Where Did it Come From? - Plastic Surgery Disasters

Whew! I can't believe that it has been four months already since I last updated this site. Time does fly fast when you're not looking. Anyway, enough of that, time for more interesting stuff to ponder on. Here's a new thing that I thought I'd do in order to keep me updating my site. As most of you know, there's a lot of stuff in punk that most people aren't aware of and that includes album covers, specifically the stories behind these album covers that have now become classic images. These series of posts take a look at these images. Hopefully, it will open up a lot of folks' minds and will make them understand some of the meaning behind the madness. First up is a look at a classic DK image. 

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Plastic Surgery Disasters - Dead Kennedys

This was taken from the photo, "Hands" by photographer Mike Wells. It's a shot intended to highlight the contrast between a starving boy and a missionary during the 1980 famine in the Karamajoa district, Uganda, where almost a quarter of the population died. Ako, nung una ko tong nakita, I thought it was like a "close encounters of the third kind" type, a nod to sci-fi to match the spy/sci-fi sounding guitar of East Bay Ray. How could I think otherwise? The copy that I had of this had photocopied covers which really didn't give justice to the subject of the photo. When I learned what the photo was really about, andun na ung shock value na most likely, what Jello and the crew were shooting for. And what's more is that up until 2003, there is apparently still famine in that part of the world which is the scariest part. 

No, that is definitely not ET! Taken here

Okay, that's it for now. These posts won't be the long-winded pseudo-articles(!) that I have been making mostly. As I said, these posts should keep me updating this site regularly since they won't be taking too much of my time. 'Til then, adios amigos!

Read on:
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/famine/

Watch:
Jello on Vinyl collection ( where he mentions Plastic Surgery Disasters and the Robbie the Werewolf ??)