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The Dead Beat

Punk Rock Runied My Life

About Me


    Punk Rock Ruined My Life
    Life is beautiful, even though it's all ruined and broken and irrevocably fucked up. Life is beautiful.
    I am a book.
    I'm called, "The Dead Beat" and I will be published soon by
    Love Bunni Press.
    I am also being made into a movie, which is in pre-production now!
    I am a pretty good book.
    I'm all about this:
    The Dead Beat is the story of Adam, a young writer struggling with his writer's block and a burgeoning meth addiction that threatens to unravel him. It's a poignant, evocative and darkly funny story about friendship, loss of innocence, and the choking downward spiral that pervaded the nihilstic nineties punk rock scene. Rock bottom is a lot lower than you think.

"I read a draft of it at 4am in Newark while waiting for a bus and I killed myself.*
*good review"
--van Bushmill

"Sheer. Breathtaking. Monumental. The Dead Beat is all of these things. Then it is so much more. Gree ’s narrative is naked in its honesty, and somehow disturbingly hopeful all at once. The Dead Beat is a gift to us, from a writer who has scraped herself off the asphalt of a city in flux, to scream out her story. Do not blink. Do not ignore a single word."
--T.L. Cabrera
author of "A String of Days: Poems"
"It's a great triumph.I think it's written with a charisma that is not found in a lot of modern literature and gives better insight into a 'scene' that many may think they're acquainted with but are not."
Derek Erdman
DerekErdman.com
"...people have often told me that they don’t understand why I like novels about drugs, I think it has something to do with the camaraderie I feel with individuals like Adam; namely, that society is so fucked up, that people have to do something to make themselves feel good. It’s kind of the same thing that drives people to do other harmful things, like Norman Morrison setting himself on fire to protest the Vietnam War. I seek solace in characters like Adam and books like "The Dead Beat." And while I’m not a fan of drugs (and have never been addicted, thank God), it’s lonely being on the periphery, trying to create in stagnation. This book gives voice to those on the outside and really the drugs come secondary to that theme (don’t miss the point, mate)."
Ryan Leach
raZorcake

My Interests



My Chapters:

  • THE TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE

  • EXCUSE ME, MR. WILSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MY GIANT COCK?

  • THE UGLIEST SUNRISE EVER

  • FUCK YOU, HENRY DAVID THOREAU

  • IT'S A GOOD THING I'M UNEMPLOYED, WHAT WITH THE NARCOLEPSY AND ALL

  • HERPES, WHORES, AND FALLING OFF THE ROOF

  • AND THE CLOWN SAID, "DIE, BITCH!"

  • ANARCHY, SYMPHONY, AND THE LAMB RETURNS AS THE LION

  • THE BIG ONE WILL HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO BREAK

  • LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

  • I'd like to meet:


    Anyone who wants to read me.

    Music:


    Movies:


    The Dead Beat -- The Movie

    Television:



    MST3K

    Books:


  • Jack Kerouac
  • Allen Ginsberg
  • Henry Miller
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Thomas Pynchon
  • Philip Lamantia
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Albert Camus
  • Jean Paul Sartre
  • Andre Breton
  • Lord Byron
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • William Burroughs
  • Herbert Huncke
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Arthur Rimbaud
  • Joseph Heller
  • Andre Gide
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • John Wieners
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Louis Ferdinand Celine
  • T.S. Eliot


  • Heroes:



    My Blog

    New Excerpt from "The Dead Beat."

    Back in my room, I did a couple more lines. I don't know how much time had passed. I couldn't remember the last time I'd slept for more than an hour. I had been writing--pages and pages. I tho...
    Posted by The Dead Beat on Thu, 24 May 2007 10:07:00 PST