More than thirty years ago, a dark rumble of noise gurgled up from the Lower East Side of New York City, made its way across the atlantic to Great Britain, zigzagged back over the pond to the West Coast, and exploded. Its name - Punk. In "Punk 365", the most provocative photography documents the performances, the looks and the attitude that ...
Since he first came to public attention in the 1970s, Richard Hell has made a spectacular if specialized reputation for himself in every conceivable medium -- from music, painting, and photography, to fashion, design, and writing. A man with a vision, Hell was the Prophet of Punk: the originator of the spiked haircut; ripped, drawn-on, safety ...
While posing for Playboy magazine, freelance Bill of Rights defender Karen Finley was told, while chocolate dripped down her nipples, that her smirk wasn't "Playboy sexy. " When writing for nerve. com, the so-called erotic on line magazine, she was told she would need to replace the word "cock" with something something less objectionable? Having ...
"[Hell's] every move and word reveal a naked, impassioned intelligence in the throes of the only truly rock and roll artistic convulsion."-Lester Bangs "Godlike," Hell's second novel, is a stunning achievement, and quite likely his most important work in any medium to date. Combining the grit, wit, and invention of "Go Now" with the charged ...
Pioneering punk rock musician Richard Hell, an early member of Television and founder of the Voidoids, is also an accomplished writer in the gritty, streetwise vein of Charles Bukowski. GO NOW is a fictionalized account of a road trip Hell made across America in 1980. It's a masterly assemblage of the erotic, the sordid, and the confessional, ...
"The Voidoid was written in 1973 in a little furnished room on East 10th Street. I was staying down the block overlooking the graveyard at St Mark's Church. Every day I'd take a cheap bottle of wine with me across the street to the $16-a-week room I'd rented for writing. Sometimes afterwards if l had some extra money I'd go the pharmacy on Second ...
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