC area in the early 80s and grew into an increasingly rigid national movement that continues today.
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At the same time, McCaughan was straight edge, cutting his teeth in punk bands like Wwax and the Slushpuppies, who were the support for Fugazi's first show outside of DC in 22003.
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The straight-edge little brother to the day parties and shows are panels, which often feel educational only in the sense that you're stuck in a chair listening to someone else talk.
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This year's Weed Week challenge is on the opposite end of the spectrum as I was challenged critique the most iconic albums in straight edge, the hardcore subgenre I just learned existed.
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Though it started as a parody of straight-edge hardcore bands, as time has gone on, the a capella duo has become the reverently worshipped hardcore act they always pretended to be.
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Ross didn't even bother to use a straight edge when drawing his design, so it's a complete mess of tech that no one in their right mind would build in 1992 or ever.
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The fierce positivity and tribalism of hardcore and straight edge culture in particular seems to have a special resonance in the region, where it takes on new significance in a Central American context.
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The group also had a part in kickstarting the youth crew subculture, whose adherents often followed Ian MacKaye's accidentally invented straight edge lifestyle, avoiding animal products, and enjoying walking on each others' heads.
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" But as with all things, the lifestyle is far from perfect: "I once wrote that the hardcore and straight edge community is only a reflection of the majority of society, with better music.
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Check them out: This set from the Calphalon Classic collection includes a blonde rubberwood knife block with built-in ceramic sharpeners that automatically sharpen your straight-edge blades every time you use them.
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Kiss bassist Gene Simmons may be a notorious straight edge, but he's finally changed his tune on the green stuff — just in time to step into a role at a medical marijuana company.
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He became straight edge, a devotee of a lifestyle rooted in abstinence from alcohol, drugs and casual sex that was associated with the hard-core punk scene of the early '80s and '90s.
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" Maureen doesn't regret her decision to be straight edge, even if it means never touching alcohol in her life: "I like feeling my feelings more than drinking them away, even if they're sometimes uncomfortable.
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Hardcore music continued to thrive with the arrival of East Coast transplant label Revelation Records in the 280s along with their straight edge ilk, giving a platform to bands like Uniform Choice and Ignite.
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"If I really wanted to be inspired by designs like Gaudí's, I had to throw away the T square and straight edge and grab some Plasticine clay," Mr. Vinton said in his 22009 speech.
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As you are both extreme straight-edge, vegan legends of Japanese underground music, I'm curious as to what your dynamic is when working with him and if it's any different from working with anyone else?
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In the morning, when I was in the throes of a deep, aggressive hangover, he told me he was straight edge and admitted that the "beers" I'd seen him drinking were actually non-alcoholic ones.
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Photo courtesy of the artist For nearly 20 years, Vitamin X has been holding it down at home in Amsterdam and all around the world qith their high-energy, ultra-fun straight-edge hardcore punk.
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Though both B. and Steve were straight-edge at the time, they saw the self-seriousness of the genre—and the tough-guy machismo that was beginning to permeate it—as something worth laughing about.
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While the cat-eye's perfect upward flick is achieved by following the natural angle of the lower eye with a straight edge, like tape, the dog-eye follows the natural downward angle of the top lid.
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It hasn't ever mattered whether the one doing the heated lecture is a right wing preacher character, a left wing hippie, or a somewhere in between straight edge punk rocker, nobody likes to be yelled at.
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The sloped edges let you stir and saute in ways that the straight edge of a cast iron pan can't, but it still has great heat retention if you want that coveted sear on your meat.
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There's a guy in a bar, he has a few drinks, when suddenly his parents—aka the Pennsylvania hardcore band XRepresentX, the straightest of straight edge—drag him out into a dark alleyway and read him the Levites.
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When we grew up, the bands that put on shows for people under 18 were straight edge hardcore and metal bands, which meant our first experience with live music involved moshpits and close connections between stage and audience.
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My initial idea of what straight edge music would sound like was more along the lines of ambient music, but that wouldn't make sense considering that you almost have to be on drugs to thoroughly enjoy that shit.
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Occupation: Drummer in punk, metal and bands such as Forces and Twinfold Straight edge: 28 yearsI've never done drugs at all, and the last time I had a beer, I split just one with a friend in 1989.
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As well as interviews with figurers from the era including Rob Moran from Unbroken, Chris Logan from Chokehold, and INSTED's Steve Larson, the book is a celebration of bold fonts, grainy live pics and 80s/90s straight edge fashion.
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What they said in the DMs, first for polo nose: As for straight-edge princess: Winner: A woman brandishing a knife, with 76 matchesLoser: A woman not holding a knife, with 52 matches Yeah, sorry, I don't understand men.
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It is early in my listening experience, but my main issue with straight edge so far is that it sounds too much like other punk music for me to fully consider this sober, vegan lifestyle that they are promoting.
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"In a lot of the other cases, all I needed was a straight edge, compass and a T-Square going on a case by case basis without abandoning tradition or adhering to any conventions or aesthetic doctrines," he notes.
