*Sayang*

Sayang ? tak perlu diluah dengan kata-kata..

Kerna sesungguhnya lidah itu tiada bertulang..

Setiap kata-kata yang treluah belum pasti

Kebenarannya

Kita hanya akan merasa sayang itu tanpa kita

Sedari...

Dan sesungguhnya sayang yang lahir itu suci dari

Sekeping hati..

Tanpa dipaksa...tanpa dipinta..

Kasih sayang yang dirasai adalah lebih nikmat dari

Kasih sayang yang diluahkan..

Kerna kasih sayang yang diluahkan di bibir sahaja..

Jika kita menyayangi sesorang itu dengan sepenuh

Hati..

Maka kita juga akan rasa di sayangi..

Jangan harapkan sayang dengan simpati..

Kerna sayang dengan simpati sukar untuk kekal

Abadi..

Sayang haruslah dibajai dengan cinta..

Disemai dengan kesetiaan..

Dan disirami dengan kasih..

Barulah sayang itu bersemi.. menguntum.. dan

Derkembang dalam hati

Wattie Buchan the frontman of The Exploited

i love this man and he was a man who responsible of my life in punk scene in my town.

i remember when i was 12th years or something,

i see a man walking in a little punk gig in my town, and one day he becoming my best friend…

he have a green tall mohawk, black boot and he use The Exploited t-shirt

and after that day, i said i want to be like that, have a great day with all the idea and the culture.

listen the punk album and join the community

and i’m sure that the best time in my life and change my life

punks not dead!

and again sorry for my grammar

peace!

PUNK VS EMO

mne best ?

PUNK ? or EMO ?

Saya melihat orang ini

berhampiran Union

Square pada hari Malam

Tahun Baru.Tumbuh

sebagai pemain skateboard

, saya benar-benar menjadi

punk sebagai pemuda - 80s

pertengahan skate punk

pada khususnya. Namun,

saya tidak pernah cukup

berani untuk batu Mohawk.

Sudah beberapa saat sejak aku melihat Mohawk seperti ini, jadi ketika aku melihat orang ini berjalan menyusuri jalan, aku tidak bisa menahan gertakan pic. Dinding granit di latar belakang benar-benar membuat pop profil.

hip hop fashion

Minggu ini kita blogging

di Fashion Hip-hop

dan Self-Adorment.

Dalam cara apa yang

anda lihat Hip-hop

mempengaruhi cara

orang hadir sendiri?

Bagaimana Hip-hop

berbentuk gaya anda?

Self-hiasan adalah

amalan dekorasi sendiri.

Menggunakan gaya

rambut,pakaian,

perhiasan,dll Fikirkan

tentang cara-cara

yang Hip-hop telah mempengaruhi semua gaya dalam mod dan media.

NAMA : Muhammad amir Bin Abdul Halim Hapit

UMUR:2+

hati meruntunm pabila mengenangkan seorang rakan,

yang masih percaya akan punk,

meskipun tidak akan pernah berpeluang mendengar kugiran-kugiran punk dan hardcore ,

di sini menunjukkan punk itu lebih dari musik semata-mata.

Punk is amir,

Sid Vicious

AKA John Simon Ritchie

Born: 10-May-1957
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 2-Feb-1979
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Accident - Overdose
Remains: Cremated, (ashes scattered over Nancy Spungen's grave)

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Bassist

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Sex Pistols bassist

A particularly extreme example of the self-immolating celebrity -- and one of the first high-profile casualties of the punk era -- John Simon Ritchie a.k.a. Sid Vicious was given his education in unhealthy lifestyles early in his existence, his mother Anne using (and sometimes selling) heroin throughout his childhood. His father, a Grenadier Guard in the British Army named John Ritchie, left the family shortly after his son's birth, and his stepfather Christopher Beverly died after only six months, leaving Anne to raise young John Simon primarily on her own. Shortly after the dissolution of her first marriage, Anne relocated herself and her son to the Spanish island of Ibiza, returning to England in 1965 just prior to her second marriage and living in Kent for several years before moving to Hackney in 1971. It was here that John made the acquaintance of John Lydon while both were attending Hackney Technical College in 1974; it was also during this period that he initiated his own drug use and began to cultivate the destructive behavior that would earn him such notoriety in later years.

