Real Conversations, Number 1
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"Real Conversations No. 1" is a collection of lengthy interviews with indie-media luminaries Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Billy Childish, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the first in a series of interview books. These punks and poets extemporize passionately, angrily, hopefully, fearfully, and humorously on how to stay independent in a corporatized world, covering everything from SUVs, the WTO, and the prison industry to visual art, punk music, independent presses, and artistic and political protest. Filled with controversial, sometimes conflicting, and occasionally unexpected commentary born of…mehr

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"Real Conversations No. 1" is a collection of lengthy interviews with indie-media luminaries Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Billy Childish, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the first in a series of interview books. These punks and poets extemporize passionately, angrily, hopefully, fearfully, and humorously on how to stay independent in a corporatized world, covering everything from SUVs, the WTO, and the prison industry to visual art, punk music, independent presses, and artistic and political protest. Filled with controversial, sometimes conflicting, and occasionally unexpected commentary born of years of artistic, industry, and political experience, this book appeals to a broad cross-section of progressive artists, writers, independent publishers, producers, skateboarders, intellectuals, and activists. These funny, entertaining, enlightening, deep discussions about the sources of creativity, philosophy, ethics, and the meaning of life are inspiring and provocative.
How do Rollins, Biafra, Ferlinghetti and Childish remail independent in a corporate world? Tales, advice and dark humor from citizens of the eternal underground.
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Henry Rollins is the former lead singer for early punk group Black Flag. He's also a poet, journalist, book publisher, music producer, punk culture archivist, actor, spoken-word artist, comedian, television show host, radio show host, record collector and vocalist fronting his own Rollins band. Born 2.13.61 (also the name of his publishing house), Rollins grew up in Washington, D.C. At age twelve he attended the Bullis School for Boys. During his early teens he befriended Ian MacKaye (who would later form Teen Idles, Minor Threat, and Fugazi); the two were pioneering skateboard activists. In 1980 he joined State of Alert (SOA) as lead vocalist, and in 1981 joined Black Flag and moved to Los Angeles. Henry Rollins and his band tour regularly out of their home base in Los Angeles, California. Jello Biafra was the lead singer/songwriter of the early San Francisco punk band Dead Kennedys. Unlike most punk musicians, he was one of the first to go up against the music industry itself, forming Alternative Tentacles Records over 20 years ago. He remains musically active today in Guantanamo School of Medicine. In 1986 his Frankenchrist trial (the first record in history charged with obscenity) forced him into international limelight as a gadfly speaking out on censorship and First-Amendment violations. Thus began his career as a spoken-word firebrand. Biafra has a way of penetrating political and corporate media smokescreens to spotlight the real issues festering beneath. His radical insights inform a dozen music albums and six spoken-word albums on the Alternative Tentacles label. Billy Childish is a British cult hero--a painter, punk rocker, poet, and publisher (Hangman Books) who since 1977 has produced over 150 LPs, CDs, cassettes and 7" 4s; 40 books; several zines; and thousands of drawings and paintings. His bands include Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, Thee Mighty Caesars and The Buff Medways. His books include My Fault and Notebooks of a Naked Youth. Billy's official website is www.theebillychildish.com. See also www.stuckism.com for information on Stuckism, the first Remodernist art group, which Childish founded with Charles Thomson, Sexton Ming and other artists. Billy Childish lives in Chatham, Kent, England. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the first San Francisco Poet Laureate. Besides poetry and prose, he has produced hundreds of paintings, drawings and other works. In 1953 he and Peter D. Martin co-founded City Lights Bookstore, which published Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem, Howl. His own Pictures of the Gone World and A Coney Island of the Mind became poetry best-sellers. Ferlinghetti has spoken out against HUAC, the Vietnam war, and numerous other political and social violations. Until the end of his life, he continued to write, give readings, paint, and write a monthly column for the San Francisco Chronicle, "Poetry As News," archived on www.citylights.com. His numerous books are listed at the back of this interview. Currently there are five biographies in English of Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Neeli Cherkovski's Ferlinghetti: A Biography (1979; personable, not a critical biography); Barry Silesky's Ferlinghetti: The Artist in His Time (1990; a more scholarly account); Larry R. Smith's Poet-At-Large (1983; not a full-scale biography); Michael Skau's Constantly Risking Absurdity (1989; Whitson Publishing Co.) and Christopher Felver's Ferlinghetti Portrait, an art-photography hardback. Numerous books containing Ferlinghetti biographical data and interviews exist in other languages. He has also been documented on videos such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Rivers of Light and An Evening with Lawrence Ferlinghetti) as well as on various audio recordings, including some poetry-and-jazz sessions. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has two children, several grand-children, and lives in San Francisco. [He died February 22, 2021]