{"id":264,"date":"2017-08-02T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T02:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2017-08-03T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:12:29","slug":"terry-james-graham-releases-the-definitive-punk-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/02\/terry-james-graham-releases-the-definitive-punk-autobiography\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry James Graham Releases the Definitive Punk Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/LaLuz_PunkLikeMe-e1501109623228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/LaLuz_PunkLikeMe-e1501109623228.jpg 320w, https:\/\/theboisebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/LaLuz_PunkLikeMe-e1501109623228-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>Call in sick and cancel all of our appointments! Lost World Press has just released \u201cPunk Like Me! Liner Notes for a Revolution that Never Happened,\u201d and once you start reading it, you will not want any interruptions. Terry James Graham\u2019s autobiography is unlike any punk rock memoir you have ever seen. Instead of the usual friendly, conversational style peppered with acerbic wit, Terry James Graham\u2019s expressive style and unusual phrasing result in a work of creative nonfiction that is thoroughly captivating. Although he can be wordy, none of the words are extraneous. The rhythmic ramblings are often reminiscent of the poetry of Steven Jesse Bernstein. I can easily imagine a band playing jazz-punk fusion in the background as Graham lets the words flow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAdjacent\u201d doesn\u2019t have set boundaries, kind of depends on whom you ask. But I know it\u2019s hiding somewhere under the mushroom cloud of baby-boomer fascism that huffs and puffs across L.A.\u2019s endless patchwork of privy and privilege\u2014under the overpasses, in that bleak industrial park and scattered among the stucco boxes that most people call home here in the entertainment capital of the world. It occurs to me as I tool around the streets and boulevards that L.A. is on its back, tongue hanging out, eyes rolled back into its coke-sniffing, Quaalude-popping head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As he progresses through the atomic age, the British invasion, and the burgeoning Hollywood punk scene, finally chronicling the last wheezes of a moribund Gun Club, Graham adopts the lexicon and cadence of the time, his narrative firmly entrenched in zeitgeist. The second chapter, \u201cThe Wayback Machine,\u201d in which he recounts the early years of his mother, is downright Pulitzer Prize-worthy as the words come together like a painting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If not heat, dust. If not dust, thunderstorms; many days a ruinous brew of the three. West Texas in the \u201930s had all the makings of a damn good country song, but not much else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only is Graham\u2019s writing poetic, it is transportative. When he describes moments of musical awakening, you don\u2019t feel like you are sitting at the bar listening to a wizened punk rock crony telling stories of his glory days. When Iggy Pop takes the stage \u201cglaring, pouting and posturing like a rock-and-roll snake come to life\u201d you are there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call in sick and cancel all of our appointments! Lost World Press has just released \u201cPunk Like Me! 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