Mark Maynard | punk

Phoebe Gloeckner on autopsies, aggression, hating herself as a kid, and watching a twice-removed version of herself on the big screen; Amanda Uhle on bringing Mittenfest back to Ypsilanti; and Peter Larson on having to hide from the Kenyan anti-terror police after they were alerted to his guitar playing… on episode 25 of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | September 1, 2015

Celebrated author and illustrator Phoebe Gloeckner was kind enough to stop by the AM 1700 studio this past Saturday night and talk with me for about an hour over bottles of Purple Gang Pilsner. Ostensibly, she was there to talk about her novel, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and the film of the same […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged agency, Aline Kominsky, Amanda Uhle, beer, Bilko, Cheap Suit Serenaders, comics, Diane Noomin, Diary of a Teenage Girl, DiDi Glitz, empowered, England, fictional teen finger sucking, finger sucking, fingers, H.R. Pufnstuf, hippies, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuhay_Gardens, J.G. Ballard, Jim J. Bullock, Mabuhay Gardens, Marielle Heller, Minnie Goetz, Mittenfest, Monroe, Patty Hearst, Pete Larson, Pete Larson's music as terrorism, Phil Silvers, Phoebe Gloeckner, Purple Gang Pilsner, R Crumb, research, Robert Armstrong, San Francisco, Search and Destroy, sex, sexual abuse, statutory rape, Stockholm Syndrome, Teddy Boys, teen finger sucking, teen sex, terrorism, The Atrocity Exhibition, Too Close for Comfort, Twisted Sisters, V. Vale | 13 Comments

Taking on the New York literary establishment with Michael Jackman, celebrating Fathers Day with Jim Roll, and making life better for our most vulnerable neighbors with Keta Cowan… on episode 20 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | June 25, 2015

I enjoyed the hell out of last Saturday night’s episode, and I’d like to thank everyone who had a hand in it. If you missed the live broadcast, and you’d like to check it out, you can either download the podcast by way of iTunes or stream it on Soundcloud. Or, if you want, you […]

Posted in Awesome Foundation, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alan Almond, AM 1700, Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, Back Porch Video, Beef Rag, Dave Eggers, Detroit Metro Times, Detroit River, Doug Holland, Factsheet Five, film school, Hamtramck, hipsters, inauthenticity, Inspector 18, Keta Cowan, Matt Siegfried, McSweeney's, Michael Jackman, New York City, Pathetic Life, Pete Larson, Pillow Talk, Rick Moody, suicide, Synod Community Services, The Painted Lady, Underground Literary Alliance, undocumented resident, undocumented workers, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, Washtenaw ID Project, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, WICIR, Williamsburg, Zine World, zines | 7 Comments

John Doe: On the origins of X, what the history books get wrong about the LA punk scene, and the fucked up state of our world

By Mark | August 31, 2014

I had the opportunity a few days ago to speak briefly with John Doe of the legendary Los Angeles punk band X. Doe, along with his bandmates Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, DJ Bonebrake, after making their way thorugh Chicago in early September, will be playing two dates in Michingan… September 6 at The Magic Bag […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1976, 1977, acting, Amiee Mann, Andy Warhol, Antioch, astroturf, Baltimore, Beat poets, Bertha's, Billy Zoom, Black Randy and the MetroSquad, Brendan Mullen, CBGB, Chuck Berry, conspiracy theories, DJ Bonebrake, Eddie Cochran, Exene Cervenka, Harry Dean Stanton, ISIS, Joe Henry, John Doe, John Waters, Los Angeles, Loudon Wainwright, mass media, Max's Kansas City, nihilism, Patrick Swayze, Patti Smith, Penelope Spheeris, Pleased to Meet Me, punk rock, Roadhouse, sensationalism, Slash, songwriting, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Talking Heads, Tennessee Williams, The Alley Cats, The Bags, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Go-Go’s, The Masque, The Plugz, The Weirdos, underground press, Velvet Underground, Venice Beach, violence, We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, X, X: The Unheard Music, Ypsi Song Fest, Ypsilanti District Library | 17 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp

By Mark | January 2, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]

Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects | Also tagged 1990, Agatha Cristie, Atomic Books, aviation, Bertolt Brecht, Big Geology Cabaret, Big Squirrel Lick National Park, Birthplace of Aviation, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Writers Center, Cincinnati, collaboration, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Dada, David Mamet, Dayton, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Elliot Bay Books, Etch-A-Sketch, Eugene Baskerville, experimental theater, Factsheet Five, fake tourist attractions, famous people who published zines, Farm Hussy, Farm Pulp, fluxus, folding paper, fonts, found objects, Gang of Four, Golden Girls, graphic design, Greg Hischak, Gregory Hischak, Humana Festival, insecurity, James Thurber, John Cage, Left Bank Books, Lewis Carroll, Mad magazine, Max Ernst, Michael J. Rosen, Mirth of a Nation, National Geographic, Ohio, Petticoat Junction, playwrights, Portland Stage Company, Powell's, publishing, pulp, Reading Frenzy, red dresses, Rene Magritte, Samuel Beckett, Seattle, Seattle Fringe Festival, See Hear, sexless, sibling rivalry, slam poets, small press, stamps, surrealism, The New Yorker, The Untold History of Zines, theater, This American Life, Thomas S. Hischak, toasters, underground press, Woody Allen, wooing girls, Wright Brothers, Xena, Yarmouth, Yoko Ono, young thugs, zines | 18 Comments

Watching the legacy of CBGB unwind into nothingness on the big screen

By Mark | August 8, 2013

I know I should be supportive of the new indie film about the infamous Bowery bar CBGB, as it has the potential to introduce a whole new generation to the music of Television, the Ramones, the Talking Heads, and all the other punk and new wave bands that came into being there in the mid-1970s, […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bowrey, CBGB, CBGB Festival, Hilly Kristal, Iggy Pop, John Varvatos, Justin Bieber, Mercer Arts Center, movies that I want to see, movies that make Mark cry, new wave, New York, New York Dolls, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Richard Hell, Rupert Grint, television, Terry Ork | 18 Comments

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Taking on the New York literary establishment with Michael Jackman, celebrating Fathers Day with Jim Roll, and making life better for our most vulnerable neighbors with Keta Cowan… on episode 20 of The Saturday Six Pack

John Doe: On the origins of X, what the history books get wrong about the LA punk scene, and the fucked up state of our world

The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp

Watching the legacy of CBGB unwind into nothingness on the big screen

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