Book description
"Lexicon Devil is, pure and simple, the finest volume on punk to have seen the light of print. (Yes, folks: that includes Please Kill Me.) Great book!"—Richard Meltzer
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I have a weakness for rock biographies and oral histories, so this leapt to the list because of Darby Crash’s dangerous and self-debased fans.
At Crash’s experimental high school in southern California, the pedagogy mixed Scientology and est with algebra and social studies, creating a template for Crash when he became an early punk. Crash had violent female groupies, though he was queer, and they—and other fans—would extinguish lit cigarettes on their wrists to show their devotion.
The cast of characters in the book are vibrant and debased, just teenagers and young adults when they slam-danced and slammed drugs in…
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