Welcome to GREED v2.
GREED Volume One was a music/arts zine I published in the late 1980s while I was living a double life as a journalist by day and disaffected punk rocker by night. It grew out of the small but influential Washington, D.C. music scene and attempted to cover all things “underground” with a sense of humor and an attention to graphic design. The first issue had a run of 600 copies, all hand-collated; by issue six the print run was 10,000 copies with distribution around the world. GREED folded just before many of the niche bands, artists, writers, and films we celebrated “broke out” in the wake of Nirvana.
Through GREED I made many of my closest friends and had the opportunity to design records, cassettes, and CDs for bands I liked, most notably Fugazi’s first six releases. I then had the good fortune of moving into writing, directing, and producing documentaries for television. I traveled the world and had adventures and internalized so much stress that my hair went gray in my 30s. But much as I love making films, I missed the far less filtered world of print. So GREED has returned, armed with slices of the old and juicy chunks of the new. GREED v2 serves up in-depth interviews with a host of celebrated creators, comics, features, and satirical humor, even though I have been informed that The Youth of Today are threatened by humor and don’t understand satire. (This is another lie promoted by The Forces of Social Control.)
Why subscribe?
Substack encourages its users to IDENTIFY and AIM AT a TARGET audience. These aggressively impersonal words conflate marketing and violence in a way we have all been conditioned to accept as normal discourse. The language of the 21st Century has been thoroughly contaminated by the dead hands of commerce.
Do I hope you will subscribe? Sure. Would I like it if you became a paid subscriber? Couldn’t hurt. You will have access to exclusive “content” the Others will not have, plus full access to the tottering tower of dreams we call the publication archives. In turn, your contribution will help GREED’s plucky creators maintain their increasingly unsustainable lifestyles for a few more weeks. Everyone wins!
