Let’s set something straight. This book is about punks on film. That means one of two things: 1) The depiction of punks in a fictional narrative feature, or 2) The documentation of self-identified punks in a non-fiction film. Between these two types, we were able to cover 1100 films and fill over 500 pages....
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In addition to being the designer of DESTROY ALL MOVIES!!! (and many of the last decade’s most physically attractive books), Jacob Covey is also the father of two-year-old Freya Covey. She appreciates her father’s keen eye and dedication to the field of graphics, she’s been worried about his involvement in the dark underbelly of...
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All parents fear that their children will grow up and become punk wasteoids. But what if it happens before they reach ten years of age?! These youngsters show that bad attitudes and brutal hairdos aren’t just for the puberty stricken. It makes perfect sense ‘cause who knows safety pins better than an infant? Here...
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Once DESTROY ALL MOVIES!!! was all finished, we sent out samples to a few people we liked to get their opinions. They were nice! This is what they had to say:
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French vanity company Etat Libre d’orange has released the official Sex Pistols…perfume. No joke. This mass-marketed stench could be the final nail in UK punk’s coffin. The direct copy from the ad reads:
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This is the real, live, final, actual, genuine cover for the book. It was the final thing to be completed, and designer Jacob Covey did a perfect job. In fact, he did a perfect job on the entire thing, laying out hundreds of pages in neon colors and slogging through a thousand full color...
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Who said punk is only for the youth? Oldies have just as many things to complain about. Here are some folks beyond 50 that went over the max with on-screen punktitude:
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While tracking our punk sightings, an unexpected trend became apparent: punk animals. In ’80s Hollywood, many inhabitants of nature’s kingdom inexplicably broke away from their traditional habitats to don the equally subhuman accoutrements of new wave culture.
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The most dazzlingly insane film reference book of all time, DESTROY ALL MOVIES!!! is an informative, hilarious and impossibly complete guide to every goddamn appearance of a punk (or new waver!) to hit the screen in the 20th Century. This wildly comprehensive eyeball-slammer features A-to-Z coverage of over 1100 feature films from around the...
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