Welcome to the first issue of Neon. Neon will aspire to capture the ecstasy of imagination. The song lyric that stays in the senses for permanently to be enjoyed during the mundane of times the day. A critical cinematic powerful scene that gives our lives spirit. If Neon is a success or failure- only time will tell. This is Neon.

Neon will cover the happenings of music and film. I spent years as a philosophy student at the University of Denver attempting to find life's logic- there isn't, ecstatic and sinister circumstances will occur in life The only certainly of life is the absurdity of it, to quote Camus. Life should be always as wonderful as a scene from a Fredrico Fellini film or as loving as a verse of poetry from Pablo Neruda but it is not. The injustice and the deprivation of life cannot be denied but the smile of a child or the magnificence sound of the ocean at night will wash the day's anguish. Neon is in simple terms- stuff. Articles and photographs that attempt to convey a message; the question is the original intent of the message received?

In this issue, Neon profiles Lou Reed, a New York rocker who has been making music before most of us were born. For some Reed's music is a bitter nightmare over speakers--for some, a genius of Rock and Roll. In Video Review, the erotic classic with Marlon Brando The Last Tango in Paris is reviewed. David Bowie's masterpiece Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is critiqued. The most recent films and CDs are investigated. Welcome to Neon.

John J. Garraus
Editor and Publisher