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Despite Everything

A Cometbus Omnibus

By: Aaron Cometbus

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Collected here are selections from the first twenty years of Cometbus, including the ultra-rare and embarrassing early issues, plus new intros, notes and a scrapbook. The ultimate zine in a world of millions. It's irregular, it's handmade, it's personal, it's portable, it's inspiring, it's challenging, it's unique, it's put out by a really cute boy (that's sorta important)' - Ben is Dead 'Cometbus is considered a classic in the subterranean world' - Time 'Could well be the best loved zine ever' - Bay Guardian

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0867195614

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9780867195613

I Wish There was Something I Could Quit

By: Aaron Cometbus

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I Wish There was Something I Could Quit

By: Aaron Cometbus

In this novel, Laura is in the middle of a torrid affair with the trains that pass on the tracks at the end of her block. The trains are carrying weapons destined for the front lines of America's latest war, and Laura can't rest until she's consummated the affair by blowing one up! She plots and plans but meanwhile, the trains keep right on coming, haunting her."--Publisher's website.

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0867196505

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Despite Everything

A Cometbus Omnibus

By: Aaron Cometbus

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I Wish There was Something I Could Quit

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A Punkhouse in the Deep South

The Oral History of 309

By: Aaron Cometbus,Scott Satterwhite

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A Punkhouse in the Deep South

The Oral History of 309

By: Aaron Cometbus,Scott Satterwhite

Radical subcultures in an unlikely place Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown. The house at 309 6th Avenue has long been a crossroads for punk rock, activism, veganism, and queer culture in Pensacola, a quiet Gulf Coast city at the border of Florida and Alabama. In this book, residents of 309 narrate the colorful and often comical details of communal life in the crowded and dilapidated house over its 30-year existence. Terry Johnson, Ryan “Rymodee” Modee, Gloria Diaz, Skott Cowgill, and others tell of playing in bands including This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb, operating local businesses such as End of the Line Cafe, forming feminist support groups, and creating zines and art. Each voice adds to the picture of a lively community that worked together to provide for their own needs while making a positive, lasting impact on their surrounding area. Together, these participants show that punk is more than music and teenage rebellion. It is about alternatives to standard narratives of living, acceptance for the marginalized in a rapidly changing world, and building a sense of family from the ground up. Including photos by Cynthia Connolly and Mike Brodie, A Punkhouse in the Deep South illuminates many individual lives and creative endeavors that found a home and thrived in one of the oldest continuously inhabited punkhouses in the United States.

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University Press of Florida

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0813072093

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9780813072098

The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah

By: Aaron Cometbus

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The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah

By: Aaron Cometbus

In 1963 the paperback revolution was making good literature widely available for the first time, yet only a handful of stores took the trend seriously enough to devote themselves to the cause. Rambam, a closet-sized shop on a corner of Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue was one. The owners had a falling out, as partners often do, but the results were glorious instead of tragic, with ripples that birthed much of the culture we take for granted now. Underground comics, New Age publishing, used record stores, and poster art all came from Rambam's big bang, as each new business with visionary (but ornery) partners formed and then split again. The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah is the social history of one of America's most legendary streets, and a family tree of the movements it fostered: the paperback revolution, the graphic novel, Slow Food, New Age, the Free Speech Movement—and even the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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PM Press

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ISBN 13

9798887440729

Double Duce

By: Aaron Cometbus

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Double Duce

By: Aaron Cometbus

What Kerouac was to the Beat generation, Aaron Cometbus is to the punk scene in Berkeley, California. In this first novel, his slacker kids ponder life's mundane questions with the seriousness of ancient philosophers: how to get by on no money, where to scam free photocopies, and the finer points of food filching. Through a haze of beer and Top Ramen, they engage in endless debates about the nature of punk rock rage. the tribe of punks and dropouts has never before been so perfectly chronicled as in this oral history made into a written saga. In his autobiographical work, Cometbus offers an eclectic series of connected stories about living on the fringe in Berkeley.

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086719586X

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The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah

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A Punkhouse in the Deep South

The Oral History of 309

By: Aaron Cometbus,Scott Satterwhite

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The Oral History of 309

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