Ultimately, John Ritchie dropped out of school and spent his time hanging around with the so-called "Bromley Contingent", a gang of disaffected youths that adopted the music and fashions of the emerging UK punk rock scene and maintained an orbit around the John Lydon (now "Johnny Rotten")-fronted band The Sex Pistols. In the summer of 1976 Ritchie became a member of The Flowers of Romance alongside future Public Image Limitedguitarist Keith Levene, but the group never actually did anything in public; before the end of the year he had joinedSiouxsie and the Banshees as a drummer, although this situation did not endure far beyond the group's debut performance in September of 1976. Afterwards, while living in a squat with both Lydon and John Wardle (laterJah Wobble), Ritchie chose to call himself Sid Vicious in order to distinguish himself from the overabundance of Johns, and subsequently did his best to live up to the anti-social implications of his new name. By early 1977 he had been drafted into the Pistols to replace departing bass player Glen Matlock, despite the marked limitations of his playing ability (supposedly, Vicious's bass was turned down during many Pistols shows, and his recorded parts were actually performed by either Matlock or guitarist Steve Jones).

Prior to Vicious's membership, the Sex Pistols had already earned themselves widespread notoriety for their combative attitudes and use of profanity (a couple of fucks and a shit) during an interview on national television with Bill Grundy; their debut single Anarchy in the U.K., released by EMI in November of '76, also created a considerable stir around the band despite EMI's decision to cease manufacturing it after less than two months. Vicious helped to maintain this anarchic reputation by vandalizing the office of A&M's Managing Director (an act he consummated by puking on the director's desk) during the party celebrating their signing to the label. The band was forced to find a new home a week later, and thus it was that their next single God Save the Queen was instead released by Virgin in May of 1977. The song instigated an even stronger negative response than Anarchy in the U.K., but the resulting hype also successfully pushed it up to the #2 position in the British charts -- although there is some evidence to suggest that it might have actually reached #1.

Issued in October, the Pistols' debut full-length Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols lived up to the controversy created by the two preceeding singles, the album's title resulting in an obscenity trial that was ultimately dismissed. A month after Bollocks's release, the fate of the band's already rapidly-deteriorating bass player was sealed through his meeting with ex-prostitute/heroin addict Nancy Spungen. An unbalanced groupie from New York who had come to London with the intention of latching onto a punk celebrity, Spungen found the equally unbalanced Vicious an easy target, and soon had him sharing her heroin habit as well as her bodily fluids. This tumultuous relationship created significant problems between Sid and his bandmates -- Lydon in particular repeatedly pressed his friend to sever his ties with Spungen -- but the unhealty co-dependence that had formed between the two was something that Vicious was unwilling to leave behind.

At the start of 1978 the Sex Pistols embarked on their first American tour, organized by their manipulative manager Malcolm McLaren. The tour fell apart after only two weeks, however, and a few days after a performance at Winterland in San Francisco Rotten announced the dissolution of the band -- apparently as a bluff, but no one called him on it and McLaren and half of the band promptly buggered off to Brazil. Vicious had not fared very well in his forced separation with Spungen during the tour, and he immediately flew to New York to reunite with her. A short period was spent back in England before traveling to Paris to contribute to McLaren's Julien Temple-directed film The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (1978) (a largely fictional account of the Sex Pistol's history); Vicious' first solo tracks would be recorded for the film's soundtrack, which included a piss-take on the Frank Sinatra standard My Way and covers of Eddie Cochran's Something Else and C'mon Everybody.

After raising some money through a final UK performance with the help of a backing band named The Vicious White Kids, Sid and Nancy relocated to New York City on a permanent basis, taking up residence at the Chelsea Hotel on 23rd Street. Vicious then attempted to launch a solo career, with Spungen assuming the role of manager and various British and American punk musicians acting as his new band The Idols. A poor-quality collection culled from some of his live performances during this period was eventually released as Sid Sings in 1979. These solo ambitions were abruptly brought to an end in October, when he was arrested for killing Spungen, found dead in their apartment from a single stab wound on the morning of the 12th. The drug-addled musican could not remember the incident, but the knife responsible for the wound was still in the room when Spungen's body was discovered. Police found Vicious wandering the hotel hallways, crying; he was immediately taken into custody and charged with second-degree homicide, although Virgin Records put up the money required for bail shortly afterwards.

