Download or read book Raver Girl written by Samantha Durbin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PopSugar Best New Books of 2021 Selection Weed inspires her. Acid shows her another dimension. Ecstasy releases her. Nitrous fills her with bliss. Cocaine makes her fabulous. Mushrooms make everything magical. Special K numbs her. Crystal meth makes her mean. Sixteen-year-old Samantha, raver extraordinaire, puts the “high” in high school. A ’90s time capsule buried inside a coming-of-age memoir set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's rave scene, Raver Girl chronicles Samantha’s double life as she teeters between hedonism and sobriety, chaos and calm, all while sneaking under the radar of her entrepreneur father—a man who happened to drop acid with LSD impresario Owsley Stanley in the ’60s. Samantha keeps a list of every rave she goes to—a total of 104 over four years. During that time, what started as trippy fun morphs into a self-destructive roller coaster ride. Samantha opens the doors of her mind, but she's left with traumas her acid-fried brain won't let her escape; and when meth becomes her drug of choice, things get progressively darker. Through euphoric highs and dangerous lows, Samantha discovers she’s someone who lives life to the fullest and learns best through alternative experience rather than mainstream ideals. She’s a creative whose mind is limitless, whose quirks are charms, whose passion is inspirational. She’s an independent woman whose inner strength is rooted in unwavering family ties. And if she can survive high school, she just might be okay.
Download or read book Girl Walking Backwards written by Bett Williams and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Girl Walking Backwards, Skye wants what all teenagers want--to survive high school. She lives in Southern California, though, which is making that difficult. Her mother has fallen victim to the pseudo-New Age culture and insists on dragging her to consciousness-raising workshops and hypnotists. As if this weren't difficult enough, Skye falls in love with Jessica, a troubled gothic punk girl who cuts herself regularly with sharp objects. When she finds her boyfriend having sex with Jessica in a bathroom stall at a rave, her romantic illusions collapse and she has to face the fact that she's been running away from her mother's insanity. Right when things look their worst though, Skye is helped by Mol, a pagan who becomes her true friend, and Lorri, a graceful volleyball player with whom she finds real love. From them she learns how to feel authentic emotions in a culture of poseurs and New Age charlatans. In this anti-coming-of-age novel by Bett Williams, where growing up is irrelevant, this is the best gift of all.
Download or read book Ageing and Youth Cultures written by Andy Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular 'youth cultures' has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with the onset of adulthood. In an age of increasingly complex life trajectories, Ageing and Youth Cultures is the first anthology to challenge such thinking by examining the lives of those who continue to participate into adulthood and middle-age. Showcasing a range of original research case studies from across the globe, the chapters explore how participants reconcile their continuing involvement with ageing bodies, older identities and adult responsibilities. Breaking new ground and establishing a new field of study, the book will be essential reading for students and scholars researching or studying questions of youth, fashion, popular music and identity across a wide range of disciplines.
Download or read book ZenOpHobic Gay FantAsy Rave 420 EDM in a Virtual worLd like Second Life MALES trans furries romance Beautiful Ravers and epic tale of courage by Emir Shaun A Delage PhD written by Shaun A. Delage and published by Rev Dr Shaun A Delage. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.zenophobic.ca -> This mad crazy book is styled conceptually on the principles of the movie eXistenZe, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, Second Life, UPLOAD and nerve :) I have a few options to exp3rienc3 this @wesome proj3ct :)...I also have a PDF version for the host of other eBook readers ... I also have an audiobook here -> www.zenophobic.ca★ ═══♂♂═══☊ [to see all ur options]. Zenophobic is a beautiful novel, weaving the tale of a gay guy that travels into a virtual world, can travel dimensions, ●♫ he goes to really kicken rave parties. ○● He also meets a Guru ○● the eBook charts the path of love and fantastic adventures through the obscure ♂♂ and has a surreal, poetic, and philosophical flair! ✰✰✰Click Zero meets furries and goes to realy kicken EDM parties – Cheeky – Groovy.... another studly character that slowly grows into a poetic superstar with his immaculate poetry readings and insatiable luck! .Heavy on the man on man and twinkbait bromance (lick) A must read! ▄ █ ▌▒『』〖〗◢ ◣◥ ◤ △ ▲▄ █ ॐ ♫♪ The novel has no typical plot or antagonists…. it is a path or story, it remains an epic tale of courage of gay male love through the madness -○●♫♪ There is tons of hot guys ♪ mad candy trippen ....-.-Warning, this novel will give you symptoms of schizophrenia lol ○✰✰✰♂♂ Blast the TECHNO while you @r3 r3@ding this book cause its gonna be the epitome of the most wild effin ride of your life!▄ █ ▌▒『』〖〗◢ ◣◥ ◤ △ ▲▄ █Lⓔt thê ⓟⓁâⒸÊ JûMⓂP ! The Author… Rev. Emir Shaun Delage PhD hails from the clubkid scene of the early 1990’s, .-.b4 raves were tagged EDM parties. They were simply “raves”-> Shaun lives on the west coast of Canada -.-and remains a busy visual blogger, contester & spiritual leader of the online virtual ministry, The Church of Techno.▄ █ ▌▒『』〖〗◢ ◣◥ ◤ △ ▲▄ █. . www.zenophobic.ca U can also listen to the book for free with a computery digital voice at my virtual ministry called churchoftechno.ca only at this site if you're broke af but want to go to a literary EDM party
Download or read book Ageing and Youth Cultures written by Paul Hodkinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular 'youth cultures' has understood such groups as adolescent phenomena and assumed that involvement ceases with the onset of adulthood. In an age of increasingly complex life trajectories, Ageing and Youth Cultures is the first anthology to challenge such thinking by examining the lives of those who continue to participate into adulthood and middle-age. Showcasing a range of original research case studies from across the globe, the chapters explore how participants reconcile their continuing involvement with ageing bodies, older identities and adult responsibilities. Breaking new ground and establishing a new field of study, the book will be essential reading for students and scholars researching or studying questions of youth, fashion, popular music and identity across a wide range of disciplines.
