It’s time for some more Friday giveaways!
This week we’re getting amped for the release of Social Distortion’s new album ‘Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes’, which is due out on January 21.
We have several prize packs to give away. These consist of:
-Social Distortion poster
-Social Distortion stickers
-Social Distortion coasters
-Social Distortion badges
-A copy of the new album
Want it?
Tell us a ‘Hard Time’ story from your childhood.
I went on holidays to the Gold Coast with my family when I was 10 and hit up all the awesome theme parks, taking photos like a cracked-out Japanese tourist all the while. When I got home I went to remove the film from my camera and realised there was none in there to begin with. And now I’m old and bitter and have consumed enough tequila to have effectively shtoinked my memory so the magic Queensland holiday is but a vague recollection at best. WAH.
That’s pretty shit. What’s yours?
Childhood was a time of ups and downs and everything seems so much worse. But I spent the first 13 yrs of my life with a very curly fringe that got me the nickname Frizzball or Fuzzball and when you’re 10 this seems like the world is ending. It used to torment me to no end.
I was an almighty sook as a kid & my old man was a chain smoking ‘harden the f#%k up’ kind of guy…we were driving to our annual trailer park trashy holiday, i was sitting in the back seat with the window open, he throws his ciggie butt out of his window, it comes back in through my window & proceeds to burn the crap out of my back & ruin my pretty pink dress…left me scarred mentally & physically…i don’t think i’ll ever get over the trauma…lol !!!
My mum and sister went to new Zealand when I was a young lad, and I wasnt able to go. It cut me man, it cut me deep, it cut me real deep really really……………anyways,to make up for it I created this massive fantasy about these aliens coming from mars to visit me. There names are………. I mean were toomees and pom pom!
Anyways, i wrote a song about it:
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I used to have these friends
And every night before Id go to bed
We’d talk about important things
Like he-man & my sad feelings
Feelings of why my mum left me
You taught me how to wet the trampoline
It was the greatest time of my life
But why’d you leave without saying goodbye.
When I was about 7 I went to the movies and saw La Bamba. It was awesome. I don’t know why, but I thought it was about Paul Simon so I asked my mum to buy me the Paul Simon tape (that’s right, I said tape).
So instead of strutting round the house to La Bamba I got stuck calling some guy Al. I never did get that La Bamba tape and the last 23 years have been tough. So if anyone’s got a spare copy 7 year old me would really appreciate it. Must be on cassette though, didn’t get a CD player until I was 14.
When I was about 12 or 13, I desperately wanted a Sega Mega-Drive for Christmas. It was literally the only thing I wanted.
On Christmas morning I woke up to find a parcel from my mum’s partner, with a card that said “To Ryan, Enjoy the Sega, you deserve it.” I ripped open the package, to find a cardboard box about the right size, which when I opened it up, had a whole Pigs head in it. Yep, An actual pigs head, from the butcher.
Psychological and physical abuse, and, poor because my father was a gambler, womaniser, who smoked away most of what little money that our household had.
That is so sad Caroline….& so common unfortunately.
I too went with my family to the Gold Coast for a holiday, when I was about 14. We fronted up to Sea World, but my parents took one look at the price and turned around. We stopped at the ‘Porpoise Pool’ in Coffs Harbour on our trip back home as the admission prices were more palatable for my parents. It took me another 20 years or so before I actually made it into the gates at Sea World – and then it was for a conference so I didn’t get to experience all the rides and stuff the way I would have as a carefree teenager. But at least I can now say I have been there!
The usual torments of a geeky childhood. Finding out your friends were just pretending to be your friends to mock you. Going to a local all ages hardcore show, meeting a girl, and crying because you liked her. Dumping a girl to date your crush, only to realize the girl you dumped was perfect for you. Losing at Goldeneye and Mario Kart to your friends. Going to uni early, only to be so depressed you didn’t enjoy any of it. Etc….
Being younger than my only sibling, i always liked beating her in things to prove i was better as siblings usually do. But there was one thing i could never beat my sister in and that was carnival games. You know those ones where you roll the ball into the holes and then the camel moves across and you get a toy if you reach the finish before everyone else? Well here in Adelaide there was this place called dazzelland that had rides and carnival games, etc. The last time we went there before it closed was the first time i managed to win the game. As a sore loser, my sister began to cry, drawing the attention of the staff who decided to give her a massive toy and give me a plastic bow with no arrows.
As a child i was shy, quiet and passive but well liked for my friendly nature (still the same now). However i was not assertive if need be, whereas i am now if need be. So, in primary school we had a fill in teacher for a few weeks, Mrs Page who i was already afraid of due to her strict and mean nature. Well, she decided to pick on me for no reason, and accused me of chatting and mucking up, keeping me in for detention several days. Finally one day she screamed her head off at me and pushed me out of my chair onto the floor. I ran out of class and home, told my parents who made an official complaint and she got in some minor trouble. But, arrrgghh i hope Karma came her!
Dad was a “travelling” farm hand so we never had much furniture-our kitchen table was 4 tea chests pushed together and we used apple crates for seats and at night in one house we used to wake up each morning with rat bites on us
So we have been reading these over and over all week trying to find the best ones.. and we could only get it down to 4!
So, without further ado..
JUDITH – For sucking it up in the Porpoise Pool.
TLON – For having the guts to tell the world you cry when you like girls.
NICK MITCH – The thought of a little dude being given a plastic bow with no arrows had the whole office in stitches!
MICK – Cause, let’s face it, rats are f*cked.
Thanks for all the entries!
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1 time played super mario kart on snes & days later got a scare that someone schizo called looking to be my girlfriend