WHAT IS THE POINT
OF ROCK MUSIC?
Turn it up. When rock’n’ roll was punk, and the search for meaning in the mosh pit.
August 2, 2019
R A Card grew up in Massachusetts and went to the University of Massachusetts and Harvard. He has wandered the country, hitchhiking, riding buses, hopping freight trains, and riding his bicycle from Massachusetts to Alaska. He has lived in Key West, Brooklyn, Pratt, Kansas, and Kona, Hawaii, and by the time he was twenty-four had visited all fifty states. His literary work has appeared in Alaska Magazine, The New England Journal of Public Policy, Omphalos Quarterly and numerous other publications. He is the author of several works of fiction and poetry, including Life of a Dead White Man and 52 Poems, Seven Sonnets.
Turn it up. When rock’n’ roll was punk, and the search for meaning in the mosh pit.
Annals of weird old America: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln & its strange aftermath.
On November 24, 1963, smalltime nightclub operator and sometime underworld figure Jack Ruby walked into a Dallas police station, and shot and killed Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
In 1859 John Brown attempted to incite a slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The events of those days became a prelude to the Civil War.
In the spring of 2002, college art student Luke Helder set out to trace a Smiley Face pattern over the entire country.
