Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932360948 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Spin has called Suckdog's album Drugs Are Nice one of the best of the '90s, and the book includes photos of infamous European shows. In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. With lasting lightness and surprising gravity, Drugs Are Nice is a definitive account of the generation that wanted to break every rule, but also a story of an artist and a mother becoming an adult on her own terms.. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18, becoming a teen publisher of fanzines, a teen bride, and a teen prostitute. Yet the book also tells of how Lisa saw the need for change in 1994, when her baby was born with a chromosomal deletion and his father becam
"Brillig!" according to Matthew D. Jasper. This is a brilliantly written book that is probably too unique to be in the tradition of something like the LIARS' CLUB, yet is every bit as compelling. As Lisa finds her way amidst sociopathic parents and her own rather odd tendencies, she records unforgettable vignettes of the similarly and disimilarly deranged (i.e. Smog, Dame Darcy, Costes, Boyd Rice). She has a tendency to smash her life open like some nuclear physicist intent on studying the particles that fly out. The insights she gathers from these extremities are not merely flash powder. There is always relevance--however strange--amidst the huge amount of r. Escapism at its purist I thought I lived it up in my youth, but Lisa puts me to shame shame shame. I put the kids to bed early every night because I know this book is on my night table waiting for me to dive back in and escape my quotidian life. Thanks Lisa, for writing such a riveting book!. "Not Just Another Memoir" according to Jack Lechner. Since many of the reviews on this site appear to be by people mentioned in the book -- or by people who know people mentioned in the book -- I want to make clear that I do not know Lisa Crystal Carver, or any of her friends, or any of her enemies for that matter.But even though I don't know Lisa Carver in life, I thought I knew her on some level from reading her previous work (like the legendary zine ROLLERDERBY, or her diaries on Nerve.com). She's a beguiling writer who can make even the most sordid events sound exciting and liberating and funny. I was expecting DRUGS ARE NICE to be more of the same -- the smoke tra
Carver grew up in Dover, N.H., with a sickly mother, but spent her 15th year with her father in California, when he got out of prison for murder. His hard-knock lessons "shame and shock her out of everything she knew to be and think," so that when she returned to Dover, she was transformed and fearless. Other jobs include publishing the early zine Rollerderby, which segues into an infatuation with the troubled neo-Nazi Boyd Rice. Carver slides into a chirpy concluding regeneration, while the overall ride of this iconoclast is surprisingly tame. Meeting "scum-rocker" GG Allin inspired her and a friend to s