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We Need A Gathering Instead

February 4, 2012 Larry Livermore 6 Comments Asian Man Records, Berkeley, Big Rig, Classics Of Love, Common Rider, Dave Mello, David Hayes, Downfall, East Bay, Generator, Gilman Street, Green Day, Jesse Michaels, Lookout Records, Matt Freeman, Mike Park, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Tim Armstrong

Classics Of Love at Barfly, London, 2009. Photo by Imelda Michalczyk When Lookout Records, the label I co-founded and ran

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Studs Lonigan: Looking Back Into My Future

January 20, 2012 Larry Livermore 3 Comments 16th Street, City Lights, Forest Books, James T. Farrell, La Cumbre, Patrick Hamilton, San Francisco, Studs Lonigan, The Gorse Trilogy

In the course of a search for Patrick Hamilton’s The Gorse Trilogy, I wandered into bookshops new and old across

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Winter 2012

January 8, 2012 Larry Livermore 15 Comments Adeline Records, Barack Obama, Election 2012, Patrick Hynes, Republicans, Spy Rock Memories, Spy Rock Road, The Lookouts, The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore

It’s been months, has it?  Well, I guess it has, and while I feel guilty for having let this splendid

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Ten Years

September 21, 2011 Larry Livermore 9 Comments 10 Years, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Anniversary, Sober, Sobriety

It was exactly 10 years ago tonight that I had my last drink.  I’d been stopping and starting for a

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Kreayshawn Reconsidered

September 5, 2011 Larry Livermore 17 Comments Ghetto, Hip Hop, Kreayshawn, Maximum Rocknroll, MRR, Racism, Stereotypes, Tim Yohannan

Some of the best – and some of the worst – writing I’ve done has been in a fit of

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Kreayshawn: The New Face Of White Racism

September 3, 2011 Larry Livermore 96 Comments Amos And Andy, Bomb The Suburbs, Drive-By, Gangsta, Ghetto, Kreayshawn, Minstrel Shows, N-Bomb, Oakland, Odd Future, Racism, Wigger, William Upski Wyatt

(See also: “Kreayshawn Reconsidered”, in which I realize I went way over the top with some of the things I

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The Great Divide

March 24, 2011 Larry Livermore 31 Comments Aaron Cometbus, Ben Weasel, Delay, Feminism, Gilman, Green Day, Joe Queer, Knuckle-Draggers, Lookout, Meatheads, Neanderthals, New Creases, Pop Punk, Punk, Punk rock, Screeching Weasel, Sexism, SXSW, Women

The fallout from Ben Weasel’s meltdown continues to rival that from the Fukushima reactor: the most recent news is that

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We Become What We Hit

March 23, 2011 Larry Livermore 21 Comments Austin, Ben Weasel, Carnival Of Schadenfreude, Fat Wreck Chords, Punk rock, Screeching Weasel, South By Southwest, SXSW

Some people find it hard to believe that after all the ups and rather precipitous downs we’ve been through, I

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When Is Politics Anything But Personal?

February 24, 2011 Larry Livermore 10 Comments Ben Weasel, Boogada Boogada Boogada, Fat Wreck Chords, First World Manifesto, Gilman Street, Lookout Records, Maximum Rocknroll, My Brain Hurts, Operation Ivy, Screeching Weasel, The Riverdales

My old friend Ben Weasel is having a bit of a comeback these days.  Maybe more than a bit; after

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Subway Gates

February 23, 2011 Larry Livermore 4 Comments Brooklyn, L Train, New York City Subway, Turnstiles, Williamsburg Bridge

She climbed the steps at Lorimer Street with effortless self-absorption.  By the time she’d reached the top, the crowd disembarking

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