Forever Cramped The 40 Year Ultra Adventures Of A Committed Gorehound

In 2016 I wrote my biography on the embryonic years of Primal Scream from 1984-87 and in December 2018, I got an almighty compulsion to write my own personal fan-boy book, about thee greatest rock n roll band on the planet-The Cramps. From tearing it up in 1979 at The Glasgow Apollo to catching their last ever UK gig at London Astoria in 2006, it's been one helluva adventure to Crampsville and back. If you wanna bust loose to some red-hot rockabilly, fuzz out to ass-shakin garage nuggets with a healthy dose of 70s punk attitude-The Cramps are for your stay sick pleasure! Where else are you gonna find such beautiful monsters as Lux Interior-PoisonIvy-Bryan Gregory-Nick Knox and Kid Congo? And if these songs don't grab you: 'Garbageman' 'New Kind Of Kick' 'Human Fly'or 'Drug Train'-You're already dead...

They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mama's boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts. They were "The Bundy Drive Boys," and they made the Rat Pack look like Cub Scouts. Their self-destructiveness was spectacular, the misanthropy profound, but behind the boozy bravado was a devoted mutual affection. The Bundy Drive Boys' un-bowdlerized stories have never been illustrated so well or told so completely as within Hollywood's Hellfire Club. Author Gregory William Mank also wrote It's Alive!: The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein and Hollywood Cauldron.

Canadian parents need to teach their kids about money, and this book will help! It is divided by age group, from five-year-olds using a piggy bank to teenagers preparing to leave home for the first time.

"I'd rather have one or two of his whiplashing essays in my hands than almost any tome of philosophy". -- Thomas Moore

Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary and cultural influences--from the writings of Montaigne and Thoreau to the recent popularity of empty entertainment and breathless chroniclers of the technological age--Purdy raises potent questions about our stewardship of civic values. Most important, Purdy offers us an engaging, honest, and bracing reminder of what is crucial to the healing and betterment of society, and impels us to consider all that we hold in common.

A compelling journey through the backwoods of American music.

FAB Press are proud to be releasing the second stunning anthology of internationally-published cartoonist Rick Trembles best work. Legendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb has called Rick Trembles' comix ''even more twisted and weird than me'' and renowned alternative cartoonist Chester Brown cited him as an early influence with ''immediate impact.'' 180 films are covered in this second remarkable volume of Rick's amazing insightful film reviews, all presented in his much lauded unique comic-strip style.