Johnny Ramone is dead at 55 and I’m sorry. A Republican, yes, but 55 is way too young to leave the planet. But don’t just hang your head — go see End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones this weekend and really put your body and your wallet into celebrating one of the 20th Century’s greatest rock bands. Johnny himself called it “a very dark movie…accurate…it left me disturbed.” And yet it’s a film about kicking out the jams until there’s nothing left to give, and if that isn’t a positive, life-affirming, never-say-die attitude, I don’t what would be.
