- William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, partly due to coining the term "cyberspace" in 1982, and partly because of the success of his first novel, "Neuromancer", which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since its publication in 1984. - Dick Hebdige
Dick Hebdige (born 1951) is an expatriate British media theorist and sociologist, most commonly associated with the study of subcultures, and its resistance against the mainstream of society. He received his M.A. from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is best known for his influential book in subcultural studies, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, originally published in 1979. - Helmut Lang
Helmut Lang (born on March 10 1956 in Vienna), is an Austrian fashion designer, known for his minimalist, deconstructivist, and often severe designs. The fashion label he created bears his name. Originally from Vienna where he set up his own fashion boutique in 1979, Lang branched out to Paris in the early 1980s to be closer to the international fashion scene. He became famous for his simple but refined designs, his slim suits in black or white, … - Ted Conover
Ted Conover (born January 17, 1958, in Okinawa, Japan and raised in Denver, Colorado) is an American author and journalist. A graduate of Denver's Manual High School and Amherst College and a Marshall Scholar, he is also a distinguished writer-in-residence in the Department of Journalism at New York University. - Laud Humphreys
Laud Humphreys was an American sociologist and author. He was born as Robert Allan Humphreys and chose "Laud" as his first name when he was baptised again upon entering the Episcopal Church. He graduated from the Seabury-Western Episcopal Theological Seminary in 1955. He was married from 1960 to 1980 and came out as a gay man somewhat earlier. Laud Humphreys is best known for his published Ph.D. dissertation, "Tearoom Trade" (1970), … - Ian Stuart Donaldson
Ian Stuart Donaldson (August 11, 1957-September 24, 1993), commonly known as Ian Stuart, was the founder of Skrewdriver, a British punk rock and skinhead band. Although the band's original lineup directed its energies towards a general punk rock audience, the reformed lineup became increasingly associated with the white power skinhead subculture. - Sarah Veitch
Sarah Veitch is a British writer of CP (corporal punishment) fiction for consenting adults. She also writes features for publications such as Kane magazine on this topic, noting that erotic chastisement is worlds away from the horror of domestic violence. Sarah’s short story collections include "Reformed Characters" and "Corrective Measures". Her novels, most recently published by Palmprint Publications, include "Subculture", … - Joolz Denby
Joolz Denby (9th April 1955) (previously more widely known simply as Joolz) is a poet and novelist and artist based out of Bradford, UK. Initially, known simply as Joolz, Denby first gained recognition for herself as a touring "punk" performance poet one of the first to gain recognition in modern times, and one of the only women to do so, She now does not consider herself a 'performance poet' as the style has changed radically since she began performing, … - Peter Meaden
Peter Alexander Edwin Meaden (November 11, 1941-July 29, 1978) was a publicist and manager for The Who. He was a prominent figure in the English mod subculture of the early 1960s. After becoming manager of The Who, Meaden reinvented the band to attract a mod following, changing their name to The High Numbers. He wrote The High Numbers' first and only single, "I'm the Face"; the B-side of which was "Zoot Suit". - Sab Grey
Sab Grey (b. December 31, 1962) is the founder of Iron Cross, one of the United States' first skinhead hardcore/Oi! bands. Grey was born Frederick Prausnitz in Baltimore, Maryland to an English mother and a German father. As a teenager, he began to attend hardcore punk concerts in Washington DC, where he met Ian Mackaye, Henry Rollins, and others in the burgeoning Washington, DC hardcore subculture. In 1981, he founded Iron Cross, an Oi!-influenced hardcore band. - Karen Eliot
Karen Eliot is a multiple identity, a nom de plume or multiple-use name that anyone is welcome to use for activist and artistic endeavours. It is especially popular within the Neoist movement. It was developed in order to counter the male domination of that movement, the most predominant multiple user-names being Monty Cantsin and Luther Blissett. These multiple names were developed and popularized in artistic subcultures of the 1970s to 1990 like Mail Art, … - Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite is a novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist, digital drummer and short fiction writer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he has been called “one of the outstanding Canadian prose writers alive” (Gail Scott) and linked to the "New Narrative" movement, a term coined by Steve Abbott.. Author of the legendary cult novel "Wigger", Braithwaite's work has been praised by Dodie Bellamy for its "sublime impenetrability". - James Moffat
