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Blood for Blood

Blood for Blood is a hardcore band from Charlestown, Massachusetts. Their song “Wasted Youth Crew” was my inspiration for my theme “Youth.”

American Hardcore

Inspired by Steven Blush’s book “American Hardcore: A tribal history” Paul Rachman’s feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys. It shows an overview of the atmosphere of the youth in that particular generation.

Boston Beatdown

Boston Beatdown, Volume 2 is a shocking testament to the history of Boston’s violent harcore community.

The Lovely Bones

 This novel is a story about a young girl who is brutally raped at a very young age.

Thirteen

 Thirteen is a movie co-written with the starring actress about her own life exploring sex,drugs and crime at the young age of 12 – 13.

Kidulthood

Kidulthood is a raw movie from the british underground youth. It explores sensitive issues such as underage sex, prostitution, drugs, gang violence and crime.

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life.” – The Lovely Bones

“When he needs cigarettes, he just takes them from the house or steals a pack from the store,” his grandmother says.

AND…

Here’s a video of a young russian boy smoking.