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World Famous Oki Dog, Los Angeles, spring 1999

I look like a total doofus in this photo - what was going on with my hair?, also that jacket was awful but my mom made me wear it - but I am posting it anyway because a) I’m in front of Oki Dog and b) it is the first known photograph of me wearing that Clash t-shirt.

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The Sprawl on Flickr.

Los Angeles, spring 1999

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11:31 AM EDT March 19, 2023:

Fear - “New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones” From the album The Record (May 16, 1982)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: First Wave West Coast Hardcore —

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FUCKED UP + PHOTOCOPIED: Instant Art Of The Punk Rock Movement

published 1999, this 3rd printing pub. 2002

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Check out this playlist on @8tracks: go ask alice by matildawhiskey.

Originally made as a mix tape in April 1999. I described it as “90 minutes of sound for depressing daze and drug-induced stupors.”

side a

Sonic Youth - Tabla In Suburbia

Public Image Ltd. - This Is Not a Love Song

R.E.M. - Electrolite

Tori Amos - Pandora’s Aquarium

John Cale - The Moon [poem by Jack Kerouac]

The Promise Ring - How Nothing Feels

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Ben Folds Five - Smoke

The Chemical Brothers w/Beth Orton - Where Do I Begin

The Clash - Straight To Hell

Underworld - Dark and Long (Dark Train mix)

side b

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

New Order - Blue Monday

Lightwave - The Art of Clockmakers

Ani DiFranco - Pixie

Fugazi - Blueprint

Prolapse - Pile Tent

Elliott Smith - Between the Bars (Orchestral)

Kristin Hersh - Me and My Charms (String Version)

A-Ha - Take On Me

Pray for Rain - Taxi to Heaven

The Softies - I Can’t Get No Satisfaction, Thank God

Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)

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You walk down Alameda Looking at the cracks in the sidewalk Thinking about your friends How you maintain all them in A constant state of suspense

For your own protection Over their affection Nobody broke your heart You broke your own 'cause you can't finish what you start

Alameda - Elliott Smith

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This mix tape was made for me by Shari (who wrote the zine Mad Girl’s Love Song, back then) in 1998.

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“The belief is sometimes the biggest part of it all. You can choose to believe in your published book being held in the loving hands of strangers, your name tattooed forever on the heart of the one you adore; you can choose to believe in tiny red-haired pesky piskies - all the things “they” may tell you not to believe in. But who are they anyway? What do they know? What makes them any more real?”

— Francesca Lia Block, from I Was A Teenage Fairy

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Top: Phuzzz, live at the YMCA in Racine, sometime in 1998.

Bottom: Phuzzz’s self-released cassette.

Later, they changed their name to Quazi Stellar, and released an ‘official’ album; which can be downloaded for free here.

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I always loved this poem and every poetry professor I had in college and grad school pressured me to change it. I never liked those revisions. 

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Poison 13 - One Step Closer

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Check out this mix on @8tracks: punky brewster by matildawhiskey.

This is a mix tape someone made for me when I was 15 or 16, and to this day, it remains one of the best mixes I have ever received. It’s got proto-punk, punk, post-punk, garage rock, it rules. (There is one difference from the original version - the final track was The Hi-Fives “No No,” which I could not find an .mp3 of, so I closed it with a different Hi-Fives tune.)

Side A

The Undertones - True Confessions

Tom Robinson Band - Up Against the Wall

Generation X - Ready, Steady, Go

Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?

The Clash - Career Opportunities

Stiff Little Fingers - Rough Trade

Wire - Reuters

Mission of Burma - Fame and Fortune

Gang of Four - Damaged Goods

Magazine - My Mind Ain’t So Open

Radio Birdman - Love Kills

The Saints - A Minor Aversion

Celibate Rifles - Bill Bonney Regrets

Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant

The Damned - Help!

The Stooges - Loose

Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer

Ramones - I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You

Side B

The Velvet Underground - Head Held High

New York Dolls - Trash

Lyres - How Do You Know?

Wipers - Messenger

Lords of the New Church - Black Girl White Girl

Poison 13 - One Step Closer

Thee Headcoats - Headcoat Man

The Gories - There But For The Grace of God Go I

The Fall-Outs - Here I Come

The Supersuckers - Sugie

Rocket from the Crypt - Boy Chucker

Rancid - Harry Bridges

Les Thugs - Papapapa

J Church - Bottom Rung

Team Dresch - Fagetarian & Dyke

The Fastbacks - Everything I Don’t Need

Operation Ivy - Sound System

The Peechees - Do The Math

The Odd Numbers - Autumn Leaves

The Hi-Fives - Welcome to My Mind

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rad stuff, circa 1998

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T.S.O.L. f. Keith Morris - Sweet Transvestite 

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