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A Postcard From Forever
The Strange Case of the Distinguished Gentleman from North Berwick
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Never Appear Better Than Your Audience: The Ballad of Sydney Devine
A lost chapter from my punk rock memoir, Alternatives To Valium. Also: a parable about the ethics of the celebrity interview
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Willy Vlautin: "I got obsessed with the idea that the world is so rough that you don't want to look."
The musician and novelist discusses his new novel, The Horse
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My Life As A Badge #11
It's a Brechtian Device
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"Who likes The Orange Bicycle?" said the teacher. No hands went up.
A Scottish Education aspires to a state of mutual incomprehension between teacher and taught, and other psychedelic whimsies
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The story of Orange Juice: a song that arrives in an adolescent rush and leaves in a hurry
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North Berwick is the best place to live in the UK. An extended postcard from my home town.
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My Life As A Badge #11
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My Life As A Badge #10
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Sniffin' Cow Gum and Other DIY Publishing Habits
A short digression on punk rock and DIY publishing
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A Banksy round the corner
I'm calling it Eve Pollard
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North Berwick is the best place to live in the UK. An extended postcard from my home town.
A minding involving ice cream, crazy golf, and demolished hotels
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Laughing Til It Hurts, Crying Til It Doesn't - The Poetic Life of Townes Van Zandt
Celebrating the Texan songwriter on what would have been his 80th birthday
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"Punks hated us because we weren't punk. Everybody else hated us because they thought we were."
How Jackie Leven of Doll By Doll found dark in the lightness
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My Life As A Badge #10
bites COCKS
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Normal Bias, Forgotten Songs
If Mixtapes Are Like Letters, What Does This Cassette From My Teenage Bedroom Have To Say For Itself (And What Are Those Mystery Tracks)?
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Alternatives To Valium
Alternatives To Valium
An online journal by Alastair McKay. An extension of the book Alternatives To Valium: How Punk Rock Saved A Shy Boy's Life. The rules of the original post-punk fanzine apply. This is one word, this is another: now write a sentence.
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