Vicious' mental state became even more erratic following his arrest, and an attempt at suicide by slashing his wrist was made several days later, resulting in a two-week internment at the psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital. Another arrest followed in December due to an assault on Patti Smith's brother Todd at Max's Kansas City; after serving two months in jail, Virgin supplied his bail for a second time, and he was released once again pending his trial for Spungen's murder. That trial would never take place: Vicious was found dead of what is speculated to be a deliberate heroin overdose on February 2nd at the home of his new girlfriend Michelle Robinson. Supposedly his ashes were scattered on Nancy Spungen's grave by his mother Anne Beverly as per his request, but whether this actually was accomplished remains in dispute. A film version of the realtionship between Vicious and Spungen titled Sid and Nancy, directed by Alex Cox and featuring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb in the principal roles, was released in 1986.

Father: John Simon Ritchie
Mother: Anne Beverley
Girlfriend: Nancy Spungen (murdered by Sid Vicious in 1978)

Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)

Short resume:

If I were to summarize Sid Vicious' life, James Dean's words would pop instantly into my mind - 'Live fast; die young; leave a good-looking corpse behind'. Because, he truly experienced life on the edge - he was the epitome of punk rock and he gradually became one of those larger-than-life icons of the pop culture. He had the looks - tall and slim with spiky hair, always wearing a padlock chain around his neck - due to which he gained worldwide recognition. As a side note, Sid was chosen as the bass player for the at-that-time-burgeoning band Sex Pistols although he sucked at playing the bass. But he was young, refreshing and was the 'real thing' in terms of punk ideology: self-destructive, suicidal and rebellious and the Sex Pistols needed that kind of image.

Vicious' 'role model' - Anne Ritchie, his mother - was a drug addict and a dealer, so he naturally had a more or less deviant behavior: selling drugs or throwing beer cans at people. On such an incident he reportedly hit a girl who consequently lost her eyesight. The lad was one of the biggest supporters of the Sex Pistols and after playing with a couple of other groups he got the chance of being the next bass player of this legendary band.

Soon afterwards, the introverted boy was presented to a young girl who had seen it all - prostitution, stripping in clubs, attempting to kill herself - 'Nauseating' Nancy was by all standards a tough cookie. At that time she had already reinvented herself as a groupie and she had the purpose of sleeping with one of the band's members. And Vicious was the lucky one. Or maybe bad luck was just written all over her but he couldn't read it. He fell madly in love with both Nancy and her addiction - heroin, which would eventually lead to his perdition.

Eventually he separated himself from his band and lived isolated with his beloved one doing all sorts of drugs, having sex and occasionally beating the crap out of each other. And what soon followed can only be labeled as a horror-movie-like tragedy. One night, Nancy's body was discovered in the hotel room she had been sharing with Sid. She was stabbed to death and the punk god couldn't remember squat and he was immediately accused of second-degree murder, but later released on bail. Out of jail, trouble still followed the rebel and during the party thrown on the day of his release he overdosed and died after 21 years of pain, drugs and worldwide recognition.

Many myths revolve around him and Vicious kinda became a legendary inspiration for endless speculations. Did he kill his lover? Did he commit suicide? Did his mother kill him in an attempt to ease his pain? But with that kind of life, he was bound to fascinate people and to stir up their imagination. Many would kill to find out what the cause of the two lovers' death was, but frankly, at the moment we can only speculate.

Biography:

The British punk musician only lived 21 years, and alongside Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison was one of those who adopted the philosophy 'live fast, die young'. And he surely did that, since his middle name was controversy: Sid was a pioneer of punk, a drug addict and a murderer.

John Simon Ritchie, later known as Sid Vicious was born on the 10th of May 1957 in London. His childhood was not exactly fairy tale-like. Upon their baby's birth, his parents soon split and he was left with his mother. Soon enough they moved to Ibiza, the famous Spanish Island where Anne (his mother) would allegedly make a living out of selling drugs. With such a role model and growing up surrounded by junkies, John's ending up as a criminal came as no surprise. Let's just think about the fact that he was only 14 when he started selling LSD to kids at concerts. Quite a debut for a disoriented kid whose life had never been a walk in the park.