Download or read book Energy Flash written by Simon Reynolds and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (“ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s. England, Germany, and Holland began tinkering with imported Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the late 1980s, and when ecstasy was added to the mix in British clubs, a new music subculture was born. A longtime writer on the music beat, Reynolds started watching—and partaking in—the rave scene early on, observing firsthand ecstasy’s sense-heightening and serotonin-surging effects on the music and the scene. In telling the story, Reynolds goes way beyond straight music history, mixing social history, interviews with participants and scene-makers, and his own analysis of the sounds with the names of key places, tracks, groups, scenes, and artists. He delves deep into the panoply of rave-worthy drugs and proper rave attitude and etiquette, exposing a nuanced musical phenomenon. Read on, and learn why is nitrous oxide is called “hippy crack.”
Download or read book Electric Ant 1 written by Ryan Sands (editor) and published by Electric Ant Zine. This book was released on 20?? with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features: TALKING WITH THE MASTER OF MANGA Author Frederik Schodt on translation, Tezuka, and life as a teenager in Tokyo THE ILLUSTRATED HALL OF DARK LORDS My favorite cartoonists take us on a tour of the darkest lords that ever lived! YOUR FIRST KISS Revisited in all its glory... in the form of comics, short fiction, and drawings DEPARTMENT FOR IMPLEMENTING 15 KINDS OF VIOLENT DEATH A photographic tour of Beijing's Dongyue Temple and its assorted hells FEATURE COMIC: LOVE ENTITY BY AARON K A beautiful and demiurgical tale of transtemporal love and destiny
Download or read book Sugar Rush written by Julie Burchill and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalizing Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the 'Ravers'. As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and gambles her good-girl past for an exciting life of late-night parties and daring emotion, she must ask herself a disturbing question: has she fallen in love with her best friend? Julie Burchill's Sugar Rush is saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life - come get your sugar fix!
Download or read book Listen to Her Voice written by Miki Raver and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resurrects the dramatic stories of eighteen women in the Hebrew Bible, illustated with masterpieces by Rubens, Breughel, Raphael, Tintoretto, and other artists--an ode to the resilience and beauty of our foremothers.--Adapted from back cover.
Download or read book Mardi Gras in the Moment written by Jason Bentsman and published by Mardi Gras in the Moment. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has waited decades for a new anti-hero in American fiction, a character who prophesizes the pettiness of American social life at the beginning of the twenty-first century. With Conrad Greyman, a social visionary arrives to illuminate the inequities and shallowness of our social lives now, as the Beats did for their generation.In a musty dorm room at an elite college in upstate New York sleeps Conrad Greyman. He sleeps all the time, in fact. Conrad is a casualty of postmodern malaise and bears hidden wounds he doesnt understand.Mardi Gras tells the fantastic story of Conrads spontaneous trip to the great Southern festival. He finds there, amid the infernal chaos of neon lights and Bourbon, a chance for unlikely redemption. Conrads journey through the mad streets of New Orleans becomes a modern hero-quest, and New Orleans an epic landscape. Conrads adventure is populated by holy fools who come to his aid, menacing frat boys, magical beads, and unadulterated American decadence. In the balance hangs the fate of an inward-looking soul trying to make his way through a fractured, carnivalistic world.
