2012
Year: 2012
Maria Damon: How Please Kill Me Changed My Life!
Punk Professor Confesses: Iggy’s Touch May Have Saved My Life! Danny Fields interviews Maria Damon - I had the pleasure of meeting Maria Damon on February 9, 2011 at Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye's 40th anniversary performance at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church. She’s a poetry scholar—so it turns out we had a few friends in common—but imagine my bigger surprise when she told me she was a huge Please Kill Me fan and that our book was a major factor in inspiring her to teach a course on Punk Literature at the University of Minnesota. - Gillian
THE CITY OF LIGHT EMBRACES PLEASE KILL ME!
PLEASE KILL ME: THE PLAY in Paris. Can I just say that I LOVE France? Legs can bash it all he wants—he’s the only person I know who doesn’t LIKE french fries—but he’s probably never been there and if he has he was on the road with the Scorpions or some other travesty of a band. And/or drunk. And lets just say that he’d pick a Ring Ding over a freshly baked croissant any day.
All The Young Punks #1: Korean Kids Learn English From The Ramones!!
Question: WHAT could be cuter than a bunch of kids jumping around, singing a song together?
Answer: A bunch of kids jumping around singing a Ramones song together—especially when English is their second language!
That's the scene in this video, filmed at the Sullivan School in Seoul, South Korea, with a class of three to five year olds. Check it out:
You’ve probably seen this video before; it’s gone viral, and was featured on CBS News!
Teaching youngsters English with the Ramones song “Judy Is A Punk” was the idea of teacher Peter Strutt, a native of Iowa, who told news.com in Australia:
PKM Post Card: Punk Pajamas
Punk Pajamas- It's all about the attitude
Joscha Blankenburg: How PKM Changed My Life
Interview by Danny Fields -
Fifteen years after Please Kill Me was first published, we continue to meet people who say that our book changed their lives. Always curious about the why when and where, we wanted details. And who better to ask the hard questions than the guy we dedicated our book to, the Danny Fields, “the coolest guy in the room”? When Danny was in Berlin for an exhibit of his photos at the Ramones Museum he encountered a bright young man named Joscha Blankenburg, 20, (seen Mohawked in top photo at the age of 15), himself ein Berliner who was born a few years after the re-unification of Germany, which certainly qualifies him as innocent of the events re-counted in our book.
P.K.M. PUBLICATION OF THE MONTH: CAUGHT UP
by Legs McNeil - "Mug shots. Nothing but mug shots." --
Imagine that you’ve just pulled out of the bar after a couple of drinks, your still trying to fasten your seatbelt-- when flickering red lights suddenly appear in your rearview mirror and a police siren pops on, signaling you to pull over. After a quick hand to eye sobriety test, the police officer asks you to blow into the breathalyzer-- and it comes up snake eyes. You lose; prepare to add a DUI to your permanent record.