By: Crimethinc. Publisher: CrimethInc. Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: CrimethInc. Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 288 Publication Date: August 01, 2001
Product Description: The eagerly awaited second offering from the CrimethInc. collective offers up a collection of stories, anecdotes from in and around the margins of drop-out culture. "We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were to be lived. Life serves the risk taker..." Guaranteed to be a best-seller. Snap em up while you can.
Interesting I wish the Evasion kid went more into detail on certain things. I don't think that he was very clear on why exactly he was vegan, why he became homeless, why he did anything at all. It was just "free" but I wanted to understand his ideas a bit better, I suppose. If he has ideas, I mean.
He reminds me of some of my friends. I started working an "under the table" job and I'm not "selling out" or giving into "the man" I'm just making money. And it's annoying when I've worked my [...] off then I have moocher friends like the Evasion kid that have no problem having you pay their way. Clearly not everyone can live like this kid.
Interesting though. I'm going to have to pass it on to some friends.
Interesting experiences. Ridiculous politics. Writing a review about 3 years after reading it. Spent time with the author's crowd and even talked to him a little.
Good things: fun stories with a loose flowing conversational feel, and achieves some superficial excitement. I learned a few things in here that saved my life when broke.
Bad things: for every authentic experience there's a pseudo-rebellious observation that sounds like it comes from the worst mooch of a roommate you could ever imagine. You know the kind- rants against the man, sob stories when the rent's due, and won't do the dishes. The crowd of people who relate to this book is full of scenesters and slumming people with attitudes like that, so try not to laugh if they use the term "working class". The book sounds like it's trying really hard to be something you should make part of your life- don't get suckered.
An amazing read recently purchased this book from crimethinc and could not be more content with this piece of literature. This story is very compelling and gives a closer look at what society is able to throw away and what others are able to salvage from their garbage to create an interesting, adventurous lifestyle. Definately worth the price, pick this up for a good read.
i completely enjoyed every page If you have a wild imagination and a heart you will probally like enjoy the way this writer goes about turning small tasks into romantic adventures, but if you are a millitant and stoic machine only concearned with the rights and wrongs of revolution and dont relize that peoples ways of overcomming forms of opression can be complete different then the way you would go about it then you may want to not pick this one up.
Surreal Look At The American Underground
Okay - this is one of the best books I've real in the last 5 years. Although I disagree with alot of the author's personal tenets (shoplifting, minor fraud) I do agree that the world is a landscape/playground, and that the corporate octopus has truly enslaved us all and made us soft.
This is written in journal style - one can imagine the author scribbling down his thoughts in front of some coffee house. His frank style is absent in current literature and gives authenticity to his prose. "Unknown" goes to great pains to put out his philosophy, while keeping his adventures in chronological order.
Best story: his travels to Milwaukee and the metal fest. I can just imagine him sneaking in to a place he would normally never go.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
Trevor
