Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader language is all that we

language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature

truly knows you--and knows what has the power to hurt you

Marlise's struggles to survive there become the focal point for a host of imperiled figures

of struggling with her mother's particular

Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader language is all that weBefore his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray's smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled