I suppose I could describe myself as a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
So let's dance, bitches!
The post-war fighting gangs of New York city.
Police confiscating garrison belts from a rumble-bound gang in Brooklyn, 1955.
The Satan Souls and Spanish Kings patrol their turf in Williamsburg, 1972 (times sure have changed, eh?).
The Parthian Empire
Organized (and not so organized) Crime in New York, 1920s - 1950s.
Arnold Rothstein
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Frank Costello
Meyer Lansky
Dutch Schultz
Joe "Adonis" Doto
Albert Anastasia
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro
Weird English slang
Hank Scorpio
New York Dolls, Ramones, Minor Threat, Bad Brains,
Misfits, Black Flag, Buzzcocks, X, Dead Kennedys, Scream, Husker Du, Stiff Little Fingers, Ruts, Sex Pistols, Minutemen, Germs, Wire, Replacements, Stranglers, Dicks, Angry Samoans, Dead Boys, Black Market Baby, Damned, Circle Jerks, Dickies, Fear, UK Subs, Vandals, Feederz, MDC, Weirdos, Slickee Boys, DOA, Iron Cross, Government Issue, Void, Marginal Man, Faith, TSOL, X-Ray Specs, Jam, Generation X, Big Boys, Spermbirds, Peter & the Test Tube Babies, 4-Skins, Toy Dolls, Business, Exploited, GBH, Ed Gein's Car, Lords of the New Church, Adicts, Naked Raygun, Bad Religion, Rites of Spring, Wipers, Pagans, Dils, Plugz, Reagan Youth, Personality Crisis, Freeze, F.U.'s, Social Distortion, Agent Orange, Flipper, Necros, Meatmen, Negative Approach, Plasmatics, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Nina Hagen, Undertones, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Modern Lovers, Stooges, etc...
Fear on Saturday Night Live, October 31 1981. No, I wasn't there, because I couldn't get a ride to New York. And I still can't believe I missed it...
Spermbirds - You..re Not A Punk
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Spermbirds 20th anniversary show, K-town. And no, you aren't a punk.
Yeah, pretty much everything by Kurosawa...
"We're your friends. We're not like the others."
I leaned around in the seat and gave him a fine big smile . . . admiring the shape of his skull.
If TV can be said to have great moments, this was one of them. Saturday Night Live, Dec 17, 1977
Kurosawa
The Clash
Ralph Nader
Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, Jr.
The cat that chased a bear up a tree.
Anyone who will stand and fight to the death against impossible odds, and look great doing it.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD!