Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives
By (Author) Jack Carneal
Rare Bird Books
Rare Bird Books
20th January 2020
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
B
Physical Properties
Paperback
248
Description
Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives is both a memoir of late-80s/early-90s indie rock culture and a philosophical musing on what it is to choose art and creativity and make that work in a society that doesn't always value it Jack Carneal has a following amongst indie rock fans, particularly fans of Will and Ned Oldham, and their various bands The b
Reviews
"...Carneal has a funny and likable style that is both compelling in its storytelling and vivid in its detail. The book is so good, youll swear you can smell the tour bandand the bandsperfume of ass and sweat and ass sweat all the way from 1994."
The Recoup Mag
Author Bio
Born and raised in Richmond and currently living in Baltimore, Jack Carneal spent much of his twenties and thirties as the drummer in the Anomoanon (rhymes with phenomenon), a band that frequently backed musician Will Oldham on various tours. Married, the father of two boys, Carneal is a working writer and Lecturer in English at Towson University. He no longer owns a drum set.
