favorite music/band/scene biography book?
 

i also really like
get in the van
924 gilman
shine on you crazy diamond: the syd barrett story (i think that's the title)
i, shithead: a life in punk (autobiography of joey shithead, singer of doa)
banned in dc
please kill me
motown
touching from a distance
tales of a punk rock nothing

no wave by marc masters with foreword by weasel walter

wtf man this is my old neighborhood, were you there or what?

i thought you were a prisoner of the state of florida.

anyway i regularly post a link to this article, but it's a counterbalance to the glorification of all things mackaye

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=27321
(mark jenkins writes or used to write for that paper, btw)

ha ha ha i think michael little is fucking right!

but anyway. i <3 d.c.

haha no but i wish i was. i stole the pic from a blog. there's another pic iof both ian's at the same event (i forgot what the event was) in the same blog. i'm just a big guy and kathi wilcox fan. i'll check the paper out. i think dc is a very interesting city and not just because i'm a fan of the music that comes out of there.

only 83 more days until i'm set free from florida.

Pretty sure we've had this thread a million times. Oh well. LONG HARD ROAD OUT OF HELL.

Man, rock is about whatever you want it to be. It isn't about getting drunk and fucking someone up, it isn't about lecturing on the evils of vice, either. The vast majority of punk was of the former and, considering punk's nature, what's so shocking about a backlash? Agh, it makes me all want to travel back in time to the No Wave scene and play a show only of acoustic pops songs about puppies.

well everytime i use the search function nothing comes up for me so if we have then i'm sorry. we need to make things fresh for 2008 anyway.

Ha ha ha......I knew it before even clicking on the thread!!! Just move to DC and get it over with:p


Great book though.....I had my college library's copy out for like a year when they finally got a copy.

dc would be a great place to live(even though the crime is pretty bad and i heard it cost more to live there now). i'm moving to nyc this summer, but i wouldn't count out dc for the future.

DC can indeed be expensive as shit....not as much as NYC though. I actually just apllied for a job at the National Gallery of Art a few weeks ago, but yeah, it'd be expensive to live down there.


!@#$%! prob. knows some decent areas in DC that are affordable.

Lords Of Chaos.

I'd take large portions of it with a generous pinch of salt, but Wonderland Avenue takes a lot of beating in the fucked-up roll'n'roll memoir stakes.
As far as straight bio's go, Shakey tops the pile for me.

how far do you live from dc?

yeah i'm not sure any city beats the cost of living in nyc aside from san fran. and LA.

Recently I've been going back from B-More to Western Maryland Bumfuck Appalachia (where I'm from) while looking for full time DECENT work, but it takes like 40 mins to get from Baltimore to DC......which rules because you are always pretty close to 2 cities. Plus, Philly is only 2 hours away from Baltimore too.

I Need More: The Stooges and other stories - Iggy Pop

ha! i wish... that's why i had to move to new mexico. the gentrifiers booted me out. everything is being turned into luxury condos & shit-- but there are some punk houses scattered around and stuff. rent is just fucking expensive and house prices have tripled in recent times. but with the crashing of the housing bubble this might change. and then i'll make my move... MHUAHAHAHHAHAHA...

but since you mentioned the national gallery, one thing that's great about dc is that all the museums are free-- well except for private ones. and there are cheap places to eat, drink, etc. hell yeah it's cheaper than new york.

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uhler-- krastian lives in bawlmor

i'm not sure how i feel about that article. i will admit it is funny, but rock n roll (or punk rock) is anything you make it to be. it doesn't have to be about sex drugs and rock n roll or it doesn't have to be about protest music. if he feels fugazi/dischord ruined the scene than why doesn't he try to start one instead of talking about it. i'm not saying that just because i'm a big dischord fan either.

i can see what he's talking about, but music is their job and like anyone else they take their job seriously.

dude just take the commuter train (it used to be $5) and the metro, not sure if metrocheck applies to the commuter train also but it might. you can prepay w/ plans etc. beats driving.

yeah that's what i heard. you should just blow up the condos and build your own house.

ha ha i love that article cos it has a lot of truth in it, while rocknroll doesnt have to be "evil" or whatever, the music scene used to be a lot of fucking puritans-- things have chanced since, there's a lot more pop coming out of dc these days, and bands like dead meadow who are a bunch of junkies, ha ha.

Most things not written by Jim DeRogatis.

Please Kill Me is by far my favorite.

Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra was my favorite for a single artist.

Yeah, that's def. a possibilty, but I just hate having to commute. I like to wake up, slap myself into reality, and be at work in no later than 20 mins.

But yes, you do what you have to do.....and to work at the National Gallery I'd do it!!

my favorite music is reggae.
my favorite band is the grateful dead
my favorite scene is the roots reggae scene.

are those books? or are you high and forgot what the original question was?

ha ha i like to do the same, so i work at home. irregular paychecks are a concern though, ha ha ha. o well. tradeoffs...

anyway that train rules cos you can read/sleep in it, it's stress free, puts you at union station in no time & you can either walk to the national gallery or hop on the metro. i'd say walk, it's pretty close.

MARC TRAIN

the national gallery is FUCKING AWESOME.

I agree, long live the National Gallery.

That Picasso exhibit they had back in 99/00ish was one of the greatest things ever.


To stand infront of La Vie was incredible......big!!

i've been to dc once (i used to visit my father in baltimore in the late 90's) and i regret i never went to the national gallery.

well baltimore has the walters. a little chaotic, but a sweet place.

The Walters is good, but I much prefer the BMA....really nice modern art collection.

But yeah, the BMA, the Walters, and MICA are always on the radar during my current job hunt.

Gotta hit up the Smithsonian too among others!!

yeah i checked that out. it was pretty amazing. i remember when i went there. i was hoping i would run into the dischord house, but i had no idea where that was and i doubt my father would've taken me there.

where to start:

psychotic reactions and carburator dung
mainlines, blood feasts and bad taste
lords of chaos
american hardcore
chossing death
lexicon devil
the dirt
nothing feels good
up-tight

all this dc talk makes me happy. i'm proud to have grown up and live in such a happenin city.

sweetttt

best wishes with this!


yeah. if we could kick out all the lawyers it would be a better place though ha ha ha.

i forgot about american hardcore. i should check out lexicon devil since i'ma huge germs fan. i don't know why i haven't yet.