An ode to “low” culture, with splatter flicks, cheesy ’80s references, and appearances by such luminaries as Bam Margera and mega-low budget video queen Misty Mundae.
Rather than write anything new, the band work methodically to add to a billowing cloud shaped and sharped like barbed wire tumbleweed rolling over squishy English duskscapes.
I didn’t need the cover art to tell me that MTV had something to do with this. It’s precisely the kind of self-conscious, slumming, incomprehensible attempt at “hipness” they’re constantly trying to sell.
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.