Punk in Los Angeles - 1977. Mark Vallen's Punk Rock Portraits. "...As an Artist I've always been interested in oppositional culture and the shock of the new, so when the Punk Rock movement hit Los Angeles in the 70's, I was enthralled. I immediately recognized the Punk scene as fertile ground for expressions of dissent and cultural insurrection, so I wasted no time in joining the ranks of the Blank Generation." Also... Punk Flyers from Los Angeles - circa 1977 and A visual survey of early Punk Rock Album Covers. From Art For A Change.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."