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As the lead singer for Scared Straight, Radinsky fronted a band that was simpatico with the drug-and-alcohol-free straight edge movement, making him one of the most visible professional sports figures with that connection until CM Punk came around.
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But I never specifically identified as 'straight edge' because, being only 15 or 16, I recognized that I didn't have the knowledge or understanding of the history or political implications behind that scene to want to pin that badge on myself.
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My parents are pretty straight-edge characters—they don't drink, they don't smoke, my mom doesn't even drink tea or coffee—and both my siblings before me rarely got into trouble, and if they did, it was for something stupid and emotional.
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Joel Rodriguez, guitarist of straight edge band Toma El Riesgo, one of the leading bands in the scene, and co-founder of Solid Foundation records, remembers being attracted to the punk scene as a young teenager, but found aspects of it alienating.
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There's Brandon Clancy, a kind of straight-edge white boy who went to prison in Chino, California and had to deal with not only the racial dynamics, but also treatment by the correctional officers who wield a lot of power in disturbing ways.
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Releasing records by bands like Earth Crisis and Raid, Victory would, however briefly, become a champion of the hardline movement, which took straight-edge to its puritanical extreme, with records that were narrow-minded at best, and homophobic, sexist drivel at worst.
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The popular playboy poker player tells TMZ ... he wasn't joking when he recently told us he plans to run for Prez in 2024, and he vows to go straight edge if he's elected -- no sex, drugs or alcohol -- and will abstain his entire time in office.
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In addition to serving seasonal cream cheeses with a side of metal on the sound system, Grindcore is a meeting place for animal rights groups and a hangout for straight-edge vegans who eschew not just eating animals and animal products but also drugs, alcohol and smoking.
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Being in that environment with largely a group of conservative Christian kids definitely made it easier to escape to [AA] meetings—it was cool to say you were "straight edge" in that population of students, so I didn't really have to explain myself to a lot of people.
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In the mid to late 90s, I was a know-it-all straight edge hardcore kid who liked punk music, and that put me, in my eyes, at odds with a band whose fan base I saw as being solely composed of hockey lovin', beer drinkin', "I AM CANADIAN" types.
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It wasn't that he objected to the plan, per se, it was just that it didn't exactly jive with their sensibilities: Matt and Nick Massie, the men behind the gimmick, are each married fathers of two children—straight-edge sons of a minister who say a prayer before every single match.
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Straight edge vegan hardcore supergroups are hard to come by these days, so we thought we'd brighten your day with the worldwide debut of Sect, a brand-new project cooked up by a bunch of extremely well-seasoned dudes (one of whom is also the culinary hustler behind Vegan Magic products).
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"Anything that is so moralizing, and takes itself so seriously, demands to be parodied, demands to be treated with some irony," says B. Where many kids coming from lower socioeconomic planes often turned to straight-edge and hardcore as a bonding mechanism, so too did this crop of kids from Tampa.
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In "Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding", published in 1893, T. Sundara Row took on with folded paper various problems geometers had tackled with compass and straight-edge since the days of Euclid: finding exactly half of the angle between two creases, say, or constructing a figure of three or nine or 15 perfectly equal sides.
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Both far-right experts and festivalgoers say the strategy is bearing fruit, injecting fresh blood into extremist networks; there was an alarming number of young faces at the festival, many wearing the T-shirts of a far-right German MMA promotion, prompting grumbles from some of the grizzled scene veterans about the straight-edge values of their new comrades.
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To honor that legacy, Kenney—now an author and professor—and her husband Rich Dolinger—a musician and owner of a contracting company called Straight Edge Tile—have compiled a new oral history, titled Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore Punk in the Nation's Capital 247-215 (Rare Bird), that explores the club's tumultuous decade of existence.
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Perhaps most notoriously, Jeff Hardy's particular combo of injuries and drug use led to his departure from WWE, and to the straight-edge CM Punk cutting a gleeful promo the next night on his absent opponent which was rife with subtext from the head office—we show druggies the door now, it went, and you really shouldn't be fans of them.
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What they said about the vape photo: The thought of me toking on a smelly pipe appeared to be a turn-on for some, while cigarettes were just a little too risqué: Winner: Polo nose, with 62 matchesLoser: Straight edge angel, with 50 matches This app is to help you find people to introduce to your genitals, not to act as a middle man for evangelical study buddies, so it's no surprise polo nose won.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: Another sunny day here on the Lower East Side Walked over to the OST Cafe Ordered a Jade Cloud green tea and a blueberry muffin The credit card machine wasn't working So my repast was "on the house" I dropped a single into the tip box Walked over to the 99-cent store and bought twelve pens to write poetry with Then headed over to the barber shop It is an Orthodox place and as I walked in A man with a flowing white beard handed me a Lubavitcher leaflet He soon said "Shabbat Shalom" to the owner and left the shop I said "just a shave" and the barber shaved me using hot towels and alcohol spray and a straight-edge razor He gave me a really smooth shave!
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