ACPC

Every once in a while, girlfriends do something that just knock you sideways with something amazingly cool. That's just the way it is. Well, recently I was blown away with a group project that my girlfriend, fancypants (formermly known as Break Me Off A Piece Of That Kit Kat Bar) was working on for her graduate school program in Museum Studies. They had to design a mock museum from start to finish, and they were able to choose the topic that their museum would focus on. And while other groups in her class chose topics like The Rainforest (which I'm sure was great), her group decided to make a museum of punk rock (now thats pretty sweet). The place is called The American Center For Punk Culture (ACPC). If it were a real place, I would pay whatever fee they needed to become a lifetime member. The goal of the museum would be to document, archive, and celebrate punk culture, with a focus on the nascent punk scene in New York in the 1970s. The paper that they wrote is beyond overwhelming, but here a few good tidbits. The board members for the ACPC would include: Jello Biafra, Lee Childers, Danny Fields, Debbie Harry, Richard Hell, John Holmstrom, Lenny Kaye, Don Letts, Leggs McNeil, Jack Rabid, Patti Smith, Steven Van Zandt, and Tom Verlaine. Some of the people on the advisory board would be John Cale, Lux Interior & Poison Ivy, Mick Jones, Wayne Kramer, Hilly Kristal, Mickey Leigh, Tommy Ramone, Mike Watt, Ron Asheton, and a whole lot more. Some of the specific exhibits include : "Raymond Pettibone: Posters, Prints and Drawings", "East Coast/West Coast : Punk Across The USA", "Afro-Punk: From Ska to Hardcore", "From Pop Art to Punk Rock: Max's Kansas City", and "No Home For The Blank Generation: The Turbulent Relationship Between New York City and The Early Punk Movement". Honestly there are too many cool things about this proposed museum for me to fit in here. Let's just say that this place would be absolutely amazing. How cool would it be if there was a place like the rocknroll HOF, but done corectly.... Nicely done fancypants.