Friday, June 21, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
MUGGSY'S ROCK PICK: Parquet Courts @ High Noon Saloon
Parquet Courts, Cowboy Winter, Dharma Dogs @ High Noon Saloon, 701 E. Washington, Madison, WI
Parquet Courts breath new life into the genre of rock and roll music. Not just indie rock or college rock or nerd rock, but slacker, pre-hardcore spunk rock, not to mention retro post-punk and stoner wave. Everyone wins on this court!
Read Joey Germ's review of Light Up Gold.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
BOOK REVIEW: Maps to the Other Side
Sascha Altman DuBrul [microcosm]
Sascha Altman DuBrul is a writer, wanderer, punk, farmer, squatter, musician, activist and the founder of The Icarus Project — the radical mental health network that seeks to redefine the public's preception of mental illness. Sascha is himself bipolar. Instead of viewing his condition as an affliction or disease, Altman views it as a “dangerous gift,” something that can be used as a tool to create.
Maps to the Other Side is a collection of Sascha's writings over the years. Whether this was evident to him
at the time or not, Sascha now recognizes these stories as guideposts in a lifelong journey. Some of these writings appeared in zines, like Slug and Lettuce and The Secret Lives of White People, some
are from the column “Bipolar World” that he wrote for the San
Francisco Bay Guardian, and some are simply pieces Sascha wrote for himself.
The book is subtitled "The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer." In his understanding of how is own brain works, Sascha sees his mind as a map that requires navigation and time to figure out. This makes Sascha a mental mapmaker. Like most people living with bipolarism, Sascha veers off course from time to time. This is alarming and alienating to those around him when it happens and this book seeks to help people understand the unpredictable nature of mental disorders. Part memoir, part travel diary, part "how-to," Maps to the Other Side should be all parts inspirational to those charting the same course, informative to those who are not and enlightening to all—Chris Auman
The book is subtitled "The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer." In his understanding of how is own brain works, Sascha sees his mind as a map that requires navigation and time to figure out. This makes Sascha a mental mapmaker. Like most people living with bipolarism, Sascha veers off course from time to time. This is alarming and alienating to those around him when it happens and this book seeks to help people understand the unpredictable nature of mental disorders. Part memoir, part travel diary, part "how-to," Maps to the Other Side should be all parts inspirational to those charting the same course, informative to those who are not and enlightening to all—Chris Auman
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