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...find. any surprises? Some will be surprised by our choice of material, but we used to play anything we liked. Nobody walked out going, "I don't want to play country-and-western. I'm not coming back till you let me know I'm punk." We were pretty diverse. The main thing for me is that it's a real band playing, and that's almost lost now in modern recording techniques. You can really hear that it's four guys working at it together. it includes a cover of bob dylan's the man in me. an unusual...
...first published in 2002 when Chun was just 17 and which was recently released in English, chronicles the turbulent life of Chun, a high school dropout who shares the same name as the author. For Chun, school is an annoyance that keeps her from more pressing concerns like boyfriends, punk-rock clubs, shopping malls and McDonald's. After dropping out to write for a fashion rag, Chun goes back to school. But she can't abide the monotony nor the teachers' telling her what to do and be, and she leaves again, this time for good...
...world is an apolitical but noisy place where Sonic Youth and REM share the soundscape with homegrown alt-rock bands like Pangu and PK14. It's a world where doting parents indulge their spoiled children?Chun's mother takes her from Beijing to Kaifeng to mingle with SpermOva, a punk band she adores, and stays alone in a guesthouse until Chun is ready to return to Beijing four nights later...
...obstacles she faces this time are less overtly violent, more subtle, more personal and in some ways more moving and universal. The teen rebellion she embraces--punk haircuts, inappropriate friends and bad boyfriends--is the kind common to adolescents around the world. Satrapi wants her book to cross emotional borders. "If people read the book and can identify," she says, "if they can say, 'That could have been me,' I am extremely delighted. I have done...
DIED. ROBERT QUINE, 61, versatile punk guitarist who played with Lou Reed and Richard Hell; a suspected suicide; in New York City. As a button-down law-school graduate, he lent an intellectual image, as well as stylish guitar licks, to the rough rock scene of the 1970s...