People who have contributed, directly or indirectly, to the growth of this website get thanked here. Folks who are all around worthy of thanks get some space too...

FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANKS TO all the people whose stuff I've used--even if I couldn't track you down to get your permission. Email me if you want some credit!

• ANDY for some punk rawk stories...and maybe some tape trades sometime. How about it?
• JON BABBIN of Ruthless Records/Effigies fame (such as it is) for encouragement and some elusive info. He also managed to Fix and Toxic Reasons.
• MURRAY BOWLES for permission to use his Effigies photo from the MRR photozine "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pit?". Great title, no?
• KEITH BRAMMER for sending me stacks and stacks of die Kreuzen stuff.
• GAIL BUTENSKY for permission to reproduce her Big Black photos. (They'll be up soon. Honest.)
• SHARON CHESLOW for permission to use some stuff from her old zine If This Goes On. Check it in the DC section.
• KILL FROM THE HEART for the all-too-crucial inspiration and (unintentionally) giving my site its name. The tape of "Cottage Cheese from the Lips of Death" that Chris made for me broke my brain for a while, so also deserves a mention.
• STEVE KIVIAT for permission to reprint a bunch o' stuff from his old zine, Thrillseeker. He also does a calender of musical events in the Baltimore area--drop him a line for more info.
• WORMY KNETL of Emory, VA, for the scanner, which I killed (not once, but twice). And the Dr. Pepper, which I drank.
• JAKE LAGNADO of UK Resist magazine for permission to reprint their excellent Blaggers interview from issue 5.
• PAUL MARKO for his excellent website's refusal to cover anything from America or the 80's, as well as some great tape/CDR trades...
• NIGEL for all the Ruts shows.
• VINCENT OLIVE, from France, for being a Ruts fan.
• JORDAN PONTELL for sending me a bunch of old Press flyers and agreeing to an interview.
• the RAMONES for warping my young mind beyond all repair.
• RODNEY for some contact info.
• JAMES STARK for permission to use several of his excellent Crime photos. Pick up his book, Punk 77, for more of his work.
• "UNCLE JACK" for xeroxes of much of the Crime material on this site. Check out his Crime webpage while you're at it.
• PETE ZELEWSKI for permission to reprint the stuff from issue 2 of Real Threat, his excellent interview, as well as copies of some flyers and Real Threat #1.