Update: The Future of Punk Not Profit! SoCal

I started this blog about 3 1/2 years ago as a way to promote shows and bands that played at my former residence/venue known to some as "Dusty Dirt House," as well as other shows I was involved with in some fashion. When we started doing shows at my house, the local punk scene around the Inland Empire and SoCal was kind of dying off and it was difficult to find decent spots to have punk shows. I'm sure that my efforts to help bands contributed to Punk music rising up again in SoCal, but there are also many other great people who have taken up the charge to make Punk Rock happen again. Everything is happening and changing really fast these days, I think that maybe because of the state of the nation many people are starting to seek out right-brained creativeness instead of left-brained logic thinking, because what most humans refer to as logic and reason simply doesn't work anymore and people need to find a life with real sustenance.

I really hope this social trend continues. People have been programmed from birth to accept that life is about money and material gain, but now people are realizing that this program is not advanced enough or comparable with what I like to call our "Spiritual Operating System." I and many others feel that evolution has upgraded the human psyche to the point where certain archaic belief systems are quickly becoming irrelevant and exposed for their flaws. Personally, I am not out to teach people how to see the world or what to believe, and I think that knowledge is useless without experience. Everything is intertwined, and my only real objective is to bring out the creative best in myself and others.

The reason I am writing this post today is because in the last few weeks I have been very motivated by the positive actions close friend and other people in the local and world-wide punk scene. Punk is not dead, in fact it has never been more alive. I have been very lucky to live a life of freedom, and I feel that I owe a great debt to everyone else who contributes to fighting for the rights and freedoms of everyone.

From this day forward I plan on taking Punk Not Profit! SoCal into a slightly different direction. So far the posts have been mostly personal endeavors, but now I see a growing need for more people to promote  bands, shows, venues, artists, records, podcasts etc. There's a lot more cool shit going on out there and much easier to find out about thanks to social media and the internet. I suggest to everyone who appreciates art, music, and any other "right-brained" activity to consider helping out the people who create by telling others about their work, and also creating new amazing things on their own.

As always, I welcome new ideas from everyone and love to collaborate on new or on-going projects.If anyone wants to hook-up and do anything hit me up here on blogger or the vast variety of other social arenas you can find me on. To everyone out there living the dream, keep up the good work, never let anyone tell you it doesn't matter or that it is a waste of time. Bad people want to tear you a part and make you feel insignificant, they get off on that. Don't give them any attention, avoid and ignore them, keep moving on.

-Dusty Dirt