So they made a movie about the Runaways…I’d almost be thrilled if they hadn’t used the cast of Twilight. Granted the band was never amazing. They were a bunch of 16 year old girls who wanted nothing more than to be what they felt were their famous counterparts. Joan Jett wanted nothing more than to be Suzie Quatro, Lita Ford wanted to be Hendrix, Sandy West thought she was Mitch Mitchell, Jackie Fox was Gene Simmons, and Cherrie Currie wanted to be David Bowie. Granted they were jail bait and weren’t exactly Mozarts of Rock , they had some magic to them. They were the first of their kind and they lived and breathed that filthy dirty Rock and Roll lifestyle. Everyone was doing drugs, sleeping with other bandmates, and singing about shit girls just didn’t. There was no, “My boyfriend left me and I’m gonna go cry about it” bullshit, it was “I’ll give ya something to live for, have ya and grab ya till you’re sore.”

So what’s my point? I’m pissed. (what else is new?) I’m pissed that this groundbreaking band is being reduced to a Twilight side flick as my girlfriend put it. A huge portion of the people going to see it are Twilight fags who think the Runaways and Joan Jett are works of fiction. But I suppose ever cloud has a silver lining. All I can hope is that the film gets the band some of the recognition they deserve. Cause without The Runaways there wouldn’t be bands like Hole, The Go-Gos, L7, The Bangles, The Donnas, Babes in Toyland, hell the Riot Grrrl movement of the 90’s wouldn’t have existed. We wouldn’t have Joan Jett or Lita Ford. Maybe in spite of molding them into something that can be sold to sparkely vampire fangirls good will come of this. Maybe, just maybe a new generation of teenage jail-bait will find out about their roots. I mean here were 5 young girls who had the living  fuck exploited out of them so girls and women could Rock out with their twats out, make it worth their while. www.youtube.com/watch