Home Tiki Lounge Hi-Fi Book Shelf Femme Fatales Martini Hide-Away Essays Forum/Groups Radio Store Links
Book Shelf Archives:
Graffiti"Graffiti: Selected Scrawls From Bathroom Walls"
collected by Robert Reisner
Parallax Publishing, 1967
   To take a line from a Simon and Garfunkel song, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls...and bathroom stalls, and stairwells, and just about any other public place. The graffiti collected covers a vast range of topics: political, philosophical, drugs, humorous, poetic, and, of course, sexual. This book, and the graffiti it uses, is not only a commentary on the late 60's, but it also speaks of the eternal problems of man. Graffiti has always existed, from the walls of the Roman Coliseum to the urban subway car. Graffiti lands somewhere between lower-class ramblings and fertile ground for pop psychology. You can look and quickly forget, or spend time deconstructing the voice and meanings behind the scribbles. However people look at it, they are undeniably fascinated. These bits of wit and wisdom work perfectly in any age, especially in today's sound bite savvy era, because it's quick, raw, and to the point. 




 
 

Book Shelf Archives>>>

 
Home | Tiki Lounge | Hi-Fi | Book Shelf | Femme Fatales | Martini Hide-Away | Essays | Forum/Groups | Radio | Store | Links | E-mail 
Copyright 2006, Swinging Bachelor Productions.