On this episode, the writer and former punk singer Sam McPheeters talks with Apology founder and editor Jesse Pearson about hardcore, Toni Morrison, Victorian-age explorers, George Washington, his hatred of poetry, and lots more including, of course, the Cro-Mags.
Notes
Here you will find links to the various books and authors and things mentioned during Sam McPheeter’s episode of the Apology podcast.
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
Brooks Headley (profiled by McPheeters)
An American Werewolf in London (transformation scene)
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Husker Du / "Real World" lyrics
Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs (and his racist shirt)
Patti Smith's song that sounds good but is naive and misguided in its message and title
Please Kill Me by Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil
How Music Works by David Byrne
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Conversations Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
Voyager Golden Record / Ann Druyan
Toward the End of Time by John Updike
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Sam McPheeters as Patrick Henry