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John Holmstrom
- Legs McNeil: [Talking about a new magazine] Cool, I can be like the editor, or something.
- John Holmstrom: No. I'm the editor and the illustrator.
- Legs McNeil: Whoa... what does that leave me?
- John Holmstrom: You're just a punk.
- Legs McNeil: I am just a punk.
- John Holmstrom: "Punk." That's a great title.
- John Holmstrom: I'm starting a magazine.
- Legs McNeil: Like - like 19 instead of 16? Or 21! Or, oh, no, no, wait. We should totally go younger - 13. Get in on the newbie chicks.
- John Holmstrom: No. It's a magazine for fuck-up kids.
- Mary Harron: Your Punk magazine is going to hold forth the losers as winners... deify the freaks and outcasts of the underground-- I mean downtown music scene.
- John Holmstrom: Yes.
- Mary Harron: - Thou shalt keep no gods... especially fossils like Eric Clapton and Zeppelin.
- John Holmstrom: You wanna write for the magazine?
- Mary Harron: What's a degree from Oxford for anyway?
- Mary Harron: I prefer the term "underground rock."
- John Holmstrom: Underground implies secretive. There's something precious about that to me. Like, "punk," on the other hand, it's in your face. It's sarcastic, ironic, cutting..
- Mary Harron: So you're a punk?
- Legs McNeil: Yeah, I am too.
- John Holmstrom: So, Deb, who were the people that, you know, idolized as artists?
- Debbie Harry: What the fuck, you know, I always really liked Brigitte Bardot. She was sort of - continental punk, you know?
- John Holmstrom: Yeah.
- Debbie Harry: I always thought - sex was a cool thing to sell - a sure thing. I wish I'd invented sex. You like sex?
- John Holmstrom: The bands are not political, but the disavowing of politics, in and of itself, it is political.
- Mary Harron: Punk isn't about decay. It's about the apocalypse. it's about annihilation.
- John Holmstrom: Nothing works, so let's skip right to Armageddon.
- Mary Harron: If the world is ending, you might as well do away with pretense and say what you think.
- John Holmstrom: Uncensor - sex. And drugs. The violence! Just everything.