giveaway: The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists

We make to-do lists, shopping lists, wish lists...but somehow our lists just don't ROCK. The ones in this new book do....The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists is the handiwork of Handsome Dick Manitoba of the  Dictators and Amy Wallace of the original Book of Lists. They're billing this book as "Essential bathroom reading!!!! " but we like it at the breakfast table, actually. We loved learning how about The Pogues got their name and what Mario Batali's favorite pizzas in the world are. (What does that have to do with punk rock? According to this tome, pizza is the MOST punk rock food of all.)

Anyhow, we have a brand-new copy of The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists to give away....so lace up your Doc Martens and add a comment to this post to be automatically entered to win! [contest ended 1.2.2008] (Just kidding about the Doc Martens--you can be wearing fluffy bunny slippers and we'll still give you your prize if you win!)

Also, we figured we'd give our bookburger pop quiz to the punk authorities who penned this book. Both Amy Wallace and Handsome Dick answered....


Who is your favorite writer that most people have never heard of?

Robert Aickman, Algernon Blackwood -- Edith Wharton --- you may know her -- Yasunari Kawabata who remains the only Japanese Nobel Prize for literature winner, T.E.D. Klein -- 4 stars. - Amy

What kid or teen books rocked your world growing up?

First horror -- Roald Dahl's grown-up then kid books; Peanuts; Dr. Seuss; a British fruitcake workaholic named Enid Blyton, who never hit over here. A Wrinkle in Time.  Ray Bradbury. "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster; and (HOW COULD I FORGET!): COMICS!  ALL KINDS, especially Marvel, early Dr. Strange, Fantastic Four, Spiderman, etc.  I was never without a comic in my hand and was allowed to read them at the dinner table.  That's how I acquired a very large vocabulary really young. Any dirty books I could steal from my parents' shelves. - Amy

Describe your ideal place to write.

In bed by hand. - Amy

Your life is a TV series. Name the theme song, one event that would be on the "best of" episode, and one that would be on the blooper reel.

-The Handsome Dick Manitoba Program
"The Party Starts Now"
EPISODE..."HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE"
500 Rock and roll fans in Gijon, Spain,DEC. 1, 2006 singing , "Happy Birthday",in English, to my son Jake Koufax Manitoba on his birthday, while I was about to start singing "The American Ruse", with DKT/MC5.

BLOOPER EPISODE:  "One Too Many Quaaludes"...The band was at rehearsal already on Manhattan's west side,and didn't know where I was, and neither did I, 'cause I took one too many Quaaludes, and fell asleep on someone's floor...somewhere in Westchester with my pal Claire, from The Bronx. - HDM

Burger-flippers want to know: have you ever had a job that required you to wear a geeky uniform? Details, please!

From the age of 19 to 29, I worked as a professional psychic reader.  Even got written up in Cosmopolitan Magazine.   I sometimes resorted to geeky crystal rings and a crystal ball, hippie clothes and mu-mu's, and Birkenstocks (even Earth Shoes!! Shame on me.)  I had a homemade smocked dress that was really the pits. - Amy

We'd like to name a burger in your honor.  What kind of fixins should
it have?

-THE PERFECT MANIBURGER...No fixins...Whether char-broiled or pan grilled...The right kind of meat(a decent amount of fat)...The right bun..Slightly toasted on the pan,w/seeds...A soft "classic" hamburger bun ONLY...Burger btwn. 4-7 OZ., NEVER BIGGER!...More is NOT BETTER in BURGERWORLD......rare to med-rare ONLY....A little ketchup and salt...If done right...That is the PERFECT BURGER and needs no fixins other than these two burger staples. - HDM

Comments

[rachael]

so the burger has no vegetables?

plus my love of doc martens never really went away, even though they're damn heavy to walk in.

[mitch]

my love of docs has never abated either (unlike my affinity for motorcycle jackets and gingham). Although I do lace them differently these days.

(By the way: Heavy? Really? You talking about some of them big honking docs? 22-eyed or platformed soled or whatnot?)

But man do I miss those days. The years between 1979 and 1985 were a great time to be a punk rock kid in NYC.

[ang]

For some strange reason my feet decided to grow when I was 26 so the 10-eye green docs I was IN LOVE WITH no longer fit. But I'm wearing my chucks. That's punk rock, right?

[Whitney]

I loved The Phantom Tollbooth when I was growing up. It's pretty punk rock, if I say so myself...playing with words, being not quite normal, all roads lead to punk!

[~Juwairia]

Ooh, this seems like such a cool book!

Sounds awesome. =)

Yeah, lounging on the bed and writing or typing is my favourite method of writing too! = D

[Susan Helene Gottfried]

I still have Docs... wear 'em, too, from time to time. It's fun in this Stepford community to show up with dragons embroidered on your ankles!

[jocelyn]

If you are still running this contest, I would love to be entered!

[sean]

Handsome dick is a true renaissance man!

[haley]

what kind of lists i wonder? silly lists? crazy lists?
you know what? i would totally read that book if it had a list of the most commonly found termite breeds. cuz if your going to write about termites, you have to be commited. and slightly insane. but who doesn't want to read an insane author?!

[aurora]

Happy new year, all. It's that time of year for lists, isn't it - and the only one I've made so far is the one written on the back of a Rite-Aid receipt and crumpled in my coat pocket, listing a few random supermarket items. I'd list them, but then I run a significant risk of being slightly less clever than I think I'm being by actually posting an authentic grocery list. Resolve to make no lists! Happy 2008, all.

[jennifer]

I love books of lists (and making my own lists and then losing them and making them over again) - which doesn't feel very punk rock - but this book looks awesome - and, of course, very punk rock!

[Chaturbox]

is this still running?

[dj]

nope, sorry--we've chosen a winner already.

[Alan]

Hey, I just gotta have this cool book for my Daughter! Annie the 'Punk Junky' is frequently hidden silently away in the 'little room' with a book when there's dishes to wash! This book is sure to produce many 'giveaway chuckles'!

[Punk Rock 676]

was it a psychic reader hotline or face to face? haha

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