Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE, THE DEVIL BY NAME, COFFIN MOON, more. CRONE coming 9/26. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
Keith Rosson
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Yooooo, grab this book!
LOS ANGELES BOOKSTORES, looking to do a signing/reading event on August 1st! Shoot me a message if you want to set something up!
And if you’re interested in the story he mentions about the mercenary assault on God’s enormous corpse, that’s GODHEAD. It’s in my most recent collection or you can listen to me read it here: youtu.be/OShj6ZqkVes?...
It's such a wildly conservative, rigid-minded thing, to think that anyone who steps out of line deserves ridicule or assault. I got into punk to get AS FAR AWAY FROM THAT dogshit mentality as I could.
Why does that kind of hardcore - the kind where you need a dress code, and people who step out of line get their shit handed to them - speak to you?
A thing I wrote for Huffpost a long time ago, back when I did more illustration and design work. Young, dumb, legally blind, and full of the Stamp Tool. (That's a Photoshop joke, see.) I look like a damn infant here.
www.huffpost.com/entry/legall...
Like, I've played in bands where we dressed up constantly. The singer in my old band used to wear cake batter and lit candles as his costume! We had Punk Prom, where everyone dressed up! I see people in ridiculous outfits constantly at shows.
Whole banana costume thing has definitely driven home the point that GOTTDAMN am I glad that I came of age in the inclusive, dorky, angry, messy but well-intentioned sphere of punk that I did. The "he deserved it, how annoying" crowd sound like joyless sadsack boomers, jesus fuck
I keep coming back to this - people are like, "He shouldn't have gotten dogpiled, but wearing a banana suit to a show is attention-grabbing bullshit." All I can say is, what kind of rigid, unkind, uncreative, conservative facet of punk upholds ideas like that?
