Straight from the Fridge, Dad
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Straight from the Fridge, Dad by Max Decharne
Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies.Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back to before World War I, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex, and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue, and why snore when you can call some hogs? You're not drunk-you're just plumb full of stagger juice, and your skin isn't pasty, it's just caf? sunburn. Need a black coffee? That's a shot of java, nix on the moo juice.
Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country, and rock 'n' roll lyrics, and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960s, Straight from the Fridge, Dad is the perfect guide for all hep cats and kittens. Think of it as a sort of Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary for the beret-wearing, bongo-banging set. Solid, Jackson.
Max Decharne is a musician--a former member of Gallon Drunk, now the singer with The Flaming Stars--and the author of Hardboiled Hollywood and King's Road. He lives in hope that the world will pay closer attention to the theories of the anonymous British newspaper writer in 1919 who claimed to have discovered the origins of jazz, and put it all down to grotesque and indecent movements invented by drunken cowboys in the Argentine.
| SKU | CIN0767908406A |
| ISBN 13 | 9780767908405 |
| ISBN 10 | 0767908406 |
| Title | Straight from the Fridge, Dad |
| Author | Max Decharne |
| Condition | Well read |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
| Year published | 2001-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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