Craven Rock — The Monarch Review
In the Streets with Craven Rock
Friday, November 13, 2015 12:01 — 0 Comments
Last year was a high watermark for Seattle’s anti-police brutality movement. Catching the wave of resistance that started in Ferguson over the murder of Michael Brown, and continuing in New York, over the killing by asphyxiation of Eric Garner and what came to be known as Black Lives Matter, Seattle activists took over the Westlake Center Shopping Mall in protest of police violence everywhere. Disrupting business as usual, the mall was closed three hours early, enraging of lot of Americans camped out with a hard-on for bargains. Steam had already been building in 2014, as Seattle activists attempted to take […]
Paper Cuts: Zines with Craven Rock vol. 2
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:24 — 1 Comment
“Why don’t you write a zine about it?†is a common dig zine writer’s will get from the punks, a subculture that seems to continually widen an embarrassed distance from it’s intellectual and socially conscious roots. You don’t have to embed yourself too deeply in to notice the majority of it becoming banal, collapsing under the weight of conformity, close-mindedness and nostalgia. For a scene so quick to label folks who aren’t punks as “normiesâ€, it strikes me funny so many punks are so hung-up on maintaining a narrow status quo of what punk rock is. I’m not sure how […]
Paper Cuts: Zines with Craven Rock vol. 1
Monday, April 7, 2014 11:04 — 1 Comment
At this point in my life, I’ve done more writing than just about anything else, except maybe putting it off. A whole lot of folks interested in writing have asked me “have you been published?” when they find out I write. This is usually followed by a “how do you get published?” When I tell them I started by self-publishing, that I put in my dues making zines for years, that’s usually where I lose them. When I explain that, for years, I put out my writing in a photocopied paper zine which I distributed all over the world their […]
SHANGRI-LA DEFINED
Monday, February 18, 2013 11:44 — 0 Comments
A couple years ago I infiltrated the Juggalo Family in an event called “The Gathering of the Juggalosâ€, where 20,000 followers of the Insane Clown Possee congregate, dress up in outfits and act, basically, depraved. The Juggalos are followers of ICP, Psychopathic Records and a genre of music called “Wicked Shitâ€. Wicked Shit uses violent, gory and excremental lyrics to teach the message of the Dark Carnival, a Judeo-Christian type of faith that came to Insane Clown Posse member Violent J in a vision that consisted of evil clowns leading the path to Shangri-La as the earth went down in […]
Cabbie Tells All – Craven Rock
Monday, August 15, 2011 0:22 — 2 Comments
“Did Jerry Springer call you? I gave them your number,†my buddy Herman asked me. Herman had just gone on the trashy talk show for a segment called I’m Leaving My Family For a Stripper with a dancer that he drives home in his taxi. The whole thing was fabricated: even his “family†didn’t exist. His baby momma was someone else he knew from taxiing around Louisville’s nightlife. Herman has serendipity when it comes to acting and appearing in weird shit. His booming voice can be heard in the B movie Sick Perverts, as a DJ announcing the apocalypse. He […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
