We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut

This book, We Never Learn, is out and about for your purchasing whim. It was written by Eric Davidson, the lead singer/provocateur of Columbus's own New Bomb Turks, and it features a foreword by Byron Coley who writes a column with Thurston Moore at Arthur and Wire.

(Coley is also a poet who wrote a biography of Chuck Norris.)

I transcribed a couple of interviews on behalf of Eric for this book - one with Rocket From The Crypt's John Reis and another that I can't recall. I learned more about San Diego from listening to John Reis than from any other experience in my life, including being in San Diego. Outside of San Diego-centric concerns, I think that if you like punk, garage, punky-garage or garagey-punk and somehow also enjoy reading that you will be pacified and pleased by We Never Learn. 

You should buy it (it's on sale!) from another New Bomb Turker at the Wexner Center Store.

Eric Davidson will be reading from We Never Learn in the Film/Video space at the Wexner Center July 9th at 9PM.

Then, on July 10th, New Bomb Turks play with Scrawl (<3) at the Parking Lot Blowout. For Free.

After "The Jump" is an actual description of the book. Because I really get how blurbs work.

"PUNK ZINE"

This is the 'zine I made two years ago. It's about Columbus, Ohio and some of the "punk" bands and artists that have called it home. There are eight interviews - Geoff Hing from Defiance, Ohio, Matt Reber from New Bomb Turks, Andy Hinton from Vile Gash, Phonzie Davis of Left Handed Sophie fame, Jason Molinari who lived at The Neil House, Anne Elizabeth Moore of the book "Unmarketable," John Malta of Rattail Flyers, and Jimmy Buttons who lives at The Legion of Doom. There are articles about The Evens, Bike Punks, the comic "Snakepit," Delay, Tin Armor, the CMA show "Renoir's Women," a janitor's strike at OSU, a successful Clinton-Era protest against bombing Iraq, a Griot memoir of Defiance, Ohio reminiscence, and a review of Magic Flowers Droned by Psychedelic Horseshit. There are reprints of a Lantern article about The Neil House, an Other Paper article about The Legion of Doom, an Entertainment Weekly article about "Columbus, the next Seattle," and something originally published in MRR about the Gaunt/New Bomb Turks scene.

If you want to buy a physical, paper copy Microcosm Publishing probably still has it.

Here are some reviews the zine received.