James Moffat (born 1922 in Australia, died 1993 in England), was an author who wrote under several pen names. He produced many pulp novels for the United Kingdom publishing house New English Library during the 1970s. Moffat's pen names included Richard Allen, Etienne Aubin ("The Terror of the Seven Crypts") and Trudi Maxwell ("Diary of A Female Wrestler"). Moffat's pulp novels mostly focused on youth subcultures of the late 1960s and 1970s, such as skinheads, … - Tanja Savić
Tanja Savić was born on March 20, 1985 in Radunac (near Smederevo), Yugoslavia, (Serbia). She became famous after competing in a Serbian singing contest called "Zvezde Granda". She did not win, but she did become a famous singer following the signing of a contract with Grand Production. Tanja Savić is the second child of Staniša and Živana. She has one brother, Tomica, and a sister, Biljana. She first participated in a singing contest at the age of eight, … - Christopher Nielsen
Christopher Nielsen is a Norwegian comics artist. He is especially known for his subcultural depictions. Nielsen got his first comics printed in 1980. It was sent in to a competition in the Norwegian anarchistic magazine, Gateavisa. Only three years later he got his first album printed. His most famous cartoon, "To Trøtte Typer" ("Two Wasted Wankers"), … - Charlie Apple
Charlie "C.A." Apple (born 1941 - Penn Hills, Pennsylvania) is a veteran R&B and oldies radio disc jockey from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Apple began broadcasting at WPSL 1510 AM in Monroeville, Pennsylvania in 1966, and his career has seen stops at mostly small AM and FM stations in the Pittsburgh area. Along the way, he has amassed a cult following of fans who refer to themselves collectively as "The Apple Corps". - Paco Nathan
Paco has 25 years experience in software R&D. He holds a BS in Math Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Stanford, worked at NASA/Ames, Bell Labs, Motorola, and has focused on early stage tech start-ups for several years. Among those, Paco co-founded FringeWare in 1992, one of the early ecommerce firms. He's written for several periodicals, including Wired , O'Reilly Network , bOING-bOING , Mondo 2000 . - Dan Zappone
I'm anti-entropic, radically-skeptic, and generally optimistic. I dislike stupidty - mine and others. I do not believe anything. - Matt Clarke
Matt Clarke has been djing for over 13 years and been at the very fore front of the Drum n Bass movement in Detroit. For over 5 years he was the DnB buyer at various record shops (Record Time (Roseville), Melodies, Hear Wax)and has continually pushed the music through his unique Dj sets. His style of quickly layering sounds and double dropping tracks have always set him apart from the rest of the pack. - Steve
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible". Thomas E. Lawrence. - David
www.senordaffy.de Geht gut: Armani, Eterna, Montblanc, Taittinger, Harald Schmidt, DIE WELTWOCHE, The New Yorker, The Cardigans, Israel, Rückgrad, Gummbibärchen, Pharmaindustrie, Robbie Williams Geht nicht: Versace, Rolex, Stefan Raab, Frankfurter Rundschau, Shakira, Iran, Als Toleranz getarnte Haltungslosigkeit, Nutella, Peta & Greenpeace, Gary Barlow. - Beth Hughes
Well I'm about yay tall with great tits, fantastic hair and a superb arse. I am terrible with punctuation and intelligently stupid. - Andy
Theres alot about me! I dnt even no all the stuff. My num. 1 dream n life was to be a D.J. i love to c the smiles on peoples faces when im on stage. Oh yea and when they get down and stomp THATS THE SHIT!!I love to dance. Its the best thing to do at a party. i was born in san antonio . ive lived here most of my life . ive lived in california for a little bit. - Fey
We are a recently formed Birmingham Based Burlesque troupe with styles that cover the whole Burlesque spectrum. From Gothic to Fifties, Retro to Modern and Nice to Very Very Naughty! - Danni
- Brian Thompson
Brian Thompson (born August 28, 1959) is an American actor. His distinctive square-jaw profile, booming voice, and imposing stature (six-foot-three) has led him to star in many action films, invariably as a villain. Thompson was born in Ellensburg, Washington to teacher parents. His first role was playing one of the punks who are killed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in "The Terminator" at the beginning of the film. - Vice Cooler
Vice Cooler (b. Christiana Vincent Richards-Touchstone July 15, 1984) is an American musician, photographer, author and visual artist, mostly known for his work as the singer and songwriter for two influential groups: Hawnay Troof and Xbxrx. - Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings (born 1955 as Thomas Daniel Jennings in Boston, Massachusetts) is the creator of FidoNet, the first message and file networking system for BBSes. Originally, the FidoNet protocols were implemented in a program named Fido, authored by Jennings, but they were ultimately implemented by other authors in other software to create a network using a multiplicity of platforms. - Dennis Cooper
Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is a poet, writer and performance artist, most noted for transforming the visual/verbal aesthetic of punk into its written counterpart. - Eon McKai
Eon McKai (born 1979) is an American director of alt porn-themed adult films. The name "Eon McKai" is a pseudonym and a tribute to punk singer Ian MacKaye. McKai was involved in the internet-based alt porn scene soon after its emergence and photographed some of the early sets on SuicideGirls. After graduating from film school at California Institute of the Arts, … - Robert Eggplant
Robert Eggplant is a writer, publisher, musician and activist from California. Robert Eggplant has been the editor and publisher of Absolutely Zippo fanzine since 1987. The zine has documented the East Bay punk subculture from a 'front-lines' point of view, due to Eggplant's intimate involvement with this scene. Contributors have included Aaron Cometbus, Larry Livermore, Jesse Michaels and Billie Joe Armstrong. - Soo Catwoman
Soo Lucas, better known as Soo Catwoman (often misspelt as Sue Catwoman), was a highly visible icon of the London punk subculture that sprang up around the mid-1970s. She was never a member of the Bromley Contingent despite claims to the contrary.. Between late 1976 and early 1977, Sid Vicious, finding himself homeless, came to stay at her flat in Ealing. This was before he joined the Sex Pistols. - Matty Lewis
Matty Lewis, guitarist and co-lead singer of Zebrahead, is a native of Papillion, Nebraska. Born May 8, 1975, Matty took up playing the guitar and writing songs at age 11. While still in Omaha at the age of 22, he formed the band Jank 1000 with bassist Danny Isgro and drummer Jake Horrocks. Together the three produced two independent albums; "Suburban Punks Are Go!!" in 1999 and "My Love Notes And Her Death Threats" in 2000. - Donny The Punk
Stephen Donaldson (July 27, 1946-July 18, 1996), born Robert Anthony Martin, Jr), better known as Donny the Punk, was an American political activist and the founder of Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc.. He is best known for his work on prison reform and his participation in the punk subculture. He died from AIDS in 1996. - Yakoub Islam
Yunus Yakoub Islam is a UK-based Muslim, researcher, blogger and cyber-activist. Born Julian Hoare in 1963, he changed his name to Julian Anderson in 1982 prior to marrying his then girlfriend, Julie Harte. He discovered anarchism in the 1980s through the works of the punk band Crass, but distanced himself from the anti-religious, drug-enfeebled British punk scene in the late 1980s to explore academic learning, eventually converting to Islam in 1991. - Felix Vicious
Felix Vicious (born August 261983) was an American pornographic actress from Denver, Colorado. Vicious relocated to California when she turned 18; while Bisexual Britni and Shay Sweet were signing autographs at an adult store, they invited Vicious to experience the adult industry. She performed in her first pornographic film, "More Dirty Debutantes 225" with Ed Powers, shortly thereafter. - Derek Riggs
Derek Riggs (born February 13, 1958 in Portsmouth, England) is a contemporary British artist best known for creating the heavy metal band Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie. He is also well known for working with the heavy metal band Gamma Ray and the all female tribute band The Iron Maidens who he designed and created their self titled debut album cover (of the female version of Eddie called Edwina), and he titled the piece LA Maneater. - V. Vale
V. Vale is the publisher and primary contributor to books and magazines published by his company, RE/Search Publications. In 1977, with $200 donated by Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, he began publication of Search & Destroy, a San Francisco based zine documenting the then current punk subculture. In 1980, he began publication of RE/Search, a tabloid format zine focusing on various counterculture and underground topics, … - Caroline Kraabel
Caroline Kraabel is a London-based American composer, improviser, and saxophonist. She is known for her research into the implications of electricity related to recording, synthesis and amplification. A native of Seattle, Kraabel moved to London while in her teenage years, at the end of the punk era. There she took up the saxophone and became active in London's improvised music scene, eventually developing a style based on the physicality of the instrument, … - Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan is a British poet, critic, and editor. The author of at least seven books of poetry, including "Anxiety Before Entering a Room Selected Poems 1977–99" (Salt Publishing, 2001). His work as a literary and cultural critic is most recently on display in "The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry" (Salt Publishing, 2003). Andrew Duncan studied as a mediaevalist and started his writing career in punk "fanzines".
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