Once I began to view the book as a story and not a typical rock book, my initial question was answered. Stapinski may not be a rock star, but she’s a terrific, funny writer, and a good storyteller.
Generation S.L.U.T. (which stands for “Sexually Liberated Urban Teenager”) is a fictional story, mainly about American youth and sex, but it hits harder on issues of teenage suicide, drugs, violence, politics, and war.
Turn On Your Mind is an expanded reprint of DeRogatis’s out-of-print first book, which was originally published in 1996 with the title Kaleidoscope Eyes.
Part Alterna-Lifestyle Guide for the Idiotic Public, part Make Fun of Hipsters for their Unoriginality, The Hipster Handbook scores perfectly on all fronts.
Out to correct glaring omissions in Greil Marcus’ Lester Bangs reader, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, like his love for early heavy metal pioneers.
Sleazegrinder asked bands to contribute their most outrageous tour story, then compiled the best into the perfect book for the crapper in any house of rock.
Chuck Palahniuk has done it again. The author of Fight Club and Invisible Monsters has turned out yet another tight, fast, hard look into some World Wide Weird.
These 80 pages of glossy mayhem review DVDs of the classic gore titles, books I’d actually read, and articles on film makers like Eli Roth and Takashi Miike.