By 17, taking up his mother's example, Vicious was already using drugs intravenously and manifesting antisocial behavior. Enrolled at the Hackney Technical College, it was there that John had the opportunity of meeting John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten, the frontman of punk legendary band Sex Pistols). So, after dropping out of high school, the tall, skinny teenager started hanging out with the 'Bromley Contingent', a group of alienated youngsters who adopted the music and fashion of the burgeoning British punk rock bands, whose lives revolved around the Sex Pistols. Needless to say, he was easily seduced by the idea of playing in a band, so he joined The Flowers of Romance and later the more famous Siouxsie and the Banshees (where Robert Smith of The Cure also played) as a drummer.

Ritchie took the stage name Sid Vicious as a result of the fact that he was bitten by Johhny Rotten's pet hamster, 'Sid'. So John called the little fury animal 'vicious'. Plus, he had to differentiate himself from the many other Johns out there: John Lydon, John Warble or John Gray. Hence, a legend was just emerging into rock history compendium.

What soon followed is the chaotic story of the 'ultimate Sex Pistols fan', the rebellious but shy bloke who got the chance of his life in 1977 when he joined his idols as their bass player after Malcolm McLaren's departure. Strangely enough, Vicious was chosen for his stereotypical punk looks: tall and thin as a whipping-post, with his spiky hair and ill-behaved attitude, Sid embodied the quintessential punk who rebelled against the system. So, who cared if his musical abilities were questionable enough (although he was creative and possessed compositional ability) even by punk standards? He had the look and the energy to attract the kids to every concert. Bear in mind that this guy is the 'inventor' of the pogo - a dance where the youths jump up and down while remaining in the same place (especially at punk concerts). Sid later claimed that around 1976, while standing behind crowds, in order to get a better look at the bands' performance he started jumping.

As mentioned above, the Sex Pistols were all about anarchy and Vicious was the real deal: self-destructive, unconventional and bad-tempered he soon became the ultimate idol for every kid with an attitude. But the beginning of the end came with Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute/stripper who, at that time, had already reinvented herself as a 'professional' groupie. Born in an upper-middle-class family, she was a troubled teenager who abused drugs and repeatedly attempted to kill herself. Aged 11, she attacked her mother with a hammer and Nancy was such a hard cookie to swallow that every doctor possible refused to treat her - she was actually diagnosed with schizophrenia. She had come to London with a goal: 'to bed a Sex Pistols. And, in a way, Sid was easy meat' (stated Pamela Rooke, a friend of Sid's).

Sid was more or less confused about sex and love, but when Nancy came along it all changed for him. At 16, after his first one-night stand, Vicious told his mother 'I don't know what people see in sex. I don't get anything out of it.' But, after meeting the ex-prostitute, his life turned upside down since she was a pro and knew how to push all the right buttons. Immediately, the introverted lad fell head over heels for her, although she was more or less despised by everybody - 'She was unbelievably thick-skinned, one of the most unlikable people I've met. Everybody could see through her - except Sid' (Pamela Rooke). Johnny Rotten was one of those who soon realized what a bad influence Nancy was to Sid and begged him to dump her, because, after all she was the reason why he had started abusing heroin - 'Nauseating' Nancy was already an addict when they met. So, it was by no means a match made in heaven. And what followed comes as a proof that it was more of a match made in hell - for the both of them.

So, it was not long until punk's poster child started having problems with the band - Nancy was to the Sex Pistols what Yoko Ono was to the Beatles. Or, at least that's how the legend goes. The truth is, they were madly in love - the epitome of a sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll fairy tale. But the end was - how else but - tragic. Imagine 2 people who would kill for one another, young, rebellious and stoned all the time. The balance (if there ever was one in this off-the-wall story) lied in the fact that Sid needed a mother figure and bossy Nancy took care of that, looking after him. Or, to put it differently, she made sure Vicious didn't suffer any longer by making him share her heroin addiction. They were in the 'heaven' of drugs: with all the money they had, they afforded every possible illegal substance; they lived on the edge. Just think about the fact that, at one point, they were being interviewed while they were in bed. Nancy was mumbling incomprehensible words put together randomly (although they probably made a lot of sense to her) while the punk legend would often blackout. Yeah, during an interview.

