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Review: Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines Bill Hicks Soft Skull Press Street: 2004 For the uninitiated, the book will likely read as a strange, awakening and perversely offensive post-humous chronology of a warped, angry little man, though god-damn funny. To those already primed in the legacy left by Hicks, this book might very well
Review: So This Is Reading? Life On the Road With...
So This Is Reading? Life On the Road With the Unseen (Audio Book) Tripp Underwood Hopeless Records Street: 10.10 So This Is Reading traces the history of the Unseen from their humble beginnings (in a garage at 16) to their current stance as a punk band that many kids have patches of sewed on their
Review: The Salt Palace
The Salt Palace Darren DeFrain New Issue Press Street: 10.2005 The Salt Palace was written by some smarty-pants who was obviously raised in Utah. It is a story about a Jack Mormon who goes on a road trip. I honestly didn’t like the story very much at all. It had more holes in it than Tupac’s
Review: 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1
33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Edited by David Barker Continuum Street: 10.30 As the disclaimer at the beginning of this book advises, the 33 1/3 Greatest Hit series is not for everyone. People who canonize their favorite albums, feeling that their commitment to and investigation of said discs (i.e. the search for the actual
Review: Cruddy – Lynda Barry
Cruddy follows Roberta from her dysfunctional home life across the Nevada desert to Area 51 with her father on a murder spree. … read more
Review: Pilates Perfect: The Complete Guide to Pilates Exercise at...
You never thought you would see a review for an exercise book in SLUG, did you? Especially one on an exercise craze sweeping the nation: Pilates. … read more
Review: Thinking in Type: The Practical Philosophy of Typography –...
It makes the reader work for information that should be more readily accessible and interesting instead of having to wade through mountains of information kicking and screaming. … read more
Books Aloud – July 2005
Reviews of Destroying Yourself is Too Accessible, Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization and the graphic novel Locas: The Maggie And Hopey Stories. … read more
Review: Just Before Now: Sketchbook Drawings
Just Before Now “is filled with selected drawings from six different sketchbooks during the time of March oh three to April oh four” (back liner note). … read more
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Review: Built to Grind: 25 Years of Hardcore Skateboarding
25 Years of Hardcore Skateboarding is an appropriate subtitle, since Indy has been around to document the sport from the first plank with wheels to progressed into skatin’. … read more
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Review: Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane’s...
In Whores, Brendan Mullen has compiled over 300 pages of quotes from just about everybody who was ever associated with Jane’s (including the members), … read more
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Review: DANCE OF DAYS: TWO DECADES OF PUNK IN THE...
Bringing you every single detail you’d want to know about the DC scene, Dance of Days is an account of what life and punk was like back in its rawest forms. … read more
