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October 15, 2009
Feral House on Brendan Mullen's Death: 1949-2009
When it first crawled out from beneath a rock, punk became a life-changing experience for us, and we first experienced it care of Brendan Mullen's filthy and scary Hollywood club, The Masque. Brendan's club enabled a small cadre of kiddie misfits to reinvent their personalities and reclaim music, politics and art that had become the domain of rich, cocaine-drenched ex-hippies. It's easy to forget how dangerous the form of punk rock was since it's now heard as a kind of background muzak at shopping malls.
Brendan worked with us to gather images for and co-write Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs. Lexicon Devil is far more than another book about a punk rock band, it is an oral biography that encompassed the strange times and place of '70s Los Angeles, the cults, the street hustlers, the drugs, the sexual confusion, the backstabbing, the limited glory amongst a lust for fame and personal power. Thanks in significant measure to Brendan's contributions, we have a book that I believe that is one of the best titles Feral House has ever published.
Brendan Mullen's passing reminds us how gnat's life brief our lives are, and how grateful we are to have spent it with people we admire. RIP Brendan, we love you.
Adam Parfrey
Feral House
Posted by feral at October 15, 2009 2:17 PM
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