Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932360948 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-26 |
| 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. 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 became violent. 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 a
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. Carver had Rice's child, born genetically disabled, and the family collapsed when Rice revealed himself to be an abusive alcoholic. From Publishers Weekly Shock-performance artist Carver (Dancing Queen) offers a spunky, well-fashioned memoir devoid of self-pity but heavy on moral-of-the-story hindsight. Connected to the DIY underground, a cassette-trading society that eliminates the need for producers, seed money, even talent, Carver met and married French music rebel Jean Louis Costes; together they achieved notoriety with their outlandish performances (one act involved her peeing in a litter box). Carver slides into a chirpy concluding regeneration, while the overall
Matthew D. Jasper said Brillig!. 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 particle. "Escapism at its purist" according to Jennifer Bradley. 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 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 begui