AINT IT FUN TP (MR)

AINT IT FUN TP (MR)

Editore
Stone Church Press
Previews
previews USA settembre 2023
ISBN
9798987345733
EAN
979898734573353999
data pubblicazione
28/09/2023

In the 1970s, Peter Laughner was a founding figure in a primordial ooze of what would come to be called punk rock, in the somewhat unlikely, somewhat necessary place of Cleveland, Ohio. Bands like Pere Ubu, the Electric Eels, Rocket From the Tombs, the Dead Boys, Devo, and the Pagans all intermingled in this psychosphere; Laughner touched them all. In 1977 at the age of 24 he became punk rocks first casualty. While his short life ended more than a half a century ago, his legacy continues to resonate. Henry Rollins and Guns N Roses have covered his songs, while Wilco and the Mountain Goats drop references to him in their lyrics. Underground comix stalwart Aaron Lange makes his much-anticipated graphic novel debut with this deeply researched biography. Through extensive interviews with the people who were there, Aint It Fun charts the cultural, environmental, and societal factors that shaped both Laughner and the Midwestern proto-punk subculture he championed. Aint it fun when you know that youre gonna die young? ǣGrounded in real crime, with blazing and withering faces looking into their precious moments and looking back at whats left, this is a mystic story of a city wrapped around the life and death of a musician whose talent, on certain nights, on certain records, was otherworldly. A sense of disbelief churns through the intricate, exploding pages. It seems a wonder theres anyone left to tell the tale. - Greil Marcus,?author, music journalist and cultural critic.

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Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. John D Morton is best known for founding the electric eels in Cleveland, Ohio— a violent musical project that could arguably be described as the very first punk band. Other groups followed, such as X__X (pronounced ex-blank-ex), who shared similarities with Downtown New York’s No Wave movement, which was happening concurrently. After the dissolution of X__X in the late 70s, Morton left Cleveland and moved to New York, where he shifted his focus to visual art, and occupied a burgeoning scene populated with figures such as Basquiat and Keith Haring. This book features examples of Morton’s artworks, from this febrile period up to the present, alongside his lesser known and more recent forays into poetry— specifically, experiments in the formats of haiku and tanka. Collected together for the first time, this selection of works delves into Morton’s preoccupations and obsessions: junk culture like B- movies and robots, memories of musician friends such as Anton Fier and Peter Laughner, or even more serious matters surrounding mental health, addiction, and death. “Morton describes himself as a Nihilist— ‘a sociopath that has taken a course in philosophy,’ he jokes— and he has the learning and the life to back this up.” --Jon Savage, author of England’s Dreaming

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