In 1976, the couple moved in Manhattan's Bohemian Chelsea Hotel, where the foremost artists would check in, ranging from Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan to Eugene O'Neill. During their stay here, on one occasion, Sid and Nancy set the mattress on fire so they had to be moved to another chamber - Room 100. They were definitely no Romeo and Juliet since they would often beat each other, but at the same time, they were unbelievably co-dependent. Needless to say, when 2 addicts start beating the crap out of each other and a knife is around, no good deed can come out of it.

Moving on, the life of the man who was punk personified changed in an instant. In Room 100, the body of a blond, 20-year-old woman was discovered: she was laying face-up on the bathroom floor with her head under the sink. She was only wearing a black bra and panties, all smeared in blood. You must have guessed by now that the girl was Vicious' blond lover, the ultimate groupie who had reportedly died by the hand of her idol. And if you already pictured this horrific scene, add to your mental image the fact that the bed was immensely stained with blood. Cause of death: one single fatal knife-provoked wound in her abdomen. The principal suspect: Sid. Immediately after the murder, he was wandering the hallways of the hotel crying, and one of his neighbors heard him saying 'I killed her...I can't live without her.' and 'She must have fallen on the knife'. The lad was accused of second-degree murder but he never admitted the crime, stating that he had no memory of the incident. And frankly, the dude was stoned out of his minds so it's rather plausible. Some share the belief that Spungen was actually killed by two drug dealers who visited their apartment that night, especially since some items were reportedly missing from the room. But, the truth is, the only 2 people who know the truth are long gone so we can only speculate.

After the death of his lover, Vicious declared in an interview that he would rather be 'under the ground' and even wrote a poem about Nancy and the lyrics make it pretty obvious that he was contemplating suicide: 'But now you're gone, there's only the pain/ and nothing I can do about it./ And I don't want to live this life any more,/ If I can't live for you.' While in prison, the punk rocker was apparently subject to gang-rape - or at least that's what the band's photographer Dennis Morris stated, but no proof of such an incident was ever found.

He was ultimately released from prison on bail and, in order to celebrate his release, a party was held at the home of his new girlfriend, Michelle Robinson, on the 2nd of February 1979. While in prison, Vicious reportedly didn't have the opportunity to obtain any drugs. So now, a free man, he was determined to ease his pain with some drugs. After the party he was discovered dead because of a huge overdose. Consequently, there are many legends revolving that night: some say he wanted to die in order to be with the love of his life, others think that his mother intentionally gave him the OD of heroin (since she had been a drug-addict and a dealer all her life, she couldn't have possibly miscalculated the amount of substance). Many think she did that as an act of love - her son was deeply unhappy and she could not bear to see him this way. Plus, he was facing a life in prison. All in all, we'll probably never know the truth.

After his death, Nancy's mother refused that Sid be buried next to her daughter - since he was most likely the killer. What happened to the punk rocker's remains is still a mystery but the myth I particularly love is that of his mom going to Nancy's burial cemetery and scattering Vicious' ashes on the snow over his beloved one's grave.

In the end, Sid was right when he stated the following: 'I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.' So what do you think about this troubled youth? Is he IN or OUT?

"I'm a Dirty Dog"

At about 9:45 p.m. on the night Nancy gave Vicious the knife, the couple dropped by Room 119 at theChelsea where their friends "Neon" Leon Webster and Cathi O'Rourke lived. As reported by David Hershkovits and Lesley Vinson in the Soho Weekly News, Neon Leon felt that Vicious was despondent that night, holding his new knife close to his face as he muttered, "I have no more self-confidence. I'm ugly. I can't play bass." Nancy had brought along her prized collection of Sex Pistols clippings and Vicious' beloved leather jacket and asked Neon Leon if he'd hold onto these items for her. Vicious leafed through the clippings, commenting on how good he used to look. As reported by Ann Bardach in the Soho Weekly News, Vicious told the others that "he had no future."

Sid Vicious plays bass guitar

Nancy taunted him, telling him to stop fooling around with the knife. She flexed her bicep and said, "Feel my muscle. I'm strong. I carried Sid up from the restaurant. I can carry him, but he can't carry me."

Vicious and Nancy left Room 119 at about midnight. Sid forgot his knife on the bed, and Nancy returned to retrieve it.

At 2:30 a.m., Rockets Redglare, a punk hairdresser, received a "frantic phone call" at his apartment in Queens. Nancy pleaded with him to bring her some "D-4s" (the street name for Dilaudid) and hypodermic needles.

