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John Albert/Wrecking Crew

John Albert's WRECKING CREW

About Me


Wrecking Crew
The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates
by John Albert
Scribner
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“Few people can truly tell the tale of Los Angeles and even fewer stories are worth listening to. John Albert’s breakthrough memoir, Wrecking Crew, is one to be heard, told poetically through its soulful recounting of life’s blessings. Albert deconstructs the romantic lore of L.A.”
-Flaunt Magazine
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“An exceptional debut… For the first time in a long while, here's a book about baseball that actually feels like it's also about life -- or rather, life as it's been lived by so many of us born after, say, 1960… a quiet, hard-won and moving celebration.”
-Salon.com
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“Attention! All junkies! Failures! Dysfunctional L.A. Punk rockers! There is hope! Love! Baseball! And it is hilarious. I loved Wrecking Crew. It is my story too. John Albert put it all together, he is a great original voice from L.A.'s wasteland.”
—Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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My Interests

Napping, baseball, dogs, cats, surfing, space travel, nudism, civil war reenactment, voguing.

I'd like to meet:

Punks, intellectuals, agoraphobics, baseball fans, cross-dressers, addicts, convicts, compulsive gamblers, surfers, librarians, dog owners, artists, nudists...

Music:

David Bowie, Wire, Bob Dylan, Subway Sect, Kraftwork, The Stooges, The Clash, The Who, Radio Birdman, Bad Religion, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, James Chance, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Slayer, Eno, Joy Division, Television, Cramps, Pixies, Beach Boys, Flamin Groovies, Flipper, Avengers, Wierdos, Screamers, Adolescents, Beatles, X, Echo and the Bunnymen, Blurt, Birthday Party, Magazine, New Order, etc...

Movies:

Blade Runner, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, Dr Strangelove, Apocalypse Now, Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, The Third Man, Raging Bull, Slapshot, Rude Boy, Blazing Sadlles, Maltese Falcon, Young Frankenstein, Harold and Maude, 28 Days Later, Night of the Living Dead, The Holy Grail, 2001, MASH, Clockwork Orange, The Godfather, Cabinet of Dr. Caligary...

Television:

The Wire, Sanford and Son, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Books:

WRECKING CREW by John Albert...In Stores NOW! Vist the Wrecking Crew website!

Heroes:

Albert Einstein, Brian Eno, Philip K. Dick, Edward Bunker, David Bowie, Lenny Bruce, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Joe Strummer.

My Blog

Interview with the legendary Genesis P-Orridge

Music Fuck the DNA The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV By JOHN ALBERT Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 4:30 pm Genesis P-Orridge: A brain trapped in a human ...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

Fine art meets hair metal in the LA Times

A (hopefully) interesting piece I finished fo the LA Times while on the couch healing from surgery. He's a really talented artist, so worth a look.   ART Anthony Burdin's rock dreams His artworks...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Tue, 29 May 2007 08:10:00 PST

Another review of concert anthology in Austin Chronicle

Austin Chronicle -Rock & Roll Books BY ROBERT GABRIEL ..> ..> The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience edited by Sean Manning De Capo Press, ...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:34:00 PST

Review of concertgoing anthology featuring Harvey Pekar, Thurston Moore and me

I only mention because of the self serving review of my piece on Black Flag...   CLICK HERE.   or read here... Time Out Chicago / Issue 97: Jan 410, 2007 Review The Show I'll Never Forget E...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:01:00 PST

My Los Angeles Times story on my friend Jeff and Project Runway

Rock / Drugs / Scissors The real life of 'Project Runway' reality star Jeffrey Sebelia By John Albert,   John Albert is the author of "Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates." ...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:37:00 PST

Interview on great new culture site UBERBELLE with naked pictures

http://www.uberbelle.com/spgm2/list.html John Albert - The Uberbelle Interview by Rob Trucks Buy Wrecking Crew While Lou Reed might sing of rock's redemptive power, in John Albert's Wrecking Crew it's...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:53:00 PST

Utah loves junkie baseball

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/5886/C104/L104   BASEBALL SAVES Devils in the Outfield By Brian Staker, 2-06-06     Wrecking Crew author John Albert As a darkly h...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:54:00 PST

Review in Frigid Ember

John AlbertWrecking Crew (Book)(Scribner)Release Date: August 9, 2005Artist Site: www.wreckingcrewbook.com The extended title of this book is Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Pa...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:23:00 PST

PopMatters best non fiction of 2005

PopMatters site lists their best non fiction of 2005 and prove themselves exceedingly smart and sexy. http://www.popmatters.com/books/features/best2005/nonfiction 1.shtml     Wrecking Crew: ...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:59:00 PST

Jerry Stahl on Wrecking Crew in current LA Weekly

LA WEEKLYZeitlist: CultureSome Very Excellent Books15 writers share their must-reads   JERRY STAHL (author of, most recently, I, Fatty) John Alberts Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith ...
Posted by John Albert/Wrecking Crew on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:22:00 PST