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Equally funny, and more irreverent, is novelist Eve Babitz' "Bodies and Souls," which defends and explores the Southern Californian cult of the body. "It has always seemed to me that sex (i.e. inspiring lust) was what L.A. was about," she writes. Babitz' memoir details her own quest to be "totally devastating when it came to pulchritude, blond-haired and smoldering...
Mean streets have fascinated Price since his days in the Bronx. He based his first novel, The Wanderers, a violence-laced cult classic about teen gangs that he wrote while a graduate student at Columbia, on the working-class kids he knew in the projects. Price drew on similar material for Bloodbrothers, another stunning tale of working-class Bronx brawlers. But he was never really part of the violence. "I was a member of the Goldberg gang -- we walked down the street doing algebra," he says in an interview in the lower-Manhattan loft he shares with his wife...
...today's corporate entertainment world, bona fide "cult" status gets harder and harder to come by. Cult bands, movies and books, after all, are supposed to be cool because their cynical disaffected tone alienates all but the most worldly consumers. But nowadays "cult" is just another category in a big schlocky pop culture market. Blockbuster video has a cult movie section, and HMV has an alternative music bin; now you can buy your Suicidal Tendencies album in the same spic and span shop where your grandmother picks up the new Amy Grant CD. It's just no fun being subversive...
...problem is everybody loves the new "cult" culture. Anybody with a tiny sense of humor thought Heathers' macabre take on the high school movie has a scream everybody and their brother thought Blue Velvet was a witty dismantling of small town American morality. So where's would be fan of truly radical culture to turn...
...view of the crowd. They seemed surprisingly unaffected by the carnage onstage. Most of these straggly teenagers weren't laughing, they weren't flinching, they just sort of bounced to they beat. They didn't appear to be viewing this with quite the sardonic enthusiasm of most fans of cult culture...