Yo, Trudy, what's your spending range?
Sorry, Corwood. My post looks kind of puffed up and asshole-ish on review. I'm just crossing my fingers like everybody else.
Not at all! I didn't take any of this out of your post. I'm just trying to keep my hopes realistic. With my relative lack of credentials, all I have to offer is my narrative idea and, of course, my personality and charm. Neither of which really come through in my pitch, now that I re-read it (and this assumes that they don't just exist in my head). Oh well.
Yo, Trudy, what's your spending range?
Um... if something is awesome I have siblings who will go in on it with me so short of putting her up for a week at the Chelsea I don't really have one.
Trudy - can you do a quick scan of their CD collection to see what they've got? I would recommend a P.i.L (Johnny Rotten/Lydon's post-Pistols, L.A.-based band) album. My favorites are
Second Edition, Happy?
and
9.
But if they are a super huge Johnny Rotten fan, they already have all of those probably.
What about the farewell drugs?!?
(sorry)
I once read an interesting book on the Sex Pistols. I forget what it was called, but it was a popular book back in the '90s.
I forget what it was called, but it was a popular book back in the '90s.
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage?
But if they are a super huge Johnny Rotten fan, they already have all of those probably.
She may not! I shall have someone snoop.
I wonder what Amazon's returns policy is...
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk is also good, and covers "punk" from the Velvet Underground through the Sex Pistols (thus putting the Pistols into a broader context). But maybe it focuses too much on the self-destructive punk folks....
But maybe it focuses too much on the self-destructive punk folks....
Heh.
Yeah, I don't want to send the kid cliff-diving. I don't need sanitized pseud-punk, but on the less terrifying end of the spectrum is probably a good call.
If the kid is all smart and intellectual, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century is a good one. It puts punk's drive for negation of societal norms into a much broader context (eg. Dada, the Situationists, etc). Fascinating book. But some have found it hard to get through.
