In this One Punk’s Guide, I’m going to share some of the most important information I’ve learned over several years of research. But if you want to skip straight to conclusion, here’s the simple takeaway.
In this One Punk’s Guide, I’m going to share some of the most important information I’ve learned over several years of research. But if you want to skip straight to conclusion, here’s the simple takeaway.
John Waters is a hero to the punk, unruly, and unclean struggling to remain relevant.
Laura’s Story. This is the second part of a two-part story. The first part must be read in order to fully enjoy this one.
Anybody who gets into doing standup in the twenty-first century for the purpose (or with the expectation) of making money is a fucking idiot.
Much like the term “new wave,” serious people will not acknowledge your discussion of “The Dark Ages” without trying to convince you not to use the term. It’s hard to ignore the period of roughly four hundred years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire when very little progress was made in science and literature. People struggled year-round just to feed themselves. If you weren’t royalty or one of the very few who had money, raw survival was your main concern.
Almodovar films are an unyielding orgasm of color and anarchy. His movies are simultaneously an exploration and cannibalism of genre. Almodovar stuck with his vision through an obstacle course of financial barriers, making an astoundingly minimal number of compromises. There is not a film he created solely for a paycheck and not a frame of his work that is not worth seeing.
Todd Taylor is the co-founder and executive director of Razorcake. Over ten years ago, he was diagnosed with high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Instead of taking pills, the self-professed "cheap bastard and hungry person" went on a long health journey and found a way to eat responsibly and cheaply.
A heartwarming father and son human rights atrocity.
The punk and the noir I love are working class art movements. They have deep veins of anti-authoritarianism and anti-capitalism. They exist at and for those of us who prefer to live in the margins.
Much of the best punk exists beyond the common narrative. The same holds true for jazz.
“The weirdos of America have always been ignored but have always made great shit happen.” –Taylor Ho Bynum