Justin Pearson has been in many, many bands, including The Locust, Swing Kids, and Some Girls. His music verges on the noisy and nuts, but his life even more so. He makes audiences at shows and Jerry Springer angry alike. Read about all this in his new book, From The Graveyard of the Arousal Industry out now on Soft Skull.
Here are the five best things he's read recently:
01
The Loom Of Ruin blog.
I’m a long time fan of Sam McPheeters work from back in the Born
Against days all the way up to this blog (and assumingly well into the
future). I heard he is “publishing” a book via Twitter. Apparently you
have to check his twit each day to get a sentence or two, eventually
getting the entire book. Great idea, but I have bowed out since I don’t
twit and since I’d rather stay one step back from becoming a Cyborg.
02 Henry and Glenn Forever by Igloo Tornado. A good friend of
mine sent this comic book to me. It was waiting to be read among the
bills, and junk mail that piled up for me during the tour that I just
got home from. I’ve been lucky to have met both Henry Rollins and Gelnn
Danzig over the years. Henry is a pretty rad guy. Glenn, not so rad.
Especially when he was wearing overalls in Vons and wanted to kick my
ass for talking to his girlfriend, who was a good two feet taller than
his short-and-wide build.
03 Merriam-Webster’s Spanish-English Dictionary. I wish I could
speak Spanish. I read some of this dictionary recently since I really
should be able to speak the language. I mean, I can see Tijuana from the
roof of my house. Anyhow, since my book just came out, and I had some
book reading/singing events to do in conjunction to the tour I was on, I
landed myself in Phoenix, AZ with one of the said events. I thought it
would be a brilliant idea to not read from my book, but to have Jung
Sing, the drummer for All Leather, read it for me. He happens to be from
Mexico and primarily speaks Spanish, and well, he did the reading in
his native tongue. Now that Arizona is showing its true colors in the
ass backwards year of 2010, we called the event “Vayan De Vuelta A
Europa”.
04 Stencil Graffitti by Tristan Manco. I stumbled upon this book
since I just saw the film “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. I’m a huge fan
of smart art, and an even bigger fan of smart street art. The social and
political context is important and a huge tool in communication in some
of the over/under developed areas that we humans “live” in. Needless to
say, this book had cool stuff and gave me some awesome ideas and
inspiration for things that I would like to try to pull off
artistically… and politically.
05 Runner up list of things that probably don’t count (but do count to
me):
– My dog’s thoughts: I swear she talks to me via telepathy.
– NPR: I would read it if it existed. Instead I listen.
– Text messages from my girlfriend: The weird and rad stuff she
tells me via text.
