Amyl Nitrate / Jubilee

I just watched Derek Jarman's Jubilee at BAM's punk'n'pie film series. While the film itself is marvelously prophetic, I really fell for the character of Amyl Nitrate. In the beginning of the film, one of her gang girls brings in a pack of street kids (The Slits, I think) and introduces them to their heroine, Amyl, who reads to them from the book she is writing: "...In those days, desires weren't allowed to become reality. So fantasy was substituted for them - films, books, pictures. They called it 'art'. But when your desires become reality, you don't need fantasy any longer, or art." Her favorite song being from Rocky Horror "don't dream it, be it" (Jubilee stars Richard O'Brian and Little Nell as well) and her role model is Myra Hindley (very friendly / so much to answer for). She wears a pink sweater set with pearls, and elaborate future/tribal punk makeup with her hair standing on end. Later on, when her flat mates are engaging in orgies she is set up in her library, conducting research, and working on her book of historical theory. "When I'm not busy making history I'm writing it." Her gang is called The Daughters of God, and they go around killing the male lead singers of punk bands that have sold out to "Borgia" yet they ultimately will sell out as well in the end. The film is from 1977, but I was struck by the timeless (or perhaps, still very relevant) punk values present through the film. Even much of the fashion could easily pass today. And so how much has advanced since then? I suppose nowadays the punks and the hippies are fusing.