Loud knocking on Vicious and Nancy's door at 3 a.m. woke the woman next door in Room 103. A man in the hallway was heard shouting, "Let me in. Let me in. I'm not playing." The woman in 103 did not get up to investigate and fell back asleep.

Fifteen minutes later Rockets Redglare arrived empty-handed, telling Vicious and Nancy that he was unable to find any D-4s. According to Redglare, Nancy was wearing a shirt over black panties. Sid was sacked out on the bed in black pants and a sweater. The couple was already high on the sedative Tuinal, which had slowed them down physically, but did not satisfy their craving for Dilaudid, which they intended to take intravenously.

Nancy Spungen, alternative look

Nancy was so desperate, according Redglare, she showed him her handbag. "$50s and $100s spilled out on the floor," he later said. She told him she'd pay double the price if he could get her 40 Dilaudids. She said that she had $1,400 to spend on drugs that night.

Neon Leon Webster, who was in his room, heard loud knocks coming from down the hall at about 4:15 a.m. A half-hour later he heard something fall on the floor in the hallway, "something that made a metallic, tinny sound. Maybe a knife."

The Sid Vicious Story: "Trouble in Room 100"

Chelsea Hotel

At about 11 a.m. on October 12, 1978, the desk clerk at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City received a call from outside the hotel. A man, who did not identify himself, told the clerk, "There's trouble in Room 100." The clerk sent a bellboy to check it out, but before he returned, the front desk received another call, this one from Room 100. "Someone is sick," a different male voice said. "Need help."

In the meantime, the bellboy entered Room 100 and found the scantily clad, blood-smeared body of a 20-year-old woman in the bathroom. The platinum blonde lay face-up on the floor, her head under the sink. She wore only a black bra and panties, both items soaked with blood from a one-inch knife wound in her lower abdomen. The bed was also extensively stained with blood.

The desk clerk called for an ambulance which arrived with a police escort. After the paramedics confirmed the woman was dead, police checked the room and found drugs and drug paraphernalia as well as a blood-stained Jaguar K-11 folding knife with a five-inch blade and a black jaguar carved into the handle. The victim had been living in Room 100 with her drug-addicted boyfriend whom police located in the hallway soon after their arrival.

The couple had been living in Manhattan's famous bohemian haven, the Chelsea Hotel, which at various times had hosted such illustrious guests as Eugene O'Neill, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe, Jane Fonda, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan, among many others. The couple had registered as Mr. and Mrs. John Ritchie, though they were not married. John Simon Ritchie was the man's real name, but he was better known as Sid Vicious, punk superstar and former bass player for the infamous British band, the Sex Pistols. His deceased companion's name was Nancy Spungen, a.k.a. "Nauseating Nancy."

Nancy Spungen & Sid Vicious

Vicious was wandering the hallways, crying and agitated, when police arrived. His face was battered, but the bruising indicated that the beating had happened some time before police arrived. When his next-door neighbor came out of her room to see what was going on, Vicious reportedly said to her, "I killed her...I can't live without her." He was also heard muttering through his tears, "She must have fallen on the knife." A known heroin addict, Vicious was obviously high. Officers attempted to arrest him, but he resisted. Police subdued him and put him in handcuffs. Later that afternoon he was charged with second-degree homicide in the death of Nancy Spungen. (In New York first-degree homicide is reserved for the killings of police and court officers in the line of duty.)

Sid Vicious under arrest

The news of Spungen's death and the murder charge against Vicious reverberated through the ranks of young people who defiantly called themselves "punks." Vicious' many fans saw him as nothing less than the embodiment of the punk philosophy—aggressively nihilistic and intentionally rude and offensive in all situations. His physical appearance underscored his beliefs — dyed spiked hair, rail-thin body, knock-kneed posture, worn black-leather motorcycle jacket, and his trademark dog chain and padlock around his neck. Punk was the antithesis of civilized middle-class values. Doing drugs, wearing tattered clothes and safety pins in facial piercings, living in squalor, and never paying more than a dollar for anything were not just lifestyle choices, they were part of the punk ethos. Spungen and Vicious had come to New York and the Chelsea Hotel in particular to enhance their status as punk royalty. But in the end they became the stuff of tragedy, the punk Romeo and Juliet.