Hey, Cindi, I was going to mention the Misfits on my list but it got too long duc dong. In regards to Luke, too bad it wasn't Blue Jay Way, though maybe it's true love like ours, but that's a secret only Neil Diamond could croon about. lol.
Well, you already know this, but just let the bat out of the bag Smut's story started with punk angst fueled gonzo journalism/music criticism. When I use the term gonzo here it's referring to the Hunter Thompson way of covering an extreme/fringe cultural reality before he got all caught up in politics.
Granted most if not all music critics are fanboys, frustrated musicians, or wannabes who sometimes if they’re lucky or truly talented can write themselves into hanging out with their heros, but I found writing about music to be an extension of my love for truly great music. It was a way to just be able to go off on surrealistic beat poet acid damaged tangents. Plus, I was in several bands, so at least I could understand a performers perspective because music must be heard by others to have any meaning. An understanding only reached through live performance and interaction w/ an audience.
But, I got bored with writing about music because the good stuff I praised spoke for itself and I stopped tearing apart shitty bands and records. That's a slow drag and a bottomless pitfall. I decided just sit back, stop thinking too much and just listen.
Slowly my interests in the undergound zine world were slipping deeper into my thirst for good porno and the dream of getting free porn. Like when I wrote about music I found out how easy it was to get free records, promos, guest list perks. etc. I was probably on dozens of record label's promo lists only to get thrown off of just about every one for slamming their stuff, letting it pile or just chucking it into the trash. It got to the point if I wanted to get it I could or it found me, but the crappy stuff became a tsunami, so I stopped after I started training my gonzo jounalistic sights on porn and grew bored with slaying all suckers who perpetrate. I was preaching hate to the choir or just giving props to the cult of cohorts. Nobody else listens anyway, so what's the point?
My sense of absurdity sunk in and I started seeing porn as a misunderstood type of pop art. That being said there doesn't need to be a logical reason for doing it. Just fuckin' do it. Go gonzo, grab the goat of mendes by the horns, sacrifice it then hurl it into the abyss of meaningless, so I crashed and burned out.
It took a near death experience to give me true perspective, so duh, now I solely write about porn, poetry is for losers.