Hilarious. The whole thing is just freakin’ hilarious.

I also, around that same time, made one of those eye blackout bar things described in a post yesterday — I’d attached a piece of smoked plexiglas to a headband, rather than eyeglasses.

Boing will give you a forum, if you want it.

IF you really wanna know more, it’s right there at your fingertips. ALL I read was a bunch of gibberish from most commentators. That is why I wrote what I wrote.

Whose POV, mine? Well, YES, I took the photos of my friends, Bobby Pyn, Belinda, Pleasant Gehman, Mary Rat, Alice Bag, Lorna Doom, Sten Gun and so many more in this zine. So many of you wrote that punks had to look this way or that, while my authentic, non-posed, non art directed, taken from real life photos really happened in 1977 in LA.

YOU have NO right to tell ME how punks looked then. YOU were not there. WE dressed for each other, had fun YOU can’t imagine, saw bands YOU will never see. AND I took photos so YOU could ENJOY it, be inspired, smile, have fun and rejoice that ppl did their own thing and made the music, the fashion, the graphics YOU take for granted.

YOU wanna call me an asshole? Doesn’t bother me at all. Cos in 50 years, ppl will still be looking at MY photos, MY friends. I just wanna share. If you think I’m angry, that is coming from YOU, not me. I am at peace. I know the value of what my friends, OUR music genre/era and I accomplished. WHAT lasting legacy has YOUR name on it??

Now that’s Punk Attitude (oh, my photos are on the DVD version of that movie. Pretty much ALL the photos from the LA section are mine. I’m the ONLY LA woman interviewed in the added section).

Now WHO the FUCK ARE YOU, devophill? (rotf lmao) I send you peace, love and understanding.

Gabba gabba hey, we accept you, one of us. ;-)

Punk’s not dead, it just deserves to die, when it becomes another stale cartoon?

You all wanna know more? HOW about YOU merely type my name into Google, and voila, a whole section on Punk History and some pix. I know you all know how to do that.

NO, I’m not going to push my photos for sale on a comment. Then you’d say I’m a selfish spammer. Yikes, there’s no pleasing you.

Much easier to tell me what to do after you ask questions, make assumptions and then attack me for speaking the truth. Whatev, I do this for those who don’t attack or blame or tell me how to behave.

Many thousands are very appreciative SOMEONE took so many pix and works harder than any of you could possibly imagine, for so little money (but tons of acclaim). I bet NONE of you would do what I do. SO STFU.

Just enjoy the pix.

Next time, let your fingers do the walking and check out the ORIGINAL sources before you start mindlessly typing. Or not. You live your life, I live mine.

BUT CREDIT THE PHOTOGRAPHER for G-d’s sake. So at least ppl will be able to see more pix. And IF anyone wants to buy or license pix, fine, drop me an email via my site.

BUT the main thing is, ENJOY the photos and stories. Have a great weekend. I’m out for a walk, enjoying this gorgeous day. Cos too many of my punk pals are dead. Let’s celebrate them and life itself. ;-)

I mean , sure…Black Flag looked like hippies when they played a lot of essential punk music and bands like All probably got harrassed in high school and college for being nerds not punks, but their music is still considered punk by many people.

I’m just saying there is a difference beetween punk image and punk music and there are also many different degrees and aspects of punkness that gets recognized in different individuals.

Even if this “zine” isn’t independant of oxegen or whatever, I can identify with wanting to have more people around me wanting to look punk. I’ve tried to talk my straight-edge brother into buying Doc’s before (he chose not to like most people) but what is wrong with sharing ideas about choosing image with others? Is it wrong to do it if you have the rescources to do so but cool if you just wish it or something?

So no, I do not think “looking punk” is the anti-thesis of punk.

Geez. How sad on so many levels.

My best pal, Mark A Martinez, met Marliz at a Hollywood newsstand. He took her to a party, cos I always took pix, so she used some of my pix from the party and other places. SHE wrote the LAME text.

ALL MY photos were REAL punks. WE never followed any rules about dressing. You all are so LAZY. Why don’t you ASK the woman who lived it and photographed it, me? BUT no, you all write from your POV. Whatta shame, a living, breathing historian, easy to find, but you are too arrogant and lazy to bother to check me out. MY PHOTOS. Except that stupid page 3 the Knockers.

What a worthless thread. And whatta shame this is posted, a total violation of both Marliz’s son and my rights. But you don’t care. I am not bitter, but you are all missing the point. Poseurs.

http://www.metafilter.com/91114/How-To-Look-Punk

Leave it to the fashion followers to think that the more junk you attach to yourself, the better. The real punks back then had either very long or very short hair, and they just wore t-shirts and jeans and either boots or tennis shoes.

No real punks and no true Scotsman would consider wearing anything else.

still describes me today! of course, wearing a 30-year-old ramones shirt is just as pathetic as the ol’ hippies we despised for still wearing janis joplin tees in 79.