Download or read book Freedom Girls written by Alexandra M. Apolloni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This introduction positions the history of girl and young women singers in the 1960s in the context of broader histories of vocal training; ideas about voice, respectability, and expressivity; and the models of youthful femininity that were emergent in 1960s Britain. It connects this study to the emerging field of Voice Studies and provide an overview of the book's chapters"--
Download or read book Straight Edge written by Ross Haenfler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually responsible lifestyle—tenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those typical of teenage rebellion. For many straight-edge kids, however, being clean and sober was (and still is) the ultimate expression of resistance—resistance to the consumerist and self-indulgent ethos that defines mainstream U.S. culture. In this first in-depth sociological analysis of the movement, Ross Haenfler follows the lives of dozens of straight-edge youths, showing how for these young men and women, and thousands of others worldwide, the adoption of the straight-edge doctrine as a way to better themselves evolved into a broader mission to improve the world in which they live. Straight edge used to signify a rejection of mind-altering substances and promiscuous sex, yet modern interpretations include a vegetarian (or vegan) diet and an increasing involvement in environmental and political issues. The narrative moves seamlessly between the author’s personal experiences and theoretical concerns, including how members of subcultures define “resistance,” the role of collective identity in social movements, how young men experience multiple masculinities in their quest to redefine manhood, and how young women establish their roles in subcultures. This book provides fresh perspectives on the meaning of resistance and identity in any subculture.
Download or read book Heights of the Marvelous written by Todd Colby and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2000-05-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cutting-edge manner and method of Verses that Hurt and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Café, this anthology gathers recent work by many of New York City's most daring young poets. Contributors to this eclectic, exhilarating collection include Jordan Davis, Maggie Estep, Mimi Goese, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sharon Mesmer, Lee Ranaldo, Prageeta Sharma, Mac Wellman, and others.
Download or read book Fight Flight or Chill written by Brian Wilson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fight, Flight or Chill explores the extent to which raver youths' experiences are constrained or determined by individualistic, high-tech, mass-mediated Western culture in which alienated and unfulfilled youth are apparently more at-risk for escapist and thrill-seeking behaviours. Wilson considers how raver youth creatively and proactively subvert these constraints in novel and empowering ways - from political activism to symbolic and stylistic expressions of resistance to community-building efforts. He also discusses the globalization and political economy of rave and youth culture and examines the ideologies that underlie simple solutions to the complex concerns over young people today.
Download or read book Yom Kippur a Go Go written by Matthue Roth and published by Cleis Press Start. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yom Kippur A Go-Go is a mind-blowing meeting of pop culture, Orthodox faith, and hipster poetics. Matthue Roth is an American original: an Orthodox Jew who cites Outkast and Michelle Tea among his influences, who won’t touch a light switch on Shabbos but mimics a screaming orgasm onstage while reading his paean to Orthodox girls. From the World Bank riots (what can you do when the revolution starts on Shabbos?) to Thursday night tranny basketball in San Francisco’s Dolores Park, Matthue takes readers on a journey among the queer and hip streets of urban America in his exuberant memoir, Yom Kippur a Go-Go. With humor and insight, Roth describes the tension between contemporary life and the demands of faith. He falls in love and in lust with a panoply of girls, both strictly kosher and determinedly secular, to the accompaniment of MP3 rabbinical lectures on modesty (“Boys are nothing but perverts and filthy animals!”).
Download or read book Sharpshooter written by Loretta Kendall and published by Loretta Kendall. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isis Evans enters the family business with her wrestling superstar cousins, the Doom Brothers. Paired with the biggest wrestling faction and long-time crush, Gage Stone, she struggles to submit to the alpha male of the Justice faction. She soon discovers being the new girl at International Wrestling Xtream isn’t what she expected when Gage tries to control her. Her curiosity gets the best of her as she learns her handsome tormentor has a secret that could fulfill her desire for following rules. Gage has private desires led by ego and commitment issues stemming from a failed marriage that could threaten his future and a chance at love. While Isis struggles with admitting her desire to be dominated, Gage has plans to make her his submissive. She finds that their battle of wills may have a deeper meaning for both of them. Isis must choose between love and submission if she wants to have a life with Gage she had always dreamed of.
Download or read book Der Klang der Familie written by Felix Denk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of the Wall, Berlin is full of disused spaces and abandoned buildings, just waiting to be filled with new life. It is unclear who owns any of this, which allows the techno scene to take over these new empty spaces in both halves of the city. Clubs, galleries, ateliers and studios spring up – only to disappear again a few weeks later. Soon Berlin has become the epicentre of a new culture, attracting enthusiastic followers from all over the world to clubs like the Tresor and the E-Werk. Wearing gasmasks and welding goggles they dance the night away to the jackhammer sound of previously obscure Detroit DJs. Among them are writers, artists, photographers, designers, DJs, club-owners, music producers, bouncers and scenesters, people from the centre of the movement and from its peripheries – in Der Klang der Familie they all get to have their say and paint a vibrant picture of a time when it felt like everything was possible.
