Perfect from Now on: How Indie Rock Saved My Life

ISBN-13: 9780743277099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str.

John Sellers

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John Sellers was powerless to resist the call of indie rock -- once he finally heard it. In this hilarious and revealing memoir, Sellers meticulously charts his transformation from a teenage headbanger rebelling against his Dylan-obsessed father to a thirtysomething fixated on the obscure Ohio band Guided By Voices. Along the way, he commemorates the deaths of Ian Curtis and Kurt Cobain, makes a pilgrimage inspired by the Smiths, and riffs on Pavement and the other raucous bands that have ruled college radio since the 1980s. Packed with compulsively constructed lists, ridiculous formulas, and embarrassing confessions, this is a book for anybody who thinks that corporate rock still sucks.

Sellers, a pop culture journalist with articles published in "GQ" and "The New York Times," has written a rock-music fans memoir overflowing with humor, self-deprecation, encyclopedic knowledge, and Rwish you were thereS personal anecdotes.