The punk term is getting more fashionable these dayz with the MTV show
Punk'd.
One of the most cinematic record covers is "London Calling", but punk
started around the CBGB's scene with a zine called simply PUNK. By no
means though did the artists featured in the magazine call themselves
punks. You see from the get go it was a mediated experience.
Yes, instances of punk cinema might be "The Cinema of Transgression"
series. Nick Zedd was ripping tickets for a while at Anthology. To some
degree though, there is an overlapping between punk and squatter scene
finding political activism roots and culturally diverse cross currents
in loisaida, brixton, kreuzberg, etc. A great archive of punk zines is
at ABC No Rio. Going down to do research, it might be nice to drop off
some books for prisoners.
A bridge to cyberpunk is the film "Liquid Sky" at the hey day of
post-punk. For cyberpunk the defining collection of short stories is
simeotext(e) SF. Don't forget Tetsuo. Sun Rah played those 13th street
squats too.
Is indymedia punk? Dangerous enough to have four governments working in
consort to dismantle it in Britain under a US warrant.
On Nov 12, 2004, at 5:45 PM, Mikal Howard wrote:
> it
> started in britain, so in britain sex pistols are
> something you should know about if you really want to
> understand. it's a harsh world but if you sincerely
> understand parts of it are so fun that yiu can
> understand why peopel adopt punk as a lifestyle.
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