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Some news down the wire, as it were: American Hardcore is coming to a Shriner hall near you. Or wherever it is that documentaries about hardcore punk are shown. I just got to the book, published in '01, last year, and it was a riveting little history, full of sniping, reverence, and illuminated corners. Steven Blush injected the tome with a bit too much forced perspective, but hey, he wrote about the Dicks. Hopefully the movie's interviews will add (Laura Albert, formerly JT LeRoy, provides the street urchin's take); but archival footage will be enough. Finally, a punk history that ignores Sonic Youth.

I unearthed my Germs discography; it still holds power at office volume. Oh, and I've been reunited with my girlfriend.