Relevant Quotes

Ironically, this scene is central to the reason my enthusiasm for Phantom (of the Paradise) has dimished, because amazingly, Beef, who seemed so outrageous by 1974 standards, looks tame today. We've gone far beyond him. But how could De Palma or anyone else have imagined the depraved acts that would emerge with Punk and New Wave music--take a look at the fascinating documentary on punk music The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)--which insist on taking their weird, sado-masochistic fans with them on their death trips?

-Danny Peary,
Cult Movies 2

I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass.

-William S. Burroughs,
quoted in Please Kill Me