Wake up american punks!

The Mexicans have got a better clue than you.
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/globaltribe/countries/mex_punk.html

@mEriKKK@n idle

Food shortages, a billion dollar a day war, one of the worst national economic climates in quite some time, environmental disarray, a president in power with the worst approval ratings ever. The fuel for what could be a million dead Kennedy clones, or what should be enough fucked up situations that the "music/artist" community should be getting their shit together and putting the 60s protest movement to shame. Should, should, should. but not tonight. Let's focus on the real issues. Who is going to win American idol?

David or David? The great debate that was allegedly occupying the minds of the Amerikkkant Idlin' intellectual sewer. The news channels were devoting their "news" time to present this frat house hazed cookie platter to the (m)asses, with the underlying message that the out come of this would have some profound effect on their candy coated dire existence.

It is important, tune in, phone in and participate. Keep track of the results on your computer, have the latest happening textd to your cell phone. Let the machine know exactly where you are when you are obviously consciously asleep. Let them know how the marketing strategies are working and exactly how much they have to administer.

Skip the real stories because they are boring and depressing. I do not want to have the mental burden of having to think about what I might have to do if there is no more oil, or if the corporate maintained food shortage gets the famine vote by the authorities at the next shareholders meeting. Will I have to get my manicured hands dirty, and work my own crops? I mean geesh... to have to be exposed to other earthen materials is…welps, frightening and discussing. Why can't I open a "punk" fashion and hair salon by "punk rockers" like Pete Wentz?

The thing about this cookie cutter pop poop spunk is the fact that it is so nauseating. The goofed on don't realize that they are on the butt end of the punch line. The line "turning rebellion into money" is no longer ironic. It's a well-constructed coke nose meth lab concoction (I mean recording industry niche). There's all this well penned pr sheets that try to link this factory cultivated bs as having genuine and organic roots in the DIY soil that we've witnessed the machine pulverize and turn into a withered dioxin dump like vast waste land. So you here all this Stockholm syndrome type of speech by co-opted anarcho types to rationalize why it is necessary to do business with people who rammed their asses so hard. The speech often alludes to necessary evils in order to do the greater good. Umm… okay. Nevertheless, don't dare write another street punk anthem calling your new pals to a battle that you yourself know you wouldn't fight.

Intro

LEWD the story so far

Since revisionists are only going to retell this story and botch it up miserably, we’d thought we’d tell the tale from our delusion tainted recollections. LEWD began as a rather one sided, one dimensional zine compiled by a rather obtuse three dimensional character on the streets of Strong Island.

Rather than project the flaws onto composite non existent entities, we’ll simply at some points we became disillusioned, disenfranchised, over whelmed with depression, hungry ghosts and all the other materialist torments (both real and imagined) that can lead one astray we hit that rut. Somewhere in the midst of scraping rock bottom a new flame sparked and ignited a whole new mindset.

Ingredients to the new formula was Qi Qong (chi kung), meditation, Buddhism. A book called Dharma Punx. Who knew from altering your breathing that something so profound can come of it (well obviously some one knew and passed the info on to us.. BUT that’s all the technical stuff that we don’t need to explain in this paragraph but maybe further down the scrolling path.. we can get into all that.)

Anyway.. LEWD was/is a punk zine covering punk rock and hardcore.. since this is a zine without a target demographic we can pick and chose what we plan to cover with each issue and our perspective isn’t tainted by our advertisers and new stand placement. Which explains why.. we can cover any music, hardcore, reggae, ska and whatever else we want without missing a beat (pun intended).

AND THIS IS WHY WE’RE BEATING THE REVISIONISTS to the story. Broadening our horizons and not posting barriers has actually caught a little flack. How does a boot boy from the suburbs disappear into the rocky mountains for a year or so and then reappear back on the East Coast with a self proclaimed clear head and something interesting to share??? Well I guess, this is where the crass commercialism comes in. Read the zine and find out.

FAQ: WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS?
Now I've blown this question on job interviews. I've said all the wrong things on dates, hell I even lied to my psychotherapist because I was tired of getting shit for not having an answer. HOWEVER, I do have an agenda with a LEWD blogger page. What I want this page to be is an area to promote all the decent bands and causes that are on out there and hopefully sift through the filler.
Obviously, I strongly encourage you to support the labels and radio programs on here, check them out. Tune them in with your fancy cable modems. Never mind the conglomerate clear channel shit that is coming out of your car radio, find the truth and create a solution. Hopefully there are little fragements you'll find that factor into the equation.

You can also read some of my ranting and raving in Under The Volcano fanzineUNDER THE VOLCANO or on UTV'S myspace page
ISSUE .. 1 will be available shortly.

Bands/labels/zines

send your stuff for possible review/coverage/interviews etc.Since our apartment mail delivery system is pretty suspect, send your stuff to our Po BOX.

Lewd PUNK Zine
c/o GCS
POB 1246
Patchogue, NY 11772
USA