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| FUCKED UP AND PHOTOCOPIED Brian Ray Turcotte, Christopher T Miller (Gingko Press 99) The ultimate collection of aesthetics, the coolest looking book of all time - Aside from occasional short rantings from old punk people romanticizing their long-lost, 'fomative DIY ethics and experiences as a punk in the early 80's ("cuz no one likes you at school, or bing upset that you don't fit in with the jocks who beat the shit out of you" [Lars Fredrickson], etc, etc...), this book leaves the editorializing up to the flyers and photos. In this way it straddles two objectives - as the structured presentation of flyerism as a subset of punk culture, but also as a visual representation of punk itself, doing an outstanding job of both. On one hand looking at the flyers (obviously not as pieces of art, as many hippies and situationist morons would assert) as eye - candy snapshots of what punk looked like, and on the other hand, wishing you were there to experience it. On basically every page me and whomever was looking at the book with me would go "fuck" every time we saw a flyer with BLACK FLAG and RHINO 39, or the CRUCIFIX flyer with a photo of Harley Flanagan, or the flyer for the last MISSION OF BURMA show, wishing we could have been there. And that basically is the point of the book - a pure nostalgia trip reminding us how awesome punk rock is. The book is arranged only loosely into sections, not chronologically, as it begins with a short DEAD KENNEDYS section, flips to the first wave LA and SanFran scene, then jumping ahead a few years, and so on and so forth. This arrangement gives the book a manic pace and doesn't attempt to place higher importance on certain scenes or time periods, which is refresing. It's nice to see a punk book that includes DEAD BOYS flyers on equal footing as SLAPSHOT or WIPERS ones, or a KRAUT flyer standing right next to a WEIRDOS flyer on the back cover. Also great as a resource - my kitchen wall and also this zine have become festooned with tons of flyers felched from FUAPC. My only complaint would obviously be the huge price on this book, it's a glossy motherfucker and just recently got put into paperback. Thankfully my library had it. Also most of the backing shots behind the flyers look dumb and appear to have been systematically; treated to every Photo-shop function there is, but this is a quibble. Great book. Definetly an insiders report - you either get it or you don't. (Breakout fanzine #1) |
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