NO FUN, NOW

For June we drew upon Bowie and a bit of Lou Reed to make Uno V2.o. I guess that “glam rock” provided us a parallel for what we were doing to the magazine. Like John Lennon said about what Bowie, Reed, Marc Bolan and Iggy Pop, it’s still “rock n’ roll but with lipstick on.” That said, it’s all about dress up. The power of images. Words. Ideas. So UNO as it is now is a men’s magazine that isn’t obvious. We like to tease. We like the mystery. With that, we haven’t abandoned hedonism, just cultured it a bit. Made it stranger. Smarter.

One of our contributors, Chip Childers, wrote this:

“I think Lou Reed’s story was about the freaks he met while trying to score smack on the upper east side, too. If were talking notes, can i add one to the mix tape? It’s Iggy Pop, looking exactly as fearsome as he did when he started destroying things in the late 60′s, laying a Letterman crowd to waste. Iggy’s buddy Bowie walked his own path, reed quietly changed the way we think, but Iggy grabbed it by the balls and looked it in the eyes and told them how it was going to be.

Speaking of manly, if you can go on a stage at 60 years old, shock and awe the general public, then turn around and be genteel and mannered, i think theres not a better example of what a man should be.”

Well said Chip. So here’s our take on a sports issue which we’ve entitled ‘No Fun’.

Enjoy!