CBGB: Decades of Graffiti
Mark Batty Publisher
I challenge you to come up with a more embarrassing idea for a book than this: A photo retrospective of the crap people wrote on stuff at CBGB's. And before you go off pshawing about how easy this is is going to be, it can't be abstractly embarrassing, like "Boy, this new Cormac McCarthy book is so bad compared to his old stuff it's embarrassing" or "It's so embarrassing finding out George Clooney is into scat." It has to be a book that you would feel more physically embarrassed to own than this absurdly gay cash-in.
Anne Geddes collections and NAMBLA Bulletins won't work because it'd be obvious you were joking (or you're an actual pedophile in which case might as well fly the flag). Same with Cheetah Girls and the Klingon dictionary and that fucking Maddox book (though that would be a tough sell). Honestly, I think I would rather have both my grandmothers walk in to find me jerking off with a candle up my ass over Madonna's SEX book in my parents' living room than have anyone walk in right now and spot this neon-pink-spined albatross splayed in the corner where I just threw it.
LEROY GUMPTION
NoFx: The Later Years: A Retrospective
there i win. gimme my money
Posted by: . | 17/01/2007 at 00:29
for shame, Richard Hell, for shame
Posted by: mustache | 17/01/2007 at 00:30
one of those sneaker culture books
and this is technically a magazine, but any issue of SPIN
Posted by: mustache | 17/01/2007 at 00:33
Sounds preeeetttyyyyy gay.
What's next, CBGB: the last show: the DVD?
Posted by: rod | 17/01/2007 at 02:16
replace the line "A photo retrospective of the crap people wrote on stuff at CBGB's" with any of the following:
vice guide to sex
vice do's and dont's
vice travel
tv carnage
and so on...
et voila, my thoughts exactly
Posted by: | 17/01/2007 at 11:06
"Sounds preeeetttyyyyy gay.
What's next, CBGB: the last show: the DVD?"
You honestly think that won't happen?
Posted by: Pyotr Mansbridge | 17/01/2007 at 14:57
im sorry but every freaking book that comes out from VICE is exacly the same sh't as this CBGB book.
UUUH the great book of dos and donts; Lets get every photo and put it in a book and charge $12.99 to all those urban outfitter kids. at leats this one costs $11.99
Posted by: Pedo | 19/01/2007 at 02:01
even if you hate Vice (which makes it interesting that you're posting here) you have to admit that a book of articles trumps a fucking picture book of drunk crusties' squiggles
Posted by: aaa | 19/01/2007 at 20:52
Yeah, I gotta agree with the one dude, I love reading Vice on-line, but I sure would be embarrassed to be seen walking down Mission Street carrying a Vice magazine, I mean how lame would that be?
Posted by: marvin jeffries | 20/01/2007 at 01:59
A biography of any DJ. There are people who consider them musicians, you know.
Posted by: Mad Daego | 22/01/2007 at 04:41
cbgb the musical -- playing in vegas. thanks mommy for the tickets wow and now the book.
Posted by: mjde | 22/01/2007 at 04:59
Some fuckers will buy it.
I dig reading the Vice on-line thing, some stuff in there worth reading but in general I think Vice kinda typifies the same shit all these new graf books and 'lifestyle' mags are.
Oh look how cutting edge we are.
Posted by: Al | 29/01/2007 at 09:41
exactly, and that's why this guy is embarrassed.
Posted by: T Bone | 12/02/2007 at 21:17