Posts Tagged ‘Lifestyle’
Keeping up with School with a Hangover
You’re drifting off in math class. When you showed up late for PoliSci 101, the professor gave you a stern lecture that to your overpartied head sounded like a booming announcement of the rapture. The final crept up on you, and instead of studying you got in a fight [Read More]
How To Run A Band Without Running It Into The Ground
This is not an article that’s going to help you get shows, and it’s not about getting your stuff heard. This article is about how to manage those bizarre creatures known as musicians from killing each other, smoking pot all day, and/or getting wasted at a show [Read More]
How To Look Like A Punk Vol. 4 – The Early Years
Looking like a punk rocker isn’t easy. The whole premise of punk philosophy is to be yourself and to hell with what people think of you. Expressing yourself, no matter how, is what’s important. But you want people to know what that philosophy is, and you want [Read More]
How To Look Like A Punk Vol. 3 – Styling a Mohawk
For the history of the mohawk see How To Look Punk Volume Vol. 3 – History of Mohawks Giving yourself a mohawk is a little difficult. It’s a lot of hair in very certain places. Here’s a quick breakdown of how to style your hair so you can look punk rock. [Read More]
Curanto – The Chilean Indian Barbeque
The American Indians of Chile and Argentina are famous for their resistance to Colonial influence. Unlike other parts of the Americas, the people of southwestern South America have managed to keep their population high and their culture thriving. These are people who have [Read More]
How To Look Like A Punk Vol. 2 – History of Mohawks
We call them mohawks. In essence it’s any time you shave part of your head and leave only a strip of hair. You can wear them down, you can wear them up; they can be curly and short or straight and long; they can reach from the nape of your neck to your forehead or [Read More]
Punk Rock Diet: How To Eat Well On A Budget
We’ve all tried to survive on nothing but ramen noodles or Kraft Easy Mac at one point or another. Perhaps you’ve tried the tuna and water diet. Or maybe you took the line about liquid bread from Joss Whedon’s Firefly a little too seriously and think beer [Read More]
How To Look Like A Punk Vol. 1 – History of Leather Jackets
In 1977 the Ramones released their first album, a self-titled LP that revolutionized music, that depicted them all wearing matching leather jackets on the cover. Since then the black leather and massive steel zippers have defined the image of punk in the public opinion. But [Read More]
Punk Furniture: The Streets Are My Ikea
Real Ikea furniture is just horrible. It’s cheap in every sense of the word except the part about being affordable. And no self-respecting punk rocker is about to lounge around in a Swedish piece of crap like that. But that doesn’t mean your house can’t be [Read More]
Tales of the Devil Duck Vol. 4: The House is Trashed… Now What?
“Tales of the Devil Duck is a series about the author, Bijhan’s, real-life experiences managing the day-to-day operation of the Devil Duck House, where he and other lived and put on regular shows and parties. One of the only Punk Houses in West Seattle, the Devil [Read More]
